Founded in 1907 and based in Chicago, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was one of America's earliest film studios. During its ten-...

During his career Alfred Hitchcock made only one film for Twentieth Century-Fox. In late 1942, while under contract to David Selznick, Hitch...

Jane Bryan had a very short Hollywood career which lasted only four years. Initially wishing to be a stage actress, Bryan followed a dramati...

In May 1940, Paulette Goddard travelled to Mexico for a publicity shoot for Look magazine and also hoped to get her portrait painted by ren...

In February 1962, for a then record amount of $5.5 million, Warner Bros. obtained the rights to produce the film version of the successful s...

Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis made three films together, i.e. the WWII drama Kings Go Forth (1958) and the two comedies Sex and the Single G...

In December 1948, production wrapped on Irving Cummings' It's Only Money , a RKO comedy starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Fran...

Seldom praised for her acting skills, Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor is probably best known for her flamboyant personality, her many marriages...

In her autobiography A Private View (1983) Irene Mayer Selznick said that David Selznick didn't seriously propose to her until long af...

When Warner Bros. decided to film  Life with Father (1947), the 1939 hit play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, they quickly settled on W...