The punch landed on his face. 340 pounds. Professional heavyweight. Frasier’s most ruthless sparring partner. Ali went down. Blood from his mouth…

  The ballroom is way too bright. Big crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling and throw light everywhere. White tablecloths, silver forks lined…

  March 1962, a D-Day veteran in full uniform walked onto the longest day set in France with one question for John Wayne.…

  A producer screams at Moren O’Hara in front of 50 people. Calls her difficult. Calls her replaceable. The set goes silent. O’Hara…

  The words Clint Eastwood would shoot him in the back hadn’t finished leaving Don Seagull’s mouth when the soundstage door opened. And…

  The stunt man hit the Louisiana dirt and didn’t move. And when Constance’s Towers ran over to kiss him for the final…

  The red flag with the yellow star snapped three feet from James Stewart’s face and his hand went to his chest like…

  The call came at 900 p.m. the night before the biggest stunt sequence in the war wagon and Chuck Robertson’s brother was…

  The station wagon hit the curve wrong and flipped twice before sliding to a stop in the dirt. And the first three…

  Marlene Dietrich’s voice cut through the Universal Studios commissary loud enough that 37 people turned their heads at once and John Wayne’s…