Attention Must Be Paid: Janet Gaynor
For some reason, it’s easier to find a list of gay men in old Hollywood…
Attention Must Be Paid: James Whale
He directed twenty-one movies; two of them are indisputably classics. (I haven’t seen Show Boat…
Attention Must Be Paid: Tallulah Bankhead
You kind of wonder how her family felt about having branched off such a scion…
Attention Must Be Paid: Heath Ledger
I have never written one of these columns about someone born after I; indeed, one…
Attention Must Be Paid: Margaret Dumont
Apparently, she and Groucho conspired to spread the myth that she didn’t get the jokes.…
Attention Must Be Paid: Jack Foley
Perhaps the ultimate in “things you’re not supposed to notice” is most sound effects. We’re…
Attention Must Be Paid: Audrey Hepburn
In theory, this column is intended to celebrate those who don’t get talked about as…
Attention Must Be Paid: Paul Frees
I would say that voicework of the mid-twentieth century was supported by three main people.…
Attention Must Be Paid: Billie Burke
One of the great things about the admittedly minor research I do for columns like…
Attention Must Be Paid: Roscoe Arbuckle
The first “Fatty” Arbuckle short I’ve ever seen is in a Warner Archives collection of…