In some cases, talent, charisma, beauty, and stage presence is in the genes. A family will produce not one star but two … sisters who follow the same path to the silver screen and the Hollywood spotlight. Let’s take this opportunity to admire some of the great sister acts of the Golden Age of Hollywood….
Month: January 2023
Cary Grant: The Handsome Hollywood Heartthrob
Cary Grant, whose real name was Archibald Alec Leach, was an English American actor known for his suave and debonair style. He got his start in show business as a stage actor in the 1920s and then made his way to Hollywood in the 1930s. He appeared in many classic films that are still well-known…
Groundbreaking Director Cecil B. DeMille and His Lavish Epics
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering Hollywood film director and producer. He was one of the most successful filmmakers of the early 20th century and is widely credited with shaping the modern Hollywood film industry. DeMille was the king of the epic film and a groundbreaking director who made a number of significant contributions to…
Alfred Hitchcock Built an Elaborate Set for “Rear Window”
By the time director Alfred Hitchcock was preparing to film his mystery suspense thriller Rear Window in 1954, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, he had earned a reputation in Hollywood for being a master filmmaker with an eye for details. It should be no wonder, then, that Hitchcock pulled out all the stops to…
Fatty Arbuckle: Rapist or Victim of Yellow Journalism?
The current “fake news” era of journalism has nothing on the Yellow Journalism era of the 1920s when publishers vied with each other to sell more newspapers even if that meant printing sensational stories and outright lies. This was the setting in which a young, aspiring actress tragically died and one of America’s most popular…