During the 1920s/ 1930s, Screen Book was a popular movie fan magazine which occasionally brought in famous movie stars to appear ...

Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar named Desire  (1947) ran on Broadway from 3 December 1947 through 17 Dece...

Throughout his career, Clark Gable received several letters of extortion. In 1937, a British woman named Violet Norton claimed Gable was th...

Elizabeth Taylor was known for her passion for jewelry. At the time of her death (in 2011), she had about $150 million worth of j...

Lauren Bacall was the star of the Broadway play The Cactus Flower , which opened in December 1965 and would run for two years. Her good fri...

East of Eden  (1955), James Dean's first major film, was shot on location in California. On 8 April 1954, Dean left his home town New...

In September 1939, one week after the start of WWII, Charlie Chaplin began filming "The Great Dictator" (1940), his satire on Ado...

Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner starred together in three films:  The Great Sinner  (1949), The Snows of Kilimanjaro  (1952) and On the ...

Production of Billy Wilder's "Some Like it Hot" (1959) started in August 1958. With a cast led by Jack Lemmon, Tony C...

During the 1930s, Joan Crawford was one of Hollywood's greatest stars and one of the best paid women in the USA. Her popularity, howeve...