The 1930’s Screwball “Slumming Tour”

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It’s an artist’s paradise at Chez Vanderhof. Image: wildculture.com You can well imagine Anthony P. Kirby’s chagrin. In the 1938 screwball comedy, You Can’t Take It With You, Kirby (Edward Arnold) is a wealthy Wall Street tycoon, the type who buys federal regulators as easily as buying real estate. His latest deal involves…

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The Kirk Douglas Recipe (Or: How to Make a Hollywood Legend)

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Can you do this? Neither can we. Image: Filmmaker IQ If you ask us, Kirk Douglas is one of the most remarkable of the Hollywood legends. For example, he was a big Movie Star when he agreed to work with a young and relatively unknown director named Stanley Kubrick in Paths of…

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