Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is thought to have been born between August and October 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Little is known about his youth, although it is thought that he had a brother, Bartolomeo who may have worked in a cartography workshop in Lisbon. He did claim that he began his life at sea at the age [...]
It Looked Like She was Nude
“Sally Rand” was born as Harriet Helen Gould Beck in Elkton, Missouri on Easter Sunday, the 3rd of April, 1904. She was the daughter of Nettie Grove, a Pennsylvania Dutch Quaker, and Corporal William Beck, a veteran of the Spanish-American War. She left home at the age of thirteen to work as a cigarette girl [...]
An American Troubadour – Woody Guthrie
When doing a google search on the term ‘An American Troubadour’ names such as Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and even Don McLean show up on the first page. Woody Guthrie, one of the first and perhaps also one of the best of the American Troubadours, was born in Okemah, Oklahoma on July 14, 1912. He [...]
Uncle Miltie
He was the first Superstar of Television and in the late 40s/Early 50s he was the one of the most watched, with people scheduling their evening around his show. Uncle Miltie was Milton Berle and June 12 is the anniversary of his birth. He was born Mendel Berlinger in New York in 1908. He spend [...]
Red Sox Pitcher – George Herman (Babe) Ruth
It was on July 11, 1914 that the 19 year old left handed pitcher George Herman Ruth made he first appearance for the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox played the Cleveland Indians defeating them 4-3. In 1914 Babe Ruth would appear in 4 games starting 3 of them. He pitched 23 innings, with a [...]
Mickey Carroll
2009 was the 70th anniversary of the film The Wizard of Oz. Very few involved with the film are still alive and on May 7, 2009 we lost one the Munchkins. Mickey Carroll played the part of the Town Crier, marched as a Munchkin Soldier and was the candy-striped Fiddler who escorted Dorothy Gale down [...]
Mary Surratt – The Woman, The Town, The Conspiracy
On July 7, 1865, four persons who had been tried and convicted in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were lead to the gallows to be hung. At a little before 2 PM the trap door was tripped and the four fell to their death. Those hung that afternoon were Lewis T. Powell, George [...]
She Wrote About Vainness
Carly Elisabeth Simon was born June 25, 1945. She has had a long career as a singer song- writer. Her first recording was with her sister Lucy, as the Simon Sisters and they had a minor hit with the song Winkin’, Blinkin’ and Nod in 1964. In all they recorded 3 albums together. In 1971 [...]
A Dancer is Born
Robert Louis Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago. He was the youngest of six children. Fosse moved to Hollywood with the ambition of being a dancer in movie musicals. In 1953 he found himself choreographing a sequence in Kiss Me Kate. Because of premature balding he was limited in the roles he [...]
A Keystone Girl
One of the many silent film stars who appeared in films made by Mack Sennett and Keystone Pictures was Louise Fazenda. Fazenda was born in Lafayette Indiana on June 17, 1895 to a merchant broker named Joseph Fazenda. He moved his family to Los Angeles when she was a young girl. Louise Fazenda got her [...]
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