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Sony Pictures Film Clips: The Home of Classic Movie Stars
When you think of Hollywood glamour, it's not just a list of titles that comes to mind - classic movie stars capture our attention now just as they did in the film industry's earliest years. Sony Pictures Film Clips can be your gateway to that glamour - think of us as the agent who brings the classic actors and actresses of Hollywood to you and your project. Many of the best-loved classic actresses and actors of Golden Age Hollywood worked at Columbia Pictures, a tradition that continues to this day with the films of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Columbia Pictures studio chief Harry Cohn was renowned for his eye for talent: some of the classic movie stars he discovered and signed in the studio's early years were Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, William Holden, Jack Lemmon, and Kim Novak. The tradition has only become stronger through the years. Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand, and Will Smith - to name just a few - all made their breakthrough films at Columbia Pictures.
Classic actors like James Stewart often worked at Columbia. Stewart became a star in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and returned to the studio to make more films, including director Anthony Mann's classic western The Man from Laramie and the beloved comedy Bell, Book, and Candle, directed by Richard Quine and costarring Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon. Marlon Brando gave some of his greatest performances at Columbia, including The Wild One and On the Waterfront. Many more classic actors had long associations with Columbia, including Humphrey Bogart, who starred in The Caine Mutiny and In a Lonely Place, Cary Grant, who starred in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings and His Girl Friday, and Randolph Scott, who made many of his great westerns with director Budd Boetticher for Columbia.
Classic actresses who worked at Columbia include some of the most alluring and talented performers in film history. Rita Hayworth lit up the screen with her dancing in Gilda and her pairings with musical stars Fred Astaire in You Were Never Lovelier and Gene Kelly in Funny Girl. Her pairing with husband Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai produced one of the classics of film noir. Many more classic actresses worked with Columbia Pictures, stars like Natalie Wood, Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, and Rosalind Russell.
All of these classic movie stars and many more can be found in the Sony Pictures Collection - if you've got your sights set on the stars, or you'd like to learn more, give Sony Pictures Film Clips a call at (310) 244-7306 or email us at FilmClips@spe.sony.com.
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