“Theory alone does not make a football player,” Fritz Walter once wrote in his memoirs. When the German national team crossed the German-Swiss border at …
Greta Garbo: The Divine (2.)
Continued from part one After Greta Garbo lost her patron Mauritz Stiller, the situation initially seemed hopeless for the actress: although she was under contract …
Greta Garbo: The Divine (1.)
Part one When her name was mentioned, every filmmaker of the last century froze in awe: her acting is considered groundbreaking for an entire generation …
Carole Lombard & Clark Gable: Love Beyond Death
“Will Carole Lombard’s marriage end her career?” read the headline of one of the most important U.S. film magazines in July 1939. For society at …
Carole Lombard: Between Screwball and Drama
“Carole, don’t take that plane,” Elizabeth Peters, Lombard’s mother, reportedly said to her daughter shortly before the fateful TWA Flight 3. Lombard decided by coin …
Walter Matthau: “I don’t look like an actor.”
The actor duo Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon went down in Hollywood history as one of the most legendary duos: critics even compared the duo …
Tonka Bean: South America’s Black Gold
In South American culture, the tonka bean is said to have a special healing effect: anyone who carries a tonka bean with them is in …
“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”: The history of Earl Grey
Legend has it that Earl Grey tea originated from the situation that on the family estate of the British Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl …
Noël Coward: Dancing on the Edge of the Volcano
Noël Coward grew up at a time when British theater culture was experiencing its first ever upswing: in 1895, four years before Coward’s birth, Queen …