Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or ...
There may be no period in the history of American cinema more monumental, iconic, and resplendent than Hollywood's Golden Age. The heyday of the studio system — extending roughly from the late 1920s ...
The pictures in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Star Power” portray such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Greta Garbo and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. But the star of the show is photographer ...