A comic and dramatic actress, she won acclaim for her roles in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979) and High Tide (1988) and in David Lean's...
In 1909, Abbott launched a campaign against vice in the black community. In 1910, Abbott hired J. Hockley Smiley as managing editor. Smiley was instru...
Best-known for his work in New York and Canadian theater from the 1950s to the 1990s, he also occasionally appeared in feature films and on TV. His mo...
Tart-tongued and independent, Bette Davis was one of America's biggest movies stars in the years surrounding World War II. After several supporting ro...