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Myrna Loy is one of those stars whose appeal is timeless. Across the decades, her beautiful eyes project a keen intelligence and self-assurance. It was no illusion.

Ava Gardner is best remembered today as the screen beauty who told Frank Sinatra to take a hike. This was quite an achievement, as Frank was at the time a crooning heartthrob unaccustomed to being thrown over. But Ava should be remembered for far more. Hers was a sad case of a talented actress who never made the most of her abilities because (she believed) the world only saw her astonishing beauty, and that was all she really had to offer. 

If any movie star was larger than life, it was Burt Lancaster. This athletic, vibrant man with the thousand-watt smile bequeathed to us a stellar body of work that, like the actor himself, simply cannot be ignored. A look at the trajectory of his career also reveals a savvy businessman whose mind was as strong and agile as his physique.

The old quip goes that we and our English cousins are separated by a common language, but there's little doubt that the movies have actually brought us together.

With Halloween approaching, we’re saluting one of the great horror movie icons, Boris Karloff, originator of the Frankenstein monster. Reminding us again of how far removed the illusion of movies can be from reality, Karloff the man was the total opposite of the characters he immortalized on screen.

Best remembered as Federico Fellini’s male protagonist and muse in the early sixties, Marcello Mastroianni was so much more than your standard issue leading man.

Though her movie career lasted only 15 years during the twenties and thirties, Greta Garbo’s impact on the industry and on audiences — was unparalleled. And her potent magnetism and allure defy the ravages of time.

While the name recognition of female star Claudette Colbert has not held up to the same degree as her contemporary Bette Davis, she was just as talented, and at her peak in the ‘30s, almost as big a star.

Over a decade after her death, Katharine Hepburn still holds the record for number of Best Actress Oscar wins. She is in fact the only person ever to have won four Academy Awards in the acting category.