In today’s guest post, Emma Alsop presents a fascinating overview of the life and career of Hollywood great Fredric March.
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Fredric March: From Banking to Broadway to Big-Screen Fame
Actor William Holden, who made two films with Fredric March in 1954, said that March and Spencer Tracy were his acting ideals. Six years later both Tracy and March would eventually appear together. Read more about Oscar-winner Fredric March…
Read more →Ernst Lubitsch Films Noel Coward: Design for Living
Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major…
Read more →Design for Living (1933): Movie review
In Design for Living, Tom Chambers (Fredric March) and George Curtis (Gary Cooper) are a couple of artistic best friends. Tom is a playwright and George is a painter. They may not be rich, but they’re happy living together in…
Read more →A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born (1937)` Before inventions like reality TV and YouTube, Hollywood hopefuls would have to pack up and actually move to Hollywood to have any chance at stardom. With the aid and well wishes from her grandmother, Esther Victoria…
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