Louis B Mayer

Life in Hollywood: Golden-age photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and more

A two-volume collection drawn from the Life magazine archive features outstanding portraits of many of the biggest names in American cinema

Sat Aug 24 2024 - 05:15

Amazon said to be in talks to buy MGM movie studio

Move would be tech giant’s biggest push into entertainment

Tue May 18 2021 - 08:18

Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star

He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront

Tue Mar 02 2021 - 06:00

Marion Davies was as big as Valentino. Then she had a scandalous affair

Mank, David Fincher’s new film, goes some way to rehabilitating the film star's reputation

Thu Dec 03 2020 - 05:00

Maureen Dowd: For the White House parasite, all restraint has gone

An unfettered Trump, playing out his own movie script, setting a torch to Washington

Sun Feb 23 2020 - 18:30

Maureen Dowd: Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s oldest horror story

Producer protected himself by giving to liberal causes and cultivating friends in politics

Mon Oct 16 2017 - 01:40

The Hollywood hit that hid secrets of the Easter Rising

‘How Green was My Valley’ was the famous 1951 film that won five Oscars for John Ford: but it also contained a more fascinating story of how two of its actors had fought on opposite sides of the Rising

Sat Mar 26 2016 - 05:00

Cedric Gibbons: Ireland’s most prolific Oscar winner

As art director of MGM, the Dubliner designed that statuette and created the look of the American dream

Mon Feb 23 2015 - 01:00

Irish brothers in arms: the soldier and the film director

When the Hitchcocks left Ireland in the 1910s they went on very different paths. One, Rex Ingram, became a Hollywood great, directing ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’. The other, Frank Hitchcock, became a distinguished soldier and chronicler of life in the trenches

Sat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00