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Anita Loos, the actress-writer behind the comic novel, stage version and screen edition of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” — and a woman who knew a thing or two about luxurious living — put it best. In her 1954 memoir “Fate Keeps On Happening,” Loos wrote this about one of her closest friends: “To Paulette, no occasion is festive without champagne […]
“All Quiet on the Western Front” is justly known as the most wrenching anti-war novel ever written. Author Erich Maria Remarque conveyed the hideous destruction of humanity with almost documentary precision, and the 1930 movie version all too convincingly presents his depiction of the horror and waste of World War I. Hi, everybody. Your classic […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here introduce our three-part series on German author Erich Maria Remarque, and the great 1930 screen classic inspired by his novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front.” To capture the full force of this movie, it helps to know something about the source material, Remarque’s masterful 1929 novel. Thus we turn to […]