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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Dale Robertson, best known for playing the role of Jim Hardie in the TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo, and the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC’s The Iron Horse, often appearing as the deceptively thoughtful but modest western hero, died this morning, February 26, 2013. Robertson was 90. Robertson began his acting [...]
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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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On this 80th Anniversary of the 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping, the event is still “The Crime of the Century” based upon its impact on the national and international scene. It involved not only the kidnapping but the murder of a small boy and it generated more shock among the citizens of North American and Europe than [...]
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Sometimes an obituary never makes the evening news because the youngsters who are working at the major new networks don’t recognize the men and women who deserve recognition. Benjamin Franklin once said if you want people to talk about you after you die… write a book… or do something worthy of a book. So it [...]
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Producer William Dozier struck gold for ABC with Batman in January 1966 and hoped to repeat his success with The Green Hornet during the 1966-1967 season. During the summer of 1966, Dozier began work on another potential series, this one based on Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy comic strip. A pilot film was produced and NBC [...]
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Reflecting the violence heralded in the headlines of 1930s Chicago newspapers, Chester Gould introduced a raw violence to comic strips. Gould did his best to keep up with the latest in crime fighting techniques and while Tracy often ended a case in a shootout, he used forensic science, advanced gadgetry, and wits to track the [...]
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Recognizing the need for preservation of nostalgic pop culture, our guest of honor this year has an impressive list of accomplishments best described as “eyebrow raisers.” Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D., is the chair of the Communications/English Discipline of Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City, Michigan). Born and raised in Wisconsin, home of Stanley G. Weinbaum and [...]
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Gloria Swanson, a favorite of director Cecil B. DeMille during the silent era, became an actress as a result of being in the right place at the right time. When her aunt took her to visit Essanay Studios in 1913, the soon-to-be actress was captivated by the new technology and the costumes and makeup and [...]
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