Film historian Tony Maietta joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the old days of Hollywood and the U.S. film industry. When did the "golden age" of Hollywood begin and end? Why ...

Ah, Old Hollywood—the glitz, the glamour, and the glittering legends that still capture our imaginations today. But behind the dazzling façade, there lurked secrets that’d make even the most jaded ...

Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or ...

There may be no period in the history of American cinema more monumental, iconic, and resplendent than Hollywood's Golden Age. The heyday of the studio system — extending roughly from the late 1920s ...