In 2001 the Library of Congress selected the 1939 documentary film Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically,…
Anyone lucky enough to have spent five minutes in the company of Don Drysdale would believe they had met their new best friend. But on the pitching mound for the…
As great as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly were in the dance routines they performed, one has only to see the acrobatic Nicholas Brothers in their virtuoso tap dancing musical…
The last living star player of the Brooklyn Dodgers' famed "Boys of Summer" teams is the right-handed hurler, Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926, in Anderson, Indiana. He threw a…
Her own mother’s jealousy cost Bettie Page a scholarship to Vanderbilt University. Instead she earned a 1944 Bachelor of Arts degree in education from Peabody College in Tennessee. It was…
Based on a slam bang adventure novel (that the Hays Office originally vetoed as fetid and objectionable source material for motion pictures based on the interracial love affair and the…
In 100 Rifles (1969) with Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch scored cinematic history in a mainstream Hollywood film with scenes portraying interracial intimacy for the first time.
The recent hit docudrama on Netflix, Einstein and the Bomb, explores the conflict felt by the father of atomic energy insofar as his being an ardent pacifist, but also Jewish,…
He was born Walker Smith, Jr. But fight fans know him as the great Hall of Fame boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson. His long career as a professional went from 1940…
Dick "Night Train" Lane played 14 years in the NFL, and the fact that so many of the records he set as cornerback known for ferocious tackles during the 1950's…
