Just Turn Her Loose on Broadway: Our Critics Discuss Forever Female (for Parterre Box)
The lead role is a wonderful fit for Ginger Rogers, who plays it with brassy charm and a laudable sense of humor.
A Life in the Theater: DF and CK discuss All About Eve (for Parterre Box)
All About Eve continues to hold an undeniable and lasting interest for gay viewers.
To Seek and Find: David and Cameron Discuss Now, Voyager (for Parterre Box)
The candor of some aspects of this Bette Davis classic is truly startling.
Slow Curtain: David and Cameron Discuss Of Human Bondage and The Whales of August
Two films 50 years apart prove that Bette Davis is always—gloriously—Bette Davis.
Two Sisters: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Revisited (for Parterre Box)
As Blanche Hudson might have said, “It’s still a pretty good picture”… and then some!
Going South: Looking at Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (for Parterre Box)
Another installment in our series on Bette Davis brings us to the second thriller in the famous Robert Aldrich diptych.
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.
Even Her Agony Was a Kind of Joy: Looking at The Letter with Bette Davis (for Parterre Box)
Bette Davis dazzles in one of her early signature films.
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