Category: Interesting Stories

Martial arts star Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco in 1940, but spent much of his childhood in Hong Kong and made his movie debut there while still …

Having won an Academy Award for his performance in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie, by the late 1960s comedy actor Walter Matthau was riding high. He had just signed …

Although Hollywood gossip likes to focus more on the catty rivalries between its leading ladies than it does its leading men, there have been more than a few times …

1965’s The Sound of Music opens with a long sweeping shot, flying over endless green Alpine meadows and mountaintops, with the sun shining and the lakes in the distance …

When she won the Best Actress Oscar for her title role in Mary Poppins in 1964, Julie Andrews could scarcely believe it. In a 2019 interview, she explained that …

Few Hollywood feuds compare to that between renowned Oscar-winners Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. But as legendary as their rivalry has become, incredibly the pair only made one movie …

As well as sweeping the boards at the Oscars, 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia also made an overnight star of its leading actor, Peter O’Toole. O’Toole is one of cinema’s …

After nabbing seven Oscars for his Second World War epic The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, director David Lean was keen to embark on another large-scale movie. …

Three years after terrifying cinema audience with Psycho, in 1963 Alfred Hitchcock returned with The Birds and terrified audiences all over again. The movie (the third of Hitchcock’s films …

Trained at the prestigious RADA acting school in London, Joan Collins made her Hollywood debut aged just 20, in 1955’s lavish drama The Virgin Queen. The movie—which gave the …