Critics and film-lovers the world over are united in believing that Citizen Kane is one of the finest movies ever made. Fewer people, however, are aware...
Born in Baku, Russia in 1899 and educated at Moscow University and the Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, Akim Tamiroff went on tour with the...
Hosted by Orson Welles, who died just five days before it aired, this stylized, mostly black-and-white episode of Moonlighting blended the series’ trademark banter and sexual...
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...
Dolores Del Rio was a second cousin to silent film star Ramon Novarro, a relationship that provided her entrée into an endless stream of Hollywood parties....
A glamorous leading lady of the 1940’s, Rita Hayworth represents a style Hollywood has long forgotten. Throughout much of that decade, she was the undisputed queen...
Talent, girth, ego, ambition – everything about Orson Welles swelled beyond the boundaries of normal men. His talent as an actor, writer, director, and producer soared...
White-collar hoodlums have been sliming their way across movie screens for years. From the conniving, power-hungry Loren Shaw in 1954’s Executive Suite, to the guru of...
Born out of mergers between several much smaller movie companies and the Radio Corporation of America, RKO is an abbreviation for Radio-Keith-Orpheum. It couldn’t really count...