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Category Archive: Film history

Paul De Longpre: French-born flower painter was the first Hollywood celebrity in the early 1900s

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In Hollywood, there’s a street called De Longpre Avenue, one block south of Sunset Boulevard, between La Brea […]

September 23, 2021 Film history

The U.S. box office of 1978: the receipts of all the hit films, released 40 years ago

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How about a walk down memory lane to take a quick look at what happened at the box […]

December 31, 2018 Box-office, Film history

The U.S. box office of 1977: the receipts of all the hit films, released 40 years ago

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How about a walk down memory lane to take a quick look at what happened at the box […]

December 31, 2017 Box-office, Film history

Academy’s Governors Awards: 2017 honorees include Agnès Varda and Donald Sutherland

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The website of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science describes the Governors Awards as an annual […]

November 14, 2017 Film awards, Film history

The New York Times: here it is, the newspaper’s chief film critics have made their own choice of…

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While we all like listings with facts, figures, or statistics to see where we are at this point, […]

August 16, 2017 Film history

“Blackboard Jungle”: how Glenn Ford’s son Peter launched Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’

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“One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock. Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock rock…” Remember this intro from […]

April 24, 2017 Film history

A century ago with Mary Pickford and Frances Marion: powerful and influential women in early Hollywood

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What do these two prominent and legendary ladies of the screen—both Hollywood pioneers of the silent era—actress Mary […]

March 3, 2017 Actress, Film history, Screenwriter

Peter Ford, remembering what happened to him 65 years ago: “A boy, his dog, and Charlie Chaplin”

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“It was early 1952, I was seven years old, and silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin lived around the […]

January 9, 2017 Film history

The U.S. box office of 1976: the receipts of all the hit films, released 40 years ago

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How about a walk down memory lane to take a quick look at what happened at the box […]

December 31, 2016 Box-office, Film history

Film history: Focus on veteran film director Jean Negulesco, his secretary, and Marilyn Monroe

Cover of Jean Negulesco's autobiography "Things I Did and Things I Think I Did: A Hollywood Memoir" (1984)
Cover of Jean Negulesco’s autobiography “Things I Did and Things I Think I Did: A Hollywood Memoir” (1984)
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

In August 2000, I met with actress Sheree North (1932-2005) in Hollywood for an interview about her career […]

October 26, 2016 Film history

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