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Edith Marilyn Fellows: Born May 20, 1923 Featured In Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (but don't have sex or take the car)By Dick Moore, Harper & Row, 1984 A Patty-Dukian Tale This poor kid. Born in Boston to unwilling parents, Edith Fellows was abandoned by h read more

Born Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blank, May 30, 1908 - July 10, 1989 Autobiography That's Not All Folks!By Mel Blanc and Philip Bashe, Warner Books, 1989 Okay, Now That's All Folks.But how cool is that? That Left Turn at Albuquerque It's quite possible tha read more

This one gets two posters... ...because the picture is pretty long. Seven Samurai (1954) I don't know why I keep saying I don't like Westerns. Maybe it's the ghost of the Saturday afternoon UHF programming of my youth — the trope of the Indian whoop over gunshot read more

Born Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall May 23, 1890 - January 22, 1966 An Actual and Virtual Hero One of the most sought-after leading men of the 1930s, Herbert Marshall began his acting career as a stage actor and didn't turn to film until he was nearly 40. Marshall was born in London read more

I want you to meet a guy. Murder, My Sweet (1944) I've never been much of a fan of Dick Powell the singer, but I really like Dick Powell, the hard-boiled detective. And here he is as Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the film version of Raymond Chandler's novel, read more

Born Dawn Evelyeen Paris, a.k.a. "Dawn O'Day" April 17, 1918 AKA "Dawn O'Day" There is a very warm and thorough biographical sketch of Anne Shirley on IMDb, which I recommend to you, in lieu of my having to gratuitously paraphrase it here. Anne Shirley was one of those quiet, e read more

Born Dawn Evelyeen Paris, a.k.a. "Dawn O'Day" April 17, 1918 AKA "Dawn O'Day" There is a very warm and thorough biographical sketch of Anne Shirley on IMDb, which I recommend to you, in lieu of my having to gratuitously paraphrase it here. Anne Shirley was one of those quiet, e read more

Born Lionel Henry "Miles" Mander May 14, 1888 - February 8, 1946 Where's the Movie About THIS Guy? I had not heard of, or at least didn't recognize, Miles Mander until last year at the 2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival and caught him in The First Born (1928), Mande read more

Born Lionel Henry "Miles" Mander May 14, 1888 - February 8, 1946 Where's the Movie About THIS Guy? I had not heard of, or at least didn't recognize, Miles Mander until last year at the 2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival and caught him in The First Born (1928), Mande read more

Scary! San Francisco (1936) There is much charm in San Francisco, what with Clark Gable wholly in his comfort zone portraying "Blackie," a Barbary Coast nightclub owner and gambler with a heart; Spencer Tracy as his boyhood friend, now Father Tim; and&nb read more

There's no floe like an ice floe. Eccentric Way Down East (1920) Until last night, I hadn't seen Way Down East in one sitting since I think, the mid-1980s, and having recommended it as the Richard Barthelmess movie to see, I thought I should take my own read more

There's no floe like an ice floe. The Eccentric Aunt (IYKWIM) Way Down East (1920) Until last night, I hadn't seen Way Down East in one sitting since I think, the mid-1980s, and having recommended it as the Richard Barthelmess movie to see, I thought I s read more

Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess, May 9, 1895 - August 17, 1963 Biography Richard Barthelmess: A Life in PicturesBy David W. Menefee,Bear Manor Media, 2009 A Ruggedly Beautiful Leading Man Richard Barthelmess is one of those silent actors who seem so unbelievably g read more

Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess, May 9, 1895 - August 17, 1963 Biography Richard Barthelmess: A Life in PicturesBy David W. Menefee,Bear Manor Media, 2009 A Ruggedly Beautiful Leading Man Richard Barthelmess is one of those silent actors who seem so unbelievably g read more

"I guess it was easier for her to change her name than her whole family changing theirs." The Awful Truth (1937) One of the best exes-destined-to-remarry-before-their-divorce is-final movies ever, The Awful Truth opens with husband, Jerry Warriner (Cary Grant), putting the icing read more

"I guess it was easier for her to change her name than her whole family changing theirs." The Awful Truth (1937) One of the best exes-destined-to-remarry-before-their-divorce is-final movies ever, The Awful Truth opens with husband, Jerry Warriner (Cary Grant), putting the icing read more

John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan, Los Angeles, October 26, 1914 to March 1, 1984 Biography Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy KingBy Diana Serra Cary, Scarecrow Press, 2007 Also... Jackie Coogan's first wife, Betty Grable. Really. You Can't Pick Your Parent read more

John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan, Los Angeles, October 26, 1914 to March 1, 1984 Biography Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy KingBy Diana Serra Cary, Scarecrow Press, 2007 Also... Jackie Coogan's first wife, Betty Grable. Really. You Can't Pick Your Parent read more

Born Eunice M. Quedens, Mill Valley, CA, April 30, 1908 Autobiography A fun read; no tell-all Three Phases of EveBy Eve Arden,St. Martin's Press, 1985 Beautiful Smart Aleck Eve Arden (born Eunice Quedens) was the only child of a gambling-addicted father and read more

Born Eunice M. Quedens, Mill Valley, CA, April 30, 1908 Autobiography A fun read; no tell-all Three Phases of EveBy Eve Arden,St. Martin's Press, 1985 Beautiful Smart Aleck Eve Arden (born Eunice Quedens) was the only child of a gambling-addicted father and read more