Garbo and the Night Watchman

by Alistair Cooke

Eight essays on pleasure and pain in the movies; solicited and edited by Alistair Cooke in 1936

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About the author

Books of British-American journalist and broadcaster Alfred Alistair Cooke include Around the World in 50 Years (1966) and Alistair Cooke's America (1973).

After the University of Cambridge graduated him, the British Broadcasting Corporation hired him. This legendary television host rose to prominence for his reports on London Letter on radio of National Broadcasting Corporation during the 1930s. Cooke immigrated to the United States in 1937. In 1946, he began his radio appearances on Letter from America on the British Broadcasting Corporation; this tradition that lasted nearly six decades.

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Reviews

[Greta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short critiques on various films, only two silents (Way of all Flesh and Joyless Street, the latter trashed by a critic in the 30s who now thinks silents are ridiculous). Amusing critique of Love from a stranger. Otis Ferguson’s articles don’t refer to Ann Harding in this volume, which is good because elsewhere he exhibited a hatred of her that seemed quite obsessive.