Movies
The late Leon Shamroy was a robust, hearty man who at the beginning of his long career as one of Hollywood’s finest cinematographers carried his own camera to work every day--aboard a streetcar.
Feb. 17, 1986
Elia Kazan made his screen directorial debut with this classic 1945 film of Betty Smith’s popular novel about a teen-ager (Peggy Ann Garner, pictured) who has a drunken Irish-American father (an Oscar-winning James Dunn, also pictured) and dreams of a life beyond the tenements.
Aug. 13, 1995
Remember when moviegoers went on adventures with pirates, missionaries and men with a past?
July 9, 2006
Obituaries
Mary Anderson dies at 96; actress had role in ‘Gone With the Wind’
April 8, 2014
Mary Anderson, who auditioned for the role of Scarlett O’Hara, played Maybelle Merriwether in ‘Gone With the Wind.’ She was one of the film’s last surviving cast members.
MOST films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early ‘40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas -- but that all changed with 1945’s juicy psychological thriller “Leave Her to Heaven.”
April 19, 2007
There are some traditions without which the Oscars just wouldn’t feel the same: A-list stars sashaying down the red carpet.
Feb. 18, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
Oh, what a beautiful laser disc!
Dec. 16, 1994
LACMA festival presents 30 films that demonstrate the varied richness of the wide-screen format so popular in ‘50s Hollywood.
July 9, 1998
Take the phone off the hook. Pop a barrel of popcorn.
Jan. 26, 1996