Marianne Mantell
With $1,500 in savings, she started a recording company that paved the way for the billion-dollar audiobook business
Walter Mirisch
Raised in the era of silent movies, the Some Like It Hot producer, whose films won 28 Oscars, started out as an usher in a New Jersey theater
Eugene Lee
The theater, film, and TV designer was with Saturday Night Live from its inception, in 1975, to this month
Barbara Walters
When the pioneering female journalist interviewed the Shah of Iran, she fearlessly challenged his views on women
Dame Frances Campbell-Preston
Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting
Derek Granger
Remembering the former Royal Navy officer who forged a singular career as a TV producer behind the Emmy-winning Brideshead Revisited and other hits
The Real Loretta Lynn
When I joined the late country singer on her tour bus, I got an earful—and a very different picture of country music than the one I had in my head
Bull Terriers on Parade
George Booth’s cartoons didn’t punch up or down but elbowed gently to the side
Douglas McGrath
After an early job at S.N.L., the high-spirited playwright and filmmaker went on to write the book for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and co-write the screenplay for Bullets over Broadway
A Woman for All Seasons
Angela Lansbury was a loyal friend, a generous castmate, and a surprisingly good baker
Just Another Revolution
A director and producer at the vanguard of New Hollywood, Bob Rafelson infused his films with real life—and his life with high adventure
Tim Page
Shot four times, the courageous British photojournalist was the inspiration for Dennis Hopper’s character in Apocalypse Now, and his powerful imagery captured the horrors of war
Bill Russell
As the winner of 11 N.B.A. titles and the first Black head coach in a U.S. major league, the basketball star broke barriers on the court and off
Michel David-Weill
For 25 years, the French-born investment banker directed Wall Street’s most prestigious firm with the touch of an enlightened monarch
Duncan Hannah
The acclaimed artist, writer, and AIR MAIL contributor is remembered by two of his friends
Micky Burn
The W.W. II British P.O.W. saved the life of a girl who became one of Hollywood’s greatest leading ladies
Dirck Halstead
From Saigon’s fall to Reagan’s shooting to Monicagate, the photographer was at the center of history as it happened
A Publisher and a Gentleman
Jason Epstein, a co-founder of The New York Review of Books, always seemed to know everything—and be everywhere
Jody Gibson. Or, to Some of You Cads, “Babydol”
In the 90s, she ran Hollywood’s most elite—and, perhaps, most expensive—prostitution ring
Patricia Hitchcock
She had a crush on Laurence Olivier and appeared in Psycho and Strangers on a Train. Being the daughter of the Master of Suspense had its perks
Hiro
The photographer escaped the devastation of postwar Japan to create surreal images of indelible beauty
Stories We Tell
The most erudite man in Italy, Roberto Calasso lived for literature—and re-invented it
Heaven on Earth
Before Ann Russell Miller entered the convent, she was a swinging socialite in San Francisco
Eva Sereny
From Fellini to Brando to Burton and Taylor, the self-taught photographer captured stars in intimate on-set shots
