“The House of the Rising Sun” predates New Orleans, it begins with 16th century bawdy houses fatal to young men News Glamour Lifestyle Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Josephine Baker adopted 12 children, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and became the first American woman buried in France with a 21-gun salute Glamour Lifestyle Vintage Hollywood
Sad Fact: When his best buddy Oliver Hardy died, Stan Laurel refused to act in another film Glamour Vintage Hollywood
Young Sean Connery earned the respect of a notorious Edinburgh gang by beating up six of its members at once Lifestyle News Vintage Hollywood
Mel Blanc, the voice actor of nearly all Looney Tunes characters woke up from a coma saying “What’s up, Doc?” Lifestyle Vintage Hollywood
Katy Jurado, the Mexican femme fatale of the silver screen who was a bullfighting aficionado Lifestyle Vintage Hollywood
Death in space: after the three astronauts of Soyuz 11 became heroes of the Soviet Union, catastrophe struck News Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for role of psychopath Hannibal Lecter with only 16 minutes of screen time and an unblinking stare Glamour News Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Billy the Kid was trilingual, one of the language he spoke was Gaelic Featured News Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
At her first recital, 12-year-old Nina Simone refused to start singing after her parents were moved from the front row to make room for whites News Lifestyle Vintage Hollywood
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of Lifestyle News Strangeness Vintage Hollywood