Attention Must Be Paid: Gypsy Rose Lee
As a child, she literally didn’t know how old she was; her mother had a…
Attention Must Be Paid: DeForest Kelley
Honestly, I always liked him best. My sister was all about Spock, but given my…
Attention Must Be Paid: Elizabeth Montgomery
I wonder how her career might have been different if she’d gotten the role in…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ray Harryhausen
I’m a little surprised, honestly, that I can only name two movie tributes to him,…
Attention Must Be Paid: Majel Barrett
If I were her, I’m not sure how I would’ve felt about playing a character…
Attention Must Be Paid: Mako
His landlord during the 1976 Broadway season was Jerry Orbach. The men were up against…
Attention Must Be Paid: Louise Beavers
In further adventures of “the studios suck,” the studios—and if Louise Beavers was under contract,…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ricardo Montalbán
You know, it wasn’t until I sat down to write this that I realized how…
Attention Must Be Paid: Rita Hayworth
She doesn’t always show up on lists of Hispanic actresses, and that was quite deliberate…
Attention Must Be Paid: Michael Jeter
It’s always embarrassing to me when I have to acknowledge that, yes, this is the…