Marlene Dietrich with Rouben Mamoulian at a Halloween party at the Trocadero in 1934

Received the formal invitation now, so I’m delighted to share the wonderful news that I’ll be part of the Collegium of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone this October! I’m looking forward to it

Still blown away, thankful, and frazzled about introducing Gregory La Cava’s Unfinished Business (1941) for the BFI Film on Film Festival. Also love that they went with my suggestion for using that contemporary slightly gossipy TIME review for the screening note handouts, so the handout ends on this

My words and research on editor Barbara McLean’s work with Gregory La Cava at Twentieth Century Pictures on Gallant Lady (1933) and The Affairs of Cellini (1934). I would like to thank Emily Wittenberg from the American Film Institute for her assistance ourmangregorylacava.com/2025/03/09/l...

Wonderful new addition to my collection: Gregory La Cava interviewed by Quentin Reynolds for Collier's, March 26, 1938

They aren't promoting it for some reason, but that is indeed the newly restored, substantially different pre-censorship version of Frank Borzage's 1933 MAN'S CASTLE on the Criterion Channel -- a masterpiece now even masterpiecier. @criterionchannl www.criterionchannel.com/pre-code-col...

Very thankful for Les Films du Horla keeping stock of Rouben Mamoulian: The Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood (2006), as I feel better off knowing Mamoulian tried to get a cat in all of his films. I will definitely be returning to his films to see if he succeeded

John Bright nearly physically fighting for Joan Blondell is very understandable. We all ❤️ Blondell

Clive Brook being part of the exclusive club of “Classical Hollywood actors that directed one great film and that’s it” was surprising to find out. In other words, I adored On Approval (1944)

It's a huge tragedy that there are no good interviews anywhere with Joe Don Baker. The man worked with Scorsese, Peckinpah, Phil Karlson, Don Siegel. He studied at the Actors Studio. He was in three Bond movies. Of course, he was Mitchell. We need his testimony!

Bebe Daniels photographed by Karl Struss for Male and Female (1919)