19 July 2010

Travis Banton undresses Miriam Hopkins

Costume designer Travis Banton, perpetrator of slinky pre-code evening gowns at Paramount Studios, was a genius. His work on view in LACMA’s Lubitsch film series now.

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9 July 2010

Ernst Lubitsch’s 90-minute tour of paradise

Tonight opens LACMA’s 16-film retrospective of the American-made comedies either produced or directed by Ernst Lubitsch [...]