On Dec. 9, 1948, Paramount released the Alan Ladd-starring Western feature. By THR Staff On Dec. 9, 1948, Paramount released the 88-minute Alan Ladd-starring Western Whispering Smith. The ...

Arkansas native Alan Ladd led one of the most tortured paths to Hollywood fame, a story worthy of a film itself. Alan Ladd was born in Hot Springs in 1913 to an accountant father and an aspiring ...

Alan Ladd Jr., an Oscar-winning producer and former studio boss who, as a top executive at 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, was best known for greenlighting George Lucas’ landmark blockbuster ...