Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.” – Shirley Jones She originally wanted to become a veterinarian. Instead, Shirley Jones became the winner of the 1952 Miss Pittsburgh [...]
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Gorgeous, mouth-watering Sherry Jackson began her career as a child actress on the 1953-1958 television sitcom, Make Room for Daddy, which starred Danny Thomas. Rumor has it that Idaho-born Sherry was “discovered” by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. She began with small parts in such films as [...]
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Geri Reischl is known fondly to millions of people around the world by the nick name “Fake Jan” for replacing Eve Plumb in nine episodes of the Brady Bunch Hour during the 1976-77 television season. She was unexpectedly thrust into this well-known television family as the new Jan Brady when Eve Plumb refused to appear [...]
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Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of six, Jay North became a household name during the early 1960s for his role as the well-meaning, but mischievous, Dennis Mitchell on the CBS situation comedy Dennis the Menace, based on the comic strip created by Hank Ketcham. North’s first professional acting job [...]
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Jay Hickerson, pianist and entertainer, has served as musical conductor, piano teacher and pianist with various orchestras throughout Connecticut and other Northeastern states for more than 45 years. Jay received a Bachelor’s Degree (Music Theory) from the Hartt College of Music, and a Master’s Degree (Education) from Southern Connecticut State University. He was a founding [...]
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Tall, good-looking James Darren was a student of acting coach Stella Adler and made his name in the 1950s in a series of teenage-themed films. A better actor than most of his contemporary teenage heartthrobs, which is probably why he was the only actor who appeared in all three Gidget movies, Gidget (1959), Gidget Goes [...]
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Robert Colbert became an enduring television icon when he got the starring leads on Maverick and The Time Tunnel, two classic televisions series that can still be seen in reruns today. After appearing in a number of films, including Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959), starring The Three Stooges, he was signed to a contract with [...]
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Striking, pale complexioned, blonde English actress Veronica Carlson has appeared in such classics as Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased and The Saint (with Roger Moore). Carlson is best known as the female lead of several late 1960s Hammer horror films. In late 1968, James Carreras, the boss of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in [...]
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