Theodore Marcuse: Character Actor Destined for Greatness, Cut Down in His Prime
Theodore Marcuse brought gravitas to the decidedly airy, unsubstantial world of 1960s television. Theodore Marcuse cross-sectioned the world network TV at that […]
Category: People You’ve Never Heard Of
Celluloid Prairie Scum and Lithe Championship Diver: Strother Martin’s Two Lives
Strother Martin in Rooster Cogburn, 1975 Strother Martin was a character actor who rose to the very top of the character category. […]
Johnny Cash Has Five Minutes to Live!
He’s a goddamn door-to-door maniac! He’s a milky faced, baby-faced cruel psychopath of a guitar-strumming KILLER. It’s our favorite warbler–Johnny Cash, in […]
Twilight Zone: “We All Know What Became of Bonnie Beecher”
And I chose Bonnie Beecher, and we all know what became of Bonnie Beecher. William Froug, in The Twilight Zone Companion, by […]
Lee Van Cleef, Official Badass and Savior of Little Dogs
Everybody knows the Lee Van Cleef of late 1960s spaghetti Westerns. So why should I put him in the category of People […]
Mercury Moll: Mrs. Linda Plannette
We’re barely out of the 1940s–1952, to be exact–and this lovely lady is presaging the Sixties already by wearing cut-off jeans shorts, […]
Obliterating Time: The 1922 Kodachrome Color Test Girl
The past always seems to be so…old. Previous styles, mores, customs seem to have vanished, replaced wholesale with an entirely new set […]
Winston Churchill’s Mother is Hot
Sizzling, steamy hot. Oh sure, by today’s standards, she would probably never make the tabloid pages. But considering the time period and […]
True: Beverly Hilton Pocket Knife Surgery and Near-Resurrection of Harry “Parkyakarkus” Parke
A comedian who delivers “the most hilarious speech of his career” in front of 1,000 fellow celebrities at The Beverly Hilton, then collapses. […]
The Ageless 1920s Woman
This picture came up today in BoingBoing.net, via a Tumblr post. What struck me, and several of the commenters, wasn’t so much […]