Everyone’s favorite wise-ass began his career as a weekend weathercaster at an Indianapolis TV station; he eventually lost his job after several on-air stunts (including congratulating...
Born to a fish-porter father and a charwoman mother in South London, Michael Micklewhite emerged from dismal poverty to hit it big, in 1966, as a...
In an age of great screen ladies at MGM Jean Harlow enjoyed the joke of playing a tarty society slattern, too lazy to bother with underwear beneath...
The nephew of director Carol Reed, Oliver Reed left school at 17 and hustled as a strip-club bouncer and fairground boxer before joining the Royal Army...
Franchot Tone was the son of a wealthy industrialist, sophisticated, charming and handsome. He was first bitten by the acting bug while attending Cornell University, and...
A tall, handsome romantic lead, Robert Taylor appeared in dozens of costume and action pictures during his 25 years at MGM. He originally studied music and...
Pocketful Of Miracles (1961) was the fmal film of Frank Capra, the legendary veteran director of Hollywood comedy, and Ann-Margret’s first. The pretty 20 year-old played...
Perhaps the secret of W.C. Fields’ indestructible fascination is that his comedy was so close to tragedy. He is the only comedian whose stock-in-trade is a...
If ever there were a reflowering of a career, it was Don Ameche’s. Unlike many of his contemporaries at 20th Century-Fox – Alice Faye, Tyrone Power,...
Born Lucille Fay Le Sueur, Joan Crawford studied dancing from an early age, and eventually found herself dancing in a smalltime Broadway review. While in New York,...