Collections/January 2026

Written by Dorothy Parker

With a wit as dry as the martinis she famously loved, celebrated writer Dorothy Parker was a legend of the Jazz Age New York intelligentsia. Less well remembered is the time she spent in Hollywood as a screenwriter, where she brought her bitingly satirical voice and gift for delightfully dagger-like dialogue to a precious handful of films, including the beloved 1937 version of the ultimate Hollywood-on-Hollywood backstage drama A Star Is Born , the breezy comic murder mystery Trade Winds, and the elegantly caustic Oscar Wilde adaptation The Fan .

3 films — 1 on the Channel, 2 unavailable