Baby Boomer Alert

Actor William Holden was born on this day in 1918. A solid, charming and very talented actor, Holden made his dazzling screen debut opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the 1939 film "Golden Boy."  He would go on to star in more than 50 movies...

I posted this article last Memorial Day weekend, 2013.  I think it is worth another look. I thought it would be good to go and visit some real heroes from a long time ago.  We will always salute all of our men and women in the military, for all they have done and continue to do...

This week we celebrate the birth of the Nash Rambler automobile. The popular car came about on this day when the Nash Kelvinator Company merged with the Hudson Motor Car Company in the early 1950s. The Rambler is recognized as America's first successful compact car...

Donna Reed had it all.  Everything.  Everything that is except a long life. She was one of the most beautiful actresses to ever grace the big or small screen.  She could do light comedy or serious, heavy drama with equal aplomb.  Her "girl-next-door" appeal made her one of the most popular pin up girls during World War II...

They seem so common today. But on this day in 1953 the very first major 3-D movie premiered at the Paramount Theater in New York City.  The film was Warner Brothers'  "House of Wax," starring Vincent Price and Phyllis Kirk.  The stars of the film all sat in the front row of the sold-out premiere...

Max Baer, Jr. was only two years into his young acting career when he landed the role of Jethro Bodine in the classic television sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies."  Baer played Jeb's (Buddy Ebsen) nephew. Although he certainly gained worldwide fame from his many years on the Hillbillies, he gained is fortune from another show business endeavor...

Singer Anita Bryant turns 74 years old today. Bryant was a popular singer in the 1960s and 1970s.  She recorded two dozen albums and had a top hit, "Paper Roses," which reached #5 on the charts.  Dick Clark invited her to appear on the American Bandstand Show when the song was a big hit coast to coast...

Do kids still play with model trains? I loved my set from back in the 1950s.  My brothers and I (and my father) spent countless hours building our set, tearing it down and re-figuring it, adding trees and houses and people to the landscape and buying more and more railroad cars to make our trains longer and longer. ...

On this day in 1939, singer Kate Smith recorded the venerable Irving Berlin tribute to America...."God Bless America.."  She had first introduced the song on her Armistice Day show on radio in 1938. Kate Smith would forever be associated with this patriotic song and she sang it literally thousands of times over her 60-year career...

There is a new movie coming out starring Angelina Jolie as Disney's wicked 'Maleficient." We first met this troublemaker in the 1959 classic 'Sleeping Beauty."  She was animated, voiced by the great character actress Eleanor Audley, and totally terrifying...