During Hollywood’s Silent Era, few child stars reached the heights of fame as quickly as Baby Peggy. While Jackie Coogan charmed audiences in The Kid (1921) and Shirley Temple later defined child ...

On March 28, the audience at the Wallenstien Theater will be swept back to a time when girls were flappers, young men were ...

This short film, translated to Pierrette's Escapades, is a hand-tinted silent French film directed by pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché. This movie condenses a ballet sequence into under two ...

Despite strong performances by John Abraham and Sadia Khateeb, sketchy characterisation and lack of detail derail this ‘true’ story ...

In June 1900, when he arrived in England for the Amateur Athletic Championships, an Australian newspaper, The Referee, ...

The Lucky Rabbit was an idea born from Walt Disney himself, but the then-mascot actually only lived with Disney for 26 silent ...

There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous ...

Retired teacher John Monaghan, who taught at Grosse Pointe South High School from 1992 to 2002, introduced hundreds of students to the intricacies of film history. Now, he hopes to reach another ...

Rupert’s shocking decision was the climax of a succession battle that had pitted James and Lachlan, born just 15 months apart ...

More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation ...

The Green’s centerpiece is the enchanting Wynken, Blynken and Nod fountain, depicting characters from Eugene Field’s classic children’s poem in bronze, eternally sailing their wooden shoe through a ...