Ingrid Bergman: Love, Italian Style!
Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman made her English language debut in Intermezzo in 1939, the American remake of a Swedish film she had already starred in three years earlier. Renowned …
Out in The Cold
The postwar years in Hollywood were an era of extreme contrast. On the one hand, it was in the late 1940s and early 50s that Hollywood produced many of …
Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli: Stage Mom
Few Hollywood mother-and-daughter pairings are as iconic as Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. Both are just as well known for their work on screen as on stage; both were …
Shirley Temple: It’s a Living!
Legendary Hollywood child star Shirley Temple was just three years old when she made her screen debut in a series of single-reel comedies called Baby Burlesks in 1932. Dressed …
It’s an Unassuming Life
Frank Capra’s 1946 Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life is regularly listed as one of the greatest holiday films of all time, and among James Stewart fans is often …
Frank Sinatra: Cheered Up
By the early 1940s, Frank Sinatra—or “Frankie,” as the up-and-coming twenty-something was known at the time—was already one of America’s hottest new talents. Marketed as “The Voice That Has …
Play it again, Sam
It’s one of the most famous lines in the history of Hollywood. But oddly, at no point during the classic 1942 movie Casablanca does any character utter the words, …
James Stewart: Cold Feet
Unlike many of his fellow Hollywood luminaries, James Stewart’s private life was surprisingly sedate for such a huge star. His earliest public relationship was with the actress Margaret Sullivan, …
The Outlaw: Outlawed!
Perhaps best known for her lead role opposite Marilyn Monroe in the classic musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Jane Russell made her Hollywood debut a decade earlier—in a …
Judy Garland: The Inside Dope
There are enough extraordinary and scandalous stories in the life of movie legend Judy Garland to fill a book on their own. From her early days at MGM and …