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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by Martin Grams Jr. Hank Greenberg told Sport magazine in the September 1949 issue that Joe DiMaggio covered so much ground in center field that the only way to get a hit against the Yankees was “to hit ‘em where Joe wasn’t.” On February of that same year, DiMaggio signed a record contract worth $100,000 [...]
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Conrad Brooks moved to Hollywood, California in the early 1950s to pursue a career in acting. He got his start in movies appearing in Ed Wood films such as Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958), Glen or Glenda (1953), and Jail Bait (1954). He took a break from acting during the 1960s and 1970s but [...]
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by Gene Blottner. In 1946, American movies returned to France. Among these were films with dark themes and mood, stories that displayed the underbelly of life. One of these was Gilda (Columbia, 1946) with Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. The French movie critics dubbed this style of film making, “Film Noir” or dark film. This [...]
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by Martin Grams Jr. From 1947 to 1960, The Howdy Doody Show entertained young children across the country, often credited by historians as one of the leading reasons why television became a staple in American living rooms. The television series certainly demonstrated the potential of the new medium to advertisers, which competed against the already [...]
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by Clifford Aliperti. Lavish, of course, it is a Cecil B. DeMille picture, but beyond the grand scope of DeMille’s historical vision is a movie that held up better than I had expected. Claudette Colbert powers Cleopatrain the title role by sheer force of personality. Her Cleopatra is manipulative, yet good-natured, and all sex appeal [...]
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by Jack French. When Bill Stern was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988, he had been dead for seventeen years and he had not been heard regularly on network radio since the 1960s. However the induction sponsors knew that Stern’s years of spouting pure hokum, disguised as historical fact, had not yet [...]
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The Gotham Radio Players were formed in 1991 by a group of enthusiasts for the heyday of radio drama. Their mission is to bring new productions of classic radio programs of the 1930′s, 1940′s, and 1950′s to the airwaves of the new millennium, as well as showcase original scripts written by the emerging audio dramatists [...]
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