In 1959, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis  shared a kissing scene in  Billy Wilder's comedy  Some Like It Hot  and a fterwards Curtis mad...

In 1943, Bette Davis had her own advice column "What Should I Do?" in the popular fan magazine Photoplay-Movie Mirrror. Numer...

Nearly twenty years after the release of John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Steinbeck, author of the novel on which the film...

I must have mentioned once or twice before that Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn were more or less responsible for my becoming a class...

Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins starred together in Stanley Kramer's  On The Beach  (1959) and during production of the ...

Austrian-born music composer Max Steiner moved to Hollywood in 1929 and was one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Acc...

MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer once said that the idea of a star being born was "bushwah". During Hollywood's studio era, stars we...

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...