Category: Hollywood

Our featured photo is of her and Cesare Romano in “The Devil is a Woman” directed by Josef von Sternberg. It was her favorite film because it made her look “beautiful.”  You can watch it here and see if you agree. Marlene Dietrich, a German femme fatale, is also a mutable hourglass. Like Joseph Haydn, […]

I loved the television show, Barney Miller, and today watching a very old rerun, Fish caught my eye, with his deadpan lines and expressionless look, and so I decided to do his chart.  You can read about him at his New York Times obituary here. Abe Vigoda was a solid actor, and part of the […]

Richard Hatch made a career of being in soaps, starting out as the original Philip Brown c. 1970 when the pic above was taken, for the now defunct soap All my Children, a soapy that seemed to run forever.    After that debut, Richard made guest appearances on The Rookies, Hawaii Five-0, and The Waltons. In 1976 […]

Debbie Reynolds was unfortunately in the news this past Christmas holiday, when her only daughter, Carrie Frances Fisher, had a heart attack on board a flight from London, the UK to Los Angeles, California. The plane was forced to stop but the fifteen minutes of getting Ms. Fisher to a hospital was too long, and […]

Hallene Hill was a Hollywood Actress.  There is little on Amazon-owned Imdb.com about her, but I did notice that she did not start her acting career until she was near 50. As her midheaven is in Capricorn that makes sense, she was a late bloomer.  She has a lot of energetic planets in her fifth […]

Biograph: Her real name was Harriette Lake.  She took Ann from her mother and Sothern from the great Shakespearean actor, E. H. Sothern.  I happened to catch her last night on a Alfred Hitchcock Present TV program with John Cassavettes called “Waters Edge. “ She was a solid actress, a good comedienne — she was best […]