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What star qualities shape the style and substance of classic cinema? Here, we explore how the glamour, elegant strength, and greatness of spirit embodied by Greta Garbo underscores the themes and values of MGM’s pre-Code gem, Queen Christina.
Notorious is a masterclass from Alfred Hitchcock in crafting three-dimensional villains by giving them logical needs and recognizable conflicts. Read on for how this characterization conjures both great suspense and heartfelt drama.
Read between the lines of the 1940 classic The Mark of Zorro to explore how the use of irony and disguise flesh out Tyrone Power’s multifaceted masked man.
John Ford’s The Searchers effectively depicts romance while hardly showing any intimacy at all. This breakdown of the film’s first scene explains how.
