Whether a nurse or, more typically, someone’s mom, over a fifty year plus career, gifted actress Nan Martin had a reputation truly bringing her characters to life. Famously, as the stuck up mother in “Goodbye Columbus,” even her daughter in the film, Ali MacGraw thought Martin just didn’t like her. In fact, MacGraw later wrote, [...]
Best known as Alice Horton on “Days of Our Lives,” Frances Reid’s career began in the infancy of acting unions. She didn’t just join, she joined in, and just as audiences nationwide enjoyed her performances, performers nationwide were the better for her union service.
A statement just out from AFTRA says Reid was a member [...]
After a remarkable career spanning seven decades, British born actress Jean Simmons has passed away. Simmons was discovered at age 14 and cast in “Give Us the Moon,” was a full fledged star within a few years after being cast opposite Laurence Olivier in the 1948 version of “Hamlet,” and went on to the kind of [...]
He was the sidekick to the stars during the golden years of television. From Jack Benny to Steve Allen to Frank Sinatra, when it was time for a nerdy straight man with immense comedic talent, Arnold Stang got the call.
Stang started in radio, did early television, commercials, film work and back to voiceover, capping [...]
One of Hollywood’s most in demand young actresses has died suddenly, of what’s reported to be a heart attack. Brittany Murphy, whose credits included film, television and voice work, and who had a recording career atop all that, was only 32.
She got her start in the 1930s. David O. Selznick saw her screen test, and made her a star…later marrying her. She was 1943’s Best Actress Oscar Winner for “Song of Bernadette.” Later in life she ran the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena.
Jones died this morning in Malibu, according to the museum. She [...]
