Howard Mandelbaum, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a Howard Mandelbaum, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Howard Mandelbaum

Howard Mandelbaum is the author of several acclaimed books on Hollywood history, including Screen Deco, Forties Screen Style, and Flesh and Fantasy. An early contributor to and guiding light for Bright Lights, our pal now presides over one of the world's great stills archives, Photofest in New York.

Actors & Personalities

A Mannequin’s Face: Joan Crawford

March 23, 2018

Joan Crawford was born on this day in 1905. Our buddy Howard Mandelbaum wrote this incisive tribute to her in the 1970s. We reprint it here for your reading pleasure.[…]

Actors & Personalities

Happy Birthday, Bette Davis (Apr. 5, 1908-Oct. 6, 1989): A Talent for Hysteria

April 5, 2013

Note: This tribute to Bette Davis appeared previously in online Bright Lights in 1997. “Millions of moviegoers responded to the challenge of her headstrong, neurotic heroines who, like Frankenstein’s monster,[…]

Essays

Letter from New York (c. 1980)

October 31, 2009

“The problem is other people crazy people.”

Author: Howard Mandelbaum

A Mannequin’s Face: Joan Crawford

Happy Birthday, Bette Davis (Apr. 5, 1908-Oct. 6, 1989): A Talent for Hysteria

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Letter from New York (c. 1980)

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