Norma Shearer

(Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer, L.B.) This sounds like a darned interesting project by Turner Classic Movies - a ten-part series on movie moguls. (The challenge? Finding people to say something nice about any of 'em! Nyuk, nyuk...) "Set to......

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...

City Beat: Chaplin hat among Hollywood treasures on auction block...

April 10, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the wildflower fields of Kern County. “Now I have seen them and I know that until one has seen them one cannot comprehend what California's spring wildflower show is like,” he says, never......

It starts Sunday with Basil Rathbone and ends Aug. 31 with Clint Eastwood. TCM unrolls another Summer of the Stars festival in August. Each day, the channel devotes a day to the films of one actor. Some are familiar: Steve McQueen on Tuesday, Ingrid...

This year's Oscars numbered only one foreign-born winner -- Austria's Christoph Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") -- among the four acting champs. However, that does not mean the Oscars are guilty of any homegrown bias. After all, six of the 20 acting...

Joan Crawford. Katharine Hepburn. Loretta Young and Tyrone Power. Pre-moustache Clark Gable. A very young and dapper Ray Milland. The list of Tinseltown's glitterati continues. Movie buffs interested in striking photos of the glittering ones would...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...