George Chakiris

A whole new generation of innovative filmmakers, such as D.W. Griffith, Émile Cohl and Max Linder, began pushing the envelope of the still-fledgling medium of motion pictures a century ago. On Monday, several of those films from the silent era that...

SALT LAKE CITY--On Dec. 4, 1956, Marilyn Evans entered--and exited--rock 'n' roll history. That was the day Elvis Presley stopped by Memphis' Sun Studio and recorded an impromptu session with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. Historians have...

From The Times: April 10, 1962 It was a 10-strike for "West Side Story" at the 34th annual awards presentation of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Monday night in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium — only one fewer than "Ben-Hur's" all-...

From The Times: April 10, 1962 If it had not been for gate-crasher Stanley Berman, the 34th annual Academy Awards ceremony would possibly have been the most monotonous in history. It was "West Side Story," "West Side Story," West Side Story" all the way...

4 stars (out of 4) "West Side Story" returns to the big screen this week as a sing-along extravaganza at the Music Box, and the marvel is that the film still works so well - even under the deluge of plastic clickers, miniature American flags and bubble...

1. "Footlight Parade" (Lloyd Bacon-William Keighley-Busby Berkeley; 1933) 3 1/2 stars Berkeley's finest hour came in this flabbergasting follow-up to "42nd Street," with James Cagney as a Berkeley-like choreographer who directs, for Broadway theaters,...

1. Forbidden Planet (Fred McLeod Wilcox; 1956) 3 1/2 stars One of the best-loved '50s sci-fi movies, with a plot boldly cribbed from Shakespeare's "Tempest." The cast includes Walter Pidgeon (Prospero), Anne Francis, a pre-comedy Leslie Nielsen and the...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Boyer as Cisar in FANNY Mansfield Productions; Warner Bros. Paul Newman as Eddie Felson in THE HUSTLER Robert Rossen Productions; 20th Century-Fox Maximilian Schell as Hans Rolfe in...