Happy Holidays from The Fence!   It’s never been a better time to be a classic film fan. With numerous theatre screenings across the country, the TCM Film Festival, never before released and remastered films on DVD/Blu-ray– there’s an abundance of goodies for every fan....

by The Lady Eve Fredric March was an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywoodstar when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major studios were scouring the Broadway stage for...

Like so many of the most famous big breaks in Hollywood, Fredric March’s role in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde almost never happened. It’s hard to imagine the film without him, which is testament to his greatness. After all, without March’s perfectly realized dual performance as...

While grocery shopping recently, I caught an amazing sight out the corner of my eye: a magazine featuring none other than the brilliant and talented Miriam Hopkins. As you might imagine, I was a little shocked to find her beautiful face next to a stack of newspapers featuring the disgraced...