In January 1946, Elizabeth Taylor was thirteen years old and one of Hollywood's most successful child stars. Her role in National Velve...

The Friars Club is a private club with locations in New York and Los Angeles and is probably best known for its celebrity roasts . On 8 Jan...

Lewis Allen's Appointment with Danger  (1951) is a film noir in which Alan Ladd plays a Postal Inspector of the U.S. Postal Inspectio...

George Raft was one of the leading male stars at Warner Bros. before Humphrey Bogart entered the picture. When offered the le...

Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird , based on Harper Lee's successful coming-of-age novel, was released on 25 December 1962 ...

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were both married to other people when they first met. It was during production of Fire over England  (19...

A big part of Hitchcock's The Birds  (1963) was filmed at the Universal Studios, but the exterior scenes were shot in Bodega Bay, Calif...

Avid letter-writer Joan Crawford maintained a correspondence with many of her friends, among them fellow actress Barbara Stan...

On 25 March 1968, renowned costume designer Edith Head issued a dress code for the 40th Academy Awards ceremony. Gregory Peck, who had beco...

Suffering from ill health and depression, Marilyn Monroe voluntarily admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in February 1961. Dur...