Film history: Focus on Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow, America’s Platinum Blonde since the early 1930s, soon became one of MGM’s top stars of the decade. Originally working in comedy shorts including Hal Roach’s “Double Whoopee” (1928) with...
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Luise Rainer: “Whatever I was able to give or do in my work, came from inside...
Screen legend Luise Rainer passed away on December 30, 2014, at her London home, at age 104, just two weeks shy of her 105th birthday. Unbelievable as it is, so was she. I met her twice for an...
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Marsha Hunt: “MGM let me play absolutely everything, the studio gave me such...
As a 17-year-old teenager, Marsha Hunt played her first leading role in her debut film, “The Virginia Judge” (1935), at Paramount, with Walter C. Kelly in the title role. By the time she was 20, she...
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Looking back: What daily life was like at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer once you...
A lot of (auto)biographical books and historical documentaries have been made over the years, all reflecting on (the pros and cons of) the studio system that was responsible for Hollywood’s golden era...
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Carla Laemmle: “Growing up on the Universal lot, near the New York street,...
As the niece of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios in 1915, Carla Laemmle lived a long and happy life. Born in Chicago in 1909, she passed away 104 years later in Los Angeles, where she almost...
View ArticleAcademy’s Governors Awards: 2017 honorees include Agnès Varda and Donald...
The website of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science describes the Governors Awards as an annual event, ‘celebrating awards conferred by the Academy’s Board of Governors—the Irving G....
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Robert Schwenkte: “What I always look for when I watch other people’s films...
Whenever a German filmmaker crosses the Atlantic to work with the most talented actors or screenwriters in the U.S., I always have to think about the stories legendary film director Fred Zinnemann told...
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Gérard Depardieu: “When you’re making a film, you never know when the magic...
Define a star. How would you describe a star in the cinematic landscape? We all know them; we grew up with them, but yet I think it’s pretty difficult to give an accurate and complete description of...
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: “Jack L. Warner was a tough businessman, but he was...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) was the son of the silent screen’s most beloved hero Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and quite a legendary screen star in his own right. I never got to meet him in person,...
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