Directors: Lang, Fritz–Background, Career, Awards, Legacy

No director had worked within the genre of film noir more consistently or more brilliantly than Fritz Lang.

Oscar Actors: Grant, Cary–Background, Career, Awards, Marriages, Legacy

Cary Grant was not supposed to die. Cary Grant was supposed to stick around, our perpetual touchstone of charm and elegance and romance and youth–N.Y. Times

Great Train Robbery, The (1903): Westerns–Significant

Edwin S. Porter directed The Great Train Robbery, a 1903 American silent film, of 12-minute long, made for the Edison Manufacturing Company.

Oscar Directors: Field, Todd–Background, Career, Awards

Field has received 6 Oscar nominations, including Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Oscar Directors: Von Sternberg, Josef–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography (Auteur, Collaboration with Marlene Dietrich, Actress, Muse, Lover)

Sternberg stands as the great “Romantic artist” of this period in film history.