July 2020 – reclining standards

On the Wings of Eagels: More Versions of Maugham’s The Letter on Film (for Parterre Box)

Jeanne Eagels and Siobhan McKenna show that there are many ways to write The Letter.

Bette Davis dazzles in one of her early signature films.

Peter Shaffer’s play is seen here for what it’s always been: a piece of lowbrow camp masquerading as highbrow art.

Katharine Hepburn’s particular iconoclastic style certainly suits Jo March.

In one of her earliest film performances, already: “The girls got something!”