Classic Hollywood

Amelia Jordan Hammond was 13 when she and her family moved from El Paso to Santa Monica.

American Cinematheque will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Aero Theatre throughout 2015. The fun begins Jan. 30 with a screening of Walt Disney's groundbreaking animated feature "Fantasia," which is also celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. There will be vintage popcorn...

In screenwriter Charles Brackett's diary entry for Aug. 18, 1936, he recalls working for the first time with Billy Wilder, with whom Paramount had paired him to write the comedy "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife."

Audiences still frankly give a damn about the lavish Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind" 75 years after its release.

During their three-decade marriage, Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes had an unparalleled screen collaboration, working together 10 times before his death in 1989. Though they often acted in other directors' films, it was the indie projects written and directed by Cassavetes that won the...

He may not have the enduring popularity of Johnny Carson, but Merv Griffin's charm, wit and intelligence made the talk-show host one of the masters of the genre.

The only time Cecil B. DeMille's granddaughter saw the pioneering film director annoyed was when his body began to fail him. "He was a bull," said Cecilia DeMille Presley. "He exercised every day."

The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica salutes three-time Oscar-winning director Frank Capra with an eight-film retrospective. It starts Sunday with restorations of his 1933 romantic drama "The Bitter Tea of General Yen," starring his frequent leading lady Barbara Stanwyck,...

Movie audiences were astonished in 1952 watching "This Is Cinerama," the box office hit that introduced the unique wide-screen process. Images from three synchronized 35mm projectors were screened simultaneously on a massive, deeply curved screen that engaged viewers' peripheral vision. Besides...

Bing Crosby is probably best known these days for the rendition of the Oscar-winning Irving Berlin tune "White Christmas" that he introduced in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn" and for his 1977 duet of "Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace on Earth" with David Bowie that's become a perennial.