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 Carl Rich. With her great strength, invisible plane, bullet-deflecting bracelets and star-studded style like no other, she’s Wonder Woman — known to her close friends as Diana. The unconventional Dr. William Moulton Marston originally created her as “psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should rule the world,” and Wonder Woman has [...]
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It is with deep sadness that we report the news of Rosemary Rice (as known to radio fans, but in private life as Rosemary Merrill, the proud wife of Jack Merrill), who passed away last week. Frequent attendees of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention will remember Rosemary as a guest at the fourth annual event (2009) [...]
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by Carl Rich. The diversity of Disneyana available to the collector is both staggering and, at the same time, marvelous. There are myriad areas of specialization available for not only the types of items but also time periods and price ranges. Each offers the collector rich opportunities for fun, immersion in our shared popular culture [...]
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Below are photos submitted to us from attendees at the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Covention. Many thanks to Steve and Maxine Wrzesien, Jim McCuaig, Tara Kahnert,William Rigler, Bill Parisho, Lisa Birt, Vinny Foti, Martin Aaron Totten, Al Stone, Mark J. Gross and Gordon Shriver. Make sure you visit our 2012 Convention Recap Page! CLICK HERE [...]
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Known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performances in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950), Hollywood actress Celeste Holm made an appearance at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention to meet and greet fans, sign autographs and pose for photographs. Fans who attended [...]
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Andy Griffith passed away today, July 3, 2012, at the age of 86. The American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan’s epic film, A Face in the Crowd (1957) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead characters [...]
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by Peter Jaffee. It’s going to be interesting to see if The Dark Knight Rises out shines The Avengers. The upcoming superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer, is the third and final installment in Nolan’s Batman film series. Batman [...]
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