Essays
Essays
This list is in reverse chronological order (e.g. the most recently added essays are at the top):
- 100 Years
- A Walk in the Sun (1945)
- Academy Awards – Supporting Actress Category
- Acting for an Oscar
- Actresses in Oscar’s Best Picture Winners
- An Ethical Analysis of Executive Suite (1954)
- Best Picture Winners?
- Burt Lancaster
- Cameo Performances (movies that were loaded)
- Character Actors Before Their Time
- Chariots of Fire (1981) – a rarity
- Classic Film Starter Kit
- Classic Movie Absurdities
- Classic Movie Kisses
- Classic Teacher Movies
- Claudette Colbert
- Comparative Review of the three “Maltese Falcon” movies
- Courtroom Dramas
- Directing Musicals
- Disney’s LL Remake Trilogy
- Dynamic Duos – Studio Era Pairs
- Edward G. Robinson
- End of the World-Last Man on Earth dramas
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Essential Character Actors
- Films about Faith
- Films about Fathers
- Films set in China
- Gary Cooper
- Getting Naked or Crying for an Academy Award or nomination
- Great Boxing Movies
- Great Everyman Actors
- Happy 15th Anniversary TCM!
- Henry O’Neill
- Hitchcock-like Movies
- Hollywood Remakes
- Howard Hughes The Film-Maker
- Hypnosis and the Movies
- Irene Dunne
- Jack Carson
- Jean Arthur
- John Qualen
- John Wayne
- Katharine Hepburn
- Lead Actors in Oscar’s Best Picture Winners
- Leadership in Movies
- Leon Ames
- Life With Father (1947)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- Memorable Film Debuts
- Memorable Final Performances
- Message Pictures
- MGM vs. Warner Bros.
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Movie Dentists
- Movie Mothers
- Movies about Taxes or the I.R.S.
- Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
- Music Pioneers of Film
- One Hit Wonders of the Academy Awards
- Oscar and the Oldest Profession
- Paul Muni
- Political Campaign Films
- Pygmalion Movies
- RKO B Westerns
- Road House (1948)
- Robert Ryan
- Runaway Brides and Other Interrupted Weddings
- Sentimental Oscar winners and nominees
- Sherwood Pictures’ Films about Faith
- Snubbed Films
- Sports Movies and the Academy Award for Best Picture
- Stairways for Death
- Strike Up the Band (1940)
- Submarine Movies
- Susan Hayward
- Tearjerkers
- Tennis and Film
- The Blonde Bombshell
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- The World the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
- Unmerited Hero Worship
- Virginia Weidler
- World War II Propaganda Movies