Even in his 1950s heyday, a lot of people would have thought twice before crossing a busy road to see Richard Todd. Yet he was enormously...
Mary Pickford, America’s Sweetheart, whose golden curls, comic capers and winsome smile enraptured early filmgoers, became the first powerful women to emerge in Hollywood–on and offscreen....
Anthony Mann was an often underrated director who introduced perceptive insights into his high, wide and handsome treatments of outdoor spectaculars, notably Westerns, war films and...
Shirley Temple was America’s original “little sweetheart.” A tiny starlet with short curls, Temple entertained movie audiences while she grew up. Perhaps no other child actor...
Aaron Spelling is an American film and television producer. Spelling grew up in a small frame house on Browder Street in Dallas “on the wrong side...
The legendary career of Fredric March assures his place in cinema history. From starring to supporting and cameo roles, March will long be remembered as an...
To call John Huston merely a great filmmaker would not do the man justice. Yes, he was an accomplished screenwriter and director, an artist whose eclectic...
Many critics have noted that the life of Preston Sturges played like one of his movies – crazy and comedic, with lots of twists and turns....
The director John Ford tamed the Wild West with a celluloid whip. Long considered the King of the Western and of war films, Ford’s pictures are...
To a generation raised on 1970’s TV, Angie Dickinson will forever be remembered as Sergeant “Pepper” Anderson, the sexy star of the “Police Woman” series. Never...
Gourmet cook. Quiz show champ. Yale graduate, art historian, star of “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine” (1965). Vincent Price played all these roles to elegant...
Like Zorro, the role he is perhaps most famous for, Tyrone Power left an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of film audiences around the...
Her first stage production, a Louisville, Kentucky production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, came at the tender age of five, a debut that would quickly set...
Ava Gardner may still be the most beautiful woman to ever work in Hollywood. For good or bad, her beauty got her noticed –by studio heads,...
When Lauren Bacall, all of 19 and fresh from the Bronx, asked Humphrey Bogart if he knew how to whistle in the film version of Hemingway’s...