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How much did you know about the long career Lauren Bacall enjoyed without her first husband, Humphrey Bogart? (He was 25 years older than she.) Here she is above with Betty Grable (in the center) and you-know-who on the left in 1953’s comedy, How To Marry A Millionaire. Bogie was still alive then (he died […]
Yes, her career was launched with her films with Humphrey Bogart, and she attained instant stardom at 19. But Lauren Bacall had quite a career after Bogie’s death. What do you know about her later films? And, what do you know about her later loves and her later husband? Keep in mind that the legendary […]
In a word, no. Still in all, he won the Oscar for Best Actor, he had a long and brilliant career. But Jose Ferrer, like Shirley Booth and a handful of other actors who won awards and flourished on Broadway, never achieved real film stardom. Ferrer was born in Puerto Rico in 1912, with this imposing moniker […]
She was one of the biggest stars of the Golden era and we feel we haven’t given her her just due. A singer, a comedienne, a dramatic actress, and of course a legendary dancer. Her career spanned decades. She was born in 1911 in Harry Truman country, won a Charleston contest at age 15, and made […]
No, this is not designed to be yet another discussion about how different a film’s source material is from the film itself. Or how much better the book is. No, it’s just that we decided — just for laughs and our own edification — to see how the movie’s chief characters are described in the […]
How much did you know about the star whose career ended much too early? Jeff Chandler was never anyone’s idea of a powerful acting presence onscreen. The guy was, however, easy to look at and listen to (he had a most ingratiating vocal delivery). And for a star, he was considered a genuinely good guy […]
He was Universal’s big star of the 50s, until Rock Hudson came along. He once declared to Hollywood columnist Sheila Graham: Today, for a man to be a ht on the screen, he has to take his shirt off. The naturally hirsute Jeff Chandler gave the studio make-up depart fits to accomplish the shaven look pictured […]
It was nominated for Best Picture of 1947. (The winner that year was Gentleman’s Agreement.) Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame were nominated for their “best supporting” performances. (Winners were Edmund Gwenn for The Miracle on 34th Street and Celeste Holm for Gentleman’s Agreement.) And director Edward Dmytryk also got a nomination but was bested by […]
Today he’s perhaps best remembered as the father of Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, and actor Beau Bridges, but Father Lloyd Bridges had quite a long and varied career. Here he above (above) in one of his most successful incarnations, as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson in the highly successful tv syndication series, Sea Hunt, which ran […]
Yes, sometimes even with a big studio behind you, come actors never made the Big Time. MGM did their best to promote Frances Gifford. She received solid billing in some A films, but she never “clicked.” By 1943, when she arrived at MGM, Gifford (no relation to football great Frank) had bounced around various studios […]