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Brooksie Remembers

Phyllis Brooks and Cary Grant, 1938 (photo from the personal collection of Phyllis Brooks) Katharine Hepburn recalled: Cary was linked with many women in those days. He knew all the girls and introduced many of them to Howard Hughes, whom … Continue reading

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Noir of the Week: The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

My piece on Josef von Sternberg’s truly bizarre film The Shanghai Gesture is now live at Noir of the Week. Go check it out! And definitely check the film out. It is unlike any other.

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Shanghai Gesture (1941); Dir. Josef von Sternberg

A very strange movie, corrupt and bleak and fantastical, with a glacial pace, and phenomenal crowd scenes in a giant Shanghai casino (with the awesome Marcel Dalio again playing a croupier, as he did in Casablanca), Shanghai Gesture features Ona … Continue reading

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