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.
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.[…]
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,[…]