Author’s note: This interview was originally published in 2011 in celebration of Jean Harlow’s 100th birthday, and the release of the book Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital. We re-print it […]
The Pictorial Palette is a weekly exercise that brings Technicolor glasses to design. By selecting a still from a classic film and exploring its color patterns, it is our hope that these little swaths of color will provide […]
Christian Legagneur hates his job, but he hides it well. He might be a beloved gameshow host, but his contestants, elderly singles all dressed up in pathetic finery with gauche pink hearts pinned to their […]
Shortly after the first James Bond film, Dr. No, took the world by storm in 1962 – everybody and their brother tried to create their own “Super-spy” franchise. As subsequent Bond films became more fantasy driven, […]
Ettore Scola initially didn’t want Sophia Loren—that luscious siren of Italian cinema—as one of the two primarily leads in A Special Day. A poignant, devastating film about loneliness and love, the role called for an […]
[blockquote cite=”The Tragedy of Robert Walker by Jim Henaghan, Redbook Magazine, November 1951″ type=”right”]At the moment of this writing, Robert Walker lies dead in a candlelit room of a funeral parlor just a few miles […]
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