According to Hollywood legend, Gable was lent to Columbia Pictures, then considered a minor studio, as some kind of " punishment " for refusing a role at his own studio.

Garbo was an international superstar during the late silent era and the " Golden-Age " of Hollywood and is widely regarded as a cinematic legend.

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

The book, Hollywood Babylon, spread the contemporary legend that Bow's friendship with members of the 1927 University of Southern California football team included group sex with the entire team.

Following Rin Tin Tin's death in August 1932 in Los Angeles ( in the arms of actress Jean Harlow, according to Hollywood legend ), his owner arranged to have the dog returned to his country of birth for burial in the Cimetière des Chiens, the renowned pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine.

Turner's discovery at a Hollywood drug store is a show-business legend.

In the early days of Hollywood, movie studios were able to cover up almost all of their stars ' misbehavior, but within the Hollywood crowd, Jack Pickford's behind-the scenes antics made him a behind-the-scenes legend in his own time.

She originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a young hustler named Chance Wayne, played by Newman.

Critical response was mixed but generally positive, singling out Van Sant's skill at melding the performance styles of first-time actor Brown and Hollywood legend Connery.

The Hyatt West Hollywood ( now known as the Andaz West Hollywood ) became a hotel of legend.

The production was supervised by aging Hollywood legend Busby Berkeley, although members of the cast and crew later stated that his name was his primary contribution to the show.

A recent biography by Emanuel Levy, Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer, claims evidence that Minnelli did, in fact, live as an openly gay man in New York prior to his arrival in Hollywood, where the town that made him a film legend also pressured him back into the closet.

In February 2002, he appeared on the animated series The Simpsons ( episode DABF07, " The Lastest Gun in the West ") as the voice of aging Hollywood cowboy legend Buck McCoy.

The Hollywood legend Gregory Peck was keen to meet Suraiya.

* John Wayne, Academy Award winning actor & Hollywood legend ( Glendale High School ( Glendale, California ))

Thomas's first movie was Home to Stay directed by Delbert Mann where Thomas played in a scene with Hollywood legend Henry Fonda.

It was reported that Wyman had had a long-running feud with fellow movie star legend Lana Turner which dated back to their Hollywood years.

Stanwyck always took her featured lead roles with all the confidence of a Hollywood legend, being both credibly warm and tough where the scripts required.

The Royal Hawaiian Hotel was influenced by Hollywood legend Rudolph Valentino and his Arabian movies.

His flattering soft-focus technique helped to create the Dietrich legend in the six films they made together in Hollywood.

Throughout the early and mid-1930s they wrote for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, for big band jazz legend Duke Ellington and other top performers, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.

Eyre was planning to direct Jon Robin Baitz's stage adaptation of Hollywood legend Robert Evans ' memoirs The Kid Stays in the Picture and its sequel, The Fat Lady Sang, but the project was cancelled by the producer.

Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

Allan Dwan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6263 Hollywood Boulevard.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Salieri has even begun to attract some attention from Hollywood.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Burroughs B205 hardware has appeared as props in many Hollywood television and film productions from the 1960s onwards.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Lancaster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.

The " H-H-L " team impressed Hollywood with its success ; as Life wrote in 1957, " fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures it has yet to have its first flop ... ( They were also good pictures.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jones has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7011 Hollywood Blvd.

Aside from The Dead Zone ( 1983 ) and The Fly, Cronenberg has not generally worked within the world of big-budget, mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, although he has had occasional near misses.

Desi Arnaz has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 6327 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to motion pictures, and one at 6220 Hollywood Boulevard for television.

* Danny Kaye has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in music, radio, and films.

Sullivan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd.

In addition to her Academy Award nomination, Arden has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Radio and Television ( see List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for addresses ).

" Apocalypse Nows reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law.

It was reviewed by Frank S. Nugent in the The New York Times, who noted that the film did not follow the usual Hollywood type-casting.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

His grandson, Frank Capra III, is a Hollywood director and worked as an assistant director in the 1995 film The American President, which referred to Frank Capra in the film's dialogue.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

and Z. evolved into the Cukor-Kondolf Stock Company, a troupe that included Louis Calhern, Ilka Chase, Phyllis Povah, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Elizabeth Patterson and Douglass Montgomery, all of whom would work with Cukor in later years in Hollywood.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

Eisenstein completed a script by the start of October 1930, but Paramount disliked it completely and, additionally, found themselves intimidated by Major Frank Pease, president of the Hollywood Technical Director's Institute.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

* August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

In 1957, Loren's star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with the films Boy on a Dolphin ( her U. S. film debut ), Legend of the Lost with John Wayne, and The Pride and the Passion in which she starred opposite Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.

The Hollywood Reporter called it " an artistic tour de force ... in all ways, a triumph for Frank Capra.

In 1960, Frank Sinatra announced his plan to produce a movie titled The Execution of Private Slovik, to be written by blacklisted Hollywood 10 screenwriter Albert Maltz.

It included a high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich ’ s director ’ s cut, two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall ; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich “ The Last Picture Show ”: A Look Back, ( 1999 ) and Picture This ( 1990 ), documentaries about the making of the film, A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, a 2009 Q & A, screen tests and location footage, and excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the New Hollywood.

Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser.

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM.

A co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. ( this was the first film to be a joint venture from two major Hollywood studios ), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.

Actress Francine York was born in Aurora to Sophie and Frank Yerich and grew up to move to Hollywood California to star in countless movies such as The Doll Squad, Lost in Space and many films.

The production is notable for several reasons ; besides starring Frank Morgan, the play's female lead was Helen Menken ( who would marry Humphrey Bogart in 1926 ), and in his first Broadway outing, character actor Robert Keith, father of actor Brian Keith and one-time husband of Theater Guild actress Peg Entwistle, who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood Sign in 1932.

Frank Morgan entered show business on the coattails of his older brother, Ralph Morgan ( July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956 ), who was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor.