Fay Wray

American Cinematheque celebrates the 'Lubitsch touch'

2013-03-28 06:00:00

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...

Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood

2012-06-08 16:32:00

First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...

Around Town: Foreign films and Spencer Tracy

2012-01-12 16:36:48

Around Town: Max von Sydow plays chess with death again

2012-02-02 16:40:44

'King Kong,' the 1933 original: Betsy Sharkey's film pick

2012-04-05 16:39:13

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne talks Hollywood Forever show, teases Edward Sharpe cameo, other surprises

2011-06-14 16:35:42

Sunday's TV Highlights: 'Curb' thyself

2009-09-20 04:34:09

UCLA Archive unearths gems in 'Unburied Treasures'

2008-05-01 00:00:00

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is no small place. The Library of Congress aside, it's the biggest collection in the country, with film holdings alone numbering a staggering 85,000 titles. Wouldn't you like to take a peek at the rarities hidden in...

Douglas Fairbanks' 125th birthday at Hollywood Forever

2008-05-22 00:00:00

At the end of an impressive if murky reflecting pool in the middle of a lawn so verdant it seems out of place, the original Hollywood swashbuckler, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., lies buried in one of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery's most ostentatious mausoleums....

Forrest J Ackerman, writer-editor who coined 'sci-fi,' dies at 92

2008-12-06 00:00:00

Forrest J Ackerman, who influenced a generation of young horror-movie fans with Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and spent a lifetime amassing what has been called the world's largest personal collection of science-fiction and fantasy memorabilia, has...

Gunman kills 1 at Empire State Building, 9 wounded

2012-08-24 11:15:00

NEW YORK (AP) — A laid-off women's accessories designer shot a former coworker to death near the Empire State Building, causing a chaotic showdown with police Friday in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Police killed the suspect...

“Dance Moms” recap: Ringers ’Round The Apples

2012-07-11 16:32:45

The lovely blonde in "King Kong" was played in the movies by Fay Wray (1933), Jessica Lange ( 1976) and Naomi Watts (2005)

2013-04-17 06:23:00

The famed actress, who began working in the silent era, played unemployed actress Ann Darrow in the 1933 original.

2013-02-17 17:15:05

Bullmastiff Fay Wray, owned by Bob Stephanos of West Palm Beach, still showing her baby bump as she competes at the 2012 nationals four months after delivering a litter. She is with handler BJ Barnhardt and won best female bullmastiff.

2013-02-08 13:56:12