These days, Academy Award winners are told they have just 45 seconds to deliver their thank you speeches upon accepting their Oscar. Everyone likes to push the envelope, so the award show organizers started cueing the orchestra to start playing as a not-so-subtle nudge to the winner to wrap things up and get off the…
Category: Actresses
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”: The Classic Song That Almost Wasn’t
When The Wizard of Oz hit theaters on August 25, 1939, it was a critical and commercial success. The film has become one of the most beloved movies in cinematic history. One of the most iconic scenes of The Wizard of Oz is when teenage starlet Judy Garland’s character, the Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale,…
Sister Acts in the Golden Age of Hollywood
In some cases, talent, charisma, beauty, and stage presence is in the genes. A family will produce not one star but two … sisters who follow the same path to the silver screen and the Hollywood spotlight. Let’s take this opportunity to admire some of the great sister acts of the Golden Age of Hollywood….
Carole Lombard’s Untimely Death: A Hollywood Tragedy
A native of Indiana, actress Carole Lombard was living in Los Angeles with her mother in 1920 when, at the age of 12 years old, she was recruited by a movie director who cast her in her first film, the 1921 movie A Perfect Crime. She moved from bit parts to leading lady status and…