Sloan De Forest is a writer, film historian, and a relative of talking-pictures inventor Lee de Forest. She has authored three books in the Turner Classic Movies library: The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers (2021), Dynamic Dames (2019), and Must-See Sci-Fi (2018). Sloan has contributed to many other film books, written several articles, and appeared on Turner Classic Movies, CNN’s 2019 series The Movies, and the 2022 series Hollywood Icons. She lives in Hollywood. 
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If only Ronald Reagan had been a better actor, our world might be a brighter place today. * * * Although it’s been thirty-three years and six presidents since Ronald[…]
Today, Cukor’s musical version is regarded as a classic, and, due to Garland’s spectacular comeback performance, it has even eclipsed the original. Yet I prefer the 1937 version, primarily because[…]
