Scotty Bowers‘s 2012 memoir, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars is a scandal-packed book with enough juicy gossip to make a hell of a lot of lemonade. Bowers, also known as Mr … Continued

Perhaps you’re familiar with Konstantin Stanislavski, perhaps not. But we can guarantee that you’ve seen some of the most intense, award-winning performances on stage and screen because of him. A Russian actor, director, and theater producer, Stanislavski created what is … Continued

The Last Tycoon was the fifth and final novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1940, it was published posthumously in 1941. Over the years, Fitzgerald’s first-hand take on Old Hollywood studio executives and their cutthroat business practices … Continued

Vying to play Caleb Trask in the 1955 film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel East of Eden, James Dean and Paul Newman go head-to-head in this audition tape. Ultimately, Dean’s preternatural cool won the day, earning him his first role in a … Continued

In 1962, Marilyn Monroe, one of the greatest sex symbols in Hollywood history, was at the height of her career and only months away from her death at age 36. She was mentally unstable, having been hospitalized for depression, and … Continued

In 1947 Marlon Brando was a 23-year-old Broadway actor on the verge of becoming a legend. By December of that year he would appear as the boorish, violent and twisted Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire, … Continued