Actors

Everyone wanted to be Cary Grant. Even Cary Grant wanted to be Cary Grant — or so the famous line goes, and he was cheerful enough to repeat it himself.…

They called him the King of Hollywood, and for once the nickname was not studio hype. Clark Gable ruled the screen for three decades with a grin, a moustache, and…

He was not handsome in the usual Hollywood way. He was not tall, not smooth, and not young when fame finally found him. What he had was harder to fake…

Most movie stars play heroes. James Stewart actually was one, long before the cameras rolled on his most famous films. He flew bombers over Europe, came home without talking much…

There are movie stars, and then there is Marlon Brando. He did not just play his characters. He seemed to climb inside them, change the way they spoke, and leave…