This article is being published to commemorate the 132nd anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's birth on April 16, 2021. Michael Jackson once said it was his favorite song: Smile, to which Charlie Chaplin is said to...

In the fall of 2006, singer Adele Adkins had just found her manager Jonathan Dickins, who became aware of her through the music platform MySpace. Dickins then introduced her to Richard Russell, the director of...

However much Callas had grown fond of Onassis, she did not allow other people to interfere in her professional affairs. Until mid-1965, Maria Callas continued to give opera performances, albeit much less in number –...

On October 29, 1956, Maria Callas made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the role of Norma from Vincenzo Bellini's opera of the same name. It was not foreseen that the...

Arriving in New York and staying with her father, who lived there, little promising happened at first: more than once she recited for other opera singers and directors, who always told her that she still...

By the end of 1956, Greek-American opera soprano Maria Meneghini Callas had several offers on her desk from well-known publishing houses, all competing to publish her memoirs. She turned down all the offers. Now she...

After Marlene had said goodbye to Jean, she returned to Hollywood, feeling lonely without her lover, whom she hadserved French cuisine almost daily. In the past, she had toured to sell war bonds – the...

How did Marlene Dietrich and Jean Gabin, such very different people, fall in love? What did the Second World War have to do with it?

In October 1980, Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister of the UK for over one and a half years. At that time, things were not going well for her government: Inflation was rising. Unemployment was...