Ingrid Bergman was making a name for herself in Sweden throughout much of the 1930’s before heading to America in 1938 for a US remake of...
Spencer Tracy was one of Hollywood’s best loved actors who was a major star right from the early 1930s through to his death in 1967. He...
Larger than life character actor Sydney Greenstreet didn’t make his screen debut until he was 61 and although his film career wasn’t long it was certainly...
Judy Garland was one of the best loved stars from the golden age of Hollywood and is often seen as one of it’s greatest victims. It...
Gene Kelly for a period in the 1940’s and early 1950’s made a superb series of musicals that remain at the very pinnacle of the genre,...
During his long career Irish-American director John Ford (1895-1973) made over 125 feature films including a whole batch of westerns during the Silent era and it...
An early screen test of Fred Astaire’s was marked “can’t sing, can’t act, can dance a little” – well how far did a little dancing skill...
The real question is how can you choose just five Alfred Hitchcock movies, so many classics has the legendary director made. Beginning his career with silent...
Famed British film director David Lean went from intimate British drama to epic widescreen history by way of some of the best adaptations of Dickens put...
James Cagney made his name at the start of the sound era playing gangsters under contract to Warner Bros making classics such as Public Enemy and...
Preston Sturges made some incredible movies in a very short space of time. Over the course of five years, from 1940-1944, he wrote, produced and directed...
Robert Mitchum, one of the iconic stars of the golden age of Hollywood, had the real skill of not seeming to care about his acting. Lazy...