Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

I’ve made a lot of films about young people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing in the world. Although I’m still wondering that myself. It’s so interesting looking back – I realised from

GLACIAL beauty Veronica Lake epitomised the noir heroine. She began her acting career as Constance Keane – Keane after her stepfather. Her father Harry Ockelman died in an explosion when she was twelv

THE Hollywood star who went on to marry eight times and become an icon of the era was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner on February 8, 1920, in Wallace, Idaho. Aged six, Lana moved with her famil

Nouvelle Vague Various cinemas Blue Moon Available on streaming services Though cinema is the youngest art form – the tenth Muse, or seventh art, as the French have sometimes called it – it isn’t nece

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