A Bill of Divorcement

After spending 15 years in a mental institution, Hilary Fairfield (John Barrymore) suddenly appears, unannounced, at the home of his wife (Billie Burke) and daughter (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn’s film debut…

Camille: An Unguarded Garbo

Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. Photo: MGM This adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas play and novel became one of Hollywood wunderkind Irving Thalberg’s last as producer. As in so…

Love Among the Ruins

In 1911, successful London barrister Sir Arthur Grenville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) takes on a case that will have him representing an actress (Katharine Hepburn) he once courted… but he’s still hopelessly…

Gaslight: Marriage of Delusion

Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: MGM It isn’t often that the title of a movie gives rise to a new verb, but Gaslight did. When we say that someone’s…

Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…

My Fair Lady: A Loverly Musical

Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Photo: Warner When George Bernard Shaw’s stage play ”Pygmalion” premiered in London in 1913, it was daring for its time. Making fun of the British…