Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 121, Summer 2025 “Most motion picture directors are a little screwy./ I know that fliers are, and I have been both, so draw your own conclusions.” An arrogant, intimating but passionate “tough guy” director known for his physical/verbal clashes with studio execs, WILLIAM WELLMAN (1896-1976) was a delinquent…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 120, Spring 2025 “It’s so fun having something to do all day.” Second only to Shirley Temple, compact, cherubic, curly-haired FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW (1924-2012) became one of the most popular and acclaimed cinemoppets of the late 1930s. Dubbed “the George Arliss of child stars,” the boy had minor stage…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 119, Winter/Spring 2025 “I became a movie actor so quickly it made my head swim. I got a star part by merely wishing and going to the studio at the crucial moment.” olumbia decided on an unknown to star in the pre-Code remake of the silent classic TOL’ABLE…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 118, Summer 2024 “I didn’t work until I was three but after that I never stopped. I never realized I was being culturally deprived, that I was having a louusy upbringing. We wer too busy making a living.” Paramount’s female version of Bob Hope, madcap MARTHA RAYE (1916-1994)…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 117, Summer 2024 “I don’t care if people like me or dislike me. I’m not on earth to win a popularity contest. I’m here to be the best possible human being I can be.” Dreamy TAB HUNTER (1931-2018) stood out in film history as one of the hottest…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 116, Spring 2024 “I could play a corpse and be accused of overacting. The big secret to playing a gangster in movies is to really believe that the character you are playing is doing no wrong.” A dark, husky, hirsutely handsome actor, STEVE COCHRAN (1917-1965) could have played…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 115, Winter 2023/2024 “There was a wall between the two of us (gossip columnist Hedda Hopper). We were close but definitely not like a mother/son relationship. I never had a damn thing to do with her column.” Born to famous thespians, handsome WILLIAM HOPPER (1915-1970) had a movie…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 114, Fall 2023 “All those years under contract to Columbia, I thought studio heads were godlike. I did what they told me to do. I only did one beach picture but got accused of doing a lot of them.” Following his dancing triumph as Riff, the Jets’ gang…
Classic Images, Issue Number 571, June 2023 “When I die, I want you to play “The Man I Love” i my key at the memorial service, and if I don’t walk out on that stage, you’ll know I’m dead.” Wearing a cloak of many stylish colors, KITTY CARLISLE (1910-2007) was a musical ingenue, operatic singer,…
Films of the Golden Age, Issue Number 112, Spring 2023 “I was quite content to be a featured player, not because I wasn’t ambitious, but because featured players were never subjected to any of that great pressure under which pictures were always made.” A versatile supporting player, LEE PATRICK (1901-1982), who came to films from…