This is the grave of Janet Leigh. Born in 1927 in Merced, California, Jeannette Morrison grew up in Stockton. I can see why she would want to move to Hollywood! Leigh graduated from high school and was just living at home. Her parents were fairly...
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Before too much time passes here, I want to mention the death of the great filmmaker Robert Young. He was not that widely known, though a far more interesting and.
This is the grave of Betty Grable. Born in 1916 in St. Louis, Grable grew up well-off. Her father was a stockbroker. There was also artistic talent in the family..
Like many Criterion fans, I have long wondered how the hell Michael Bay movies got in the collection early on. I mean, I actually like The Rock for what it is, but c'mon. This Times article on Criterion investigated this and it's amazing--they contact Bay...
This is the grave of Jack Lemmon. Born in 1925 in Newton, Massachusetts, Lemmon was a sickly child in a well-off but broken home. He had three ear surgeries by.
This is the grave of Wolfgang Petersen. Born in 1941 in Emden, Germany, Petersen was the son of a German naval officer. The father seems to have survived the war..
This is the future grave of Irwin Winkler. Born in New York in 1931, Winkler grew up in a Jewish immigrant family there. His family lived near Coney Island and he spent a lot of time there as a kid. He went into the military...
This is the grave of Ross Hunter. Born in 1920 in Cleveland (although this might be speculative; evidently there was long belief that he lied about his age), Martin Fuss.
The desire to see every famous person portrayed in a formulaic biopic is one of the most frustrating things to me about modern media, third only to the entire comic.
This is the grave of John Huston. Born in 1906 in Nevada, Missouri, Huston grew up with the movies. His father was Walter Huston after all. There was a brief time when Walter gave up acting to work as an engineer, which is why I...
We have lost Tom Wilkinson, one of the great character actors of the last half-century. He was fantastic in so many films--In the Bedroom, The Full Monty, Michael Clayton, evidently.
This is the grave of Frank Borzage. Born in 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzaga was the son of a Italian immigrant miner and his Swiss wife. There's.