Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes concerns the Hubbard clan, a ruthless, upwardly mobile family who play out their drama against a backdrop of the South in transition. Crushed by the terrors of reconstruction, the romanticism …

The sentimental stories of the Miniver family had first appeared in serial form in The London Times, and were later published in book form in the United States, where they had considerable popular and commercial …

It is fortunate for filmgoing audiences that Sam Goldwyn was a stubborn man, for without his obstinacy, Dodsworth might never have been made. Even though his studio turned out many entertaining products year after year, …

In 1933-1934, Lillian Hellman’s prizewinning play about slander and les­bianism, The Children’s Hour, was a sensational shocker. When Sam Gold­wyn’s film adaptation of the drama, entitled These Three, was released in 1936, it was considerably …