Everybody’s got one—that sibling, aunt, uncle, in-law, parent, child— who’s movie-mad, who can regularly be found at the local repertory house and whose cable box is set by default at Turner Classic ...

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The new biography of Natalie Wood is at once unusual, impressive, disturbing and revelatory. This sort of carefully researched, in-depth study of a life is unusual among Hollywood biographies, which ...

Johnny Rosselli was one of those people who navigated the world by charming everyone in his path, including gangsters such as Al Capone and Frank Nitti, Hollywood censor Joseph Breen, union boss ...

When a film historian, Kevin Brownlow, showed up at the home of producer Irving Asher to shoot a documentary about his career, Brownlow hoped he would also get to interview Asher’s wife, the elusive ...

He was crowned "the King of Hollywood" in a 1938 poll conducted by columnist Ed Sullivan, and for once the hype was accurate. Whether he was striking sparks with Jean Harlow in "Red Dust" or bringing ...

The Academy Awards are always a good reason to read a book. I don’t necessarily mean in place of watching the broadcast this weekend – though I am in favor of counterprogramming the telecast if you ...

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After reading my new biography of World War II spy Virginia Hall, Code Name Badass, a seasoned biographer told me, “I’m... pleasantly surprised you got away with it!” The surprise was justified: it’s ...

Are legendary romances – like the one traced in Stephen Galloway's new Hollywood biography “Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century” (Grand Central Publishing, 342 ...