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Jason Reitman Breaks from Comedy

By Jack Dickey

DVDs, Pizza, Porn: How One Video Store Chain Stays in Business

By Brad Tuttle

Academy Awards: Classic Film Stars With Their Oscars

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Virtuoso Starlet: Marcia Van Dyke, Her Violin and Fickle Fame

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Lust and Marriage: Sweet, Sexy Portraits of Steve McQueen and Neile Adams

LIFE pays tribute to grown-up love and sex -- in all its messy, unkempt glory -- in stark contrast to the manufactured teen-centric pseudo-eroticism of today's stars.

By Ben Cosgrove

Spike Jonze: Hollywood's Lonely Boy

Spike Jonze hopes the high-tech love story of Her will make you cry

By TIME Staff

Marilyn Monroe: Rare Photos of an Up-and-Coming Star, 1952

In 1952, LIFE photographer Loomis Dean captured a young Marilyn Monroe as she captivated the crowd at a Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards ceremony in Santa Monica.

By Ben Cosgrove

'It's a Wonderful Life': Rare Photos From the Set of a Holiday Classic

In the summer of 1946, LIFE photographer Martha Holmes visited the set of a movie destined for immortality: 'It's a Wonderful Life'

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the Movies: When 3-D Was New

Six decades after the release of the first full-length 3-D movie, LIFE.com revisits J.R. Eyerman's classic photo of the audience at the opening-night screening of the film.

By Ben Cosgrove

Fearless Fagan: Portrait of the Lion as a Young Actor

Back in the early 1950s, LIFE magazine saw fit to report on -- and to exhaustively photograph -- a lion named Fagan not just once, but twice.

By Ben Cosgrove

Old Gold: When Hollywood's Leading Men Were Real-Life Grown-Ups

Four of the most enduring stars in Hollywood history -- Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven -- share a raucous laugh in 1958.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Marilyn and Jane: Photos From the Set of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'

Pictures made by LIFE's Ed Clark on the set of a classic musical comedy offer ample evidence that Marilyn Monroe (here with co-star Jane Russell) was already a bona fide movie star by the time 1953 rolled around.

By Ben Cosgrove

Bikinis, Bunny Ears and Cowboy Boots: LIFE With Hollywood Pinups

LIFE.com presents a series of staged "cheesecake" publicity photos of a half-dozen young actresses on the rise, including Piper Laurie and Yvonne De Carlo, in 1950.

By Ben Cosgrove

Being 007: LIFE Behind the Scenes at James Bond Auditions

LIFE.com presents photos -- most of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from auditions for a Bond movie in 1967.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Michael Caine: Rare Photos, 1966

On Sir Michael Caine's 80th birthday, LIFE.com celebrates the man's career with a series of previously unpublished photos from Los Angeles in 1966, made by LIFE's Bill Ray.

By Ben Cosgrove

Rare Photos From the Set of 'Porgy and Bess'

Not too many musical classics have experienced the sort of polar-opposite reactions from audiences and critics that Porgy and Bess has elicited ever since it debuted on Broadway in 1935.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Zsa Zsa Gabor: Rare Photos

LIFE.com presents a series of photos — most of which never ran in LIFE — from 1951, when Zsa Zsa Gabor was still a relative unknown in the U.S.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the Oscars: Rare Rehearsal Photos From 1958

LIFE's Leonard McCombe captured stars from Paul Newman to Zsa Zsa Gabor rehearsing for the big event in 1958.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at Home With Marilyn Monroe, 1953

On the 50th anniversary of her death (at a far too-young 36), LIFE.com presents a series of warm, casually intimate photos of Marilyn Monroe by the great Alfred Eisenstaedt.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Jane Fonda: Behind the Scenes on the Camp Classic, 'Barbarella'

Pictures — many of which were not published in LIFE magazine — made on the set of the 1968 sci-fi camp classic by Carlo Bavagnoli

By Ben Cosgrove
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