Before appearing in films as Joan Shawlee, the American actress and comedienne worked as a model and singer. Born Joan Fulton in Forest Hills, New York, on March 5, 1926, she started her film career in the 1940s. She is best remembered as Sweet Sue, the no-nonsense bandleader in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It HotContinue reading “Actress & Comedienne Joan Shawlee During The 1940s & 1950s”
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Fascinating Images of Female Criminals From the Early Decades of the 20th Century
An amazing look into the turbulent world of women and crime, including murderers, bandits, crooks and mob wives, from the archives of the Chicago Tribune from the early part of the last century. Gertrude ‘Billie’ Murphy, 22, is brought in for questioning in the murder case of Michael Stopec, who was shot and killed inContinue reading “Fascinating Images of Female Criminals From the Early Decades of the 20th Century”
Loretta Young: A Hollywood Survivor
Loretta Young, born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1913, arrived in Hollywood at the exact time that Hollywood began to define itself. After her parents’ separation, Loretta, her sisters and mother relocated the family to Southern California, where Young and her siblings started their film careers as children. By the timeContinue reading “Loretta Young: A Hollywood Survivor”
