Category Archives: ’40s

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.…

Robert Clary, Last ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ Star, Dies @ 96

Robert Clary, who played impish foodie Corporal LeBeau on the sitcom Hogan's Heroes – and who had been the legendary show's final living main cast member — has died at 96. The dream team (L-R): Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Cynthia Lynn, Bob Crane, Larry Hovis, Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon & Richard Dawson (Image via CBS)…

Anna May Wong Gets Her Due, Kevin Spacey Gets Off, Horror TV Celebrated & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: A long time coming (GIF via GIPHY) CNN: Anna May Wong, the silent film star who was the first Asian celebrity in the U.S., will become the first Asian face on American currency. EBAY: The coolest Debbie Harry promotional item of all time. When Debbie and H.R. Giger…

Angela Lansbury, Versatile Old Hollywood Star Iconic on Stage and Screen, Dies @ 96

When news broke of Angela Lansbury's death on October 11, 2022, Harvey Fierstein tweeted, "She, my darlings, was EVERYTHING!" Her film career lasted from 1944-2022, but will she always be Jessica? (Image via CBS) It would be hard to think of a better, more succinct way of summarizing the career of a woman who made indelible…

Category Archives: ’40s

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

Robert Clary, Last ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ Star, Dies @ 96

Anna May Wong Gets Her Due, Kevin Spacey Gets Off, Horror TV Celebrated & More

Angela Lansbury, Versatile Old Hollywood Star Iconic on Stage and Screen, Dies @ 96

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