Golden Age of Hollywood

She started her career with a bang:  she was the first actress to have an orgasm on screen. She was a Hollywood sex symbol who stood up to the mighty Louis B.

He was Andy Hardy in a TV movie from 1962 with Mickey Rooney, was cast twice to act with Elvis Presley between 1965 and 1966 and worked regularly in many TV shows from the 50s and 60s, like The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Annie Oakley, Ichabod and Me and The Donna Reed Show. But Jim Hawkins will be always remembered as the youngest of the four children that Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed had in It's a Wonderful Life, the 1946 film by Frank Capra that went from commercial failure to revered classic.

We celebrate the 100th birthday of Kirk Douglas, Hollywood icon, three-time nominee who won a Golden Globe as Best Actor for Lust for Life (1957), as well as the HFPA's highest honor, the Cecil B. deMille award in 1968.

Joan Blondell, two times Golden Globe nominee, will be celebrated in a five-week series of screenings, with 14 of her movies being shown at the Billy Wilder Theater of the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles, starting om Friday, November 4.   The movies were restored by the University of California Los Angeles Film Archives, one of the leading film restoration institutions in the world, and a frequent recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's restoration grants.