Claim to Fame: It’s not just that Barbara Streisand is the top-selling female artist in history. Or that she earned an Oscar for her movie debut...
When Dragnet returned to prime time after an eight-year absence, Jack Webb’s hard-boiled cop show had clearly left the ’50s behind. The story we were about...
The lowdown Former crusader-turned-holy man Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) spends his days tending his herbal garden and creating healthy potions. Yet his keen mind and natural...
Claim to Fame: “We were always great in bed,” Ava Gardner smirked about her marriage to Frank Sinatra. “The trouble usually started on the way to...
Original Spin: Beginning with 1963’s The Pink Panther, Peter Sellers played quintessentially klutzy French inspector Jacques Clouseau in a series of six Pink Panther pix. Although...
Claim to Fame: Bardot seized the international spotlight in 1957 with And God Created Woman, a French film directed by first husband Roger Vadim. Although it...
Joan Crawford, who starred with Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, rivaled Davis in temperament. When they were matched again in Hush Hush, Sweet...
True, by today’s standards, June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) is about as bland as Wonder Bread. But just like the sandwiches she lovingly fed Wally (Tony Dow)...
Controversial and flamboyant film-director Ken Russell had a very nautical start to his working life. Russell, who was born in Southampton (on the South coast of...
The Line: “I started at the top and worked my way down.” Who Said It: Director, actor and relentless TV pitchman Orson Welles. The Setup: In...