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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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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Web tributes poured in Wednesday from fans both average and famous, folks who either grew up with the band’s campy eponymous TV show in the ’60s — which spawned hummable staples such as “Daydream Believer” and “Last Train to Clarksville” — or were exposed to its smash rebirth on MTV in the ’80s. Davy Jones, [...]
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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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by Chris Blacksmith. The acquisition in 1970 of Atlanta UHF channel 17 by R.E. “Ted” Turner launched a business, an industry, a media empire and a string of extraordinary “firsts.” In 1976, the company debuted the first national cable television network and named it The Super Station. Four years later, Turner Broadcasting invented 24-hour cable [...]
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They were Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin; for a while, they were also Rusty, Rico and the Masked Rider; but one name everyone knew them by was the Three Mesquiteers – a hard-riding, wisecracking trio fondly remembered as the heroes of one of the liveliest Western series ever to gallop across the matinee [...]
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A brief history of the drive-in Theater from its inception to the present. The drive-in Theater was the brainchild of one Richard Milton Hollingshead, Jr. The inventor’s father, Richard Milton Hollingshead, Sr., owned and operated a business that first sold harness soap, later moving on to selling a complete line of automotive products under the [...]
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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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by Stacia Jones. Much of my information on Gloria Grahame comes from the excellent book Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame by Vincent Curcio. I definitely recommend this book for fans of Grahame. It’s out of print, but used copies can be found online in several stores. Grahame was a beautiful, troubled actress with [...]
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by Martin Grams, Jr. “I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.” –Veronica Lake Veronica Lake never received her due of sex appeal like her Hollywood competition. Her legs were not insured for $1 million dollars like [...]
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