Freddie Mercury, Elvis and Ray Charles are few of the cultural superstars who were once the focus of biopic films, and they certainly will not be the last. Oscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese is once again drumming up chatter surrounding himself and Academy Award winner and film frontman Leonardo DiCaprio. The “Shutter Island” actor is rumored to play Frank Sinatra, …
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On this day in history, April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin — full name Charles Spencer Chaplin — is born in London, England. Chaplin would go on to become one of the most financially successful stars of early Hollywood, according to History.com. At the tender age of five, he was introduced to the stage as the son of …
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Bette Davis, a Hollywood legend whose “raw, unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years,” as Encyclopedia Britannica put it, was born on this day in history, April 5, 1908. “A strong-willed, independent woman with heavy-cast eyes, clipped New England diction and distinctive mannerisms, Bette Davis left an indelible — and often parodied — mark …
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Kyle MacLachlan is confessing that one of his 1994 co-stars in “The Flintstones” had some high expectations. “She had to have a gift every day,” the “Sex and the City” alum told Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his “Dinner’s on Me” podcast of Elizabeth Taylor’s demands for agreeing to be in the live-action version of the cartoon. Ferguson interjected, “Wait, wait, …
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One man’s trash may be another man’s treasure — but sometimes that treasure turns out to be a gown designed by none other than Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal dressmaker. Kansas Michalke, a content creator and mom of two in Austin, Texas, said she always had a knack for finding hidden gems while thrifting. “[My family] was not well off in any …
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Patricia Ward Kelly met Gene Kelly in 1985 when she was writing for a television special about the Smithsonian Museum, which he happened to be hosting. “I did not know who Gene Kelly was when I first met him. That always surprises people,” Patricia Ward Kelly told Fox News Digital from her home office where memories overflow from their relationship. …
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