Allan started his career very young as an actor and worked on a number of Cecil B De Mille movies in the early 1930s. When De Mille called on someone…
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Kobal also tracked down Laszlo Willinger, Ted Allan's successor, who was living a quiet retirement in Los Angeles. Hungarian-born Willinger came to MGM in 1937 as part of the studio's…
Only Ernest Bachrach at Radio Keith Orpheum had a career at one studio that rivalled Clarence Bull's tenure at MGM. He joined RKO at its inception in 1929 and stayed…
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Since 2010, Marion Hilsen has been the director of cultural initiatives for the French entertainment retail chain FNAC. “In France, FNAC is one of the few companies to have a…
While hundreds of people swarm the Grand Palais for the Chanel fashion show, the cultural journalists stood across the street, at the Petit Palais, to attend the press conference for…
Jeanloup Sieff passed away twelve years ago. A collection of his fashion photography has just been published by La Martinière. The book is gorgeous: the images are sublime, the texts…
To mark the launch of the Jeanloup Sieff’s new book, the Sieff family is exhibiting their work at Colette in Paris until November 3. Behind the lens: Jeanloup, the immortal…