After touring with a comedy act Marty Feldman joined radio’s comedy show Educating Archie. He formed a successful comedy writing team with Barry Took, eventually moving...
From a working-class New York background, Alice Faye showed an early aptitude for dancing and took it up professionally in cabaret and vaudeville. She danced in...
Though he only played the part for two years, 6’5″ Fred Gwynne will always be remembered as Herman Munster. Gwynne was born on July 10, 1926...
During his life David Farrar managed to work his way to the top of two professions journalism and acting. Several successful West End shows gained him...
Born in 1929 in Sydney, Australia, Rod Taylor became a major Hollywood star during the 1950’s and 1960’s. After studying painting at college, Taylor initially pursued...
Born in Baku, Russia in 1899 and educated at Moscow University and the Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, Akim Tamiroff went on tour with the...
Carmen Miranda already had a successful nightclub act in Brazil when Hollywood ‘discovered’ her. A flamboyant performer, she dazzled audiences until changing public tastes and her...
JERRY LEWIS was the first entertainer to release his Inner Child–and he’s never been entirely successful at locking it up again. His hyperactive, goofy little-boy routine...
George C. Scott spent four years in the Marines, but didn’t want to make a career out of it. Wanted to be a journalist, but had...
Born in Miami in 1924 and raised on a tomato farm in the Bahamas, Sidney Poitier wasn’t the first person of color to be in movies,...