Louis B. Mayer

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.

In the 1940s, the Irgun went to the heart of American culture to garner support for its campaign of violent insurrection.

Before Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer," the world nearly got Ayn Rand’s "Tribute to Free Enterprise."

The blacklist didn’t just ruin many workers’ careers — it narrowed the range of acceptable movies and contributed to the conservatism of the 1950s.

How the institution’s reactionary origins still leak into today’s film culture.

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?

Conservatives have used celebrity glitz effectively, too.

Hollywood in its early days was not the kind of place where powerful men abused their power over women.