Biography Category
Comic actress whose career bridged the silent era and the emergence of “ talkies,” and was continuously promoted by her long-time lover, the publi...
Tart-tongued and independent, Bette Davis was one of America's biggest movies stars in the years surrounding World War II. After several supporting ro...
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Tadeusz Bobrowsky, maternal uncle of Conrad who was a lawyer, took up the re...
Best-known for his work in New York and Canadian theater from the 1950s to the 1990s, he also occasionally appeared in feature films and on TV. His mo...
In 1909, Abbott launched a campaign against vice in the black community. In 1910, Abbott hired J. Hockley Smiley as managing editor. Smiley was instru...
A comic and dramatic actress, she won acclaim for her roles in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979) and High Tide (1988) and in David Lean's...