Ventriloquist and female impersonator Bobbie Kimber, whose gender identity shifted as his life progressed, is the topic of film historian Anthony Slide’s latest book.
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Truman Capote movies: TCM will be airing three titles celebrating the centenary of the author and gossip, including Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood and Bennett Miller’s Capote.
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Remembering movie comedy pioneer Al Christie and several Vitagraph Studios comedians – including John Bunny and Larry Semon – whose shorts are included in a new Kino Classics DVD set.
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The first women filmmakers are the topic of Anthony Slide’s book The Silent Feminists. In a Q&A with Alt Film Guide, the author and film historian discusses Weber, Arzner et …
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Alice Guy Blaché: The world’s first woman director is remembered in this Q&A with film historian Anthony Slide, who also discusses the republication of her book of memoirs.
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Anthony Slide q+a: The film historian discusses his new anthology book The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second. Topics range from Lillian Gish to Betty White.
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Film historian Anthony Slide discusses the frenzied and once hugely popular ‘everyman’ British comedian Arthur Askey, who has finally become a biographical subject.
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Llewelyn Davies brothers’ tragic fate & Michael’s mysterious death which nearly a century later remains a puzzle + what are the most famous Peter Pan quotes?
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Peter Pan author and the Llewelyn Davies brothers: ‘Sad end’ to complex and at times troubled four-decade relationship between J.M. Barrie and ‘his boys.’
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Miriam Hopkins interview with author Allan Ellenberger: Was the talented and mercurial actress a ‘Hollywood Rebel’ or a ‘Magnificent Bitch’?
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Magnificent Obsession Book: Movie fans’ outrageous history from Hollywood screenwriters + gay porn actors to coal miner’s sons + D.W. Griffith players.
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Movie Buff: Author Anthony Slide discusses neglected area in film history – the humorous and/or tragic lives and times of film fanatics + collectors.
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Jimmy Edwards: Conservative gay British comic known for spanking schoolboys with his cane in TV series + later outed is discussed with biographer Slide.
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Crime Novel classic remembered: Everywoman heroine with typical bourgeois values but an unusual black housekeeper ally + straight and gay movie versions.
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How to Be a Latin Lover: Ricardo Cortez leading ladies and marriage to drug-addicted Hollywood star plus directing Dalton Trumbo socially conscious drama.