Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) explores the duality of a system that is responsible for creating the highest cinematic achievements while showing no regard for the talents, without them, those movies would have never been made. ​One of the central themes of the movie is the blurred border between reality and the fantasy world of the stage. Lana Turner, as Georgia, plays herself and Jonathan Shields was developed based of David Selznick, the powerful prod

Hitchcock in Vertigo (1958) looks at man's desire to create his dream woman. The movie’s response is that the dream woman remains a fantasy and never materializes. The triumph of fantasy, when Judy appears, as Madeleine, although overwhelming is short-lived. Bernard Hermann composed the movie’s celebrated score with inspiration from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Wagner, reflecting on the story of an impossible love on earth, embracing mystical death to resurrect their love

Written on the Wind Directed by Douglas Sirk (1956) Robert Stack is the spoiled son of an oil baron. Rock Hudson, his childhood friend,...