Her talent for immersing herself in her characters was evident in films like Guys and Dolls (1955), The Big Country (1958), and Spartacus (1960), where she shared screen space with Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, and Kirk Douglas respectively. Despite her successful career in Hollywood, Simmons...
He began appearing in plays in the late 40s, and by the 50s and 60s was a regular presence on the London stage. It was also during this time that Sallis began turning his attention to screen acting. Throughout the 1950s Sallis appeared in British films and on television in mostly small...
The respirator contraption was widely used in polio outbreaks during the ’40s and ’50s, but the invention of the mechanical respirator eventually made iron lungs all but obsolete in medical treatment. A 2017 investigation found only three people in the United States still using iron lungs. You...