Classic Hollywood Movies and Stars

Hello! Welcome to the Classic Hollywood group. This is a group for lovers of the traditional, glamorous era of Hollywood movies, when romance and sophistication were a necessity, not an accessory, and when stars seemed, well, so much 'starrier'.

The criteria for a star biography is very simple. Either they're dead or their career should have started before 1950. If you've got a lens you'd like to include feel free to add it. Or if there's a star or an aspect of old Hollywood you'd like to see a lens on, then put in a request. We'll do our best to make it happen.

Featured Actors

featured lens Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood Tough Guy

Humphrey Bogart, for many people throughout the world, will always be the ultimate screen actor whose position as the greatest movie tough guy of them all is secure. His film characters such as Sam Spade, Rick Blaine, Duke Mantee and Fred C. Dobbs, t...

featured lens John Wayne, Hollywood Giant

For 25 years John Wayne, 'Duke',  was rated at or around the top in Hollywood movies box-office appeal. His films grossed $700million - a record no performer has come close to matching. Yet he was more than that. He was an icon, a magnetic...

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Hollywood Celebrity Throw Blankets

Collectible Home Decor, throw blankets. Select fro more...4 points

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Hollywood Celebrity Tote Bags

Fun for the collector. Unique assortment of collec more...3 points

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Casablanca, You Must Remember This

Consistently voted number one in lists of all time more...0 points

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Hollywood Celebrity Movie clips

A host of short clips of our favourite celebrities more...0 points

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Citizen Kane, Movie Masterpiece

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane&a more...0 points

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Marilyn Monroe Hollywood Sex Goddess

Marilyn Monroe died a suicide at 36, after starrin more...0 points

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Judy Garland, Complete Entertainment

Born and raised in show business, little Frances G more...0 points

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Elizabeth Taylor, Marriages and Movies

A Hollywood legend, Elizabeth Taylor is also one o more...0 points

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Clark Gable The King of Hollywood

"His ears are too big and he looks like a more...0 points

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Hollywood Sex Goddesses of Yesteryear

There was a certain glamour and elegance - a littl more...0 points

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Bewitched

Bewitched is an American situation comedy original more...0 points

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Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain

This taut techno-sci-fi thriller stars Arthur Hill more...0 points

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Hollywood Stars

Hollywood, Florida might share its name with the f more...0 points

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Gary W. Goldstein - More than just a Film Producer

Gary Goldstein has produced some of Hollywood's to more...0 points

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The Magnificent Seven - Greatest Western of All Time

This stylish and star-studded western is a remake more...0 points

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