Louis Weitzenkorn’s play Five Star Final, which debuted in New York in December 1930 and was transformed into a film starring Edward G. Robinson that was released by Warner Brothers nine months later, sits at the opposite end of the spectrum from Cather’s A Lost Lady. Both play and mov...
He was born in 2017 when Janet was already 50 years old. She separated from Eissa's father Wissam Al Mana not long after he was born and took the challenges of motherhood solely. Instagram/@janetjackson The multi-award winner is relatively private about her life, however, she has shared ...
1874,” explained Mary Lyon, “is a day that will always be remembered…For several days there had been quite a few hoppers around, but this day, there was a haze in the air and the sun was veiled….They began, toward night, dropping to...
Edward G. Robinson didn’t want to be third-billed in the film, but he got over it – with a paycheck of $12,500 per week with a guarantee of eight weeks’ work, he was the highest paid person on the movie. Early in the scene where Keyes shows up at Walter’s apartment, Walter...
Mrs Bastin was warm and generous, and my mother remembers the kettle always singing on the range and a little bit of something nice proffered to go with the cup of tea in those days. Uncles, aunts and cousins on her mother, Ellen’s side (she was born a Bagley, or a “Begley”)...
Born in the New York neighborhood of Harlem to a family from the Caribbean, Harry Belafonte was America's biggest Black multi-hyphenate superstar during the mid-20th century. Just before the emergence of rock n' roll in the 1950s, Belafonte was the biggest pop singer in the United States....
Robinson, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and, however lazily, Robert Mitchum, Andrews created portrayals of tortured men at odds with their social standing, their sense of ethics, and even their romantic yearnings. Not infrequently, there was only a very fine line separating his (anti)heroes ...
Edward Lyman Abbott was, they all agreed, one of a kind. He was a superb athlete and, just as important, he was a true sportsman. Everyone in southern Saskatchewan knew Abbott as Hick, which was shortened from Hickory, and he was loved by young and old alike. ...
General Smythe wanted to crush the Zulu; Sir Arthur Havelock, the Natal Governor thought the Zulu were misguided and wished to hold back the military forces – this was a situation that ‘B-P’ was to experience in Matabeleland between General Carrington and Sir Hercules Robinson when ...
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