On April 7, 2004, American philanthropist and media mogul Ted Turner, founder of CNN and TCM among others, […]
Ginger Rogers
Stage, screen and television actress Lesley Ann Warren (b. 1946), here in a still from Mark Rydell’s “Harry […]
Former screen actress Joan Leslie, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age and highly popular […]
“Boxoffice dynamite—that’s ‘Now, Voyager’.” Those are the first words of Naka‘s “Now Voyager” Variety film review, as published […]
It was wonderful to see how much former screen star Ann Rutherford, a.k.a. Polly Benedict in the much-beloved […]
In the 1930s, there was a high number of successful child actors and actresses in Hollywood, including Jackie […]
[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
