Archives for June 12, 2019

Winning Your Wings, a 1942 recruitment film directed by John Huston and starring James Stewart, who was then a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces and later flew as a bomber pilot and squadron commander in Europe:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“I don’t think many writers like best their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.”

Lillian Hellman (interviewed by Anne Hollander and John Marquand), “The Art of Theater No. 1,” Paris Review, Winter/Spring 1965