Their faces are beautiful and familiar to anyone who watched television and went to the movies in the 70s. Their names, however...well, that’s a very different story. Pretty sure most people can’t name even one of these actresses. Can you?
Network television in the 70s loved a catchphrase almost as much as it loved a laugh track. Give a character one odd line, repeat it every week, and somebody in a suit probably started planning the lunchbox. Sure, some of those catchphrases were “Dy-no-mite!” and caught on like wildfire. Others, however, had their fires put out pretty quickly.
Richard Deacon had one of those faces you never forgot. Bald head. Thick black glasses. That wonderfully irritated expression. For millions of viewers, he was Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show. But the man audiences thought they knew was only a small part of the story.
Political thriller movie may have got their start in the Cold War era, but they're even more popular today. Here are some of the best political thrillers of all time.
Anyone who tells you love and relationships aren't anything to laugh at—hasn't heard these hysterical jokes on the subject, by some of the funniest people of all time.
Hollywood once treated these men as if they would be famous forever. Their faces filled movie screens, fan magazines and bedroom walls. Women swooned, studios made fortunes and their names needed no introduction. Today, say those same names to someone born after 2000 and prepare for a very blank stare. So...how many do you remember?
For decades, Sophia Loren kept a box filled with pieces of her past. Then she finally opened it—and out came the story of a decision that could have rewritten two of Hollywood’s most famous lives. One choice. Two completely different futures. And Cary Grant refusing to make it easy.
Still the biggest moneymaker of all time, Gone With the Wind has enjoyed a complicated legacy—part of which revolves around the tragic fate of its cast members.
Jane Seymour became a Bond girl at 22, built a remarkable Hollywood career, then faced financial ruin before Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman helped her rebuild her life and career.
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