Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
by Sandra Grabman. Pat Buttram has been the source of laughter and joy to me since I was a child in the 1950s. The tension caused by Gene Autry’s pursuit of the bad guys on his television program was broken by his yodel-y voiced sidekick, Pat, who had the wonderful ability to turn our frowns [...]
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Dale Robertson, best known for playing the role of Jim Hardie in the TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo, and the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC’s The Iron Horse, often appearing as the deceptively thoughtful but modest western hero, died this morning, February 26, 2013. Robertson was 90. Robertson began his acting [...]
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On this 80th Anniversary of the 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping, the event is still “The Crime of the Century” based upon its impact on the national and international scene. It involved not only the kidnapping but the murder of a small boy and it generated more shock among the citizens of North American and Europe than [...]
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Sometimes an obituary never makes the evening news because the youngsters who are working at the major new networks don’t recognize the men and women who deserve recognition. Benjamin Franklin once said if you want people to talk about you after you die… write a book… or do something worthy of a book. So it [...]
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Producer William Dozier struck gold for ABC with Batman in January 1966 and hoped to repeat his success with The Green Hornet during the 1966-1967 season. During the summer of 1966, Dozier began work on another potential series, this one based on Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy comic strip. A pilot film was produced and NBC [...]
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Reflecting the violence heralded in the headlines of 1930s Chicago newspapers, Chester Gould introduced a raw violence to comic strips. Gould did his best to keep up with the latest in crime fighting techniques and while Tracy often ended a case in a shootout, he used forensic science, advanced gadgetry, and wits to track the [...]
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Gloria Swanson, a favorite of director Cecil B. DeMille during the silent era, became an actress as a result of being in the right place at the right time. When her aunt took her to visit Essanay Studios in 1913, the soon-to-be actress was captivated by the new technology and the costumes and makeup and [...]
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For all you Batman fans, this one’s for you. Not sure if you were watching the recent Barrett Jackson auto auction, but my wife does. She’s a tom boy and watches the auction like a religion. I have to admit that while I do not share her passion for four-wheel vehicles and couldn’t tell the [...]
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