Category: Academy Awards History

Born September 20, 1927 in Wales, Rachel Roberts had a strict Baptist upbringing against which she rebelled. Following her studies at the University of Wales and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she had a successful career on the London stage and entered films in 1953. Her screen career, however, did not take off until…

Born June 13, 1892 in Johannesburg, South Africa to a mining engineer and his wife, young Basil Rathbone, along with his parents and two younger siblings were forced to flee the country at the end of the decade when his father was accused by the Boers of being a spy for the British. Young Rathbone…