Why didn’t Jimmy Stewart kiss Eleanor Powell? They were working together on “Born to Dance,” Powell’s signature film, and he was “smitten,” to use her biographers’ word. At the end of his first and ...

Eleanor Powell, the magnificently talented movie-musical performer of the mid-twentieth century, was too good for Hollywood. I don’t mean too virtuous; I mean too virtuosic—too masterful at her ...

Long on its display of corking dance routines and numbers by Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy, mounted against elaborate production backgrounds, Broadway Melody of 1940 slides through as ...

Imagine growing up with not one but two renowned actors as parents. Peter Ford’s father was Glenn Ford (1919-2006), a popular box office draw in the ’40s and ’50s with memorable performances in such ...