THE CALLAHANS AND THE MURPHYS AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY CANCEL CULTURE
By Christopher S. Connelly Last year the Irish Film Institute Archive announced the discovery of footage of the (mostly) lost 1927 MGM silent film The Callahans and the Murphys (see IFI Film Eye in HI 32.4, July/Aug. 2024). Screenwriter Frances Marion’s adaptation of Kathleen Norris’s eponymous novel focused on duelling Irish-American matriarchs Annie Callahan (Marie … Read more