Fun Facts 4U

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 …

Starring Brigitte Bardot, The Truth—or “La Verité”, to use its original French title—was a cinematic tour de force. Telling the story of a small-town Frenchwoman who moves to Paris, …

1960’s Psycho is arguably Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest film—and is certainly one of his scariest. Its place in cinema history did not come easy, however, as the movie’s production proved …

Charles Laughton’s humiliating case of mistaken identity aside, here are some more tales from the set of 1960’s Spartacus. “I’M DIRECTING!” Spartacus was directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick, …

Born at the very end of the 19th century, the English actor Charles Laughton was one of the most acclaimed character actors of the Hollywood Golden Age, winning the …

1959’s Ben-Hur is an epic movie in almost every way. At the time of its production, it demanded the biggest budget in movie history (over $15 million), the biggest …

It’s part of Hollywood folklore: a beautiful young woman discovered sipping a soft drink at a malt shop in Los Angeles, signed to a Hollywood movie contract just days …

There have been countless Hollywood feuds over the years, often caused by clashing egos or personalities being cast alongside one another in the same picture. One famous feud, however, …

Forty years before James Cameron’s Titanic, the doomed liner’s tragic sinking was brought to life in 1958’s A Night to Remember. The production was chiefly a British affair, mostly …