Fredric March: The B...

by Michael Nazarewycz One of the great treats for us, as fans of movies from any era, is when a great ensemble cast is brought together.  We would pay good money for a great movie with two or three big names in it, but when the number of stars cruises past the half-dozen mark, it’s like were...

Fredric March: The E...

by Bobby Rivers “Some of you seem to think this is a course in anatomy.”  ~Fredric March in The Wild Party as the anthropology professor in a women’s university. In that 1929 talkie directed by Dorothy Arzner, he also teaches feminism to his flirtiest student, Stella, played...

Miriam Hopkins on Ai...

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...