Category: Vintage Hollywood
The mysterious disappearance of Lionel “Buster” Crabb inspired Ian Fleming’s “Thunderball”
Mental breakdowns, substance abuse, an obese Marlon Brando: Welcome to “Apocalypse Now,” the film that nearly killed both Francis Coppola and Martin Sheen
“Win one for the Gipper”: The Hollywood career of Ronald Reagan offered clues to his affable take on the presidency
From Avenger and Bond Girl in the 1960s to “Game of Thrones” today: Diana Rigg
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of
The Doll Family, four dwarf siblings who found success in Hollywood, not only in “The Wizard of Oz” but in another classic, “Freaks”
The Edwardian-with-a-twist Teddy Boy clothing style: the men who followed the fashion in the 1950s were considered dangerous
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: The Hollywood Marriage Nobody Expected
Not being Italian was no obstacle to James Caan, who portrayed Sonny in “The Godfather,” winning “Italian of the Year”–twice
The traveling Sutherland Sisters: Seven women and 37 feet of hair between them
