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The First Scandal That Ever Shook Hollywood: The Mysterious Death Of Virginia Rappe
Oxygen via Yahoo News· 11 months agoVirginia Rappe was a silent film actress who had a prominent role in Paradise Garden in 1917 — but...
Was 1920s Hollywood Really as Decadent and Debauched as It Looks in ‘Babylon’?
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDamien Chazelle’s “Babylon” captures 1920s Hollywood in all its decadence, debauchery and excess....
Babylon Doesn’t Capture the Magic of Early Hollywood—It Butchers It
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMargot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy in 'Babylon' Credit - Courtesy of Paramount Pictures In a moment of...
Review: The silent film era roars again in 'Babylon'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s probably true that even avid moviegoers have increasingly drifted away from the films of what Brownlow called, with good reason, “the richest in...
Was This Hollywood’s Worst Year Ever?
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA favorite parlor game for film buffs is to pick Hollywood’s greatest year and then argue. The obvious answer — 1939, the certified Golden Year — always...
Sex in Cinema: The Hays Code, Censorship, and Film’s First Culture War
Consequence of Sound via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHow Will Hays turned a movie trade association into a conservative check on liberal Hollywood. Sex...