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A Rank executive, Kendall later claimed, although she didn’t name him, called her into his office to release her. ‘You are a very ugly girl,’ she recalled him saying. ‘You have no talent. You are too tall and you photograph horribly. Find some nice man and get married.’

For the first half of the 1940s, any household with television was a lucky one. The first TVs that were available to the public at very expensive prices were sold at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. TVs weren’t for sale for very long though before there was an enforced ban on all co ...

Jeffrey Hunter was a ruggedly handsome actor, popular in the 50s and 60s, and best known as Captain Christopher Pike on "Star Trek." Hunter was on track for a long career when he suffered unfortunate, probably related, back-to-back injuries in 1968 and 1969: the first, a concussion sustained by a...

What's more American than apple pie? A good, old-fashioned movie hero. Some of these won us over with their abs, while others' smoldering gazes did all the heavy lifting.

Actor. Born William Claude Rains in Clapham, London, England, the son of British stage actor Frederick Rains, he made his stage debut at the age of eleven, and learned the technical end of the business working first as a page, then working up to stage manager. He came to the United States in 1913 but returned to...

Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. Needless to say, it was a star-studded decade. We've gathered a list of the

Read about some of the most salacious Old Hollywood scandals here, from Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle to Jean Harlow.

Born 1908 and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania, American actor James Stewart started acting while studying at Princeton University. In 1935, ...

The stories of these closeted notables range from bittersweet to tragic, and some are just plain outrageous.