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 Kent Volgamore. In 1946, Sky King first aired as an American adventure series on the radio. The series was likely based on a true-life person, Jack Cones, the Flying Constable of Twenty-nine Palms during the 1930s. The radio show was the brainchild of Robert Morris Burtt and Wilfred Gibbs Moore. (Moore also created Captain [...]
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A book review by Bruce Dettman. Despite what many in the greater cinematic-going public of the late 1930s and early 40s viewed as a fairly one-dimensional persona, one projected both on the big screen and in his private life, there was actually more to the actor Errol Flynn than the swashbuckling roisterer who saved fair [...]
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by Steve Starr. In 1961, during a conversation over fried clams and coffee in an all night cafe, merchant seaman Andy Elickson asked the barmaid he had met earlier that evening, “Have you always been a waitress?” “Nope,” she replied, “I was a movie star.” Constance Frances Marie Ockelman was born in Brooklyn, New York [...]
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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 [...]
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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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by Martin Grams, Jr. In late 1939, one of the major film studios, Columbia Pictures, produced a 15-chapter cliffhanger serial, which premiered in theaters as a weekly chapter play days after Americans rang in the New Year. The Shadow featured Victor Jory (Bret Morrison’s former roommate at the Pasadena Playhouse) in the role of Lamont [...]
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by Francis M. Nevins From shortly after the end of World War I until a year or so after Pearl Harbor he was known to millions of Western film lovers as Buck Jones. He was born Charles Frederick Gebhard near Vincennes, Indiana on December 12, 1891. His family moved to an Oklahoma ranch when he [...]
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