Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) was the son of the silent screen’s most beloved hero Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and […]
Marlène Dietrich
Nicholas Josef von Sternberg: “There’s no doubt that my father was a highly respected film director”
Today, all-round filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) is best remembered as the man behind UFA’s first talking picture, […]
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 and foreign-language actors and actresses became household names in the U.S, has long […]
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