Hollywood History - The WOW Report

#BornThisDay: Actor, Debbie Reynolds

By Stephen Rutledge on April 1, 2016 3:05 am

April 1, 1932- Debbie Reynolds: “I'll just stay in show business till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.” Mary Frances Reynolds’ career in show business was an accident. She had planned to become a gym teacher. She was a tomboy from a Burbank family with no ties to … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Director, Vincente Minnelli

By Stephen Rutledge on February 28, 2016 3:05 am

February 28, 1903- Vincente Minnelli: “I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.” The life of Vincente Minnelli, the director of classic MGM musicals likes Meet Me In St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), and An American In Paris (1951) was as peculiar as the surreal … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Elizabeth Taylor

By Stephen Rutledge on February 27, 2016 3:05 am

February 27, 1932- Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky: “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” She came into my … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Actor, Cesar Romero

By Stephen Rutledge on February 15, 2016 3:05 am

February 15, 1907- Cesar Romero's most famous role was The Joker on the campy television series Batman (1966-69), or maybe Estaban de la Cruz in the brief run of Zorro (1957-59). Both of those were television shows but Romero was also a kind of minor star in … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Actor, Joan Blondell

By Stephen Rutledge on August 30, 2015 3:05 am

August 30, 1906- Joan Blondell was one of the most versatile & enduring stars of The Golden Age Of Hollywood. She never reached the very top of the firmament like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford or … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: The Hollywood Sign

By Stephen Rutledge on July 13, 2015 5:05 am

July 13, 1923 – The Hollywood Sign, aside from a passion for … [Read more...]

Flashback 1948: Beverly Hills Crime Scene Photo

By Stephen Saban on July 31, 2013 8:03 am

Dated (incorrectly) April 5, 1948 (it was '58), the photo shows gangster Johnny Stompanato dead on the bedroom floor of movie queen Lana Turner's Beverly Hills house, after her daughter, 14-year-old Cheryl, allegedly stabbed him after seeing him in a heated argument with Turner, … [Read more...]

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like Tallulah Anymore

By WOW Staff on August 19, 2010 11:40 am

They broke the mold after husky-voiced actress Tallulah Bankhead was born but, as Emo Philips would say, "some of it grew back." Here is just a tiny portion of her fabulous social rap sheet that made her the Hollywood role … [Read more...]