Lionel Barrymore had a good relationship with his boss Louis B. Mayer, having first worked for Mayer at Metro Pictures and then at MGM from ...

Dissatisfied with the roles MGM offered her, Joan Crawford left the studio in June 1943 after having been a contract player for 18 years. Tw...

Published in 1850, Charles Dickens'  David Copperfield is an autobiographical novel which was also the author's personal favourite....

Coming to the end of 2022, here is a selection of random letters, written by a few of my fave actors and a fave director. First up is a l...

Having the power to ruin careers and lives, gossip columnist Hedda Hopper was hated by most actors in Hollywood. Joan Bennett once sent Hopp...

Like many Hollywood actors, Humphrey Bogart began his acting career on the stage. He appeared in 18 Broadway productions between 1922 and ...

In July 1934, Joseph Breen and his Production Code Administration (PCA) started to strictly enforce the Motion Picture Production Code, Holl...

I am not a fan of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle but I love Buster Keaton and recently watched a lot of Buster shorts, including several ...

Helen Hayes and Joan Crawford became friends in the 1930s. In her (third) memoir  My Life in Three Acts  (1990) Hayes said that Joan had ado...