Cinema

  And they served their purpose well. More than a few young players, as yet unworthy of personal features and interviews in the magazines, solidified their status as up-and-coming stars by being on view in these layouts month after month until the fan magazines began to die off in the …

  Another “first” took place in 1936: an international Jury. The festival’s prestige is consolidated through films by famed directors, such as Frank Capra (Mr Deeds goes to town), John Ford (Mary of Scotland), Max Ophüls (La tendre ennemie), René Clair (The ghost goes west), Josef von Sternberg (The king …

  The date layout was born in the late 1940s in the fan magazines, sired by major studios that in those days told – didn’t ask – their contract players what they would do for publicity. They were cotton candy layouts that paired attractive young people in quasi-romantic situations, usually …

    Once more, the festival boasts priceless films: The traitor by John Ford, The devil is a woman by Josef von Sternberg, with Marlene Dietrich, and the winner of the best foreign film award, Anna Karenina, by Clarence Brown, with Greta Garbo, presented for the second time at the …

  Charlton Heston once said, long before his 1998 election as president of the National Rifle Association :”I see nothing wrong with actors speaking out on causes – that’s a findamental right in our society and actors can exercise it as well as anyone else. The only obligation we have …