Barbara Graham didn’t have an easy life. A prostitute and convicted perjurer, petty crime was a way of life for her. Basing their screenplay for I Want to Live! on contemporary newspaper files and her own letters, Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, don’t sugarcoat Graham’s anti-social behavior, but strongly dispute her murder conviction and execution. For as much as I Want to Live! is Barbara
Nearly sixty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains an international icon. Tough, cool, and sophisticated, many regard him as the epitome of class. In a career that spanned nearly three decades, Bogart appeared in seventy five feature films, many of which are undisputed classics. Understanding Bogart’s iconic status, Warner Brothers has released The Best of Bogart Collection, which includes four previously available Blu-ray’s—The Maltese
The origin of the 1964 film My Fair Lady goes back to George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), which was subsequently adapted into a Broadway musical by the successful team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe (Gigi, Camelot). The play debuted in 1956. It wasn’t until seven years later that the movie, produced by Jack Warner, and directed by George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story, Let’s