The 1930s was a great period for the film industry. European production outfits had recovered swiftly from the devastation they suffered during the first world war. But they couldn’t really compete with Hollywood, which had now become the largest producer of...
The 1930s was a great decade for the film industry. Hollywood was pumping out feature length films regularly and European film companies had recovered reasonably well from the instability of the first world war. The film industry had grown significantly through the...
These days people seem obsessed with celebrities. And screen actors are the high-priests in the cult of fame. We want to know everything about them: their age, who they’re dating, what they’re working on, about their personal health, etc. But one of the...
Some celebrities are just crazy. They do crazy things and end up getting arrested for it. Maybe it is a result of alcohol, or maybe they’re just terrible people. Or maybe the pressure of constant media attention finally got to them, as it so often does. Either...
It’s always weird to hear about celebrity deaths – especially when there is an element of mystery. But there is obviously an extra element of shock on the rare event that a famous person is murdered. The magnifying nature of fame results in many celebrities...
10: they screwed up the music – Towards the end of the films production, they decided to change the music. They brought in a new composer and he wrote a new score in just 9 days. 9: Not one scene of the movie was originally intended to take place in Chinatown – In the...
