Tag: actor

May 25, 2015 /

Babies, that’s Pop, sometime in the late 1940s early 1950s. You know, I’ve mentioned him and my uncle a couple of times on the weblog: Once upon a time (when I was oh so much younger) I cracked wise to my pop – something about Hollywood being a cesspool, or…

May 25, 2015 /
April 9, 2015 /
February 18, 2015 /

Readers inquired about the scaled down ceremony, I thought I’d supply the visual, and yes – these statuettes were plaster: From left to right, Van Heflin, Greer Garson, James Cagney, and Theresa Wright.

February 16, 2015 /

This week a series of posts about the Academy Awards, but I thought we’d start at the inception, the organizing banquet at the Biltmore on May 11th, 1927.

January 24, 2015 /

At the age of 49 in 1950 Jean Arthur starred on Broadway in the role of Peter Pan with Boris Karloff playing Captain Hook. In later life Miss Arthur taught at Vassar, one of her students was Meryl Streep. “I guess I became an actress because I didn’t want to…

January 24, 2015 /

She played Peter Pan on Broadway in 1928… As head of the Civic Repertory Theatre, she is known to have rejected the admission of Bette Davis, whose attitude she described as “insincere” and “frivolous”. via Eva Le Gallienne – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

November 17, 2014 /

Mr. Un-Modern Fred MacMurray LOST L.A. Modesty, simplicity and constancy were the themes in the actor’s traditional Brentwood home. October 01, 2011 Sam Watters . Fred MacMurray was a 26-year-old, square-jawed guy from Beaver Dam, Wis., when he became a Hollywood star, signing a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1934.…