Emma Westwood writes about writing, cinema and other wild trips
Director: Frank Lloyd Producer: Irving Thalberg & Albert Lewin Based on a Novel by: Charles Nordhoff Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman & Carey Wilson Starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable & Franchot Tone Fellow Nominees: Alice Adams – dir. George Stevens, prod. Pandro S. Berman Broadway Melody of 1936 – dir. Roy Del Ruth, prod. John [...]
A couple of sample entries from my book, Monster Movies: FRANKENSTEIN (dir. James Whale, USA, 1931) When Mary Shelley first penned Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) in 1818 as part of a literary parlour game with her husband and Lord Byron, she could not have fathomed the ‘monster’ she had created. Her story became the [...]
Director: Frank Capra Producer: Frank Capra & Harry Cohn Based on a Short Story by: Samuel Hopkins Adams Screenplay: Robert Riskin Starring: Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert Fellow Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole – dir. Sidney Franklin, prod. Irving Thalberg Cleopatra – dir. & prod. Cecil B. DeMille Flirtation Walk – dir. Frank Borzage, prod. [...]
Director: Frank Lloyd Producer: Winfield Sheehan Based on a Play by: Noel Coward Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor & Herbert Mundin Fellow Nominees: 42nd Street – dir. Lloyd Bacon, prod. Darryl F. Zanuck A Farewell to Arms – dir. Frank Borzage, prod. Adolph Zukor I am a Fugitive from A [...]
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July 19, 2010
Emma Westwood
