A new generation of film lovers are discovering Mynx Devlin in the podcast The Atomic Bombshell. Then they’re taking a deeper dive into her life with her sensational tell-all memoir of the same name. These movie buffs are discovering a singular cinema star: smart, sexy, and charismatic. Mynx was an icon in 1940s film noir….
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In episode #9 of The Atomic Bombshell serial podcast, Mynx Devlin meets Francois Truffaut. This was 1962, right after he’d directed his breakthrough global smash hit, The 400 Blows. Truffaut was a famous (and famously waspish) film critic in the 1950s. He had a sweet tooth for American “termite art” films: gangster films, thrillers, B-musicals,…
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In episode #2 of “The Atomic Bombshell,” our heroine Clara “Mynx” Devlin rides a “Rocket to Stardom” when producer Herbert W. Zoozman casts her in “Thrill Queen” and then “Jive Crazy,” two proto film noir movies that catch a violent updraft in the cultural zeitgeist. Why did film noir become such a sensation right after…
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Mynx Devlin goes from starlet to star in the most unlikely way possible. Her breakthrough film noir movie roles make her the hottest star in Hollywood.
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I admit it: I’m a film nut. From the moment as a nine year old that I rode with The Magnificent Seven to save those Mexican villagers (from my tenth-row center seat at the Meralta Theater in Downey, California), I’ve been in love with the movies. How could I share that love with readers in…
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