For as long as I can remember and ever since I first became familiar with his work, I […]
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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, […]
Do you remember film directors such as Clarence Brown, Irving Rapper, Charles Vidor or John Farrow? Those highly […]
In case you might ask yourself who is the most successful Hollywood screenwriter of all time, considering the […]
In the 1950s and 1960s, former screen actress Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931) was, along with Marilyn Monroe […]
In Robert Cremer’s 1976 publication “Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape” (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago), Lugosi’s son Bela […]
As the niece of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studio in 1915, Carla Laemmle lived a long and […]
A lot of (auto)biographical books and historical documentaries have been made over the years, all reflecting on (the […]
Marisa Pavan, born in Cagliari, Sardinia, as Marisa Luisa Pierangeli on June 19, 1932, was a celebrated screen […]
It was wonderful to see how much former screen star Ann Rutherford, a.k.a. Polly Benedict in the much-beloved […]
