Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
“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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Only one other person (other than Diana Rigg) has the distinction of claiming to be Emma Peel on The Avengers. Fans of television program know Elizabeth Shepherd as the first Emma Peel. What? Diana Rigg wasn’t the only person to play Emma Peel? (Well, technically speaking, anyone who was Rigg’s stunt double was also Emma [...]
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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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When Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was released on June 30, 1971, it became the fifty-third highest grossing film of the year in the U.S., earning approximately $4 million (on a $2.9 million budget). The film received positive reviews from critics such as Roger Ebert and Gene Wilder later earned a Golden Globe nomination [...]
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As a kid in the 1930s growing up in a tough New York neighborhood, kinetic wiseguy Larry Storch took in the multi-ethnic flavor of his surroundings and started blurting out various accents as a juvenile to provoke laughs and earn attention. Little did he know that this early talent would take him on a six-decade [...]
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Sandra Grabman will be among the guest authors at this year’s Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Be sure to check out her books and get a couple autographed while you’re at the show! The enclosed is a brief summary of Sandra’s author credits, written by Sandra herself. After writing articles for many years, I began the new [...]
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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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