We visited the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Built in 1922, it was home of the very first Hollywood premiere, when Douglas Fairbanks debuted "Robin Hood" there. It was a big, spectacular night in ...

In the fall of 1929, the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, then the most successful film company in America, seemed poised to buy Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. The latter was smaller and newer, but ...

California holds a special place in film history, with many spots that once buzzed with the magic of Old Hollywood still welcoming visitors today. If you’re curious about stepping back in time, these ...

As Hollywood cranks up the hooting calliope of awards season — the congratulatory FYC marketing, the glittering fashion feasts, the breathless horse-race prognostication and industry analysis (does ...

The gamble and the lost rights -- Mayer and Thalberg -- The place -- To be in an audience -- Charlie -- By a nose -- The man in the hat ... a woman in gloves -- Stroheim and seeing money -- The frenzy ...

Our love affair with the movies, with the very idea of Hollywood, has been hot and heavy for more than a century. We laugh, we cry, sometimes we fight, but we make up in the end. That love affair with ...

Steven J. Ross, chairman of the history department at USC and author of Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America, looks at the labor conditions behind the founding of ...