William Wellman’s life was as colorful as the movies he directed. Born on February 29, 1896, Bill grew up outside Boston. He was a...

Preston Sturges had one of the greatest winning streaks in screen history. Over a five-year period in the 1940s, he wrote and directed...

Haberdashery’s loss was Hollywood’s gain. Had William Wyler followed his father into the family business, Europeans might have looked...

I once got an email from an 88-year-old man named George, praising an essay I’d written for the Washington Post. Coincidentally, I had...

“Include me out.” “A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” “You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.” His...

If you don’t know his name, I bet you know his movies. Director Michael Curtiz was more “journeyman” than “auteur,” but his cinematic...

Decades before Cambridge whiz kids Ben Affleck and Matt Damon went Hollywood, another New Englander trekked West to make a wicked big...