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On Oct. 6, 2008, friends and fans of Carole Lombard gathered at her birth house in Fort Wayne, Ind., to celebrate her centenary. Today, I celebrated a milestone of my own...my 65th birthday.While I'm not having a party, I've received best wishes from hundreds of people -- friends from my youth in Sy read more

Beggars can't be choosers, so this is the only known photograph of Carole Lombard with Jean Harlow. While neither's at their most alluring, this image for the fan mag Radio Mirror accompanied a story on the feud between Walter Winchell and Jimmie Fidler. (The fifth person in the pic? Russ Columbo, t read more

November 19th was quite a day in the world of noir – it gave us two of the stars of the film noir Laura (1944) – Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. Today’s Noirvember post celebrates this shadowy birthday duo and their road to the well-loved noir that they gave us. Gene Tierney Gene Eliza Tierney read more

Today is the 89th birthday anniversary of the man himself. Would that he were still with us on the earthly plane. I promise to get this blog going on a more regular basis again after I straighten out a few things. Thanks to everyone who still sticks with us, come hell or high water, for Tim’s read more

Today you need to embrace your love, ask out that crush, comfort your lovelorn friend, or play matchmaker yourself. Why? Because it’s Charles Coburn’s birthday. You know: the warm uncle/grandfather/parent type who plays the part of wing man, aiding couples in love. A Coburn character is read more

Today you need to embrace your love, ask out that crush, comfort your lovelorn friend, or play matchmaker yourself. Why? Because it’s Charles Coburn’s birthday. You know: the warm uncle/grandfather/parent type who plays the part of wing man, aiding couples in love. A Coburn character is read more

I have been living with Marion Davies as a subject since November of 2013. When you write a biography, your subject stays with you 24/7, informing your interpretations of the world and of the things you see and hear. I often think about how to make a paragraph flow better, and when I read a new bi read more

Happy Birthday to me and Lauren Bacall! On September 16, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized   I can’t tell you how proud I am to share my birthday with this wonderful lady. I’d like to think that, if we had met back the day, we could have h read more

Happy Birthday Ingrid Bergman! On August 29, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized Hello everyone! I’m back! I think this was the longest I’ve ever been without writing something! 9 days! Bloody boo-boo! The reason for that was that I was away last read more

Happy Birthday Barbara Stanwyck! On July 16, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized There’s something about Barbara Stanwyck. Sure, she made some awesome movies and was a great and versatile actress – perhaps the most versatile of all time – b read more

Happy Birthday George Cukor! On July 7, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized   The ultimate ‘actor’s director’, a label he acquired for his exceptional rapport with his actors and actresses, George Cukor was perhaps never given the full read more

Happy Birthday Billy Wilder! On June 22, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized Happy Birthday to the only and only Mr Billy Wilder! The greatest writer-director of all time. Thank you for everything!❤ Share this:TwitterFaceboo read more

Happy Birthday Judy Garland! On June 10, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized   Happy Birthday to the very wonderful Judy Garland! She was taken from us far too soon in 1969, but her legacy lives on. In my opinion, she was the most talented woman of the read more

Image Source Though he is mostly only remembered by classic movie fans today, actor, producer and studio owner Douglas Fairbanks was one of the most important and influential figures of early Hollywood. He was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presented at the or read more

Happy Birthday Kate <3 On May 12, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized So here it is. My favorite day of the year. Today’s Katharine Hepburn’s birthday. And, like always, I’m going to have a marathon of her movies, read a few chapters from her autobiograph read more

Timothy William Carey was born 87 years ago today. His corporeal form may have left us (22 years ago, two months from now), but his spirit lives on. It’s Tim’s world – we just live in it. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPre read more

Timothy William Carey was born 87 years ago today. His corporeal form may have left us (22 years ago, two months from now), but his spirit lives on. It’s Tim’s world – we just live in it. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPre read more

Today marks the 111th anniversary of the birth of Greer Garson, the Academy Award winning actress whose popularity escalated during World War II. In the prime of her career, Garson pioneered her way through an array of successful pictures, which include, Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest. For Greer read more

Today’s my birthday. You know what that means. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change  read more

5 Little Facts: Happy Birthday to Gene Kelly Wishing a Gene Kelly a happy 103rd birthday. ….. 1) It wasn’t exactly Rain he was singing in… Considering it’s Kelly’s most famous of all dance numbers, you’d think it’d be rain that the legendary song and dance man was singing in, but, read more