My Man Godfrey: A Forgotten Man Gets His Chance
William Powell and Carole Lombard. Photo: Universal When William Powell, one of MGM’s top stars in the mid-1930s, read the script for My Man Godfrey, he knew that he would…
Lost Weekend: Life in a Bottle
Ray Milland. Photo: Paramount The story of The Lost Weekend didn’t start out too well. Audiences laughed during the first preview in Santa Barbara, and some wrote on their cards…
Falcon Crest: Wine, Women and Power
Photo: CBS At first they all seem to have had realism in mind, the primetime soaps of the 1980s. The first episodes of Falcon Crest showed a middle-class family moving…