Gary Vinson began showing up in guest roles on popular TV series in the late 1950s. He appeared in comedies like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, dramas like Perry Mason and Westerns, like Gunsmoke and Bat Masterson. In 1960, he was cast as a regular in the short-lived drama The Roaring 20s with Dorothy …
At 19, Lillian Hall-Davis entered the world of acting. Hoping to convey a sophisticated upbringing and high social status, she listed her place of birth as the fashionable Hampstead section of London. In reality, she hailed from the working-class neighborhood of Mile End, where she led a far-from-glamourous life as the daughter of a cab driver. …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “identical”. “Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever… and ever… and ever.”
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “tall”. Daniel Boone was a man, Yes, a big man! With an eye like an eagle And as tall as a mountain was he! Of course, the portrayal of Daniel Boone on the NBC television show that ran from 1964 until 1970 was very inaccurate. It was just actor Fess Parker …
I love television. But, my relationship with television has changed over the years. My formative years with television were the late 60s and early 70s. In the pre-cable days of television, I watched weekly series with diligent regularity – both comedies and dramas. On local UHF* stations, I revisited some of the classic shows from …
While she attended Textile High School in New York, Maggie McNamara worked as a teen model, becoming one of the most successful models at the John Robert Powers’ modeling agency. At 23, she made her acting debut, replacing Barbara Bel Geddes in a stage production of The Moon is Blue. Later the same year, she debuted on …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “lonely”. In 1939, Judy Garland won a Juvenile Academy Award (the category no longer exists). She went on to receive two Academy Award nominations. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. She had a 40-year career in movies and television. The American Film Institute placed her among the …
This week’s Illustration Friday‘s challenge word is “carry”. Hawkeye Pierce, Chief of Surgery at the 4077 M*A*S*H, offers his view on gun control. “I’ll carry your books, I’ll carry a torch, I’ll carry a tune, I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even hari-kari if …
After her five-year contract expired, silent film sex symbol Theda Bara retired from the silver screen. Fox Studios scrambled for a suitable replacement. Stage actress Betty Blythe fit the bill. Betty was recruited to appear in a series of costume productions originally tagged for Bara, including the famously risqué The Queen of Sheba in 1921. …
Brian Keith had show business in his blood. The son of stage actor Robert Keith and actress Helena Shipman, young Brian made his motion picture debut in the 1924 silent film Pied Piper Malone at the age of 3. After his parents’ divorce, Brian’s father briefly married actress Peg Entwistle, whose claim to fame was …
