“The type of picture that brought about censorship.” Review of Mad Love, Motion Picture Herald, 1935 “Quite the most unpleasant picture I have ever seen […] it exploited cruelty for cruelty’s sake.” Review of The Raven, London Daily Telegraph, 1935. ...

In the December 1, 1940 issue of Vogue, published just as the United States teetered on the brink of world war, novelist Carson McCullers wrote, “All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the ...