Jon Voight, who gained worldwide stardom when portraying the character of Joe Buck in John Schlesinger’s screen classic […]
My three favorite directors are John Ford, John Ford and John Ford. Orson Welles
In the 1930s, there was a high number of successful child actors and actresses in Hollywood, including Jackie […]
When I first read film director Richard Fleischer’s autobiography, ‘Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir’ (published […]
Actor Don Murray, for many years a prominent leading American screen and stage actor ever since he debuted […]
[In the 1930s] the influence of films upon manners and morals can hardly be overestimated. Clark Gable wore no undershirt in 'It Happened One Night' [1934] and put a crimp in the undershirt industry. Hat manufacturers were irritated if a leading man wore no hat. Lobbyists were constantly at work in Hollywood attempting to get stars, male and female, to smoke; sometimes to get men to smoke cigars instead of cigarettes. I was offered a handsome gift if I could induce Ginger Rogers to smoke a cigar in a scene. Garson Kanin
This interview with former Hollywood studio executive and film producer Frank Yablans, who deceased late November 2014 in […]
