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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Kaufman & Hart, Writers at Work

By Steven Mears
November 21, 2016
The act of creation: The Man Who Came to Dinner and Act One offer some crucial insights into the world’s loneliest profession

TCM Diary: Henry Fonda, American Statesman

By Steven Mears
November 7, 2016
Truth to power: on the Nebraska-born star's irreproachable men in Advise & Consent and The Best Man

TCM Diary: The Hands of Jack Clayton

By Dan Callahan
November 2, 2016
Waking dream: on the director of Room at the Top and The Pumpkin Eater, whose precise expressionist vision brought viewers closer to his characters

TCM Diary: The Innocence of Deborah Kerr

By Steven Mears
October 14, 2016
Turn of the screw: the actress's turns as slightly damaged women in The Innocents and The Chalk Garden embraced chaos

TCM Diary: Bernard Robinson, Hammer Horror Designer

By Farran Smith Nehme
October 14, 2016
Behind the candelabra: an appreciation of the man who made The Curse of Frankenstein and The Horror of Dracula go for baroque

TCM Diary: Miriam Hopkins!

By Sheila O'Malley
October 3, 2016
Class act: equally adept at comedy and drama, the '30s star never failed to reach the back of the house

TCM Diary: Naked Gun and Slapstick

By Michael Joshua Rowin
September 16, 2016
Dare to be stupid: the long road of nuttiness that leads to the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker laff-fest

TCM Diary: Becoming John Garfield

By Steven Mears
September 16, 2016
Not strictly method: on the actor's effortlessly dark turns in Four Daughters and The Postman Always Rings Twice

TCM Diary: Gene Hackman

By Steven Mears
September 2, 2016
Old hand: on the actor's notable and nuanced performances pre–Popeye Doyle

TCM Diary: Outcast of the Islands

By Steven Mears
August 12, 2016
Castaway: Carol Reed's adaptation of the prequel to Almayer’s Folly is as unsparing as the equatorial sun