When George Cukor decided to build  three cottages on his Beverly Hills estate, his close friend Katharine Hepburn asked him if Spencer Trac...

When producer Darryl F. Zanuck bought the rights to Richard Llewellyn's 1939 best-selling novel  How Green Was My Valley , he intended t...

Tasmanian-born Errol Flynn became a U.S. citizen in August 1942. Eight months earlier, America had entered World War II, and Errol tried sev...

David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn were two of Hollywood's most successful independent producers, both with their own group of contrac...

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb   ( 1964) is generally considered one of Stanley Kubrick's masterpi...

A year after Joan Crawford's death, Christina Crawford —the eldest of Joan's four adopted children— published her memoir  Mommie Dea...

James Stewart and Kim Novak starred together in two films, i.e. in Alfred Hitchcock's  Vertigo (1958) and the fantasy comedy Bell, Boo...

I haven't posted here for a while, as some of you may have noticed. The reason is that I've been having serious health issues and co...

The critically and commercially successful  Splendor in the Grass  (1961), directed by Elia Kazan and starring Warren Beatty and Natalie Woo...

By 1934 Walt Disney was no longer satisfied making animated shorts, despite their popularity with audiences. Shorts made very little money f...