Today, all-round filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) is best remembered as the man behind UFA’s first talking picture, […]
Marlène Dietrich
American stage and independent screen actress Tanna Frederick (b. 1979) first got noticed when she played the leading […]
‘Huppert sings!’ That’s how the Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier this month enthusiastically introduced Isabelle Huppert’s latest […]
One of the most famous stars ever to grace the screen, former French actress and superstar Brigitte Bardot […]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou: hopefully we’ll catch another glimpse of their on-screen magic
It all began more than a century ago and since then, it often proved to be a successful […]
Former screen actress Joan Leslie, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age and highly popular […]
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)
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 […]
The era when several European actors and actresses became household names in the U.S., has long been gone, […]
When I have talked with Orson Welles, I feel like a plant that has been watered Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) talking about Orson Welles (1915-1985), one of 20th century's true film geniuses, who directed her in "Touch of Evil" (1958), now regarded an international classic, but at the time made on a tight budget. Said Ms. Dietrich: "The budget was like a handout to a beggar." Always close friends, "Touch of Evil" was made many years after Welles and Dietrich successfully toured together with his magic act
