Life of Emile Zola: Elephant in the room
Paul Muni and Vladimir Sokoloff. Photo: Warner In the 1930s, biographical films won Best Picture two years in a row. In The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell played the legendary theatrical…
Mutiny on the Bounty: Battling Bligh
Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Photo: MGM 1935 was a great year in Hollywood, so perhaps there’s no wonder that Mutiny on the Bounty only ended up winning one of…
How Green Was My Valley: The One That Beat Kane
Roddy MacDowall and Walter Pidgeon. Photo: 20th Century Fox Hollywood sure appreciated taking lessons from John Ford in all matters social realistic. He received an Academy Award for portraying the…