Find out all about the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz, in this collection of vintage articles – including interviews with the cast, peeks behind the scenes, costume info, photos, videos and more!
What were jitterbugs jiving to in the late ’30s & early ’40s? For one, the Lindy Hop dance, with hundreds of individual steps, breaks and mutations inspired by American music.
1940′ “Gone With the Wind” – when adjusted for inflation – remains the highest-grossing movie of all time. Here’s a look back at this beloved classic film!
How did the Kentucky Derby get started? Now, the famous Louisville horse race is the first part of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, but when it started, people didn’t know how important and iconic the Derby would eventually become. Here’s a look back at its history.
The new technology of 1930: Television unveiled by Robert Joyce Tasker Imagine a fire… hot, blistering, roaring and raging through a tenement district, impelled on
See portraits of vintage Halloween pin-up girls from the 1930s and 1940s – themed photos featuring famous actresses and beautiful models.
Cowboy actor and hero of scores of western thrillers of the silent film era, Tom Mix, was killed on a highway detour in Arizona.
If you own a radio, you’re acquainted with Charlie McCarthy. He’s the impudent little dummy who sits upon the lap of ventriloquist, Edgar Bergen, his creator, and entertains millions weekly with his comedy
Panic followed an Orson Welles radio broadcast of the book ‘War of the Worlds’, during which armies and navies were wiped out right and left and the real radio audience was frightened as the actors pretended to be.
NYC 1938: The dramatic entertainment most widely discussed for the past four weeks has been Walt Disney’s first full-length movie, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’
America’s highest-paid film star in the 1930s was a Swedish-born woman we know as Greta Garbo. A legend during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Garbo was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, as well as very successful in the early talking films.
The life of young Elvis Presley Excerpted from an article by Tina McElroy, The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) August 27, 1977 In 1933, a 13-dollar-a-week
These tongue-in-cheek ads, presenting child star Shirley Temple as a fashionable Hollywood screen siren with lots of cash, were a humorous way to introduce the 6-year-old girl’s new film, “Baby Take a Bow.”
Do you know how to kiss? Sure, everybody knows how to kiss — after a fashion. But there’s a right and wrong way, so they say. Here is the proper stance, kiss and everything.
I married a Hollywood movie star. Everyone called it an ideal match. Yet, I ended up learning the true and — perhaps shocking — reason why celebrities get divorced.
Pocketful ‘o songs Listen! You can hear it — a melody sometimes strong and soaring; sometimes sad and faraway. The words make a story, too
With hearts and checkbooks the stars responded to the call of humanity — but an insidious plot lay hidden behind the campaign! By Morton Thompson
“A bridge across the continent.” – Ginger Rogers, RKO star Miss Rogers says: “On TWA, you travel with the sort of people you enjoy meeting.
Mickey Rooney, an actor at the age of 11 months, veteran trooper at 10, and screen star at 16, writes his autobiography.
How kids grow up in Hollywood: Despite all the glamor, Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin live home lives similar to millions of other growing girls
With the public no longer so gullible, there’s a growing tendency among directors to have their stars actually perform stunts and difficult feats wherever practicable.
One of the most difficult problems of Hollywood film producers has been to create the condensed breath that emanates from a person’s mouth on a cold day.
How much does it differ from the truth, such as in the case of the von Trapp family, and the hugely-successful musical based on their lives, The Sound of Music?
Our first TV star In case you forgot, it was Felix the Cat The image is blurry and flawed but identifiable: Felix the Cat, hero
Uncle Wiggly & His Friends by Howard R Garis Uncle Wiggly and the Barber One day Uncle Wiggily Longears started out for a ride in
Tarzans, from the first in 1918 to the present Elmo Lincoln Gene Polar P Dempsey Tabler James N Pierce Frank Merrill Buster Crabbe Herman Brix
Few thought The Waltons could succeed by Jerry Franken It’s all so different now, as compared to then. “Then” was a year ago. A new,
1936 Parker Brothers Games Monopoly: The greatest game craze every known. The improved white box set with removable bank, double supply special “Slip” money and gold-stamped
Peace at any price, pleads Gracie Allen’s spouse What a woman! What a world! What a headache! Moans husband of “dizzy” actress “There is one
The story of comedy duo George & Gracie George Burns and Gracie Allen started their screen career with the only contract of its kind with
Animal Crackers: Hello, I Must Be Going Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad
John-Boy, torn between family and the law Caught between family ties and the law, John-Boy must put his life and his beliefs on the line
The movies 1936 stars have lasted well — but new faces are coming up Each year, the Motion Picture Herald, a prominent movie trade paper,
Miss Shirley Temple taps with Mr Bojangles In this clip from 1935’s “The Little Colonel,” watch as 7-year-old child star Shirley Temple dances on the
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