Before I became the movie star and pop culture icon of my era, I made a few bucks doing a television commercial. Had I gone nowhere or crashed my racing car the next day, this clip would be buried in the Pepsi archives. You’ve never seen me like this before – it’s not my classicRead the Rest…
► Match the line to the movie ~ Why don’t you get yourself a nice girl. Ma, I get a nice girl every night. ~ What we got here is a failure to communicate. ~ Know your limitations. You are a moron. ~ I’m in love with you. Snap out of it. ~ I’m yourRead the Rest…
By the time Jan and I won the local “Jitterbug” contest, the pop culture craze was becoming old shoe. The generation that came of age during World War II (those intrepid parents of baby boomers) made the jitterbug – swing dance styles to jazzy beats – a national youth obsession. Swing was taken literally. LookRead the Rest…
Some call me a pop culture flash in the pan. Maybe—but a flash followed by a loooong sizzle. My real name is Arthur Gelien. My stage name should ring a baby boomer bell, even if you don’t know all my accomplishments. Although gay (very discretely) in the 1950s, I was one of the hottest teenage heart-throbsRead the Rest…
It was a quiet epic in a era of marauding monsters and fiendish creatures. Pop culture sci-fi movies in the 1950s, targeting young baby boomers, were a steady diet of either hostile aliens or homegrown mutants in unprovoked assault against humankind. The threat seemed so horrific there were hardly words to describe the danger: ItRead the Rest…
I was a sensational international sex symbol in the 1950s and 60s, inspiration for the pop culture “sex kitten” fantasy. One famous feminist writer described me as “the first and most liberated woman in Europe.” Hardly any of my movies were in English, but Americans – especially young baby boomer lads and their dads – flocked toRead the Rest…
I was debonair, dashingly handsome, and married a Kennedy. My acting career spanned decades but frankly, I was never an A-list star. By the late baby boomer 60s, I was regarded as an old, if charming, tuxedo. I hung on in Hollywood as a pop culture celebrity appearing in television guest spots and movie cameos.Read the Rest…
I was debonair, dashingly handsome, and married a Kennedy. My acting career spanned decades but frankly, I was never an A-list star. By the late baby boomer 60s, I was regarded as an old, if charming, tuxedo. I hung on in Hollywood as a pop culture celebrity appearing in television guest spots and movie cameos.Read the Rest…
Early baby boomers grew up under the great “mushroom cloud.” I was instructed to keep the plan secret, very secret. No peeps to my school buddies or cousins. Construction was completed in just two weeks in 1959, mostly at night. My cover story in case neighbors asked: installation of a new well and septic tank. The mere mentionRead the Rest…
In my early career I knocked around Broadway and got supporting roles on television. I won the lead in a TV Western, but the show folded after eight months. My best known movie appearance was as CIA operative Felix Leiter in Dr. No, the first James Bond film. All this hardly made me a babyRead the Rest…
