Jimmy Stewart. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart: Unlikely Hollywood star enjoyed decades-long career in a variety of genres The personification of all-American aw-shucksiness – of the sort you find only in bad movies…
Vera Miles
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Rex Ingram (Actor): Early Black Performer in Hollywood Movies such as Cabin in the Sky. He also played the Genie in The Thief of Bagdad 1940.
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San Francisco Symphony & Cary Grant in ‘North by Northwest.’ San Francisco Symphony salutes Alfred Hitchcock: Halloween movies and Hitchcock movie music The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock…
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Production designer J. Michael Riva. Marlene Dietrich Grandson J. Michael Riva, Robert Clatworthy, and Harper Goff: Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame 2014 Production Designers Robert Clatworthy, Harper Goff, and…
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Anthony Hopkins: Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins ‘Hitchcock’ poster: ‘Psycho’ style The Hitchcock poster above shares a few elements with the Psycho 1960 poster, such as the splitting of the image into…
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Tippi Hedren once told The Times of London that Alfred Hitchcock – for whom she starred in The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), and with whom she had an exclusive…
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Model and actress Cynthia Myers, a 1968 Playboy Playmate, died Nov. 4. She was 61. Hugh Hefner announced her death on Twitter: “I’m saddened by the news of the passing…
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James Stewart remains one of the most beloved film actors in Hollywood history. Well, at least in the United States, where Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith…
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Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical “All-American” actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda’s generally one-dimensional characters represented the…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror thriller Psycho caused a sensation when it opened in June about fifty years ago. There were a number of reasons for that, one of them being…
Nicole Kidman Grace Kelly look. Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly? Hey, if Michelle Williams can play Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett Johansson can play Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel can play Vera Miles,…
Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Dames Joan Blondell has always been a favorite of mine, much like fellow wisecracking 1930s Warner Bros. players Aline MacMahon and Glenda Farrell. The fact that…