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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Just a short time ago, an ultra rare pristine copy of Action Comics #1, the comic book that introduced Superman to the world in 1938, reached an all-time record when it was sold recently by ComicConnect.com‘s auction service. The comic was given an Overstreet Guide estimated value of $1,050,000 but ended up selling for more [...]
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When the sun set on the acclaimed western series DEADWOOD, the vampires came out and William Sanderson traded the black hat of Ian McShane’s depraved cohort E.B. Farnum for white as self-assured Sheriff Bud Dearborne in Alan Ball’s “TRUE BLOOD.” Set in small-town Louisiana, the exciting new HBO series is a funny mixture of vampires [...]
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by Bevin Keefer. “I woke up in love this morning! I woke up in love this morning! Went to sleep with you, on my mind!” Yes, that’s a line from a Partridge Family song. And yes, I know all the words. When I was ten, I lived in a different state. Not a physical state, [...]
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The Cavalcade of America was one of the most prestigious dramatic radio programs on the network (1935-1954). Sponsored by DuPont as a means of enhancing the company’s image, it featured dramas of American History (or stories of true Americans who pioneered the advancement of something that we, today, take for granted). Major Hollywood celebrities made [...]
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The Andy Griffith Show was first televised over CBS-TV on October 3, 1960, and ran for eight seasons until April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), a spinster aunt and [...]
Read moreArthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, “The Old Redhead.” No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or fame than Godfrey until a famous on-the-air incident undermined his folksy image and triggered a gradual [...]
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The University of Maryland Special Collections has launched a new project to preserve and digitize one-of-a-kind recordings of Arthur Godfrey, a broadcasting powerhouse of the 1940s and 50s. Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, “The [...]
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Vendors from all over the country will be displaying their wares on more than 200 vendor tables. Vendors will be offering an extensive stock of pulp magazines, comic books, movie posters, photographs, penny arcade cards, toys, DVD movies, VHS videos, autographs, LP records, Big Little Books, and much, much more. DEALER ROOM HOURS Thursday and [...]
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