“Death,” Jimmy Dean said, “is the only thing I respect. It’s the only thing that has any dignity.” Strange words for a brilliantly successful young boy to utter, but the moods that evoked the words were stranger still. Before you read this third and final...
It was during his early years in New York that Jimmy Dean found some of the answers to the self-doubts that tortured him. It was there that he started on the road that led to fame—and tragedy....
Beginning an unforgettable story, never before told about Jimmy Dean . . . I knew him for such a short time— Just six years. But that was all the time Jimmy had left to live....
He had no magic sword with which to conquer Hollywood. Only a dream. But it was enough....
Sitting in front row: Mitzi, Lori, Nelson, Dolores Dorn, Susan Cabot. Back row: Jack Bean, Terry Moore, Dick Anderson. Standing: Hugh O’Brian (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Mitzi Gaynor’s blind date party began as a dinner-time conversation. “It’s spring,” said Mitzi to...
“A brilliant comedienne” was Laurence Olivier's assessment of his costar Marilyn Monroe before they began filming The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956....
Emmeline Snively, who ran the modeling agency that employed Norma Jeane Dougherty, commented years later that girls would often ask her how they could be more like the woman who had become Marilyn Monroe....
Her story is hazy from the first and involves at the outset a troubled mother and an absent father. . ....
Born Norma Jeane Mortensen and baptized Norma Jeane Baker, the future film star is already lovely as a five-year-old girl in 1931....
PART VII It was slow to sink in that Sunday morning. “What did you say? Princess Diana has died? Diana is dead?” This was one of those where-were-you-when-you-heard? moments. JFK, MLK, RFK, the Challenger explosion. We all remember where we were, and how unreal, entirely untethered,...