The glamorous Marlene Dietrich one night came straight from the set from "Kismet" covered in gold paint [late 1943]. I had never seen two thousand men screaming in a state of near mass hysteria. Marlene was one of the most generous in the amount of time she spent at the Hollywood Canteen [during World War II]. Bette Davis in her autobiography "This 'N That" (1987)
Today, Canadian-born screen and stage legend Christopher Plummer (b. 1929) was honored in the prestigious and historical city […]
“Box office dynamite—that’s ‘Now, Voyager’.” Those are the first words of Naka‘s “Now Voyager” Variety film review, as […]
This year’s César for best short (category of ‘Meilleur film de court-métrage’) went to “La femme de Rio,” […]
Manu Payet: “As an actor, you must ask yourself what makes you, your work and your character unique”
In his home country, French all-round actor Manu Payet (39) is primarily known as a celebrated comedian. Starting […]
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. Meryl Streep
Who is Veerle Baetens, you might think. And you’re right. So far, this 37-year old captivating and very […]
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poets and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. Daphne du Maurier
I always thought it was pretty intriguing that some of Hollywood’s most enduring screen personalities decided at one […]
As a 17-year-old teenager, Marsha Hunt played her first leading role in her debut film, “The Virginia Judge” […]
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