Biopic Theater returns to its roots this week with the 1980 made-for-television exploration into the life of Jayne Mansfield. We also see a return to the leading lady we started this series with: Loni Anderson. As I mentioned in my original review of White Hot: The Thelma Todd Story, Anderson isn’t a terrible actress; she’s…
**This is my contribution to The Movie Projector’s James Cagney Blogathon. You can visit and read the other submissions here.** I always enjoy participating in actor/actress blogathons as they finally force me to open up those individual DVDs I purchased months ago. My choice for the James Cagney blogathon also worked for this week’s Biopic…
I’m not sure what the parameters are for biopics that focus on singers/actors, or if I should even include them. I mean do I include the myriad of Elvis biopics, or just the ones that focus on the films, etc? I’ll make this week’s choice a test case, and you can let me know where…
Last year kicked off a wave of Hollywood biopics that don’t look to abate into 2013. Hitchcock was one of two films about the legendary director that arrived in 2012. I reviewed HBO’s television movie, The Girl, which detailed Hitch’s relationship with Tippi Hedren when it aired and found it shed little context for the…
It seems I’ve unintentionally fallen into getting these out every other week, and I hope that changes soon. Either way, this week’s biopic is one I’ve been excited to review. The Mystery of Natalie Wood is a misnomer because there’s never any mystery to be solved. Is it a mystery about her death (which has…
I dove into the HBO series of biopics with The Life and Death of Peter Sellers a few weeks ago. I applaud HBO for having consistently high quality in the scripts, locations, and acting choices that I saw first in the Peter Sellers story, and that I saw in this week’s film, RKO 281.…
In the interest of diversity, I’ll be slowly integrating mainstream and critically lauded biopics into Biopic Theater. Today’s entry into Biopic Theater won two Golden Globes and aired on the HBO network. I don’t know much about Peter Sellers outside of his movie roles, but The Life and Death of Peter Sellers fills every inch…
