Elsie Codd interviews the American screenwriter Josephine Lovett for the British trade paper Kinematograph Weekly. Lovett was employed by...

The Egyptologist Arthur Weigall, serving as film critic of the Daily Mail, tells his readers that The Three Musketeers, then showing at...

British release of The Great Day, the first British FP-L film, and assumed to be the first film Hitchcock worked on. Walter Wanger, years...

In the course of an apparently celebratory article about the success of two more recent Poole Street films in the US, Bioscope quotes Al...

Cecil B. DeMille arrives in New York on the Aquitania after two months in Europe. DeMille was Famous Players-Lasky’s main director; he...

Motion Picture Studio makes brief reference to ‘the closing down of the F.-P. Lasky studios’. The back page of the paper, which tracks...

The Times publishes a Special Supplement, twenty pages long, ‘dealing with the world-wide progress of the cinematograph’, with articles...

Kinematograph Weekly announces that Poole Street has been taken over by International Artists Film Company, for the production of a film...

The British FP-L production Love’s Boomerang opens at the Rialto cinema in New York. The Rialto, on Times Square, was one of Famous...

Elsie Codd publishes a profile of screenwriter Ouida Bergère in the March issue of Picturegoer magazine. Bergère and George Fitzmaurice,...

Trade show of Three Live Ghosts at the New Gallery. This comedy about three soldiers wrongly designated dead and returning to London, set...

Trade show of A Sailor-Made Man, the latest Harold Lloyd comedy, and his longest yet, at the London Pavilion. In the US, the big studios...

‘Captain Ellis, the well-known big game hunter,’ it is reported in the Leicester Evening Mail, ‘has brought to London the first film...

DeMille’s Forbidden Fruit opens in London. In March 1939, while passing through New York on his way to Hollywood, Hitchcock give...

Three trade papers report that Graham-Wilcox Productions, i.e. Graham Cutts and Herbert Wilcox, are to lease Poole Street for their next...