Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. “Esther Williams had one contribution to make to movies — her magnificent athletic body,” the film critic Pauline Kael wrote. “And for over 10 years MGM made the most of [...]
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“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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My radio career started when I was a kid and I had my first taperecorder. I had my own show even though I was the only person who could hear it. Sometimes friends came over and I made them guests on my make believe show. They became a captive audience. Over the years I did [...]
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THE ENTIRE EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ADMISSION PRICE IS $15 PER PERSON, PER DAY. Kids are free. YOU CAN PAY AT THE DOOR. COST IS $20 AT THE DOOR. Admission Prices Admission gives you access to everything at the event, including vendor rooms, celebrities, movie room and the panels and seminars. Because [...]
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Mark Twain invented the time travel story. Six years later H.G. Wells perfected it and revealed its paradoxes. Between them they left little for latecomers to do. Many have tried, successfully, thanks to the diverse theories and hypotheses of the consequences of time travel. Through a variation on a theme, every science fiction writer has [...]
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Seminars, panels and presentations preserve and encourage our pop culture heritage. Most of these events are slide show presentations and we encourage you to sit in on a few of these and learn something new… about something old. WEDNESDAY 8:00 p.m. MINI VINTAGE DOCUMENTARIES From actual racing footage of Seabiscuit vs. Man of [...]
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Every year the staff of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention has been responsible for making someone’s life a little happier and the annual charity auction is a superb way for attendees to express their generosity. In past years, Hollywood legends such as Fess Parker, Casey Kasem, Elizabeth Taylor, June Foray, Alan Young and many others have [...]
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One of the highlights of the convention is the buffet dinner banquet. So popular is the dinner that every year we are forced to turn people down for tickets. Equal parts culinary magic, attentive service and artful presentation, the Hunt Valley Marriott makes history and memories for everyone who attends the banquet. The ingredients include [...]
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Donald Ramlow has been involved with cultural arts since he was a young man, influenced in no little part by his grandparents, Donald Barringer, a musician ( who traveled throughout the US and Canada as “Don Barringer and his Wolverines) and his grandmother Helen (Mundy) Barringer who was briefly a silent film actress. Helen Mundy [...]
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Historians with vast collections of original, one-of-a-kind items have always debated about the benefits of donating archival materials to University Libraries that do not honor verbal requests regarding patron availability. Now another incident makes us wonder why the courts do not make an exception when a really nice guy, Marty Appel, loses some of his [...]
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