J. E. Smyth

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In the early 1930s, Hollywood attracted two very different British women. For Ida Lupino, Hollywood initially…

Ellen Terry once said: "We players know quite well and accept with philosophy the fact that when we have done…

The Northern Irish film-maker Mark Cousins has cultivated a wide and enthusiastic following among social medi…

Scores of actors have played Sherlock Holmes since C. H. E. Brookfield's first stage appearance at the Royal …

Be warned: The latest Ian McKellen film to pop up in your local cinema is not an adaptation of Richard Brinsl…

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton had many things in common. Both were voracious readers and loved nothing …

Before Hollywood writers won the right to strike and a fair contract in 1941 (the year Citizen Kane was in th…

A self-confessed "tough old broad from Brooklyn", Barbara Stanwyck became one of the biggest stars of Golden …

SHE AND BETTE DAVIS had adjoining birthdays, and sometimes they'd party together all night long. One year, Da…

The Unmaking of the English Working-Class Actor (Preview)by J. E. Smyth In this Platinum Jubilee year, I am n…

Although female filmgoers probably had to drag their boyfriends to Temple films or those fizzy Ginger Rogers …

In the early 1930s, Humphrey Bogart wasn't all that different from other American men of his generation-he wa…

CINEASTE, VOL. XLV, NO. 4, FALL 2020 An entire year had passed since Alvin Sargent’s death when I finally…

Little Women’s fans are legion; some, like producer Amy Beth Pascal, are ordained at birth, given the very na…

Ida Lupino’s America: “Just a Big Family of Little Failures” by J. E. Smyth

The seventy-year flaw in "The Heiress" that no one noticed... by J.E. Smyth

A review of "Fighting with My Family" by J. E. Smyth

Since Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete first screened at film festivals in Venice and London last fall, critics ha…

A profile of producer Laura Zizkin (Murphy's Romance, Pretty Woman, Spiderman), featuring new interviews with…

Produced by Joseph E. Levine, Jane C. Nusbaum, and Martin Poll; directed by Anthony Harvey; screenplay by Jam…

What #MeToo gets right and wrong about studio era Hollywood.

Review: Tonya Harding’s former figure skating coach Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson) sums it up in the fi…

Produced by Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, and Robert Graf; directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris; sc…