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The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), from Universal, was the final installment of the last "B series" put out by a major studio.. In 1948, a Supreme Court ruling in a federal antitrust suit against the leading Hollywood studios, the so-called Big Five, outlawed block booking and led to the divestiture of the majors' theater chains over the next few years.
A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, somewhat similar to B-sides in recorded music. However, the production of such films as "second features ...
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Sherrie Hewson (born 1950) Ciarán Hinds (born 1953) Jane How (born 1950) Finola Hughes (born 1959) Olivia Hussey (born 1951) Alex Hyde-White (born 1959) (naturalised American citizen) Celia Imrie (born 1952) Geraldine James (born 1950) Louise Jameson (born 1951) David Janson (born 1950) Alex Jennings (born 1957) Gerard Kelly (1959–2010) Gary ...
Scott Baio (born 1960) Sharon Baird (born 1943) William Bakewell (1908-1993) Eric Balfour (born 1977) Fairuza Balk (born 1974) Allison Balson (born 1969) Frank Bank (1942–2013) Olivia Barash (born 1965) Andrea Barber (born 1976) Christopher Daniel Barnes (born 1972) Dana Barron (born 1966) Wesley Barry (1907–1994) Drew Barrymore (born 1975 ...
Jayne Heitmeyer born () October 30, 1960 (age 64) (born in Canada) Marg Helgenberger born ( 1958-11-16 ) November 16, 1958 (age 66) Katherine Helmond 1929–2019
Hugh Hefner, the man who created a magazine empire, died Wednesday at the age of 91. His legacy includes some of the most famous Playboy playmates ever to grace the cover and go one to become ...
The B movie, whose roots trace to the silent film era, was a significant contributor to Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. As the Hollywood studios made the transition to sound film in the late 1920s, many independent exhibitors began adopting a new programming format: the double feature.