One of the world's greatest and most beloved living stars, Dame Julie Andrews, turns 82 today. (more…)
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Happy 82nd Birthday, Julie Andrews
Anne Jeffreys of ‘Kiss Me Kate,’ ‘Topper’ Dies @ 94
Anne Jeffreys, the regal beauty who got her start in B movies for Republic and RKO, starred on Broadway and appeared on General Hospital for 20 years has died. She was 94. Jeffreys' death was confirmed in a tweet by KABC's George Pennacchio. (more…)
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Shelley Berman, Stand-Up Comic & ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ MVP, Dies @ 92
Via The Guardian: Shelley Berman, the stand-up comic known for his biting take on modern living from the '50s on — and a staple of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002-2009) — died at age 92 from complications of Alzheimer's disease on September 1. (more…)
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Joan Collins Returns To Movies — Plus, 7 Other Joan Gems!
Joan Collins (b. 1933) is best-known as Dynasty's Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan, but she's been in some movies over the years that are well worth checking out. (more…)
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Wedding Well-Wishes from Old Hollywood
On September 2, 2005, writer and Old Hollywood fan extraordinaire Austin Mutti-Mewse and his love Joanna exchanged vows. (more…)
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Blowing Up Her Image: A Review of ‘Bombshell’
If you're old enough to know who Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was, her name probably conjures a handful of things: Great beauty, skinny-dipping, many husbands, Harvey Korman's Hedley Lamarr character in Blazing Saddles (1974), a shoplifting scandal. (more…)
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5 Actors You Never Knew Were … or Are … LGBT
For your OMGing pleasure, a roundup of actors you might not realize were gay. They may not have been out publicly due to the times in which they lives and the restrictions that guided their ability to have careers, but ever since reading The Gay Book of Days as a teen, I've always found it…
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Noir Paintings: Stick ’em Up … on Your Wall
If you're a fan of '40s and '50s noir movies and their femmes fatales, check out the paintings of Jane Ianniello, whose NoirscapesArt is represented by a store on Etsy. (more…)
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The Birds: Hitchcock’s Living Leading Ladies
When Joan Fontaine died at the ripe old age of 96, I was thinking she must surely have been the earliest of Alfred Hitchcock's leading ladies still living. Nope! She had been the oldest, but there was — at the time — one leading lady working with Hitchcock a decade before Joan, and she was…
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Jerry Lewis, King of Comedy, Dies @ 91
Hey, l-a-a-a-a-dy! Jerry Lewis, who rose to fame as part of the comedy team Martin & Lewis in the '50s, became a slapstick solo star in the '60s and went on to become a film auteur, has died at 91. (more…)
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