10 Wednesday Feb 2016
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Eddie Doherty, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Judith Anderson, Ossining, Storm Song
Frances Margaret Anderson was born in the Australian city of Adelaide on February 10, 1897. From an early age she was drawn to the theatre. At seventeen, she made her stage debut at Sydney’s Theatre Royal. Continue reading
03 Wednesday Feb 2016
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A Gentleman's Mother, Chicago, Francine Larrimore, George Abbott, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Marjorie Rambeau, Martin Brown, Rain, Sadie Thompson, Sam Forrest, Sam H. Harris
Samuel Henry Harris was born in New York City on February 3, 1872. His early jobs ranged from selling cough drops to keeping the Irish storyteller and vaudevillian, John W. Kelly, out of saloon bars during a troubled stint at Miner’s Bowery Theatre. He also worked as a boxing promoter, managing prize-fighter Terry McGovern. By the age of twenty-two, Harris owned six racehorses. Continue reading
31 Sunday Jan 2016
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A Gentleman's Mother, Bette Davis, Clifton Webb, Her Cardboard Lover, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Leslie Howard, Martin Brown, Rain, Sadie Thompson, Tallulah Bankhead, The Exciters, W. Somerset Maugham
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama on January 31, 1902. Her mother, Adelaide, died of blood poisoning three weeks after Tallulah’s birth. Her father William, a prominent Democrat, suffered bouts of alcoholism and depression, and Tallulah was largely raised by her grandmother. Continue reading
25 Monday Jan 2016
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Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Miss Thompson, Rain, Sadie Thompson, The Letter, The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874, the fourth of six children. His father was a lawyer for the British Embassy. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was eight, and when his father passed away two years later, Maugham was sent to live with his uncle in England. Continue reading
03 Sunday Jan 2016
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Citizen Kane, Her Cardboard Lover, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Marion Davies, MGM, Orson Welles, The Cardboard Lover, William Randolph Hearst
Marion Cecilia Douras was born in Brooklyn on January 3, 1897, the youngest daughter of Judge Bernard Douras. She left school to model for commercial illustrators, and made her Broadway debut as ‘Marion Davies’ in Chin Chin (1914.) Continue reading
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