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…

Notorious: Spy Games

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…