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About the Palace…

Bibliography
Sources for Moderntimes Classic Film Pages, and further reading

Selected Film Images…

Film Noir
Illustrating the great American style

Nineteen Twenties
Images from the Great Silent era

Nineteen Thirties
The Great Depression and, Hollywood's peak years

Nineteen Forties
World War II, and the extraordinary Post-War period

Nineteen Fifties
The decline and fall of the crumbling studio system

Additional Pages…

Moderntimes
Classic Film Pages

Screwball Comedy
A definition of the Classic genre

Rico's End
A Ttribute to Edward G. Robinson

Ball of Fire
For the great Barbara Stanwyck

Midnight Ramble
The American Negro in early Hollywood

Charles Chaplin
Images and commentary on some key Chaplin films

The Bees
The magic of the second feature

Recommended Links…

A Tribute to Humphrey Bogart
The Best Bogart page on the Web

Carol Lombard
Another beautiful Mary Murphy site

A Pretty Grim Life, Actually
Cool article on Frank Capra

Viv and Larry Dot Com
Kendra's beautiful site, celebrating Vivien Leigh, and Laurence Olivier

Preston Sturges
The Official Site, extremely cool

Alec Guinness
Mary Murphy's tribute

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The Last Chapter: The end of the Serial

The Last Chapter

A Different Look at the 1947 HUAC Hearings

Blacklist

In defense of Elia Kazan

Postage Paid

Film Noir and the Femme Fatale

High Heels on Wet Pavement

On the Waterfront

The best American film ever produced?

Humphrey Bogart: The Peak Years

Mystique

A definition of the classic genre

Screwball Comedy

Black Americans in early Hollywood

Midnight Ramble

Hollywood and the Great Directors

1946

The decline of the Hollywood studio system

After the Apex

red channels maazine

More Hollywood Ten

Criss Cross and The Killers

Two From Siodmak

A Conversation with Marie Windsor

With Kubrick

Barbara Stanwyck and Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Narrative Innovations in Film Noir

Style

Review

Out of the Past

A look at the Howard Hawks classic

Ball of Fire

A Conversation with Ann Savage

Film Noir?

Photo

The Hollywood Ten

House un-American Activities Commettee

HUAC and the Censorship Changes

A look at Stanislavski's Method

The Actor's Studio