Michael Crawford Michael Crawford, before he hit it big on British TV in 1973 as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, performed in theatre as a teenager in the Coventry Rep. One of his earliest bit parts was playing Lucius, servant to Brutus, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. […]
ABIGAIL ADAMS (1922-55) The movie business is no stranger to sad stories about young hopefuls and their endeavours to make it to the top. Each week hundreds of youngsters would arrive in Tinsel Town with dreams of fame and fortune. For every success story there are a hundred […]
PATRICK MACNEE (1922 – 2015) The British actor who made a name for himself in the sixties and seventies playing John Steed in a couple of popular TV series – The Avengers and The New Avengers – was called up for the United Kingdom Armed Forces just as he […]
RITA HAYWORTH (1918-87) As a teenager Margarita Cansino (Rita Hayworth) was sexually abused by her abominable father, a Latin dancer named Eduardo Cansino, who not only abused her himself, but rented her out to his cronies. When she confided this to her husband Orson Welles he was rightly appalled. […]
LANA TURNER (1921-95) 1936: Wayne Morris, who would become a fighter pilot hero in World War Two, was Lana’s first Hollywood crush. 1937: Ronald Reagan was her first studio-arranged romance, although it is generally believed that their relationship did not go beyond a few horse-riding outings. However, […]
CATES, Phoebe KLINE, Kevin 1989 – Phoebe Cates is a New Yorker of Jewish/Russian/Chinese descent. Her teenage years saw her on the covers of several teen magazines including ‘Seventeen’, ‘Elle’ and ‘British Vogue’. She even adorned an edition of ‘Andy Warhol’s Interview’. At nineteen she made quite […]
Chances are you have never even heard of an actress named Abigail Adams. Not surprising really, considering she only played bit parts in a few forties B-Grade westerns; but her story is a not uncommon tale of tragic Hollywood, of a young hopeful who ventured into Tinsel Town, tasted […]
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