Category Archives: ’50s

‘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…

Diane McBain, ‘Batman,’ ‘Claudelle Inglish’ Actress & Elvis Co-Star, Dies @ 81

Diane McBain, a blonde beauty who enjoyed popularity mainly on TV in the '60s, died Wednesday, December 21, at 81. The cause was liver cancer. McBain in Mary, Mary (Image via Warner Bros.) McBain was born May 18, 1941, in Cleveland, Ohio, but her family quickly relocated to Glendale, California, putting her in Hollywood's orbit.…

Shelley Duvall Returns to Acting, Carpenters Christmas Glory & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: "You're a fuckin' murderer!" (Image via video still) PEOPLE: Shelley Duvall has returned to acting after 20 years. L.A. TIMES: Sharon Gless, 79, is back on the PR trail for her memoir Apparently There Were Complaints. My 2019 Q&A with Sharon Gless — HERE CLOSER WEEKLY: Tina Turner,…

Nancy Olson’s Ready for Her Close-Up, Kennedy Center Honorees, Remembering Leslie Jordan & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Between now and July, Nancy will become twice the age Gloria Swanson was when she shot Sunset Boulevard! (Image via Dr. Ward Bond) YOUTUBE: Fabulous, hour-long chat with Nancy Olson Livingston, Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (1950) whose new memoir is being published at the age of 94.…

Mylène Demongeot, French Movie Legend, Dies @ 87

The very year she appeared in one of the most successful films of her career — Retirement Home — French movie star Mylène Demongeot has died at 87. As Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (Image via Pathé) Demongeot died of primary peritoneal cancer on Thursday, December 1, in a Paris hospital. Born September…

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)…

Category Archives: ’50s

‘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’

Diane McBain, ‘Batman,’ ‘Claudelle Inglish’ Actress & Elvis Co-Star, Dies @ 81

Shelley Duvall Returns to Acting, Carpenters Christmas Glory & More

Nancy Olson’s Ready for Her Close-Up, Kennedy Center Honorees, Remembering Leslie Jordan & More

Mylène Demongeot, French Movie Legend, Dies @ 87

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

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