FILM TALKOct 16, 2025

Janet Leigh: “Norma Shearer was the quintessential star, a star like no other, and she was my fairy godmother”

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Janet Leigh: “Norma Shearer was the quintessential star, a star like no other, and she was my fairy godmother”

In February 1946, Norma Shearer swept into the lobby of the Sugar Bowl Ski Lodge in Soda Springs, California. She saw a picture of a fresh-faced teenage girl with an undeniable charm on the clerk’s…

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FILM TALKOct 1, 2025

Carla Laemmle: “Growing up on the Universal lot, near the New York street, was like a dream come true”

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Carla Laemmle: “Growing up on the Universal lot, near the New York street, was like a dream come true”

As the niece of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios in 1915, Carla Laemmle lived a long and happy life. Born in Chicago in 1909, she passed away 104 years later in Los Angeles, where she alm…

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