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Hedda Hopper Biography

Hedda Hopper(Elda Furry)actress, gossip columnistBorn: 6/2/1890Birthplace: Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania She began her career as a chorus girl on Broadway, where she met and married DeWolf…

Marlon Brando Biography

Marlon BrandoactorBorn: 4/3/1924Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska Academy Award-winning actor whose inward-looking style and rough but sexy appeal established him as one of Hollywood's most respected…

S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall

Name at birth: Jacob GeröS.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall was the white-haired, cherubic actor best known as Carl, the headwaiter and bookkeeper for Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 film Casablanca. S.Z. Sakall was…

Diane Lane

Diane Lane played the cheating wife in the 2002 thriller Unfaithful (with Richard Gere), a role that cemented her position as a leading lady in Hollywood after more than two decades in the movies.…

Isaiah Washington

Actor Isaiah Washington played Dr. Preston Burke on the TV series Grey's Anatomy, but was dumped from the show in 2007, eight months after causing a hullabaloo by insulting cast member T.R. Knight.…

William Augustus REEDER, Congress, KS (1849-1929)

REEDER William Augustus , a Representative from Kansas; born near Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa., August 28, 1849; moved with his parents to Ipava, Fulton County, Ill., in 1853; attended the…

Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge is the Oscar-nominated actress whose career as a leading lady was curtailed by racism and personal problems in the 1950s. As teens, Dorothy and her sister Vivian were part of an…

Jerry Bruckheimer

One of the most successful Hollywood producers since the 1980s, Jerry Bruckheimer makes big-budget spectacles that cause critics to stick their noses up and moviegoers to put their money down.…

Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau is one of the best-known Hollywood directors of the early 2000s. His creations include the early superhero movie Iron Man (2008) and the hit 2019 TV series The Mandalorian. Favreau's…