The Color of New: Hollywood in the 1960s

September 17, 2011.Reading time 18 minutes.

(brief forward: this post is meant to be simply a study of the history of color film from 1939 – 1969. It is not intended to exclude or demean the importance of any color or black and white films not mentioned herein… and it is CERTAINLY not meant to imply the superiority of one process […]

Larry, Vivien and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca

July 11, 2011.Reading time 12 minutes.

(This post is in conjunction with the blog Viv and Larry’s Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Blogathon.) Early in the summer of 1939, when principal photography on David O’Selznick’s soon-to-be masterpiece Gone with the Wind had finally finished, Vivien Leigh boarded a plane and headed to New York to be reunited with Laurence Olivier. She […]