Filmmaker PRESTON STURGES (1898-1959) made a joyful mockery of the Hays Code with his improbably wholesome card sharks, unwed mothers, imposters and flimflammers, his...

The era of guilt- and con­sequence-free sex ended in 1982.

Insanely prolific, unbelievably vital, formally inventive.

All hail the Mighty Fin! For was it not JIMMY FINLAYSON (1887-1953), third banana in 33 Laurel and Hardy films, who offered us emancipation...

The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.

She had oodles of cash, acres of style, and eventually her very own 18th-century palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal, where she slept in a...

What caused me to pick this item out of the trash heap was not its title — there are better editions of DeQuincey’s book...

“My nose is blown, doc,” mopes a bandaged bloodhound cop as he sags against a panel border. In “No Nose is Good Nose,” Dr....