• Alan Rickman

    “Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater…can change the world.” Alan Rickman Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born February 21, 1946 in Acton, London. His childhood was that of a normal working class family. Acting was not his first career. A talented artist, he and his friends opened a successful graphic design firm. He toyed with being an actor, but stayed with his business. After three years, he decided that it was now or never and plunged in wholeheartedly into acting. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1972 – 1974 and supported himself by working as a dresser. His big break was…

  • “Ol Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra

    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” – Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa and Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra. He was a large baby at birth weighing 13.5 pounds and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life. He also was scarred on his neck after a childhood operation on his mastoid bone. As a youth he would develop an…

  • Frankenstein

    The origins began on a cold, rainy evening in Geneva while Mary Shelley, her not yet husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori sat around a fire sharing old German ghost stories. As a dare, the four writers embarked on a journey of self-discovery to create the most horrifying story that their minds could imagine. And so, in 1816 Mary Shelley began her work that would one day be known to all the world. The book “Frankenstein” was first published in 1818 as an anonymous author, it wouldn’t be for another 5 years that Mary Shelley’s name would be associated with the work. A new discovery about the creative…

  • Vincent Price and his Glorious Mustache

    In order to understand the mustache of The King of Horror or The Merchant of Menace we must first take a look at his early acting career. It all started with the theater, as was the way with most actors of the time, and it was a very successful start to his career so naturally he wanted to amp up his resume a bit. In 1938 he went to Hollywood and landed his first role in the movie “Service de Luxe”. Not a notable movie by any means, Vincent even thought the movie to be a complete failure upon release, it was not the start he wanted on screen. Apparently…

  • Bela Lugosi – The Hungarian Dracula

    For some, the name Bela Lugosi may not be immediately apparent, but almost assuredly when the name Dracula is spoken one specific face comes to mind. It was Lugosi who brought Dracula the fame on film that has since spiraled into cult fanaticism. Some would have you believe that Lugosi was born in Transylvania but this is a falsehood most likely spurned on from his role as Dracula. In actuality he was born on October 20, 1882 as Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko in Lugos, Hungary which is about 50 miles away from Transylvania where the castle of Vlad the Impaler, the man behind Dracula, sits. As a child Lugosi was…