Film Festival: Three Hankies In the 1937 version of Stella Dallas, Barbara Stanwyck turns in an Academy award-nominated performance as a devoted mother. Get out those handkerchiefs! The tearjerker has long been a staple of storytelling in the 20th century, with novelists such as Olive Higgins Prouty, Lloyd C. Douglas and Fannie Hurst combining elements…
Olive Higgins Prouty
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Now, Voyager – romantic vices
Film Festival: Vices In Now, Voyager (1942), when Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes and then hands one to Bette Davis, he commits a perfect moment to film forever. Movie history is often made in small, perfect moments. The subject of vices puts me in the mood for Now, Voyager. This film has more smoking in it (and…