I thought you would like Professional Sweetheart, Wendy. It's been a favorite of mine for ages. And it's one of Theresa's better parts!

You gals!

No blushes now. You're good, real good!

Wendy, rather than repeat my comments from Facebook, I'll just say Brava!

Among other qualities, Wendy!

Thanks, Wendy, for the Dorothy Sebastian pictures. She certainly does appear to have had a highly developed sense of humor!

Another good point, Rd!

Good point, Red. But somehow it seems that Goodis feels right in a 25 cent paperback original.

Goodis was a powerful writer, ChiO, and he belongs in the company of Woolrich.

Thank you for the tips, Masha. I believe that laughter is one of the things that makes life worth living, and that great comedy leads to a deeper understanding of the human condition than tragedy. I have heard good things about those three, and I am already quite fond of The Girl With the Hatbox and...

Only recently, Masha, did I discover that a Russian film can be funny.

Masha, thank you for posting about Vera Kholodnaya. She certainly was spectacularly beautiful, and I look forward to see as many of her films as possible to see that versatility. I have never been very fond of the "classics" of the Soviet cinema, but have recently discovered Russian artist...

Wendy, it has been a long time since I have seen The Red Man's View, but I feel strongly that the iconoclastic portrayal of Griffith as merely a racist is not a complete or even fair picture of a human being, complex as are we all. And, frankly, I wish the bald, seemingly all-inclusive, but actually...

Thank you so much, Theresa, for the link to Eve Golden's column on Clarine Seymour. Actually, the real eye-opener for me is the discussion of Bobby Harron's death in the Comments section. He has always been one of my favorite Griffith actors, and Celia wrote a book-length study of his work when at S...

My friends, I have been lucky enough to see practically all of Griffith's surviving films, and I don't consider any of his work except The Birth of a Nation particularly controversial, then or now, although many of his films of the twenties are shamefully underrated by most commentators. Right after...