I Take This Wife (1940): W. S. Van Dyke’s Romantic Melodrama, Starring Tracy and Hedy Lamarr

Though not his fault, I Take This Wife was one of Spencer Tracy’s weakest films, due to a poor scrip and the fact that the project moved from one director to another.

0 Oscar Actors: Best Actor–Winners. Nominations Span (Years between First and Last Nomination)

Oscar Actors: Best Actor Winners–Nominations Span (Years between First and Last Nomination)

Cass Timberlane (1947): George Sidney’s Marital Melodrama, Starring Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Zachary Scott

Blast from the Past: Popular Movies of Yesteryear George Sidney, perhaps better known for his musicals, directed this soap opera pretending to be a serious romantic drama, probing issues of love and trust. Grade: B- Cass Timberlane Theatrical poster Starring Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Zachary Scott, the film was based on Sinclair Lewis’s 1945 novel […]

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy: Robert Palumbo’s Revelatory Documentary about Hollywood’s Dark Underbelly of Ketamine Drug–Feb 25

Docu about the criminal charges against five defendants, including two doctors and woman dubbed “Hollywood’s Ketamine Queen.”

Blue Moon: Ethan Hawke’s Unrecognizable Transformation Into Musician Lorenz Hart

Hawke plays the American lyricist Lorenz Hart as he battles alcoholism and depression on the opening night of Oklahoma!