In 1922, a recent high-school graduate from Berkeley, California, moved to Los Angeles, with the hope of becoming an actress. She called herself Helen Joan Lowell, eventually dropping the Helen and ...

Phyllis Ann (Corn) Crawford passed away peacefully in the comfort of her own home on December 9, 2025, at the age of 82 years old (one month away from her 83rd birthday). Phyllis was born January 9, ...

This photo—along with several others taken at the end of Monroe’s life—was the work of photographer Eve Arnold, who let compassion guide her toward a career that for too long only held space for men.

Great actors change every time we see them, but the great movie stars succeed on the strength of the personas they carry from film to film. Those personas can also serve, consciously or unconsciously, ...

Joan Crawford is my favorite classic-Hollywood actress, though her career was a strange one. I also consider her the greatest movie actress from the thirties to the fifties, if only for a handful of ...

Joan Crawford’s complicated and often painful early life is back in the spotlight as a new biography revisits one of Hollywood’s darkest, most persistent rumors, that the legendary actress lost her ...

Joan Ann Serrell Clifton Park - Joan Ann Serrell, 78, died peacefully in the comfort of her home on November 8, 2025, after a brief illness. Born in Troy on November 26, 1946 daughter of the late ...

A new biography by Scott Eyman, "Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face," aims to look past the caricature created by "Mommie Dearest." Eyman argues Crawford was a dynamic and intelligent star who mirrored the ...

Many people know the campy horror flick “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” and the 1945 noir thriller that won Crawford her Oscar, “Mildred Pierce.” These three films, available to rent for less than ...

In 1981, the late American Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell appeared in the pages of Vogue wearing a black leather blazer, cornflower blue turtleneck sweater, and a pair of rust-colored pants. Her ...