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Meta-Double Take: HI DIDDLE DIDDLE

Jul 2, 2019 Nathanael Hood 0

By the 1940s, the screwball comedy was on its way out. The tastes of the nation had warped from the strains of military mobilization and, for whatever reason, the need for lightheartedly subversive battles between […]

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Mr. & Mrs. Norman Maine (aka A STAR IS BORN)

Aug 12, 2016 The Retro Set 0

“A Star Is Born is a Hollywood story of, by, and for its people. It has the usual preface, attesting to the fictional quality of the characters and incidents depicted, but it is nonetheless the […]

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William Holden, the “Golden Boy”

Aug 21, 2013 Brandie Ashe 3

William Holden had a long and storied career in Hollywood, ultimately starring in more than sixty films and garnering an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 1953’s Stalag 17. His breakthrough had come […]

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