Despite being an A-list movie, Warner Bros didn’t expect Casablanca to stand out as it did. Nominated for eight Oscars, what ...

Most people know Jimmy Stewart as the beloved actor best recognized for films like The Philadelphia Story (1940) and It’s a ...

A decade later in 1954, Crosby reimagined the track as the star of the hit musical film White Christmas, where it became the ...

After directing Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean followed his masterpiece with another grand epic, an adaptation of Doctor ...

Bing Crosby once shared with his nephew the hardest performance of "White Christmas" he ever gave, serenading G.I.s in the ...

In a somber moment for the arts community, renowned Russian actress Vera Alentova has passed away in Moscow. This news, confirmed by the Pushkin Theater, where she dedicated much of her career, has ...

352: Pope Liberius celebrates the first official Christmas mass in Rome; the birth of Jesus Christ had been celebrated as ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 30: In 1672, the first public concert was held in London. The musicians performed behind a curtain while patrons ate cakes and drank ale.

2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

I Know Where I’m Going, released in December 1945, was almost the last in an arc of films, by Michael Powell and Emeric ...

The December 25th date for Christmas was proposed in c.221 by Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian chronographer, and also by ...