She was a very complicated lady, a wonderful artist and a great singer, but as a person she was strange. “She called me her daughter and I had to call her mother, which wasn’t great but I adapted.” As winner of the contest, Annie was taken to meet MGM...

Yorker Films A scene from Straub and Huillet's “Moses and Aaron,” based on an opera by Schoenberg. Released in 1938 and now available in a remastered edition from the Warner Archive Collection, “The Great Waltz” was one of Louis B. Mayer’s frequent...

It’s like Louis B. Mayer’s MGM, but with violence, cursing, and boobs. So a new HBO series from David Milch, who previously gave us the wonderful Deadwood (and the less wonderful John from Cincinnati), and Michael Mann, the director of Heat and The...

But wait a minute, when you think of the sultry silver-screen siren, you think of a sex goddess and her notorious erotic nude scene in the 1930s film “Ecstasy,” which catapulted her to international stardom. You definitely do not think of the Austrian...

Sher in Travelling Light, which is set in the ghetto world Hollywood moguls like Louis B Mayer came from If you accept that cinema is the art form that had the greatest influence on 20th-century Western culture - and don't argue, it is - then you have...

U.S. federal court, topped up with Teddy Roosevelt’s Trust Buster justices, declared Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company and General Film Company (distribution arm) to be an illegal monopoly and ordered the trust broken up. Meanwhile, Laemmle and...