All Entries Tagged With: "Tallulah Bankhead"
Jess Oppenheimer
Date of Birth: 11 November 1913 Birth Name: Jessurun James Oppenheimer Mini Biography: Jess Oppenheimer (November 11, 1913 – December 27, 1988)Lucille Ball called Jess Oppenheimer “the brains” behind “I Love Lucy” (1951), and with good reason. As series creator, producer, and head writer, “Jess was the creative force behind the ‘Lucy’ show,” confirms director [...]
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Date of Birth: 23 December 1921 Birth Name: Gerald Stuart O'Loughlin Jr. Mini Biography: Short, dark, but tough-talking and rough-looking American character actor Gerald S. O’Loughlin received his start on the stage after pondering a career in law. After a stint with the Marine Corps., he used his GI bill income to train in New [...]
Katherine Locke
Date of Birth: 24 June 1910 Mini Biography: Ms. Locke became the toast of Broadway’s 1937 season when she starred with John Garfield in “Having a Wonderful Time”, the Arthur Kober comedy. She was critically acclaimed as Ophelia in the Maurice Evans production of “Hamlet”. Her other Broadway plays included “Fifth Column,” with Lee J. [...]
Jean Harlow
Date of Birth: 3 March 1911 Birth Name: Harlean Harlow Carpenter Nickname: Baby The Platinum Blonde Height: 5′ 1½” (1.56 m) Mini Biography: Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She was the daughter of a successful dentist and his wife. In 1927, at the [...]
Murray Grand
Date of Birth: 27 August 1919 Mini Biography: Composer, songwriter (“Guess Who I Saw Today”), pianist and author, educated at Juilliard. He served in the US Army during World War II and wrote camp shows, later performing in New York nightclubs and writing special material for Tallulah Bankhead, Dorothy Loudon, Lena Horne, Hermione Gingold and [...]
Richard Cromwell
Date of Birth: 8 January 1910 Birth Name: LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: With smooth, boyish good looks, Richard Cromwell had the makings of a Hollywood star while movies were in their initial talking stage. He fell far short of that goal, some of which was his own doing, and [...]
William Eythe
Date of Birth: 7 April 1918 Birth Name: John Joseph Eythe Mini Biography: He had the requisite charm and dark, thick-browed good-looks of a Tyrone Power that often spelled “film stardom” but it was not to be in the case of actor William Eythe. Spotted for Hollywood while performing on Broadway, he made nary a [...]