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Mynx Devlin Meets Samuel Fuller

March 11, 2021 R. Lee Procter The Atomic Bombshell Comments Off on Mynx Devlin Meets Samuel Fuller

By 1949, Mynx Devlin was RKO’s biggest star. In her memoir and podcast The Atomic Bombshell, Mynx reveals the story of a failed seduction by Howard Hughes. Hughes was enraged at being spurned. He tried to wreck Mynx’s movie career by loaning her to a poverty row studio, Allied Artists. Director Samuel Fuller wanted her…

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François Truffaut

Francois Truffaut In Love

January 31, 2021 R. Lee Procter The Atomic Bombshell Comments Off on Francois Truffaut In Love

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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Atomic Bombshell: Episode 9, The Loves of Mynx Devlin, Part 2

Episode 9: The Loves of Mynx Devlin, Part 2

January 11, 2021 Matthew Solari Atomic Bombshell 00:39:31 0 Comments

Mynx reveals her greatest love: Francois Truffaut, the famous auteur of New Wave Cinema. They fall in love as they make a film, but an insanely jealous producer ruins everything yet again.

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