Clara Bow was one of the greatest stars of the 1920s. She was the ultimate flapper , the original  "It girl"  and H...

On 17 February 1962, six months before her untimely death, Marilyn Monroe wrote this short note to Volkmar von Z ü hlsdorff thanking him ...

John Wayne was one of Hollywood's most prominent Republicans. In 1968, the Republican Party asked him to run for president thinking it ...

After briefly meeting in the early 1930s, Greta Garbo and renowned photographer Cecil Beaton met again in the 1940s, became...

Austrian-born Hedy Lamarr is an actress I never knew that much about. Only recently I've learnt that, apart from being an actress...

In October 1954, 24-year-old Clint Eastwood had yet to make his film debut. By then Billy Wilder was already a successful director and not ...

Alfred Hitchcock had always wanted to make a movie involving the famous Mount Rushmore monument. A chase across the monument was what he dr...

Here is an amusing letter from Danny Kaye to fellow actor and friend Clifton Webb. At the time of writing, Kaye and his wife Sylvia had j...

On 14 September 1936, producer and MGM executive Irving Thalberg died of pneumonia at the early age of 37. His premature death shocked th...

Lauren Bacall and John Wayne made two movies together. The first one was the 1955 Blood Alley , directed by William Wellman and produced by...