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Janet Leigh
Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress and author. She is best remembered for her performance in Psycho (1960), for...
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Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961) an American film actor and singer in the 1950s, best remembered for playing Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), and for being one of Universal...
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Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975), an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937. She secured a film contract, and played...
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Victor Mature
Early Life Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, was an Italian-speaking immigrant. His mother, Clara P. (Ackley), was...
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Betty Grable
Betty Grable (born Elizabeth Ruth Grable; December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, dancer, and singer and popular contract star for 20th Century-Fox during the 1940s and 1950s. Grable...
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Frank Rosolino – Jazz Trombonist
Frank Rosolino (August 20, 1926 – November 26, 1978) was an American jazz trombonist. Biography Born in Detroit, Michigan, Frank Rosolino studied the guitar with his father from the age of 9. He took...
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Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
A dance clip from Too Hot To Handle http://youtu.be/MsS7B8nyw5Y “I did everything he did, backwards in high heels.” Ginger Rogers
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Anita Ekberg
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931 – 11 January 2015) was a Swedish actress, model, and sex symbol. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita...
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Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The...
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James Cagney
James Cagney (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances,...
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Ben Bryant
Recently, I “met” Ben Bryant over the Internet. How that came about, I don’t recall. Ben and I attended Hollywood High School in the early ’50s. Ben was a year ahead of me and we never met, but likely...
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Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, film director, poet, singer-songwriter, and photographer. He was known for his role as Mr. Spock of the Star Trek...
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Hollywood’s Golden Age
Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative, are terms used in film history which designate both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used...
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Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era with a career that lasted over 50 years. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for...
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Max Baer
I met Max Baer, Sr. through his son, Max, Jr., whom I palled with when I lived in Sacramento in 1956. Max, Sr. was a gentleman and full of fun and life. One Sunday, he drove Max Jr. and me to a local...
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Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed...
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Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea (January 23, 1907 – June 7, 1968) was an American actor in film, stage and television. Known for portraying a vast range of character roles as a villain, he nonetheless had a long career in...
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Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (born Alfred Arnold Cocozza; January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor, actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Lanza began studying to be a...
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Johnnie Ray
John Alvin “Johnnie” Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major...
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Martin Milner
Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Milner is best known for his performances in two popular television series: Route 66,...
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