When we talk about censorship during Hollywood's Golden Age, one name that will invariably pop up is J oseph Breen . As head of the P...

The Spirit of St. Louis  (1957) is one of Billy Wilder's lesser known films. Based on the 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Charl...

When Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road  was published in 1957, it was an immediate success. Presumably that same year,  Kerouac --want...

After working for Columbia Pictures for twelve years, director Frank Capra's contract with the studio ended in 1939 following the rel...

Seeing great potential in Hattie McDaniel after her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind  (1939), producer David O. Selznick signed...

On 30 October 1947, screenwriter Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr.  appeared before the House on Un-American Activitie...

One of the most legendary actor-director collaborations in Hollywood history is the collaboration between John Wayne and John Ford. T...