Ann Harding hated being a celebrity and the publicity that came with it. F ollowing her  divorce from actor Harry Bannister in 1932, Ha...

Errol Flynn enjoyed his greatest successes in the late 1930s and the 1940s when he was one of Warner Bros.' biggest box-office draw...

The Magnificent Ambersons  (1942) is often considered Orson Welles' second masterpiece,  even if it's not the film Welles had en...

In January 1956, Humphrey Bogart was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and a few months later underwent surgery to have his esophagus re...

Prior to my visit to the 2016 Marilyn Monroe exhibition in my old home town Amsterdam (The Netherlands), I had never heard of the conn...

After reading John Steinbeck's novel  East of Eden  (1952), director Elia Kazan immediately wanted to turn it into a film. Admittedly,...

Here is a very cryptic letter from Cary Grant to Tony Curtis, written on 25  October 1963.  I have no idea what the letter is about, ...

Not long ago I discovered that the great Mary Astor was not only an actress but also an author. Apart from having written two autobiograp...