Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. “Esther Williams had one contribution to make to movies — her magnificent athletic body,” the film critic Pauline Kael wrote. “And for over 10 years MGM made the most of [...]
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“Tell me I’m beautiful, it’s nothing. Tell me I’m intellectual – I know it. Tell me I’m funny and it’s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.” – Julie Newmar Julie Newmar is widely remembered for her role as Cat Woman on the iconic television series, Batman. Film buffs know her [...]
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At the age of six, Margaret O’Brien turned to the director and asked, “When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?” A major child star of the 1940s, Margaret O’Brien was best known for her natural, emotional style and her startling facility for tears. [...]
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If you don’t recall Johnny Crawford as one of Walt Disney’s original Mouseketeers in 1955, you certainly remember him in the role of Mark McCain, Chuck Connors’ sensitive young son on television’s The Rifleman. Connors became an acting mentor for Crawford, who later recalled: “He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn’t [...]
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When 20th Century Fox scored a hit with Marilyn Monroe, every movie producer wanted to cash in with their own platinum blonde. Diana Dors… Jayne Mansfield… and Mamie Van Doren come to mind. The latter of whom posed twice for Playboy in 1963 to promote her movie, 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), [...]
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Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. “Esther Williams had one contribution to make to movies — her magnificent athletic body,” the film critic Pauline Kael wrote. “And for over 10 years MGM made the most of [...]
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A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some beatnik hot rod teenagers who have witnessed the blob’s destructive power and growth. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger… With an estimated cost of [...]
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If you don’t recall Johnny Crawford as one of Walt Disney’s original Mouseketeers in 1955, you certainly remember him in the role of Mark McCain, Chuck Connors’ sensitive young son on television’s The Rifleman. Connors became an acting mentor for Crawford, who later recalled: “He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn’t [...]
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When 20th Century Fox scored a hit with Marilyn Monroe, every movie producer wanted to cash in with their own platinum blonde. Diana Dors… Jayne Mansfield… and Mamie Van Doren come to mind. The latter of whom posed twice for Playboy in 1963 to promote her movie, 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), [...]
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Ed Asner is a television legend, the winner of seven acting Emmy Awards (which puts ties him with Mary Tyler Moore, both of whom rank second to their Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star, Cloris Leachman who has nine). In all, he has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award, with 17 nods for a [...]
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Nominated for both an Academy and an Emmy Award, Robert Loggia first came to prominence playing the real-life American lawman Elfego Baca in a series of ten hour-long Walt Disney television productions, starting in 1958. Soon after, he starred in the lead as the proverbial cat-burglar-turned-good guy in a short-lived television series called T.H.E. Cat. Walt [...]
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The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is a three-day festival recognizing the bygone days when Pepsi Cola was five cents a glass bottle, hula hoops was the modern day Playstation and monster movies were a popular craze at the drive-in. Attendees flock in from as far away as Canada, England, Belgium, Florida, St. Louis and California to [...]
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Among the best of the 1960s animated television programs is Jonny Quest (often mis-spelled as “Johnny Quest” and often referred to as The Adventures of Jonny Quest), a short-run series from 1964-65, produced by Hanna-Barbera. Jonny Quest had everything going for it — action, adventure, suspense, comedy… and the creators of the program were obviously [...]
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by Leonard Maltin. Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box-office draws of Hollywood’s Golden Age with fans that included Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91. The only people who don’t like Deanna Durbin, it seems to me, are people who’ve never seen her movies. Possessed of [...]
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Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died surrounded by family and [...]
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“Tell me I’m beautiful, it’s nothing. Tell me I’m intellectual – I know it. Tell me I’m funny and it’s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.” – Julie Newmar Julie Newmar is widely remembered for her role as Cat Woman on the iconic television series, Batman. Film buffs know her [...]
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Paul Anka wrote the song “Puppy Love” about his romance with her. When she was cast in her first beach movie, Walt Disney asked her to not wear a bikini and instead wear a one-piece swimsuit because she had an image to uphold… she agreed. “The Disney studio wasn’t like other studios. It was just [...]
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THURSDAY 9:00 am, YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR A Deeper Look at the Radio Program John C. Abbott, author of The Who is Johnny Dollar Matter, will present a closer look at the radio program that continues entertaining old-time radio buffs today. Johnny Dollar (1949-1962) was a freelance insurance investigator who proved to have more lives [...]
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With his fellow reviewer and sometime sparring partner Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert could make or break the financial success of a motion-picture with their trademark “two thumbs up,” a catch phrase that was spoofed on In Living Color, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons… and became a catch phrase on movie posters and television commercials promoting [...]
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