Meredith MacRae was born with show business in her blood. She was the eldest daughter of actor-singer Gordon MacRae, the star of movie musicals Oklahoma and Carousel and his wife, actress Sheila MacRae, best remembered as succeeding Audrey Meadows in the role of “Alice Kramden” in The Honeymooners, as performed in sketches on Jackie Gleason’s …
In an effort to save a little time, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future decided to just beat the Christmas spirit into Ebenezer Scrooge. * * * * * My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time. 27 unusual holiday songs and a custom full-color cover …
Trying to stay modern and relevant, Santa reviews some new patterns for his suit. The word “pattern” was suggested by Illustration Friday in September 2009. I did two illustrations then… here and here. * * * * * My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time. 27 unusual …
My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time. 27 unusual holiday songs and a custom full-color cover with track listings – all for you and all for FREE! (That’s three more songs than last year and it runs a full three minutes longer!) Just CLICK HERE for A …
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in Santiago, Cuba to the city’s youngest mayor. After the 1933 Cuban Revolution led by Fulgencio Batista, Desi’s grandfather, a wealthy executive with the Bacardi Rum Company, was jailed and his assets confiscated. He was released six months later and the Arnaz family fled to Miami. …
“Are there any requests?” “Yes, how about ‘the refrain from singing’?” Florence Foster took music lessons and expressed an interest in singing opera. Her father refused to subsidize his daughter’s dream, so she ran off at the age of 22 and eloped with physician Frank Thornton Jenkins. The marriage lasted seven years, ending in divorce in …
As far as Dr. Carl Tanzler was concerned, Elena Hoyos stepped out of a dream… and he never wanted that dream to end. Ever. In 1930, Elena Hoyos was brought into Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida by her mother. Dr. Tanzler was immediately struck by her beauty – her dark hair, her dark eyes. …
Born to a Secret Service officer who had protected President Woodrow Wilson, Whitney Blake attended sixteen different schools as she traveled the country with her family. An appearance in an amateur stage production led to a role in the 1957 film My Gun is Quick, a big-screen version on Mickey Spillane’s gritty Mike Hammer mystery. …
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain
Olive Borden (a distant relative of Lizzie Borden) knew she could make it. As a teenager, she persuaded her mother to move from their native Richmond, Virginia to Hollywood, where she knew she could be a star. The family made ends meet by running a candy store until Olive’s star took off. And soon it …
