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26 August 2023

Olivia de Havilland's first Oscar win

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On 13 March 1947, the 19th Academy Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles, honouring the films released in 1946. Olivia de Havilland was on...
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12 August 2023

You force me to refuse to make the picture unless the billing is mine

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By the spring of 1939 Bette Davis was already a star. She had just won her second Academy Award for  Jezebel (1938) and had recently starre...
29 July 2023

My dear Cole

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In the summer of 1948, George Cukor was in England directing Edward, My Son (1949), which was being filmed at the MGM British Studios in Bo...
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16 July 2023

There is no one even second to her ...

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From the mid-1940s until the early 1950s, Jeanne Crain was one of the biggest stars at 20th Century-Fox. After signing a long-term contract ...
2 July 2023

Working with you and knowing you has been a gentle and rare experience

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Following her role in Green Mansions (1959), Audrey Hepburn was cast as a Native American girl in John Huston's The Unforgiven (1960),...
15 June 2023

A big big thank you for what you do

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Martin Landau began his acting career in the late 1950s. At one time a student at Lee Strassberg's prestigious acting studio and a good ...
1 June 2023

Betty Grable's legs are no joking matter

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After signing a long-term contract with 20th Century-Fox in early 1940, Betty Grable soon became a major star, some of her biggest hits bein...
25 May 2023

In my heart you are my dearest friend in the whole world

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Linda Darnell hated the Hollywood social scene and made only one close friend in Hollywood, actress/dancer Ann Miller. As young starlets the...
18 May 2023

I'm a great deal better now

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In May 1956, during production of Raintree County (1957), Montgomery Clift attended a party at the house of co-star and friend Elizabeth Tay...