Dyanne Thorne was born Dorothy Ann Seib on October 14, 1936, in Park Ridge, New Jersey. Like a lot of future performers, she discovered the stage through school productions and local gigs, writing for her high-school paper and testing out her voice as a singer. After graduation she pursued acting seriously, studying in New York … Read More “Dyanne Thorne: The Life and Legacy of Cult Cinema’s “She-Wolf”” »
She wasn’t supposed to be there, an Ohio farm girl with dirt under her nails, suddenly drowning in gowns and spotlights. The studio men signed her, lined her up with the big shots, told her she had the face, the figure, the shine. And she did. Hell, she could’ve run the whole town. But she … Read More “Jean Peters : The Starlet Who Told Hollywood To Go To Hell” »
Sylvia Kristel wasn’t just some girl in a wicker chair. She was Emmanuelle. She was the 70s fantasy in flesh, the ticket stub to liberation. Men and women went into dark theaters and came out whispering about freedom, about sex, about possibility. On screen she was elegant, unashamed, soft as smoke.Off screen she was a … Read More “Sylvia Kristel: Emmanuelle, Erotic Cinema, and the Woman Behind the Myth” »
Claudia Cardinale wasn’t just another pretty face flickering on the screen—she was the kind of woman who made the film stock sweat. In the 1960s, when the world was drunk on Fellini and dust and cigarette smoke, she walked into the frame with that impossible mix of beauty and guts, and everyone else had to … Read More “Claudia Cardinale – a look back at a career that bled legend all over the screen” »
Stefania Sandrelli—Christ, she’s been at it longer than most of us have been alive. Six damn decades, a hundred films or more, like she’s been chain-smoking roles the way drunks slam whiskey shots. She came out of the ’60s all fresh-faced and wide-eyed, the darling of Italian comedy, and instead of burning out or turning … Read More “Stefania Sandrelli: Six Decades of Italian Cinematic Brilliance” »
Picture it: 1978. A boat rocking in some fake ocean, plastic fin pushing through the water like an ex-wife with a lawyer in tow. And clinging to the side, wide-eyed and drenched, is Ann Dusenberry. She was playing Tina Wilcox, the nice little pageant girl in Jaws 2. The one who screamed her lungs out … Read More “Ann Dusenberry: From Jaws 2 Survivor to ’80s Screen Star” »
Elisha Cuthbert’s career wasn’t a straight road, it was a busted carnival ride that kept lurching from one corner of Hollywood to the next. She started out smiling wide on Canadian kids’ TV, like the wholesome babysitter you’d trust to not raid your liquor cabinet and ended up in the early 2000s wearing the crown … Read More “Scream Queen, Sitcom Ace: The Many Lives of Elisha Cuthbert” »
When Sofía Vergara enters a room, she doesn’t just walk in – she storms in, heels clicking like a metronome set to a salsa beat, laughter ricocheting off the walls. She’s the kind of presence that turns heads and then makes those heads throw back in laughter. For over two decades, Vergara’s journey has been … Read More “Sofía Vergara: From Colombian Bombshell to Hollywood’s Cocaine Godmother” »
Cameron Diaz didn’t so much enter Hollywood as blast through its doors in a whirl of platinum-blonde 90s energy. One day she was a virtually unknown model; the next, she was the sexy bombshell in 1994’s The Mask, effortlessly stealing scenes from a rubber-faced Jim Carrey. In the decades that followed, Diaz’s career became a … Read More “There’s Something About Cameron: A Darkly Humorous Chronicle of Diaz’s Acting Career” »
Angel Tompkins stumbled into acting the way most pretty girls in California did back then — through the back door of modeling gigs and cameras that always wanted a piece of her. Born in ’42, raised in the smog and sun, she started turning up on TV in the late ’60s — westerns, crime shows, … Read More “Angel Tompkins and the Long Hangover of 1970s Cinema” »
