CA PODCAST EPISODE 72 - Bea Arthur

While Myrna Loy was dancing in prologues at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, portrait photographer Henry Waxman took several pictures of her that were …

In his first professional acting performance, James Cagney danced costumed as a woman in the chorus line of the revue Every Sailor, in 1919. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got …

Frankie Valli began his singing career in the early 1950s with A Variety Trio. Valli's desire to sing in public was initially granted when, having heard Valli sing, the group offered him a guest spot when the group …

Born in Los Angeles, Foster was a gifted child who learned to read at the age of three. She attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée …

Gloria Vanderbilt was married to author Wyatt Emory Cooper, on 24 December 1963. She was his only wife. The marriage, which lasted 15 years, ended with his death in 1978 while undergoing open-heart surgery. They had two …

George Michael formed the duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first album Fantastic reached No. 1 in the UK in 1983 and produced a series of top 10 singles including "Young Guns", "Wham Rap!" and "Club …

Jessica Ann Johnson, known as Jessica Simpson; born July 10, 1980, is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. Simpson signed a recording …

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. "Mr. C.", …

Redford began acting on television in the early 1960s. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont in 1962. 

Between 1974 and 1976, exhibitors voted Redford …

Karen Black made her Broadway debut in 1965's The Playroom, which received good reviews and for which she was nominated for a Drama Circle Critic Award for Best Actress. Her film debut was in The Prime Time (1960) and …

Tennessee Williams, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. After years of obscurity, he suddenly became famous with The Glass …

Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s to not long before his death in 2006. …

Vanessa Redgrave comes from a British acting dynasty. 

She rose to prominence in 1961 and was ranked as the ninth greatest stage actor/actress of all time. Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams …

Edie Adams first audition: I sang the only three songs I knew during the audition, and if they had asked to hear another, I never would have made it!

Morgan Fairchild was made for television. Starting on a daytime soap, she made her way to the ever popular nighttime soap Falcon Crest for one …

From Twin Peaks to Men In Black II, Lara Flynn Boyle has hit it from one end of the acting spectrum to the other. Lara's characters are filled with flavor and memorable moments. Hear about Lara on the Celebrity …

Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by the Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, vocal power, melismatic style, and signature use of the whistle register.

In 2012, she was ranked second …

Born into an acting dynasty, Drew Barrymore had more than her fair share of troubles as a youngest and teen, but turned out so well later on, that …

Did you know that Peter Allen was Liza Minnelli's first husband?Did you know that he co-write I Honestly Love you, that Olivia Newton-John made a Number 1 hit with?Do you know where one of his most famous lyrics came …

Lena Horne started out in 1933 as a chorus girl at the Cotton Club at age 16, went to Hollywood but became disenchanted with making movies and …

From the critically acclaimed dramatic role in the Henry Fonda movie Failsafe, to one of tv's most villainous characters in the form of J.R. Ewing in …

For nine years, Donna Mills played the villain we love to hate, on the long running nighttime soap Knots Landing, a spinoff of Dallas. 

Hear about how Donna Mills became one of tv's greatest female villains on this …

On May 14, 2018, we lost one of our most prolific authors, Tom Wolfe, whose first novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities was a critical and financial …

Did you know that Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch and that his parents were Jewish emigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Region, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) and the family spoke Yiddish at home?  Hear …

Come along with me as we make this short discovery of Harrison Ford’s wife, Calista Flockhart, who went from being an aerobics instructor to the new …

John Herbert Gleason, better known as Jackie Gleason, was born on February 26, 1916. He was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor. Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New …

Donatella was her brother Gianni's biggest supporter in his fashion line and was by his side when he established his label. Her brother's murder in …

Get ready to hear some great tales of film director David Lean (Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia) and Kate Hepburn.

Stephen Silverman is the author of a dozen books, including The Catskills: Its History and How It …

Joan was touted as Twentieth Century Fox's answer to Elizabeth Taylor-the other brunette beauty. She was put under contract but would never attain …

Liberace - The Italian-Polish American performer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin in 1919. He began playing the piano at age 4 and performed with …

The defining moment of the Catherine Zeta-Jones/ Michael Douglas law suit against Hello! magazine came, surely, when a lawyer superciliously observed that no one offered him a million quid to publish photographs of his …

Public relations guru David Granoff and his eponymous based firm have represented such luminaries as the late Anna Nicole Smith, Dr. Nicholas …

How Photography Makes Celebrity So Irresistible

In 1954, Photoplay, the doyen of fan magazines -- it had been around since 1911 publishing feel-good stories written by publicity agents -- printed an article about the …

Adam Scull talks about his becoming a celebrity photographer in the late 1970's and covering the famed Studio 54 in its heyday.

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