On 5 November 1954, Billy Wilder concluded filming of The Seven Year Itch . Production had taken two weeks longer than originally scheduled...

Ava Gardner starred in only one musical, George Sidney's lavish remake of the tearjerker Show Boat  (1951). She was cast as the mul...

In 1945, Warner Brothers heard about the Marx Brothers' plans to make a film called A Night in Casablanca  which was to be a parody of ...

Exactly 25 years ago today, on 20 January 1990, Barbara Stanwyck passed away. She was 82 years old. Years before ...

When Elizabeth Taylor was thirteen years old, she maintained a correspondence with a fan named Jean Grey. I have already posted a...

It is often rumoured that, apart from having been good friends, Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford were once lovers. In Joan Cr...

When Clark Gable was seventeen years old, he knew he wanted to be an actor. His father William, an oil driller and farmer, didn't app...

Alfred Hitchcock was leafing through the November 1965 issue of Vogue Magazine when a picture of Joan Crawford caught his eye (see ...

I live in Amsterdam and, apart from the occasional screening of a classic film at a film theatre, there's not much happening here in ...

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