Ten years before the home video explosion of the 1980s and decades before TCM and YouTube brought the full measure of film history into our homes, MGM studios mined their rich archive to create…
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Dorothy Squires’ “My Way”—From the Toast of London to “Vexatious Litigant”
Welsh songbird Dorothy Squires was once a big star in the U.K. whose sad story reads more like a romance novel by compatriot Jackie Collins. When I learned that she was born into her parent’s…
Joan Crawford’s 6 Minute Monologue on Hollywood Palace: “A House of Gingerbread and Bells!”
Hollywood Palace was an hour-long variety show that enjoyed a long run on ABC from 1964 through 1970 and a Sunday night mainstay when Joan showed up in October 1965 and let ’em have…
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