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"Wild Bill" Wellman
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...
Feb 13 min read


Omaha Idols
When I was a kid, I assumed most great actors came from New York, as if proximity to Broadway bestowed talent by osmosis (see: Bogie,...
Jan 153 min read


Sturges & Sullivan
Preston Sturges had one of the greatest winning streaks in screen history. Over a five-year period in the 1940s, he wrote and directed...
Dec 15, 20242 min read


Oscar's "Maine" Man
Decades before Cambridge whiz kids Ben Affleck and Matt Damon went Hollywood, another New Englander trekked West to make a wicked big...
Feb 1, 20242 min read


Films of 1943: The Ox-Bow Incident
When Henry Fonda was 14 years old, he witnessed the lynching of a black man: “I watched an out-of-control mob of several hundred men...
Jun 15, 20233 min read


Noir Star Dana Andrews
“Always understated and all too underrated.” That’s how writer David Stenn describes Dana Andrews. Film historian Jeanine Basinger...
Mar 15, 20233 min read
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