Despite an international career in films on both sides of the Atlantic, which started in the early 1950s, […]
Jon Voight (b. 1938), who gained worldwide stardom when portraying the character of Joe Buck in John Schlesinger’s […]
My three favorite directors are John Ford, John Ford and John Ford. Orson Welles
In the 1930s, several child actors and actresses worked in Hollywood, including Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, and Johnny […]
When I first read film director Richard Fleischer’s autobiography, ‘Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir’ (published […]
Actor Don Murray (born in Hollywood, 1929), for many years a prominent leading American screen and stage actor […]
[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 […]
The era when several European and foreign-language actors and actresses became household names in the U.S, has long […]
Screen star Evelyn Keyes was initially Vivien Leigh’s younger sister in “Gone With the Wind” (1939) before becaming […]
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