Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of studio mogul Louis B. Mayer and wife of independent Hollywood producer David O. […]
Clark Gable
Screen and television actor/star Mike Connors (born 1925 as Kreker Ohanian, of Armenian descent) gained worldwide fame and […]
A lot of (auto)biographical books and historical documentaries have been made over the years, all reflecting on (the […]
Independent filmmaker and producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. passed away on January 9, 2015, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in […]
Meeting veteran stage and screen actor Kevin McCarthy in a Hollywood restaurant was a thrilling experience. When I […]
Film history: Focus on Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow, America’s Platinum Blonde since the early 1930s, soon became one of MGM’s top stars of the […]
Despite an international career in films on both sides of the Atlantic, which started in the early 1950s, […]
[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
Screen star Evelyn Keyes was initially Vivien Leigh’s younger sister in “Gone With the Wind” (1939) before becaming […]
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