Monthly Archives: May 2013

Last Sunday, May 26th, was the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s best-loved character actors.

New York’s golden age of glamour and jazz is being revisited at the movies through a reworking of F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel The Great Gatsby.

Having risen from the grave in grand style last year with their box-office hit The Woman in Black, Britain’s legendary Gothic studio Hammer Films have been spreading their bat-wings into other media.

It’s a modest little artefact, but it inspired one of the best-loved bestsellers in literary history, in turn initiating a trio of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters.