Author: Peter J Patrick

Born December 9, 1905 in Montrose, Colorado to a shoe store clerk and his homemaker wife, Dalton Trumbo would become the most famous of the Hollywood Ten when he was blacklisted in 1947. Educated in Colorado and Southern California, Trumbo became the sole support of his mother and younger sisters when his father died of…

Born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania on December 12, 1893, the future Edward G. Robinson emigrated to the U.S. with his parents at the age of 9. While studying law at City College of New York, he gravitated toward acting, making his Broadway debut in 1915 and his film debut the following year. He became…

Born June 25, 1903 in New York, New York, Anne Revere was a direct descendant of Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere. Her father was a stockbroker and her mother a homemaker. After graduating from Wellesley College, she enrolled in the American Laboratory School to study acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky. She made her…

Born November 28, 1933 in Redding Ridge, Connecticut, Hope Lange was the daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld’s music arranger and an actress mother. She began acting on stage at the age of 9, but her father’s death in 1942 put a financial burden on her mother who then ran a restaurant in Greenwich Village. She nevertheless…

Born March 10, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York of German, French and Irish descent, Claire Trevor (birth name Claire Wemlinger) became known as The Queen of Film Noir because of her portrayals of bad girls in many films noir and other thrillers. After completing high school, Trevor attended Columbia University and the American Academy of…

Born Shalom Jaffe in New York City on March 10, 1891, Sam Jaffe’s mother Ada Jaffe was a star in the Yiddish Theatre. His father Barnett was a jeweler. Young Sam graduated with a degree in engineering from City College of New York and earned his post-graduate degree at Columbia University. Having acted with his…

Oscar has four acting categories, one each for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. Actors who are co-leads in their films with other actors and actresses who are co-leads with other actresses can be nominated in the same category or, as is often the case lately, one can be can nominated as a…

Anyone who ever tried to put together a list of films that that should have been nominated for Academy Awards but weren’t, can tell you that it is an almost impossible task to sort out eligibility dates for the years 1927/28-1981 for to a number of reasons. The first awards were supposed to be for…