The Second World War changed men in different ways, and the war made director George Stevens more pretentious. There was always something of a heaviness in his work, but at least in his three best comedies, Swing Time (1936), The Talk of the Town (1942) and The More the Merrier (1943), this was held in […]
Daily Archives: October 4, 2007
“How many wooden performances can an actor give and still be called ‘great’? When Marlene Dietrich wasn’t interested, she wasn’t interested . . . .” Thus begins my entry for Dietrich in my list of the fifty best film actors of all time. Dietrich certainly qualifies for the list: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, […]
Dennis Grunes 