When gossip columnist Hedda Hopper saw James Dean for the first time, she was appalled by his unkempt appearance and his bad manners. Such ...

Here is a sweet little note from Norma Shearer to Brian Aherne, written in 1935. Shearer wrote to Aherne after doing a screen test togeth...

In April 1927, Mae West was sentenced to ten days in prison for having corrupted 'the morals of youth' with the 1926 Broadway p...

With the leading role in  Anastasia  (1956) Ingrid Bergman made her American comeback after she had spent years in Italy making films ...

A leading portrait photographer in the 1930s/40s, George Hurrell photographed every major star in Hollywood, including the incomp...

In the early 1950s, John Wayne made the worst decision of his film career. He decided to play the rol...

In 1942, in post-Pearl Harbor America, many Hollywood actors joined the  army,  including   28-year-old   Tyrone Power who enlist...

In December 1938, a young unknown British actress named Vivien Leigh visited the set of Gone with the Wind accompanied by talent agent My...