Norma Shearer

How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades

2013-02-24 00:00:00

The Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as about...

Hollywood memorabilia on the block

2012-11-16 21:35:29

City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block

2012-11-18 09:53:20

Los Angeles' Hollywood legacy is an auction house dream

2012-11-18 00:00:00

Norma Shearer's silk sheets sat for years in a Los Angeles garage, with no one to admire the embroidered monogram: NST, for Norma Shearer Thalberg. The starlet's Louis Vuitton steamer trunks waited in vain to voyage. One was dedicated solely to...

Frederica Sagor Maas dies at 111; silent film screenwriter

2012-01-07 00:00:00

One of the last links to the silent film era, Frederica Sagor Maas wrote the script for 1925's "The Plastic Age," which launched actress Clara Bow. But she watched in horror as her serious treatment on women and work was turned into a frivolous 1947...

Red carpet fashion statements

2012-01-22 00:00:00

With a lifetime of red carpet misses ranging from uncomfortably busty Guinevere gowns to something reminiscent of Grandma's doily tablecloth, Disney princess Miley Cyrus hasn't exactly been fashion It Girl material. Until now. The sleek and chic...

Actress/model Bridget Marquardt buys in Sherman Oaks

2009-08-22 00:00:00

Actress and Playboy model Bridget Marquardt has become a first-time home buyer with the purchase of a contemporary Mediterranean in Sherman Oaks for $1,725,000. -------------------- Update: This version has been updated to include the names of the...

A Santa Monica beach house once owned by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. is listed at $7.9 million

2009-08-06 00:00:00

The former beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has come on the market in Santa Monica at $7.9 million. The neighborhood was known as the Gold Coast after Hollywood stars and industry giants built homes there in the 1920s. MGM head...

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 10, 1941

2011-04-10 16:32:59

Oscars have always welcomed the world

2010-03-10 16:33:19

Steady stream of PCH traffic, but miles of ocean too

2005-09-25 00:00:00

This is a neighborhood people hurtle past at 60 miles an hour (though the posted speed is 45), where houses are built just a few yards from a major six-lane highway, yet residents can step out their back gates and walk barefoot to the local restaurant...

Power play in a brash box

2007-03-28 00:00:00

"IS that the car alarm?" my wife said as she shook me out of a dead sleep, and then I heard it, the WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! of the Bentley Arnage T's alarm system going off like Hell's Ladder Co. No. 5 in my driveway. It was precisely 3:48 a.m. Let me just...

By Susan King / Aaron Williams / Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Traditional or not traditional? That is the question when directors mount productions of William Shakespeare's plays.

2012-07-06 00:00:00

) was not a traditional biopic. Candy colors and a daring soundtrack set it apart from other period pieces.

2009-01-27 12:43:26

) was not a traditional biopic. Candy colors and a daring soundtrack set it apart from other period pieces.

2009-01-27 12:43:26