Charlie Chaplin

He was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved stars. Then his adopted country turned against him.

Our favorite artists may not be our favorite people.

For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.

During the New Deal, mass left movements and government funding spawned a boomlet in working-class art. For once, art wasn’t just the province of the rich.

When Hollywood went down Argentine way.

Keaton had been on the stage longest, risen the highest, fallen the furthest, and left the most indelible legacy.

During World War II, movie studios went to pains not to alienate the Nazis.

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?

It's about the satirical tradition of 'going there.'

Gustavus Stadler on Nora Belle Guthrie's battle with Huntington's Disease.

On the passage and enforcement of laws to exclude or deport immigrants for their beliefs, and the people who challenged those laws.

An excerpt from a new graphic biography of Jack Kirby, the "King of Comics."

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.

Conservatives have used celebrity glitz effectively, too.

In many ways, silent film was an art form entirely different from the "talkies" we enjoy today.

A pair of 1959 films brought "Smell-o-vision" into movies.