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Let’s look at her career, pre and post Gone With the Wind. How much do you really know about the two time Oscar winner. After her sensational turn as Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s Gone With The Wind, Vivien Leigh was perhaps the world’s most famous movie actress. After her 1940 marriage to Laurence Olivier, she […]
His long career in musicals, comedies and dramas, his success on stage, his Oscar win, and yet today few people under 30 have ever heard of Don Ameche. Who was this man? One of the leading actors of the 1930s and 1940s who never stopped working in films, on radio, television and on the Broadway […]
He was a big band singer, a movie star, a star on radio, a nightclub performer and a recording artist. He was one of the few crooners to have a sustained Hollywood screen career. He was in no way as imposing as Bing Crosby, but he was reasonably close during his Hollywood prime from the […]
There she is with best pal, Lana Turner. She had quite a career in B movies and as Clark Gable’s on again off again lover. In fact, Grey was a child actor but never a star. Her father Ray Grey was a director in the silent era. Legend has it that Gloria Swanson was one […]
There’s our man above with a familiar costar. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn made four pictures together including one of the most infamous box office bombs of the 1930’s. Sylvia Scarlett is director George Cukor’s idea of a light comedy based on a novel about a girl disguised as a boy to help her errant […]
We suspect that you are reasonably confident that you pretty much know already everything important that there is to know Cary Grant. That’s why for today’s Cary Grant Quiz, we are tightening the screws a little bit. Our questions this time are inspired by a most pleasurable reading of author Scott Eyman’s recently published biography […]
Most often associated with Orson Welles, Everett Sloane had a distinct career with and without the boy genius. We put his name among the very finest supporting actors ever produced in classic Hollywood. In addition to his distinguished work with Welles — notably his film debut as the down-to-earth Mr. Bernstein, manager of Charles Foster […]
Once upon a time in Hollywood the notion that foreign actresses with a certain Mata Hari charm would offer multiple pleasures to domestic film audiences gained currency. The result: the rare imported actress made the cut did but most didn’t. German actress Hildegard Knef gave it a good try. But no cigar. She starred in […]
Perhaps because he made movies in Europe — most notably in Federico Fellini’s seminal La Strada (The Road) in 1954 — some of us thought Richard Basehart was actually born in England. The truth is more prosaic. The actor was born in 1914 in the wholesome locale of Zanesville, Ohio. (He died of multiple strokes […]
How much did you know about the Oscar winner? And do you recognize her with Bogart? Ok, on the answers to our Dorothy Malone Quiz. 1) Question: What do Dorothy Malone and Ginger Rogers have in common? a) They shared (at different times) a darkly handsome, actor-playboy French husband; b) They shared troubled early childhoods; […]