In December 1961, Fred Astaire received an advance copy of the newest issue of Playboy Magazine which showed a photograph of him holdi...

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly starred together in only one movie, Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief  (1955). Grant loved working...

The film adaptation of Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth  (1937) was producer Irving Thalberg's final achievement. For the music sc...

Here are a few Season's Greetings from Hollywood stars sent to their fellow actors and friends. First up are four teleg...

Here's a very entertaining letter from director King Vidor --known for such movies as The Champ  (1931), Stella Dallas  (1937) and War ...

One of my earlier posts ( here ) showed an angry telegram from playwright Arthur Miller to Billy Wilder. Wilder had publicly criticised Mar...

Louise Brooks and Charlie Chaplin had a love affair in New York during the summer of 1925. At the time, 18-year old Brooks was a chorus...

Hungarian-born Bela Lugosi is best remembered for his role as the vampire Count Dracula in Tod Browning's Dracula  (1931). Many people ...

There are many examples of movie adaptations that were hated by the original author. For instance, Ernest Hemingway is said to have d...

Although the search for Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind  (1939) wasn't nearly as complicated as the search for Scarlett O'Hara, ...