Harve Presnell
The Hollywood musical has produced several powerful, handsome baritones, the best of them being Nelson Eddy, Howard Keel and Harve Presnell. Unfortunately, Presnell, who has died o
Kathleen Ryan
Kathleen Ryan was born in Dublin in 1922. Her parents owned the famous Monument Dairies in the city. Regarded as one of the beauties of her day, she was captured on port
Barbara Rush
Guardian obituary in 2024. In the 1950s, the elegant actor Barbara Rush, who has died aged 97, was extremely visible in films (she made 22 during the decade) and in fan magazines,
Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s wa
Edie Adams
Guardian” obituary of Edie Adams from 2008: For those filmgoers nostalgic for mainstream Hollywood movies of the 1960s, Edie Adams, who has died aged 81, was an indispensable ele
Anita Ekberg
One of the screen’s great beauties, Anita Ekberg was born in Malmo, Sweden in 1931. She won thge ‘Miss Sweden’ contest in 1950 and went to the U.S, to compete in the ‘Mi
Elizabeth Allan
Elizabeth Allan was born in England in 1908. She began her career in British films with “Alibi” in 1931. By 1934 she was in Hollywood where she tended to play gentle ro
Maria Schell
The guardian obituary in 2005 Like many actors, Maria Schell, who has died aged 79, was enticed into English-language films by a remake of a successful European original. In her ca
Arthur O’Connell
O’Connell was born on March 29, 1908 in Manhattan, New York. He made his legitimate stage debut in the middle 1930s, at which time he fell within the orbit of Orson Welles‘ M