Vienna-Born Hedy Lamarr began her acting career at the age of sixteen under the auspices of German impresario Max Reinhardt, and appeared in mediocre German cinematic...
Incontestably the king of silent screen comedies, Charlie Chaplin achieved international stardom with his utterly captivating portrayal of “The Little Tramp” in such classic films as...
Singing, dancing, and acting legend Sammy Davis, Jr., got his start in the business early–at age two, he was already hamming it up in his parents’...
Ah, the vagaries of typecasting. Following the 1971 release of Stanley Kubrick’s pioneering adaptation of novelist Anthony Burgess’ dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange, actor Malcolm McDowell...
Ever the nonchalant celebrity, Dean Martin first gained fame with his partnership with all-screws-loose comedian Jerry Lewis in the forties and fifties. The son of Italian...
Doubtless the most loved TV comedienne of all time, Lucille Ball became an American icon with her characterization of the scatterbrained sitcom wife, Lucy Ricardo, on...
Bette Davis once said, “Until you’re known in my profession as a monster, you’re not a star.” Whether her theory holds water or not, Davis was...
Sharon Tate is one of those people who are sadly more famous for having died than having lived. As one of the victims of the Manson...
Dolores Del Rio was a second cousin to silent film star Ramon Novarro, a relationship that provided her entrée into an endless stream of Hollywood parties....
Everything about Mae West was disproportionately and wondrously overblown–something of a comic-strip blonde sprung gloriously to life, her buxom form, brash-to-vulgar wit, assertive sexuality, and comedic...