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“Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn’t boring.” “My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”  Tallulah Bankhead, who passed away in 1968 at the age of 66, would have turned 111 years old last Thursday. read more

Happy Belated Birthday, Miss Bankhead, Dahling! Labels: Tallulah Bankhead Don't mess with a Congressman's daughter. "Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring." "My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine."&nb read more

Happy Belated Birthday, Miss Bankhead, Dahling! Don't mess with a Congressman's daughter. "Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring." "My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine."  Tallulah Bankhead, who passed aw read more

In honor of the lady's 88th birthday, let's spend a moment celebrating Dorothy Malone's fabulously demented performance in a rather fabulously demented picture, 1956's Douglas Sirk epic Written on the Wind.  She's a heedless young Texas heiress who mesmerizes the boys with the wild abandon read more

Victor, you beefcake . . . On January 29, 2013, Victor Mature – that “King of Beefcake”, that “Beautiful Hunk of a Man” – would have turned 100 years old (or 98 or 101, depending on which source you believe). Although he was known to legions of fans for such Biblical epics as Samson and read more

Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 - August 9, 1969). During the 1960s she played in many small television roles before appearing in films. She contacted Richard Beymer's agent, Harold Gefsky, who agreed to represent her and found work for her in television and magazine advertisements. She was read more

Today marks Cary Grant's birthday. He is without a doubt my favorite actor of all time. And as I imagine, he is probably a lot of people's favorite actor. A perfect example of sophistication and charm. He was a master of screwball comedies, which is my favorite genre. He shines in such notable c read more

Today is the birthday of Caroline Munro, one of the most famous (and beautiful) of all the actresses associated with horror and science-fiction films. She will forever be known as a "Hammer Glamour" girl--even though she made only two movies for the famed British company. In DRACULA A.D. 1972, she w read more

It's a big day at the Café, kids - the 105th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest showpeople who ever lived, the brass-lunged, foul-mouthed, great-hearted self-creation that was - deep breath - Ethel Merman. Let's give it up. The stage was her medium and the movies didn't ever do her jus read more

It's a big day at the Café, kids - the 105th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest showpeople who ever lived, the brass-lunged, foul-mouthed, great-hearted self-creation that was - deep breath - Ethel Merman. Let's give it up. The stage was her medium and the movies didn't ever do her jus read more

Caught up in that little shopping frenzy yesterday, I missed a landmark birthday, that of longtime Café patroness and mascot, the magnificent Miss Kay Francis.  We see her here at the height of her glory, superb in all the trappings of stardom in the Golden Age: turban, stole, plunging décollet read more

Caught up in that little shopping frenzy yesterday, I missed a landmark birthday, that of longtime Café patroness and mascot, the magnificent Miss Kay Francis.  We see her here at the height of her glory, superb in all the trappings of stardom in the Golden Age: turban, stole, plunging décollet read more

George Zucco was born in Manchester, England, on January 11, 1886. Zucco had a long career acting on the stage before he became one of the best character actors in Hollywood. (He didn't make his first film until 1931, and he didn't make his first American film until 1936.) Zucco's first real fame as read more

Find Classic Movie Birthdays with the Classic Movie Hub Birthday Database! I am happy to say that I am officially launching the Classic Movie Hub Birthday Database today!  It took me over one year to create, and although it’s been available on the Classic Movie Hub website for a few months now read more

Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000). Made the transition from child actor to one of Hollywood's leading ladies of the 1930s and 1940s, making close to 100 films with directors such as: Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille and Orson Welles and talented leading men like: Car read more

Sultry British actress Barbara Steele was born on December 29th 1937 and became famous for her roles in numerous European horror films in the 1960′s. Steele also went on to appear in David Cronenberg’s seventies classic Shivers (A.K.A. They Came From Within) and in the 1991 television re read more

You know all the Britneys, and Christinas, and Katys, and Taylors that inhabit today's cultural landscape? All of those women combined could never be as legendary as Marlene Dietrich. read more

One of my favorite actresses, Ava Gardner has a birthday today on Christmas Eve. She would have been 90 had she still been alive. She had one of the most impressive careers of any actress, classic or modern. She began with a lot of uncredited roles around 1941 including one in The Shadow of th read more

Note that this is a picture of Spielberg’s younger self. Today, he turns sixty-six. Along with Alfred Hitchcock, I always link my love for film with Steven Spielberg. I grew up in love with films such as E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Jaws, etc., etc., etc., yet it wasn’t read more

Many happy returns today to two of Hollywood's most fondly remembered ladies; neither was ever the biggest star - one a second-tier leading lady, the other a reliable character trouper - but both delighted audiences for a goodly number of years, and both seem to have been thoroughly good e read more