As a 17-year-old teenager, Marsha Hunt played her first leading role in her debut film, “The Virginia Judge” […]
Category Archive: Actress
Film history: Focus on David O. Selznick, Alida Valli, and “The Paradine Case”
From: Macnamara, Paul. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood With David O. Selznick and […]
When you wish upon a star: Audrey Hepburn’s early years in her native Elsene, near Brussels
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, in Elsene near Brussels. Her father, […]
Garbo was shy, insecure. She felt that, as a person, she actually had nothing special or unusual for others to make a fuss over. Jean Negulesco
Screen, stage, and television actress Brenda Vaccaro (b. 1939), a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner, as well as […]
Film history: Focus on early Academy Award winners Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler
Wallace Beery (1885-1949) and Marie Dressler (1868-1934) were two of MGM’s top stars in the early days of […]
I went to [producer-director] Thomas H. Ince and said, 'I would like some retakes.' Retakes are costly, and when he pointed that out, I said, 'Yes, I know that, Tom, but I still want the retakes.' Now, Tom liked to gamble. I did, too. So I said, 'I'll tell what I'll do, Tom. Heads or tails. If you win, okay, then I pay for the retakes. If I win, you pay.' He said, 'Fine,' and he tossed. I felt that Tom would take chances, but I didn't think he would cheat, and he didn't. He never did. It was my week's salary for or against the retakes. And I won. Actress Blanche Sweet about film pioneer Thomas H. Ince during the making of "Anna Christie" (1923)
Marisa Pavan, born in Cagliari, Sardinia, as Marisa Luisa Pierangeli on June 19, 1932, was a celebrated screen […]
It was wonderful to see how much former screen star Ann Rutherford, a.k.a. Polly Benedict in the much-beloved […]
“These sort of interviews remind me of Cannes. You go from table to table, and you’re just talking […]
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