Canadian-born Norma Shearer arrived in New York in 1920 aged 17, hoping to become one of Florenz Ziegfeld's new 'Follies'...

In 1936, George Cukor was hired by producer David O. Selznick to direct his next project  Gone with the Wind  (1939) . Principal photograph...

On 6 February 1950, Bette Davis wrote this very funny note to director Bretaigne Windust, with whom she had worked on June Bride (1948) a...

After Ernest Hemingway had turned down  Alfred Hitchcock's offer to write the story for Lifeboat  (1944) ,  Hitchcock appr...

We all know the finished projects, the films that made it to the big screen. But of course, there were also plenty of projects that, for wh...

When Audrey Hepburn failed to receive an Oscar nomination for her leading role in George Cukor's My Fair Lady (1964), she was quite d...

In the early 1950s, Lucille Ball was under investigation by the  HUAC , the notorious committee that investigated Communism in Hollywoo...

In the October 1940 issue of the fan magazine "Hollywood", columnist Ed Sullivan had a lot of negative things to say about  J...