Hollywood

This image, captured in 1956 by photographer Fred Palumbo, depicts Alfred Hitchcock smiling with his mouth open.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today sent the following letter to director Steve Spielberg and DreamWorks, asking Spielberg to correct an historical inaccuracy in the Academy Award-nominated film, Lincoln, which places Connecticut on the wrong side of the slavery debate and ratification…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In his old age, William Randolph Hearst did a stately pleasure dome decree, and yet the secret river, youth, escaped him</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Superstar of the Silents</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The curious career of the Hays Office</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Ragtime and Reds</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Dean of American Movie Men at Seventy-Five</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It was a great life being a contract writer for a major studio during the high noon of the American movie industry—but it could also be a nightmare. A survivor recalls the pleasures and ardors of working at 20th Century-Fox forty years ago.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> With the Depression pushing the studio toward bankruptcy, Warner Brothers had to resort to crime—and crime paid so well that the company was able to recruit the toughest guys that ever shot up a sound stage.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It was a suburb of orange blossoms and gardens, of gracious homes and quiet, dignified lives—until a regrettable class of people moved in.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">President Wilson said that “The Birth of a Nation” was “like writing history with Lightning.” Movies have taught everybody else history, too.</span></p>

<p>"Gosh, it would be fun to play a president of the United States," said Lieutenant Reagan.</p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1932, the Communist International paid to send a cast of American blacks to Moscow to make a movie about American racial injustice. The scheme backfired.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Desperate improvisations in the face of imminent disaster saw us through the early years of the fight. They also gave us the war’s greatest movie.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For a century and a half, Germans have been deeply ambivalent about the United States, and their contradictory feelings say much about their future in Europe and the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, non-stop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">All across America, there are restaurants that serve up the spirit and conviviality of eras long past.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Bela Lugosi began by playing Laertes and Romeo, only to become forever trapped in very different roles.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The cemetery where many of the greatest early movie stars are buried is returning to life.</span></p>

<p>From "The General" to "Gettysburg," spanning 66 years, these movies have done the best to capture America's worst war.</p>

<p>The world’s most prominent actress risked her career by standing up to one of Hollywood’s mega-studios, proving that behind the beauty was also a very savvy businesswoman. </p>

<p>Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' unique chemistry made them one of the most iconic duos of Hollywood's Golden Age.</p>