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Bené Viera
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May 17, 2018
You can thank the first female film director for the fact that movies actually have a plot
Alice Guy-Blaché went from being a secretary to being a visionary of cinema
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Brendan Seibel
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Mar 5, 2018
Photos: Enter the badass
Rare family photos reveal Bruce Lee’s inner life, discipline, and distaste…
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Nina Renata Aron
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Jan 2, 2018
The black celebrity from Hollywood’s Golden Age who revealed the complexities of passing for white
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Laura Smith
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Jul 10, 2017
The sordid murder of this Hollywood director took the fun and sex out of Tinseltown
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Jun 1, 2017
Watch: The quiet Baltimore boy who became America’s most shocking drag queen
Divine entertained and scandalized audiences
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May 24, 2017
These arresting photographs by the young Stanley Kubrick show why he became a great director
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May 22, 2017
Watch: This pioneering female director made 1,000 films but was written out of movie history
Alice Guy-Blaché simply asked her actors to “be natural”
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Stephanie Buck
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Dec 22, 2016
Old Hollywood forced its first stars to work long hours and take amphetamines in exchange for fame
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Hanne Elisabeth Tidnam
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Aug 12, 2016
Watching porn in public: The rise and fall of the adult movie house
Once a staple of the urban landscape, they are now almost gone
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Meagan Day
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Jun 29, 2016
‘Gone With the Wind’ sparked an Old South craze that united white America
Even though at its Atlanta premiere, young Martin Luther King Jr. was dressed up as a slave (seriously)
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