In 1991, my mom worked as a production coordinator on a low-budget movie shot largely in downtown Los…
Herman Mankiewicz was a tough-talking, wisecracking screenwriter who despised sentimentality. When Warner…
In June 1954, a Hollywood cast and crew flew to Saint George, Utah to make the movie The Conqueror…
In 1987, I was a struggling screenwriter living with two friends in a Hancock Park…
In 1921, producer Hal Roach created the Our Gang series of short films. Later renamed The Little Rascals, Roach…
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in 1924 to Jewish Romanian immigrant parents…
Humphrey Bogart’s characters smoked, drank, fought and almost always got the…
In 1943, writer/director Billy Wilder wanted to make a gritty film noir. He was under…
