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...Peter Cowie describes it in his comprehensive and evocative study of Janus in the 240-page book included with Essential Art House, the company had its roots in the early '50s, when Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey started showing old movies - Humphrey Bogart dramas and W. C. Fields comedies - at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. Then Haliday and Harvey had the first of many inspirations, as heralded by a sign on the Brattle facade: "Opening Soon! Foreign Films." With the success of their new program, they moved to New York City and leased the 55th Street Playhouse...
...scandals had a touch of literary elegance.) Sam Goldwyn, who had his own studio, stood by Astor and allowed her to return to the film she had been making, the immortal Dodsworth. Her career continued for another quarter century, though she now played women with a darker allure, like Bogart's femme fatale in The Maltese Falcon...
Honey. That word describes the tenor of both her voice and her roles. In 12 years as a star at the lion of studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and for decades afterward, June Allyson purred sweet reason to the prime men of her era: Jimmy Stewart (in three movies), Humphrey Bogart (in Battle Circus), William Holden (Executive Suite) and her husband, Dick Powell. Other women might get the showy parts, and the Oscars. Allyson, in her movies, got the wedding ring. And from her fans, she received the Photoplay Magazine citation as 1954's Most Popular Female Star...
...Bogart even includes self-assessment questions at the end of every section, with blank lines for readers to write in their own responses...
Sexploration By Jane Bogart Penguin...