Carol Lynley
“I want to be an actress, not a movie star. There is a big difference.” — Carol Lynley Source: Vernon Scott (1959) Photo: Peter Basch 2
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Irene Ware
“Irene Ware hails from Pelham Bay, N.Y. – near New York City. An aunt sent one of her photographs to a New York paper that was searching for a girl to represent Manhattan in the international beauty contest in Galveston, Tex., in 1929. She was chosen as “Miss America.” And later won fame of other […]
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Kay Aldridge
“Down South, girls are brought up with the idea that their chief mission is to find a husband. I’m definitely in the market. But he must love onions.” — Kay Aldridge
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June McCall
“I want to be a great actress. That’s why I’ll pose in anything they want me to. As long as it gets my name in the papers.” — June McCall Source: Virginia MacPherson (1951)
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Muriel Finley
From the Miami Daily News-Record, February 23, 1930 Artistic Influence California’s “golden girl,” so named by an artist, is back in Hollywood to seek once more the screen renown which might have been hers had not an artist, diverted her career to Broadway. Muriel Finley is here for the third time, again trying to make […]
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Gladys Walton
EX-FILM STAR FINDS CONTENT IN HOME LIFE Gladys Walton Herbel, Mother of Three Children, Never Regrets Giving Up Career San Francisco Examiner, January 28, 1935 Little more than a decade ago Gladys Walton, then one of the most brillian stars in Hollywood’s firmament, forsook her career at the peak of her fame for a home, […]
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Maude Fealy
“Among the photoplay stars whose names are known to every lover of the screen, Maude Fealy holds a position peculiar to herself. Her personality makes an impression on every mind, and is one that recurs in delighted visualization at every mention of her name. Her art is of the higher type of art that is […]
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Anouk Aimee
“I adore the camera, love it, we have a rapport. That’s where seduction comes in.” — Anouk Aimee
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Kenny Kingston: Psychic to the (Mostly Dead) Stars
Kenny Kingston was a pseudo-celebrity known for his wild claims of speaking to dead celebrities. He often claimed to have been the personal psychic for U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Greta Garbo, Sally Struthers, Lilly Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Josephine Baker, Drincess Diana, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Hugh Jackman. […]
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Diahann Carroll
“When I was a child, I was made to feel that black was not beautiful. I suppose I felt that by the time I was four years old. The old formula for success was how close you could come to the white singer and the white actor, for the big night clubs and the important […]
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