Directors: Debuts–Stunning Beginning, Coen Brothers, Linklater, Lumet, Lynch, Peele, Romero

Directors who made extremely strong debut, in alphabetical order:

Cukor, George: Hollywood’s Best Actors Director–“Adam’s Rib” New Faces–Jean Hagen, David Wayne, Tom Ewell

Cukor not only had a great eye for new talent, but was willing to take risks.  For example, in Adam’s Rib 1l949), he introduced to the public four promising screen personalities: Judy Holliday, Jean Hagen, David Wayne, and Tom Ewell. Each of these four players gave a wonderful performance in Adam’s Rib, and later excelled […]

Movie Stars: Butler, Austin–Getting So Starstruck By Ryan Gosling

Austin Butler also reveals other Hollywood stars that have captivated him at events

Death in Hollywood: Sutherland, Donald–Versatile Actor

Donald Sutherland’s performances in M*A*S*H, Ordinary People and The Hunger Games proved he could portray sinister, sympathetic, comedic or tragic with equal credibility.

Movie Stars: Alwyn, Joe–Taylor Swift Breakup was “Hard Thing to Navigate”

“One week later, our split is suddenly in the public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in”–Joe Alwyn