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Lately we’ve been bringing you pictures of major celebrities from the past who have been photographed with unlikely companions. Today we’re really going to surprise you, we think. One would never think these people had anything in common (except celebrity). Perhaps it was just a case of an a clever photographer getting them to pose […]
Who, you ask? A perfectly sensible question. We’ll explain immediately. We’ve recently heard that The Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, are planning a movie titled Hail Caesar based largely on the careers of two legendary movie executives — Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling — of huge importance to the inner workings of MGM studios. Supposedly lined up […]
Yes, she was the most talked about star of the 1920s. Yes, her scandalous private life was the stuff of legends. And yes, she was a tragic figure. But how much did you really know about her? Well, let’s see how you did with our Monday Quiz devoted to Clara Bow. She certainly “epitomized […]
She was the first, the one and only. But what else do you know about Clara Bow? After hardscrabble beginnings in Brooklyn just five years after the dawning of the 20th Century, Clara took a familiar route to silent-movie era Hollywood — by winning a talent-beauty contest. She was just 17 when she made first […]
Way back in April of 2012, we wrote about one of the most beautiful actresses to ever grace the silver screen — Vivien Leigh. That blog received a lot of attention, and in July of that year we printed a comment from reader Carole Heath in response to another reader, Kim Wilson. Now, two years later, […]
Remember that old saw? Many performers were introduced that way and only a very few of them really qualified. But actor James Garner, who died July 19 at age 86, could legitimately be called a STAR of television and the big screen. For much of his active career, he juggled successes in both at the […]
Although today he is primarily remembered for his stage and screen portrayals of Harold Hill in The Music Man, and Toddy in Victor/Victoria, Robert Preston had a long and varied career in film. He started at Paramount in the late 1930s and co-starred in many top rated pictures such as Beau Geste, Reap the Wild […]
So, ok, how much did you know about Gloria Swanson? Yesterday’s Monday Quiz was devoted to this great star best remembered for her astounding screen comeback as Norma Desmond in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard. As mentioned, she was also a pioneer in the movie business, a woman who formed her own production company to spawn perhaps […]
Thanks to her unforgettable performance as Norma Desmond in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, the former Gloria May Josephine Svenson (the Swanson came later) is most often recalled as one of classic Hollywood’s greatest comeback queens. Gloria Swanson, faded silent movie star, returns triumphantly as a — faded silent movie star. But that narrow interpretation by no means […]
Our June 25 blog — When You’re a Star, You’re a Star — displayed a wonderful photograph of the 20th century’s two most famous Italian-Americans, and we asked you to identify each and tell something about where they were when photographed and why. Faithful reader Patricia Nolan-Hall surmised correctly that the pair photographed was Joltin’ Joe […]