RAQUEL WELCH was the sex goddess of the sixties without ever appearing in a decent movie. After having two kids, a divorce, a job as a...
One of the most enduring, versatile, and hard-working actresses around, Angela Lansbury has made indelible impressions in the worlds of film, theatre, and TV. The granddaughter...
INNOVATIVE French filmmaker Louis Malle had the great advantage of being born into extreme wealth (he was heir to the Beghin sugar fortune), and perhaps his...
Over his fifty-plus year career Mel Brooks has established himself as one of the pre-eminent satirists in the entertainment industry. His razor sharp humor has scored...
Berlin-born director Mike Nichols (nee Peschkowsky) made a lengthy career of producing edgy, irreverent films that both cleaned up at the box office and spoke volumes...
Andy Warhol called James Dean the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. Though the tormented young actor only appeared in three major films–East of Eden,...
Though Marion Davies was educated in a New York convent, she followed in the footsteps of her three older sisters to pursue a dancing career in...
Veronica Lake, née Constance Ockelman, was diagnosed as a classic schizophrenic as a teenager; unfortunately, her opportunistic mother’s idea of treatment was to prod her relentlessly...
The Italian director Sergio Leone resented the label “spaghetti western,” which critics and pundits applied to his films A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few...
With starring roles in such iconic sixties’ fare as the series Peyton Place and the film Valley of the Dolls, Barbara Parkins will forever be linked...