Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 movie adaptation of the popular book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It takes fans into the wondrous world of Willy Wonka (played by ...

In 1971, an unlikely cinematic classic was born out of one of Roald Dahl’s stranger, more colorful children’s novels. Under the direction of Mel Stuart, whose previous credits included the JFK ...

Pulled from the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, Herrod closed the night’s performances with his rendition of “Pure Imagination,” showcasing the singer’s ...

Childhoods were made or broken by Mel Stuart’s 1971 Roald Dahl adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder’s irreverent, eclectic iteration of the elusive chocolatier was as ...

Willy Wonka, decked out in fanciful top hat, bow tie and purple suit, hobbles out of his chocolate factory with a cane — a once-mythical man now reduced to a mere mortal. Then he falls forward, ...

Once Charlie and a handful of his youthful counterparts make their way inside the mysterious factory, each succumbs to temptation, which results in fitting, yet terrifying, consequences. The ...

“Hеre is the child that you left behind. Here is the kid with the curious mind. Here is the wonder we used to feel, back when the magic was real.” These are lines from “A World of Your Own,” a song ...