Category Archives: ’50s

Connie Sawyer, World’s Oldest Living Working Actor, Dies @ 105

Connie Sawyer, a veteran of vaudeville who was a pioneering female stand-up comedian (billed as a "girl comic") before settling into a relatively late-blooming career as a TV and film actress, died Sunday at 105. (more…)

In honor of January 30's State of the Union, today being Patricia Neal's birth anniversary and today being the one-year anniversary of Trump's swearing-in ... this post written by Rick of Rick's Real/Reel Life: (more…)

Dorothy Malone, Oscar Winner & ‘Peyton Place’ Star, Dies @ 93

Dorothy Malone, famous as Constance MacKenzie on the TV adaptation of Peyton Place (1964-1968), has died in Dallas of natural causes, Variety reports. She was 93. (Update: Originally thought to be 92, her daughter confirmed her mother was 93, the opposite of a Peyton Place plot point.) (more…)

Any discussion of Hollywood's handsomest men would be incomplete without Guy Madison. (more…)

Bradford Dillman Dies @ 87: The Way He Was

Handsome actor Bradford Dillman, best known as J.J. in The Way We Were (1973) has died, THR reports. He passed away January 16 in Santa Barbara after suffering from pneumonia. (more…)

Today, one of the most popular celebrities alive (who would be more universally liked?), Betty White, turns 96. (more…)

Via Deadline: Veteran actor Donnelly Rhodes, whose career stretched back to early TV and encompassed over 160 movies and series, has died. He had just turned 80 last month. (more…)

Rick Gets Real on ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’

Just in time for award season, check out this take on The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), starring Lana Turner (1921-1995) and Kirk Douglas (b. 1916), directed by Vincente Minnelli (1903-1986). Guest post by Rick of Rick's Real/Reel Life: (more…)

Today would have been the 92nd birthday of Kerwin Mathews, best known as a fantasy hero for his lead roles in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) and Jack the Giant Killer (1962). (more…)

‘Gun Crazy’ Femme Fatale Peggy Cummins Dies @ 92

Via THR: Peggy Cummins, an ice cream blonde who packed heat in the classic noir film Gun Crazy (1950), died December 29 following a major stroke suffered shortly before her 92nd birthday on December 18. (more…)

Category Archives: ’50s

Connie Sawyer, World’s Oldest Living Working Actor, Dies @ 105

‘A (Very Familiar) Face in the Crowd’

Dorothy Malone, Oscar Winner & ‘Peyton Place’ Star, Dies @ 93

Guy Madison: Hollywood Heartthrob

Bradford Dillman Dies @ 87: The Way He Was

Betty White Turns 96!

‘Soap’ Star Donnelly Rhodes Dies @ 80

Rick Gets Real on ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’

Kerwin Mathews, Cinema’s Sexy Sinbad

‘Gun Crazy’ Femme Fatale Peggy Cummins Dies @ 92

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