Category Archives: ’40s

Walter Mirisch, Oldest-Surviving Oscar Winner, Past Academy President, Dies @ 101

February 25, 2023 Mirisch became a beloved and outspoken authority on the art and business of film. (Image via video still) Walter Mirisch, who was the only person ever to win the Irving G. Thalberg Award, an Oscar for Best Picture and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award — and who had been the oldest-surviving Oscar…

Networking: TV Shows of the ’40s & ’50s with Surviving Regular & Recurring Cast

I've been fascinated by which classic TV series still have surviving cast members and for how long, mostly spurred on by the fact that so many actors have departed of late. One of TV's earliest surviving titular leads — Jerry Mathers! (Image via CBS) I mean ... the entire main cast of Laverne & Shirley…

Rick Astley on Giving Up, Oral History of Hollywood, RIP Tom Verlaine & More

January 29, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today ... There's more to Rick than Rick-rolling. (GIF via GIPHY) RETROPOP: Rick Astley was a pop "It" boy from 1987-1993. Now 56, he's opening up about why he stepped away from recording. I'm more than ready for this! (Image via Harper) AMAZON: An 800-page book…

Gina Lollobrigida, ’50s Bombshell, Photojournalist, Tabloid Sensation, Dies @ 95

"She makes Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple." When Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) says that about you, you're an icon. "I didn't do daring pictures — never. You can't find it." (Image via movie still) Gina Lollobrigida, the siren in question, died Monday, January 16, 2023, at an Italian clinic, The New York Times confirms. She…

Dolly Parton Salutes Leslie Jordan, Ex-Child Stars Remember Adam Rich & More

January 8, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Dolly sang a bit of a song she recorded with Leslie. (Image via video still) EW.COM: Dolly Parton joined Call Me Kat to pay homage to the late, great Leslie Jordan. NYT: So long to veteran newsman Bernard Kalb, who has signed off at the…

‘Babylon’s’ 1920s Hollywood Flashback, 100-Year-Old WWII Photographer on War, Bob Saget’s Widow Remembers & More

December 26, 2022 Links to the past, with relevance today: "It" girls Clara Bow & Margot Robbie (Images via vintage still & Paramount) VARIETY: Was '20s Hollywood really as debauched as it is portrayed in Babylon? (YUP.) THR: Oh, man, remember Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)?! DO YOU REMEMBER?: Demi Moore is about to be…

It's always so hard to narrow this down to just 20 famous faces we will no longer have with us ... which celeb deaths had the greatest impact on you? https://youtu.be/QzsEU7ioITA

‘Variety’ Picks Top 100 Films Ever — Headed Up by ‘Psycho’

The truth hurts. (GIF via GIPHY) Variety, a publication that brags it is as old as the movies, has cooked up a list of the Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time. They report, "[I]n making this list, we wanted to reflect the beautiful, head-spinning variety of the moviegoing experience. We don’t just mean different…

Yes, we're talkin' to him! (Image via Columbia) Check out this list of 80 famous names who will turn 80 in 2023: Doris Kearns Goodwin — presidential historian (b. January 4, 1943) Richard Moll — Bull on Night Court (b. January 13, 1943) Bosom buddy (Image by Matthew Rettenmund) Holland Taylor — Two and a Half Men star, Sarah Paulson’s…

Mickey Kuhn Dies @ 90; Had Been Last Credited ‘Gone with the Wind’ Cast Member

Mickey Kuhn, the final surviving credited cast member from the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind, died November 20 in hospice in Florida. Kuhn in his big GWTW scene Image via MGM) He was 90. Kuhn was born September 21, 1932, in Waukegan, Illinois, but was moved to L.A. by his family within a year.…

Category Archives: ’40s

Walter Mirisch, Oldest-Surviving Oscar Winner, Past Academy President, Dies @ 101

Networking: TV Shows of the ’40s & ’50s with Surviving Regular & Recurring Cast

Rick Astley on Giving Up, Oral History of Hollywood, RIP Tom Verlaine & More

Gina Lollobrigida, ’50s Bombshell, Photojournalist, Tabloid Sensation, Dies @ 95

Dolly Parton Salutes Leslie Jordan, Ex-Child Stars Remember Adam Rich & More

‘Babylon’s’ 1920s Hollywood Flashback, 100-Year-Old WWII Photographer on War, Bob Saget’s Widow Remembers & More

20 Celebrities We Lost in 2022

‘Variety’ Picks Top 100 Films Ever — Headed Up by ‘Psycho’

80 Stars Turning 80 in 2023

Mickey Kuhn Dies @ 90; Had Been Last Credited ‘Gone with the Wind’ Cast Member

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