Hooray for hollywood

It's Oscar season, meaning that classic toe-tapper "Hooray for Hollywood" will soon be booming out of TV speakers everywhere. But the cheery cinema hymn has a more complicated compositional past, as NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg explains.

Richard Brody on “Styling the Stars,” which collects photos of actors at the Twentieth Century Fox studio from Hollywood’s golden era.

These actors are actually pretty difficult to work with and people seem to have a lot to say about them.

Vintage Hollywood Classics

Mary Pickford was America’s original sweetheart, the it “girl with the golden curls,” who became an international superstar playing plucky children filled...

Sterling Holloway

The stories of these closeted notables range from bittersweet to tragic, and some are just plain outrageous.

Due to Howard Keel’s height, petite leading ladies had to stand on boxes to be in the same frame.

The Crush