In the fall of 1961, Peter Lorre sent Groucho Marx a copy of  Stuart Gilbert's  James Joyce's Ulysses  (1930) , a study of Joyce...

For a long time I only associated director Robert Wise with his two biggest hits, the musicals  West Side Story  (1961) and The Sound of Mu...

Ginger Rogers was one of Doris Day's childhood idols. As a teenager watching Ginger dance, Doris wanted to become a professional dancer...

Growing up in the English countryside , Elizabeth Taylor loved being around animals and felt more comfortable around them than child...

I am no Jerry Lewis fan. At all. I find him mostly annoying and very unfunny, having seen several of the films he did with Dean Martin (who...

Eccentric billionaire, business tycoon,  aviator and film producer Howard Hughes  dated a lot of famous Hollywood actresses (including Kath...

Bette Davis, a fan of Elizabeth Taylor  —  who would have thought?  Well, apparently Bette was, judging from a note written to Elizab...

Mae West was a successful stage actress and playwright before she moved to Hollywood in 1932. At a relatively late age (al...

Jurassic Park (1993) was a huge success upon release. It became the highest-grossing film ever at the time, holding that record until  Tit...

First published in August 1938, Daphne du Maurier's novel  Rebecca  was an immediate success. Before publication Alfred Hitchcock h...