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Christina Dearest, The Marcia Chronicles, ‘Addams’ Casting News & More

Christina Dearest, The Marcia Chronicles, ‘Addams’ Casting News & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Christina gets schooled. (Image via eBay) EBAY: Here's a humdinger of a letter from 1952 — Joan Crawford writing a not-too-subtly bitchy note to her daughter Christina, chastising her for not writing more. Christina would have been 12 when she received it. VULTURE: Queen's Brian May speaks out…
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Jane Withers, ’30s Child Star & Josephine the Plumber, Dies @ 95

Jane Withers, ’30s Child Star & Josephine the Plumber, Dies @ 95
Jane Withers, an actress known as a foil for Shirley Temple as a child actress, as a star of the movie classic Giant, and as larger-than-life Josephine the Plumber on a long-running series of TV spots, has died at 95. At the peak of her fame (Image via 20th Century Fox) Withers died Saturday evening,…
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Another Judy Garland/Dorothy Gale Dress Discovered!

Another Judy Garland/Dorothy Gale Dress Discovered!
While there is no indication as to how she came to own it, the late actress Mercedes McCambridge gifted a gingham dress worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz to Catholic University in 1973. Check yourself! (Images via MGM) Then, they lost it. But now, it has found its way…
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Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned 9 Decades, Dies @ 106

Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned 9 Decades, Dies @ 106
Norman Lloyd, considered one of the world's oldest living actors, died Tuesday at his L.A. home at the incredible age of 106. Lloyd in Saboteur (Image via Universal) His death, reported by THR, was confirmed by his son, Michael. Born on November 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, Lloyd grew up in Brooklyn, although he…
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