Shoot the Piano Player (1960): Truffaut’s Follow-Up to “400 Blows,” Film Noir Staring Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier

François Truffaut directed Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste; UK title: Shoot the Pianist), a noir crime drama that followed up his splashy debut, The 400 Blows.

Song of Love (1947): Clarence Brown’s Biopic of the Schumanns, Starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid

Clarence Brown directed Song of Love, a biopic starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, and Leo G. Carroll.

Confessions of a Cheat (“The Story of a Cheat”) (1936): Sacha Guitry’s Witty, Subversive, Impudent Film

Witty, impudent, morally subversive, it was adapted from his only novel, Les Mémoires d’un tricheur, published in 1935.

Sons of the Desert (1933): William Seiter’s Pre-Code Comedy, Starring Laurel and Hardy

Sons of the Desert is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy.

Hollywood Scandals: Lawrence: ‘My Agency Fired Me’ After I Refused to ‘Take My Clothes Off for an Award-Winning Director’

Lawrence: ‘My Agency Fired Me’ After I Refused to ‘Take My Clothes Off for an Award-Winning Director’