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…
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The Fountainhead passion & drama: Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Three Hankies Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, is loosely based upon the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, though Rand, who also wrote the screenplay, continually denied it. This is a morality play about the strength of personal conviction. Gary Cooper brings Howard Roark alive in The Fountainhead (1949), which also stars Patricia Neal…
That Certain Woman Bette Davis: Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Three Hankies THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE of members of Bugs Moran’s gang is one of the most notorious events in Chicago’s gangland history. As That Certain Woman, Bette Davis has to overcome her past as the widow of one of the massacre victims. Trying to become a respectable lady living down her…
Love Affair shipboard romance: Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Three Hankies THE STORY of Love Affair (1939) has been filmed three times in the last almost 80 years, a testament to its romantic appeal. Director Leo McCarey created a world that includes jaded lovers, an ocean liner, witty repartee, pink champagne cocktails, tragedy and the Empire State Building. Through the years, the…