Despite being a firm favorite in many households over the years Peter Ostrum, who rose to stardom after portraying the loveable Charlie Bucket in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, chose to pursue ...
Russell Crowe is one of his generation’s biggest Hollywood stars, but he almost turned down the role that made him famous because he thought it was “total rubbish.” For many movie fans, Russell Crowe will ...
Kevin Bacon is one of the most successful and prolific actors of his generation. He’s appeared in dozens of successful films, including JFK, A Few Good Men and Apollo 13, co-starring with nearly every major ...
You probably don’t know Oliwia Dabrowska by name, but she was the center of one of Hollywood cinema’s most famous and moving scenes when she was only 3 years old: she played the iconic “red ...
There are few living actors more revered than Dick Van Dyke. At 95, he’s one of the last living legends of the golden age of Hollywood and TV, remembered for classics like The Dick Van ...
There are some movie roles that are so iconic that it’s hard to imagine them any other way, but it turns out some of these roles were almost cast by very different actors. It’s crazy ...
In 2020, Hollywood lost one of its true legends: Olivia de Havilland. The two-time Oscar-winning star of classic films like Gone with the Wind and The Adventures of Robin Hood, died at 104. The last ...
Long before Titanic and The Notebook, there was the original cinematic romance that brought a generation to tears: Love Story. The romantic drama was one of the biggest movie hits of the 1970s, and with ...
Generations of young readers have grown up on the adventures of Pippi Longstocking, that pigtailed, redheaded “strongest girl in the world” who could lift her pet horse above her head. Created by Swedish author Astrid ...
Born in New York City in 1957, Nickerson began as a child actress in the 1960s, most notably recurring roles of Amy Jennings and Nora Collins on the soap opera Dark Shadows. She was 13 when she ...