Alan Ladd

Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady

2012-05-02 00:00:00

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92. Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...

Around Town: Happy 85th to Grauman's Chinese Theatre

2012-04-19 16:39:12

The Reading Life: Happy birthday to me — and Raymond Chandler

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Watching the video clip, my heart raced. I'd seen the movie before, of course, but never realized what I was looking at: there, in the background of "Double Indemnity," was Raymond Chandler. His appearance in the movie he'd help script had gone...

The stars align for kabbalah

2011-10-18 00:00:00

Second of two parts When Philip Berg decided in the early 1970s to teach kabbalah to the masses, he predicted that orthodox rabbis would stone him and his wife, Karen. For a long time, that seemed a pompous overstatement. Few people had even heard of the...

Dancer Cheryl Burke buys Hollywood Hills home for $1,295,000

2009-07-18 00:00:00

Professional ballroom dancer Cheryl Burke of "Dancing With the Stars" has purchased a midcentury modern post-and-beam house in the Hollywood Hills for $1,295,000. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,494-square-foot home, built in 1957, has 180-degree...

David Ladd, Dey Young list home at $5,995,000

2009-07-07 00:00:00

The Beverly Hills Post Office area home of producer David Ladd and his wife, actress Dey Young, is coming on the market at $5,995,000. The gated house, which looks more East Coast than West, sits on wooded 1.1 acres with a swimming pool, a lighted tennis...

Book review: 'Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart' by Stefan Kanfer

2011-02-16 00:00:00

No other star of Hollywood's golden age continues to hold audiences in quite the way that Humphrey Bogart does. The American Film Institute voted him the greatest male star of all time, and his influence as cultural icon and representative of a certain...

Will L.A.'s classic detective fiction surface in Rockstargames' 'L.A. Noire'?

2011-04-21 16:34:43

Gareth Wigan dies at 78; studio executive

2010-02-14 00:00:00

Gareth Wigan, a longtime studio executive who also was a producer and agent, died Saturday at his Los Angeles home after a brief illness, a spokesman for Columbia Pictures said. Wigan was 78. Wigan, born Dec. 2, 1931, in London, began his career as an...

Jonathan Veitch inaugurated as Occidental College president

2009-10-24 16:33:32

PASSINGS: Pamela Blake, Ben Ali

2009-10-10 00:00:00

Pamela Blake Actress in action serials Pamela Blake, 94, a B-movie actress known for her roles in such late 1940s action serials as "Chick Carter, Detective" and "Ghost of Zorro," died of natural causes Tuesday at a Las Vegas care facility, her family...

A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

2010-02-14 16:32:49

Shane (Alan Ladd) uses what IMFDB says is a Colt Single Action Army in a fight with Joe Starrett (Van Heflin).

2013-01-28 13:53:38

Anne Gwynne, Broderick Crawford, John Eldredge and Alan Ladd in "The Black Cat.

2012-10-10 19:00:59

Alan Ladd and his wife at home in Palm Springs, 1950s photograph by Bill Anderson.

2012-02-17 14:09:59