“Welcome to Disneyland!” Those were the first words Canadian-born film director Arthur Hiller said to me with his […]
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Does the name Dean Tavoularis ring a bell? If it doesn’t, you’ve certainly admired his work over the […]
"The French Connection" [1971] was turned down twice by literally every studio in town. Then Richard D. Zanuck, who was running 20th Century Fox, said to me, 'Look, I've got a million and a half bucks tucked away in a drawer here. If you can do this picture for that, go ahead.' Film director William Friedkin
The son of actor Alan Ladd (1913-1964), who made his screen debut in 1932 and became a leading […]
A Golden Globe winner as Most Promising Newcomer for her screen debut in Frank Tashlin’s 1959 romantic comedy […]
As an eighteen-year-old, John Landis (b. 1950) got a job in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox, only […]
This old black and white still from Betty Lasky’s family album was taken by her mother Bessie, ca. […]
The whole world is familiar with and has been for the past six decades deeply impressed by the […]
In 1951, an aspiring and ambitious young actor named Richard Donner played a small part in a TV […]
Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of studio mogul Louis B. Mayer and wife of independent Hollywood producer David O. […]
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