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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Happy Birthday Miss Gumm
On June 10, 1922, the youngest child of former vaudevillians Frank Gumm and Ethel Milne was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Frances Ethel Gumm, also called Baby, had her first stage performance at the age of two and a half when she appeared with her sisters Mary Jane and Dorothy Virginia singing Jiggle Bells at [...]
Bloody Babs
She may have wanted to live, but on June 3, 1955 Barbara Graham, who was nicknamed “Bloody Babs” by the press, was executed in the California gas chamber. On that same day the accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins were also executed. They had been convicted of the murder of Mabel Monohan. Graham was the [...]
Quotes of Wisdom from Star Wars
It’s amazing how a movie can stick with you. For me that movie was Star Wars. The original one that George Lucas produced over 30 years ago in 1977. The one that didn’t have Star Wars:The X X X and long before it was Star Wars:Episode buh buh. Some people may even live by the [...]
Margaret Hamilton
Nearly everyone’s vision of a wicked old witch comes from the Wicked Witch of the West from the movie Wizard of Oz. The role of the witch was played by Margaret Hamilton who was born on December 9th in 1902. Even though her most famous role has frighten many children since its release in 1939, [...]
Who is Koo Stark
Every movie has scenes that are shot, but never make it to the final product. There are times when fans of the movie knows about the scenes, sometimes they even have seen the original script, and may even have a clear picture in their mind on what the scene and the characters look like. The [...]
Goldwyn Pictures
It was in 1916 that Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn formed Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. The name came from a combination their names using Gold from Goldfish and Wyn from Selwyn. Shortly afterward Samuel Goldfish seeing an opportunity had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn. Nearly a year later [...]
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