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Melvyn Douglas – Biography of the Two-Time Oscar Winner

April 5, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Melvyn Douglas 1933 Allens Trading Card

A biography of two-time Academy Award winning actor Melvyn Douglas enhanced by several Douglas quotes from the 1960s and ’70s. Also, Douglas in Golden Age Hollywood.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies, News - Notes Tagged With: Broadway, helen gahagan douglas, Melvyn Douglas, oscar winners

Adrianne Allen – Private Lives Star, Also Two Paramount Pre-Code Gems

February 7, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Adrianne Allen 1930s Film Weekly Postcard

A biography of Adrianne Allen, actress who rose to fame in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Her sparse film career included two 1932 Paramount gems, MERRILY WE GO TO HELL and THE NIGHT OF JUNE 13TH. The former Mrs. Raymond Massey and mother of actors Daniel Massey and Anna Massey.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies, News - Notes Tagged With: Adrianne Allen, anna massey, Broadway, daniel massey, Merrily We Go to Hell, Noel Coward, Paramount, Raymond Massey, the night of june 13th, theatre, william dwight whitney

Una Merkel – Biographical Notes and Quotes

December 10, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Una Merkel early 1930s 5x7 Fan Photo

A critique of the 2012 TCM Una Merkel birthday schedule along with highlights of her biography and several quotes attributed to her throughout her career.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Birthdays, Broadway, character actors, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies, Una Merkel

John Boles, Sinatra of the 30s and Elvis Presley of the Stone Age

November 4, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

John Boles 1934 Player Film Stars Tobacco Card

John Boles appeared in Universal’s Frankenstein, three Shirley Temple films, and co-starred with many of Hollywood’s most beloved leading ladies. Do you remember him?

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: back street, Broadway, Frankenstein, Gloria Swanson, John Boles, rio rita, Shirley Temple, singers, stella dallas, the desert song

David Landau, the Pre-Code Era’s Own Bitter Man

September 24, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 18 Comments

David Landau in Street Scene

A biography of gruff character actor David Landau including his background, stage career and brief movie career as Hollywood’s bitter man of the pre-code era.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Broadway, character actors, David Landau, horse feathers, i am a fugitive from a chain gang, Judge Priest, pre-Code, she done him wrong, stage actors, street scene, what a character

William Frawley Before I Love Lucy

November 23, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

A look at William Frawley in the years before he achieved his greatest fame as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. Special attention is paid to his baseball movies and his early days on the vaudeville circuit and Broadway. The article is illustrated with seven promotional photos from the 1939 film St. Louis Blues.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Alibi Ike, Broadway, character actors, I Love Lucy, It Happened in Brooklyn, Lucille Ball, My Three Sons, Sports, St Louis Blues, The Babe Ruth Story, vaudeville, William Frawley

Elissa Landi Star of Stage and Screen, Author, Royalty?

November 4, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Elissa Landi 1933 United Kingdom Tobacco Card

I worked from over two dozen sources in this biographical post about the interesting life and career of Classic Film Star Elissa Landi, star of The Sign of the Cross (1932). Also includes a look at her fascinating parents–her father tried to raise the Lusitania, her mother claimed to be the unrecognized daughter of Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria!

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: A Farewell to Arms, After the Thin Man, Body and Soul, Broadway, Corregidor, Elissa Landi, Golden Age, stage star, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Sign of the Cross

Dudley Digges on Film and Stage

June 9, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

A look at the career of Irish born character actor Dudley Digges beginning with his appearances in classic films of the 1930’s and 40’s before looking back at his stage origins with the Irish National Theatre in 1904 and long run on Broadway.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Abbey Theatre, Broadway, character actors, China Seas, Dudley Digges, Irish actors, On Borrowed Time, son of fury, The Iceman Cometh, The Invisible Man, The Mayor of Hell, Theatre Guild

Thomas Mitchell – His Varied Career

May 13, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

A brief biography of the popular supporting actor Thomas Mitchell including original quotes taken from a 1939 autobiographical piece in Screen & Radio Weekly.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: biography, Broadway, character actors, Screen & Radio Weekly, theater, Thomas Mitchell

Madge Evans – Typical American Girl is No Typical Classic Movie Star

April 30, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

A brief biography of silent child star and adult star of 1930’s talkies Madge Evans, who appeared in Dinner at Eight and David Copperfield. Heavily illustrated with vintage movie cards and collectibles.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: biography, Broadway, child star, David Copperfield, Dinner at Eight, ingenues, Madge Evans, Sidney Kingsley, television

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