How to be a Latin Lover: Ricardo Cortez, formerly known as Jacob Krantz from a working-class family of Austrian/Hungarian immigrants that had settled in New York City, succeeded in restyling…
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Katharine Hepburn movies. Katharine Hepburn movies: Woman in drag, in love, in danger In case you’re suffering from insomnia, you might want to spend your night and early morning watching…
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Wallace Beery in Min and Bill, with Marie Dressler. Wallace Beery movies: TCM offers a glimpse into Beery’s extensive filmography According to the IMDb, the Wallace Beery Filmography features nearly…
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‘The Artist’: Best Picture winner makes history. Best Picture winner ‘The Artist’: Two ‘First Times’ in Oscar history Pictured above are several cast members of Best Picture winner The Artist…
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Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven, which helped – along with Sunrise and Street Angel – to earn Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award. Frank Borzage’s 7th…
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1930 U.S. census celebrities: Amelia Earhart in, but Greta Garbo and gangsters wanted to be left alone. ‘Celebrities in the 1930 Census’: Mae West and Marie Dressler find Fountain of…
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One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (website) is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective. (Image: Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, and Melvyn Douglas.)…
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Souls for Sale with Eleanor Boardman and Barbara La Marr. Long before Hollywood became the target of relentless political attacks for being out of touch with the values of God-fearing,…
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Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…
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Are Parents People? movie review: This one-daughter precursor to Walt Disney Productions’ 1961 hit The Parent Trap is worth a look largely thanks to cute, perky Betty Bronson, cinema’s first…