As a follow-up to the previous post, I am sharing a letter from Francis Ford Coppola to Marlon Brando, in which the director tries to persua...

Published in 1969, Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather tells the story of the (fictional) Corleone mafia family, headed by patriarch Vito ...

Barry Sullivan and  Barbara Stanwyck made three films together. Their first picture was John Sturges' film noir  Jeopardy (1953), follo...

Today, on what would have been Vincent Price's 113th birthday, I am sharing a letter sent to Price by Adam West in 1990, on the occasion...

In a 1972 interview with Dick Cavett, Alfred Hitchcock was asked about the remark " Actors are like cattle " he had supposedly mad...

Norma Shearer was one of the first serious contenders for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind (19...

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...