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It Happened: The Story Behind Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night

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|Dan McCabe| Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, had a problem. Director Frank Capra, arguably the person keeping the lights on at Columbia, had a great script based on a popular short story. The issue? Directors and scripts didn’t sell movies during the Golden Age… Continue reading

Merrily We Go To Hell: “The Holy State Of Matrimony,” Pre-Code Style

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|Lucille Hanson| (The following contains spoilers for Merrily We Go To Hell.) Before writing this for Perisphere, I had seen Merrily only once before: a couple years ago, during a rare day where I watched numerous movies back to back (I cannot believe that I bookended this with Saw VI and Bamboozled.). I ended up leaving… Continue reading