Many Americans dream of living in Paris, surrounded by the lights of the Eiffel Tower with the streets adorned with peonies and the aroma of …
Old Hollywood Spotlight: Sidney Poitier
Among the political and social changes occurring across the country during the 1960s, America was torn between supporters of racial segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. …
Old Hollywood Spotlight: Anna May Wong
To this day, Hollywood is mostly made up of white actors. There have only been a few African-Americans, Mexicans, and Asians who were able to break …
Badass Ladies in History: Katharine Hepburn
There are many areas in which women can succeed, but the decades prior to 2017 made it a challenge. Many industries rejected female workers or …
Old Hollywood Spotlight: Mary Pickford
Silence is golden, but audio is the huge pot of gold. Once audio and color were included in films, most silent stars were nowhere to be …
Books to Give Vintage Lovers This Christmas
Word around Germ is that I’m the “Oldies Expert,” or at least, that’s what my editor once told me. I do enjoy reading (especially about …
Old Hollywood Spotlight: Tony Curtis
Known as Hollywood’s 1950s heartthrob, Tony Curtis was more than a blue-eyed handsome face. He was a boy with a sad childhood and a man …
Old Hollywood Spotlight: Catherine Deneuve
This month France celebrates La Fête Nationale (the French Revolution), so what better way to celebrate than to make July’s Old Hollywood Spotlight about French actress …
Old Hollywood Spotlight: Claudia Cardinale
They say that a career chooses you before you can choose it. This was true for the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, whose career began at …