Some movie stars seemed to work hard to command the screen. Robert Mitchum made it look effortless. With his heavy-lidded eyes, deep voice, broad shoulders, and famously…

For nearly five decades, Jamie Lee Curtis has built a career around surprising audiences. She terrified moviegoers in Halloween, showed off impeccable comic timing in Trading Places,…

Some photographs reveal a side of old Hollywood that movie posters never could. One tender black-and-white image shows Elizabeth Taylor reclining on a sofa with her young…

There are old Hollywood photographs that seem to hold an entire era inside them. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton standing together in evening clothes. Burton leaning toward…

For generations of moviegoers, Jamie Lee Curtis has never belonged to just one era. Some remember her first as the frightened but determined Laurie Strode in Halloween….

For anyone who loved movies in the early 1980s, Adrienne Barbeau’s face may instantly bring back memories of dark theaters, suspenseful soundtracks, and a very particular era…

For millions of Americans who spent their evenings watching network television in the 1970s and 1980s, Joan Van Ark was once an instantly familiar presence. With her…

For decades, Giorgio Armani seemed almost inseparable from the idea of timeless style. His clothes appeared on movie screens, at awards ceremonies, in glossy magazines, and in…

There was a time when movie stars seemed larger than life. Their faces towered above theater marquees, their names appeared in bold letters in newspaper advertisements, and…