Boss of media company says it would be a mistake to censor art because it may offend some people today

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The Carol Burnett Show

The actor’s persona was inextricable from the culture of toxic Cold War machismo. By Stephen Metcalf.

Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret

In this adaptation from his new book, *High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury), Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Glenn Frankel reveals how power and politics shaped—and almost scuttled—a cinematic landmark.

The reality of Frances Farmer’s life is much sadder than the legends surrounding it. By Elisabeth Sherman.

Marilyn Monroe’s sexual strategy, Lana Turner’s daughter the killer and Charlie Chaplin’s exile for being anti-Fascist … for her hit podcast, Karina Longworth has been digging in the annals of Hollywood history – and her findings are fascinating. By Nell Frizzell.

Nixon’s victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.

By the mid-1950s the years of Orson Welles scrambling this way and that for some money to finance his cinematic and theatrical efforts were well underway... By Martin Schneider.

So why does it make us laugh? By Shon Arieh-Lerer.

In honour of Orson Welles’ death 30 years ago, his friend film-maker Henry Jaglom tells the colourful story of their attempt to make a ‘bookend’ to the greatest American film.

At the height of her career, the beautiful young performer accidentally stumbled into a power struggle between Hollywood communists and McCarthyites. By John Meroney.

Type the name “Dorothy Arzner” into Netflix's search bar and you’ll get zero results. It’s an odd outcome, considering Arzner, a prolific golden age film director, has 16 feature films—among the most of any woman in Hollywood, ever. She gave Katharine Hepburn one of her first starring roles. She navigated the transition from silent films to talkies... By Ella Morton.

This tribe is for in-depth discussion of every aspect of classical Hollywood cinema -- from the Silent era through 1975, when the summer blockbuster (JAWS) was born.

Despite transparent light and searing heat, all seems frozen. Something clings to the landscape. Amidst Joshua trees and sagebrush, an ineffable presence surrounding

Barbara Stanwyck looking sultry.

Robert Altman's classic released on Blu-Ray by Kino-Lorber -- reviewed by Cineaste Editor Rahul Hamid.

Montgomery Clift had the most earnest of faces: big, pleading eyes, a set jaw, and the sort of immaculate side part we haven’t seen since. He played the desperate, the drunken, and the deceived, and the trajectory of his life was as tragic as that in any of his films.