July 2021 – Invisible Themepark

July 14, 2021February 21, 20231960s, People You've Never Heard Of, Where Did This Person Go?

Richard Reibold: Shady Ad Exec and Talman Raid Party Host

Shady ad executive figures into a 1960 scandal that almost brought down TV actor William Talman.

July 13, 2021July 14, 2021Things You've Never Heard Of

Nutri-Bio: Forgotten MLM Supplements Scheme

Long-forgotten supplements company that grossed $30 million per year.

July 4, 2021March 4, 20231960s, Things You've Never Heard Of

When TV D.A. William Talman Got Busted For Narcotics and Lewd Vagrancy

1960 scandal involving TV actor William Talman and seven others at a West Hollywood apartment.

July 2, 2021July 2, 20211950s, Movies You've Never Heard Of

Go for Broke! (1951): a Film Out of Its Time

Judging by Go for Broke‘s posters and related promotional material, you’d think that this Robert Pirosh picture is yet another post-WWII jingoistic […]

July 2, 2021July 2, 20211980s, Things You've Never Heard Of

Charles McGraw’s Freakishly Sad and Incongruous Death

Charles McGraw (1914-1980) was the squarest jawed of all square-jawed Hollywood actors of the golden period, always playing a tough guy of […]