Beauty Marks the Spot: This Cougar is Dahled Up!
If you’ve heard of Arlene Dahl, you know she was a beautiful 1950s movie star primarily famous for her red hair and her beauty mark. (Her first fan letter arrived with no name, just a drawing of a pair...
View ArticleMy Interview With Penny Marshall: In a League of Her Own
Though most famous (to me, anyway) as the Pepsi-and-milk-swigging half of Laverne & Shirley, Penny Marshall’s new memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, reveals her real life was as crazy as anything that...
View ArticleMarie Prevost – The Movie Star Eaten By Her Dog (Or Was She?)
“She was a winner, Who became a doggie’s dinner…” — Nick Lowe Would a dog loving movie star leave her pooch to starve? Memorialized in Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon and in the eponymous pop song,...
View ArticleLibeled Lady Be Good
Imagine a movie opening that starred Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, all in their prime. Now imagine Tom Cruise and Sandra were dating and talking marriage. How huge would that...
View ArticleYou Don’t Get Called the “Oomph Girl” For Nothing
Hollywood sex symbol Ann Sheridan Lots of classic Hollywood stars are cast as the tough but tender wise-cracking dame, but perhaps none embody the archetype as well as Ann Sheridan – the infamous...
View ArticleChristmas Classic Movies You May Not Know (But Should!)
Two of my all-time favorite things in the world are old movies and Christmas. So when the two intersect, my heart squeals and jumps up and gives my brain a great big kiss! It’s time to stop watching...
View ArticleThe Scandalous Suicide of Hollywood’s Carole Landis
Carole Landis is known primarily as the bosomy blonde movie star who offed herself over Rex Harrison. Of all the schmucks who’ve driven ladies to leap, the idea of killing yourself over a tool like...
View ArticleMary Astor and Her Dirty Diary
I learned about blow jobs from Charlie Chaplin. (Yes, that Charlie Chaplin.) I was about 12 and with my babysitting earnings I bought the book Hollywood Babylon. As a passionate old movie fan, and an...
View ArticleAnn Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel (The Most Interesting Star You’ve...
What would you do if you had to choose between becoming a famous movie star or traveling the world with the love of your life? When she was just 20 years old, Ann Dvorak made just that choice, and it...
View ArticleI Was Totally Wrong About Teresa Wright!
I always thought Teresa Wright was talented and sweet, but kind of an ineffectual limp noodle. She plays the good girl well, and I guess that was my problem. Sure, her screen characters had pluck, but...
View ArticleLeslie Combemale is One Animated Cinema Siren!
Leslie at a Harry Potter Convention Imagine that you grew up loving movies and art—and the artists who made them; And as an adult you wanted to hang out with all the cool people who made moves and art...
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