It was not much better in the early days of her Hollywood career, when she would show up at parties not that well put together but eager to learn from Joan Crawford ... her roles in a film noir, a ...

K.J. Is Mildred Pierce a film noir? A women's picture? Yes, and yes. But it's also a masochistic march through the stations ...

This neo-noir crime drama features Fonda in the leading role of Bree ... a woman reckoning with her decision to give up a son ...

The Furies, directed by Anthony Mann and starring Barbara Stanwyck, is a surprisingly feminist Western that upends the genre.

Los Angeles noir (which to me is the ultimate noir ... He has written introductions for a number of books, including Peter Cowie's "Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star" (2009). He was a panelist at the ...

It’s slightly odd that movie versions of stage musicals did not follow on the heels of 1927’s The Jazz Singer, the first ...

Many of you were taken by the story here of Joan Crawford’s fond “big sister” relationship to two twins in Riverside, which presented a softer side of the steely actor. “I have a feeling ...

The first time Cindy Crawford worked with the photographer Helmut Newton, the supermodel shed her all-American persona for a ...