By the mid-1920s, Norma Shearer was one of MGM's biggest stars and had every intention to remain one. For that purpose she regularly vis...

Four times in Oscar history, the awards ceremony was not held as scheduled but postponed to a later date. The first time was in 1938 due to ...

By the mid-1930s, Basil Rathbone was one of Hollywood's best-paid freelance actors. When Samuel Goldwyn offered him a four-year contract...

The luxurious Savoy Hotel in London was home to many classic Hollywood stars, including Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich loved the Savoy and lived...

Born in Hungary as Manó Kertész Kaminer, director Michael Curtiz arrived in Hollywood in 1926 at age 39. Having already directed numerous fi...

In March 1957 on the television show Caesar's Hour , Joan Crawford conducted a short interview with fellow actress Ingrid Bergman after ...

A month after filming on Torn Curtain (1966) had ended, Alfred Hitchcock received a note from a Universal executive, asking him to include ...

Irene Mayer Selznick loved the theatre and after separating from husband-producer David Selznick in 1945, she embarked on a career as a thea...

German novelist Erich Maria Remarque, who is best known for his 1929 bestselling novel All Quiet on the Western Front , had an affair with M...

Norma Shearer's MGM contract stipulated that she would not share star billing with any other actress. When George Cukor's  The Women...