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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Saturday, September 12, 2026
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”
