Clara Bow

" 'IT' is that quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman -- all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction." That's how...

American Eve Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century Paula Uruburu Riverhead Books: 388 pp., $27.95 BY THE time she was 16, Evelyn Nesbit was the face of her age, a stunning beauty with a "heart-...

The American Cinematheque's fourth annual "Screwball Holidays" series continues at the Egyptian Theatre tonight with one of Bob Hope's best films, the 1940 comedy-chiller "The Ghost Breakers." Hope and his co-star Paulette Goddard had scored a big...

When the film industry set up camp in Los Angeles in 1909, migrating actors from the East looked around for nightlife action in Hollywood and found a scene that was largely a big snooze. Downtown, the city's social hub, teemed with burlesque halls, and...

The Silent Movie Theatre is getting a new voice. After decades of near-exclusive devotion to the pre-talkie era, the theater is being sold to two brothers who plan to add more modern revival fare to the bill. Charlie Lustman, who bought the shuttered...

It was back-to-the-future time in Paris last month. At the fall, 1998, ready-to-wear shows, the fashion news was that two top designers -- Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and John Galliano for Dior -- had dressed models to look like Roaring '20s heroines...

The notion of Long Island as home to chic colonies of film actors hardly started with the recent influx to the Hamptons. Way back in 1915, the Vitagraph Co. opened a studio in Bay Shore. And for a while, Norma Talmadge, Fatty Arbuckle and Marie Dressler...

In the '60s, beach-roaming kids discovered the Byrds playing at Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim's open beach bash. A decade later, Cher's son Elijah Allman's first birthday party featured elephants and an Army tank. More recently, a lemonade stand served Tom...

On this sunny Thursday afternoon, Ramona residents do what they do best — they chat, they chill, they gather around the fountain and commune. Janelle Paradee helps her 3-year-old son, Tristan, blow bubbles, and Rich Johnson watches his dog Mr....

Summer blockbusters are always a gamble. For every "Spider-Man 2" or "Fahrenheit 9/11," there's a "Day After Tomorrow" or "White Chicks" lurking in the shadows. But film buffs looking to satisfy their cinematic jones are in luck thanks to summer film...

One of the enduring legends of Hollywood has it that William Randolph Hearst mistakenly shot producer, director and studio founder Thomas Ince aboard the newspaper tycoon's yacht when his intended target was Charlie Chaplin, whom he believed was having an...

You could go on and on about Hollywood and Vine, what with its Art Deco architecture, glorious radio and film history, celebrity sightings and sidewalks of gold stars. You could track the world-famous intersection's tragic downfall and then record the...