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    Apr 22, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  1. Toby's Columbia brings magic of 'Wizard of Oz' to stage

    Everyone who has ever sat before a television or movie screen to enjoy the fantasy of "The Wizard of Oz" should plan to see how magical this family favorite becomes onstage at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia. The production brings the beloved...

    Tags: Judy Garland, Harold Arlen, Helen Hayes, L. Frank Baum, Entertainment

  2. Oct 1, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  3. From Baltimore to Broadway to Hollywood

    Over the years, many noted actors, such as Mildred Natwick, Edward Everett Horton, Mildred Dunnock, Charley Chase, Francis X. Bushman, Anita Gillette and Josh Charles, have hailed from Baltimore, and their paths to stardom often began by treading the...

    Tags: Al Jolson, Companies and Corporations, James Coburn, Maurice Chevalier, Edward Everett Horton

  4. Dec 14, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
  5. Dec 14, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
  6. Feb 19, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Oscar takes note of gender benders

    Gender-bender acting has been going on since the earliest days of theater, when women were forbidden to appear on stage and female roles were played by men.  And many a famous performer has attempted to play someone of the opposite sex. Katharine Hepburn played a woman who disguises herself as a boy in "Sylvia Scarlett"; Jack Benny played the title role in the film version of "Charley's Aunt" -- and Ray Bolger in the musical version "Where's Charley?"; Alec Guinness played Lady Agatha in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"; and even Cary Grant donned hosiery and a wig for "I Was a Male War Bride."
    Gender-bender acting has been going on since the earliest days of theater, when women were forbidden to appear on stage and female roles were played by men. And many a famous performer has attempted to play someone of the opposite sex. Katharine Hepburn...

    Tags: Bob Dylan, Cate Blanchett, Cinema Industry, Todd Haynes, Death

  8. Feb 19, 2003 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  9. Celebrity hijinks on the links were a matter of course

    Times Staff Writer
    The sycamore that guards the 12th green at Riviera Country Club? That's where Humphrey Bogart used to sit with a trench coat and a thermos -- contents undetermined -- to watch players go by. Some people still refer to the spot as "Bogart's tree," so with...

    Tags: Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tv program), Spencer Tracy, Joe Pesci, Mary Pickford, Glen Campbell

  10. Apr 19, 2001 |Story| Metromix
  11. 5 films adapted from highly popular children's classics

    1. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming-King Vidor; 1939) 4 stars One of those movies that define the whole medium for many: MGM's gorgeously colorful, witty, thrilling and melodic adaptation of L. Frank Baum's opulent fantasy that takes Dorothy Gale of...

    Tags: Judy Garland, Roald Dahl, Movies, L. Frank Baum, DVDs and Movies

  12. Sep 12, 2002 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  13. Toughest Colt lifted up a city

    Sun Columnist
    It must have been a blind-side tackle that took John Unitas yesterday. The man who made Sudden Death part of the American language would have headed downfield in that determined crablike scuttle of his if he had seen the real thing coming. Anybody could...

    Tags: Health, John Wayne, Jim Parker, Johnny Unitas, Football

  14. Feb 4, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Winning transformations in films

    Baltimore Sun
    For all the attention it's been getting, you'd think Nicole Kidman's nose was the star of "The Hours," the much-acclaimed film about three women whose lives are affected by the works of author Virginia Woolf. To portray Woolf, Kidman sports a fake...

    Tags: Grace Kelly, Yul Brynner, Movies, Orson Welles, John Leguizamo

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