Movies
This is the first in a series remembering the Los Angeles Times’ 100-plus years of covering Hollywood.
Jan. 9, 1943
Archives
Consider what outing would have done to the careers of such esteemed actors of the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s as Clifton Webb, Charles Laughton, Monty Woolley, Montgomery Clift, not to mention Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power and Cary Grant, who were supposedly “outed” since their deaths.
July 29, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
Edith Atwater, a stage actress who made her debut at age 18 and performed with dozens of Broadway and touring dramatic companies and later appeared in several films and television series, has died at age 74.
March 18, 1986
Sometimes it’s hard to get into the Christmas spirit with all the hustle and bustle.
Dec. 11, 1997
Before she was a screen legend, Marilyn Monroe was a contract player at 20th Century Fox, appearing in a variety of small parts in films before she landed her first big starring role in 1952’s “Don’t Bother to Knock,” in which she played a deranged baby-sitter.
April 18, 2004
Books
THE ROAD TO MARS; by Eric Idle; Pantheon $24, 309 pages
Nov. 4, 1999
When Kaufman and Hart wrote a play, the partner who came up with the idea was credited first.
Aug. 25, 1994
Imagine a musical biography of Cole Porter, one of the foremost pop songwriters of this century, without a bit of one of his songs.
April 13, 2000
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian and Aero theaters with the Movies With Holiday Spirit festival.
Dec. 18, 2008
In the ‘60s comedies “The Trouble With Angels” and “Where Angels Go Trouble Follows,” veteran actress Mary Wickes played Sister Clarissa, who “drove the bus and wore high black basketball shoes like the men.”
June 6, 1992