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Jane Powell, who starred in Hollywood golden age musicals, has died.

Hood Museum of Art acquires Hollywood photograph archive of the John Kobal Foundation Unknown, Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan for the Kidd, Charlie Chaplin Productions, 1921, gelatin silver print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The John Kobal Foundation Collection: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund; 2019.57.23. Object photo by Jeffrey Nintzel. HANOVER, NH .-The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, announced the completion of a multi-year acquisition process of over six thousand Hollywood photographs from the John Kobal Foundation. Set up to continue the work of its eponymous fo...

HE HAD the most celebrated nose in showbiz – a fact Jimmy Durante played up to great effect. His touring show, The Hollywood Lover, billed the actor and comedian as ‘The Great Schnozzola’ when it arrived in Glasgow in the spring of 1936. (The city has another interesting, albeit very small connection with the legendary star. On the cobbled street recreated for Glasgow’s Museum of Transport, the poster advertising what films are coming to the Regal cinema in 1938 includes mention of Little Miss Broadway, the movie Durante appeared in with Shirley Temple. He was a huge star.) Du...

The Wild and Complicated Story of the Rights to King Kong ✖ In a world where most characters and franchises have fairly simple rights situations, it would be easy to take for granted how cut and dry most of them really are to us outside observers. Great examples are the entire DC Comics catalogue, which is owned by WarnerMedia for the purposes of comics, films, TV, toys, etc; Jurassic Park, which has been in the hands of Universal for almost three decades; and, naturally, Star Wars, fully controlled by Disney and their subsidiary Lucasfilm. Even another Disney owned property, Marvel, whose ...

Marlene Dietrich is an iconic actor from the days of early Hollywood — and she was a staunch anti-fascist who turned down Hitler.