Louis B Mayer



The Hollywood hit that hid secrets of the Easter Rising

‘How Green was My Valley’ was the famous 1951 film that won five Oscars for John Ford: but it also contained a more fascinating story of how two of its actors had fought on opposite sides of the Rising


Irish brothers in arms: the soldier and the film director

When the Hitchcocks left Ireland in the 1910s they went on very different paths. One, Rex Ingram, became a Hollywood great, directing ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’. The other, Frank Hitchcock, became a distinguished soldier and chronicler of life in the trenches



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1940s singing sensation who got tired of playing the ‘girl next door’




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