Our Dancing Daughters was the first movie written specifically for Joan Crawford and it made her a star. It's the story of a rich, wi...

1929's Piccadilly opens on a love triangle — a nightclub dancer (Gilda Gray) in love with the club's owner (Jameson Thomas) while...

Beggars of Life is the story of a teenage girl (Louise Brooks) who kills her stepfather in order to avoid being raped. Disguising herself...

The story of a girl from the country who makes it big in Hollywood was a staple of the silent era — see, e.g., A Girl's Folly , Souls f...

In Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar , Lon Chaney is crippled in a quarrel with his wife's lover (Lionel Barrymore) and takes his rev...

One of the most enduring tropes of the early sound era is that of the silent film star who finds his career in ruins when his voice prove...

Let's call this the Great Reconciliation. No, not between the Republicans and the Democrats — as if! Even the Monkey's not that go...

The most popular movie of 1927 was The Jazz Singer , which introduced synchronized sound to the movies at last. Audiences were thrilled not...

Billed as the first "all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing" musical, The Broadway Melody is the story of two sisters (Bessie Lo...

Today is the 60th anniversary of the network television premiere of the science fiction cult classic, Lost in Space . Can you believe it...