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…
I spent my twenties working on movies. I grew accustomed to the long hours, high stress…
In 1946, the Allies had just won the war and the United Nations was a brand new entity. Screenwriter Carl Foreman…
On a hot summer day in July 1922, actor Harold Lloyd was walking around downtown Los Angeles when he…
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was one of America’s first silent film stars dominating the industry…
Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor known for playing sinister foreigners. Born Laszlo Lowenstein…
John “Bud” Cardos was a filmmaking renaissance man. Known for directing horror films, he worked as an actor…