1950s Films

Before The Substance, There was The Wasp Woman

Yesterday Demi Moore received her first Academy Award nomination for her startling turn in writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s “Beauty-and-the-Beast-Are-One” sci-fi tale The Substance. The Brat Packer-turned-megastar, who already won a Best Actress Golden Globe earlier this month, plays Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore),…

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Joan Crawford’s Western Classic: “Johnny Guitar”

Joan Crawford in a western? If that sounds incredulous, Ms.Crawford must have thought so, too, because it was not until 1954 that she starred in her first spurs-and-guns picture – Johnny Guitar. Unlike Barbara Stanwyck, Joan seemed out of place in the…

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