The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities in the USA by individuals or organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The threat of Communism, labelled as ‘The Red Scare’ drove a wedge between society and the US Government. As investigations […]
HOPE LANGE (1933 – 2003) Hope was one of four children of an actress mother. Her father died in 1942 when Hope was just nine. She worked as a waitress in the family’s Greenwich Village restaurant (‘Minette’s […]
Ronald Reagan & Piper Laurie (1949) In her 2011 autobiography titled Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir, Piper Laurie revealed that she lost her virginity to Ronald Reagan during the time they were filming Louisa (1950) together. She was seventeen and Reagan, who played her father in the […]
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series The name Nichelle Nichols is well-known to fans of Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), in which she played Lt. Nyota Uhura. It might surprise her fans to learn that she was discovered […]
CLAUDE RAINS (1889-1967) The actor who was immortalized as Captain Louis Renault in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, was born in London in 1889. This meant, of course, that he was almost fifty years old when hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany in September 1939, far too old for […]
RONALD REAGAN: [Said into a microphone check on August 11, 1984, unaware that he was being broadcast] ‘My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.’ ‘Trees cause more pollution than automobiles. Approximately 80% […]
WILLIAM HOLDEN (1918 – 81) On April 21, 1942, Holden became the first prominent, married movie star to enlist in the services, inspired by his brother, Bob Beedle, who was already in the Navy Air Corps and fighting in the South Pacific. The moment Holden graduated from Air Corps […]
To understand how the US Government came to investigate possible links between Hollywood and the Communist Party, we need to go back as far as 1938, when the Moscow show trials preceded the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, […]
(L to R) Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate & Patty Duke Jacqueline Susann based the book on which the 1967 film of the same title, Valley of the Dolls, on a number of people […]
Joan Crawford with her adopted daughter Christina, author of Mommie Dearest Debate still rages over the validity of the claims of child abuse levelled by Christina Crawford against her mother, actress Joan Crawford, in her scathing 1978 book titled Mommie Dearest. Friends and supporters of Joan remain convinced that the volume […]
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