Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) was not only the son of the silent screen’s most beloved hero Douglas Fairbanks […]
Joan Crawford
Define a star. How would you describe a star in the cinematic landscape? We all know them, we […]
In the 1950s and 1960s, former screen actress Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931) was, along with Marilyn Monroe […]
“It was early 1952, I was seven years old, and silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin lived around the […]
Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of studio mogul Louis B. Mayer and wife of independent Hollywood producer David O. […]
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 […]
“Boxoffice dynamite—that’s ‘Now, Voyager’.” Those are the first words of Naka‘s “Now Voyager” Variety film review, as published […]
Film director Jacques Feyder: Hollywood’s starmaker from—once again—Elsene, Brussels
European film directors at work in Hollywood silents, early 20th century. It was pretty common and there were […]
It was wonderful to see how much former screen star Ann Rutherford, a.k.a. Polly Benedict in the much-beloved […]
