Meet Me in St. Louis: Home Sweet Home

Judy Garland. Photo: MGM There was drama behind the scenes of Meet Me in St. Louis, one of the best-loved nostalgia pieces of the early 1940s. Judy Garland reportedly found…

The Wiz 

Dorothy (Diana Ross), a 24-year-old Harlem teacher who's never been south of 125th Street, ends up in a fierce winter storm that takes her to a magical land – where…

Beauty and the Beast: Ready for Broadway

Photo: Disney One of Disney's most popular films is dedicated to the memory of Howard Ashman. The lyricist died of AIDS the same year as Beauty and the Beast was…

Ziegfeld Girl 

In the 1920s, three girls (Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr) join the Ziegfeld Follies and handle the challenges of stardom in different ways. Originally meant to be a straight…

Ziegfeld Follies 

The king of Broadway, "the glorifier of the American girl", Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) is getting bored up in heaven and conjures one last, grand "Follies" show. Powell repeated his…

Snow White and Disney’s Most Bad-Assed Villain

Photo: Disney In 1937, Walt Disney certainly had made a name for himself, having supervised and participated in the creation of such enduring animated characters as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck,…