Alice Faye

Tony Martin dies at 98; singer-actor in Hollywood musicals

2012-07-30 11:35:00

Tony Martin, one of the last of the big-name singer-actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98. Martin, who toured for years with his wife, dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of natural causes Friday at his home in Los Angeles,...

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 5, 1941

2011-03-05 16:33:09

Hugh Hefner: The Bunny man

2009-05-09 00:00:00

I've been in this room in the Playboy Mansion before. As I recall, the painting on the wall was a topless portrait of his wife, Kimberley, mother of his two teenage sons, from whom he is now separated. Now it's just Hefner, painted in Tudor robes, in...

'Hello, Dolly!' Among Goodspeed's 50th Anniversary Shows

2012-10-15 06:25:00

“Good News,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “The Most Happy Fella” will be the three main stage shows celebrating Goodspeed Opera House’s 50th anniversary season in 2013. �The season will open with the 1927 musical “...

Must tell-all books REALLY tell all?

2012-10-02 01:05:11

"I AGREE with Barbra Streisand when she was asked the secret of a happy marriage? "Time apart!'" she replied. "I think Alice Faye and Phil Harris felt the same way!" This is Bill Biss philosophizing. I USUALLY defend gossip and people who talk too...

Singer, actor Tony Martin dies at 98

2012-07-30 21:55:07

Tony Martin, the romantic singer who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and sustained a career in records, television and nightclubs from the Depression era into the 21st century, died of natural causes Friday evening at his West Los...

Chessie M. Brailey, civil rights activist

2011-12-24 14:07:28

Chessie M. Brailey, a civil rights activist who had been married to former state legislator F. Troy Brailey, died Dec.16 from complications of dementia at her daughter's Harbor Court condominium. The former longtime Easterwood Park resident was 94....

Marriage licenses

2011-08-06 14:58:00

Marriage licenses issued in June in Washington County Quentin Carlisle Jackson, 40, and Ileana Santiago, 32, both of Hagerstown Timothy Brian Stout, 36, and Michelle Marie Gary, 37, both of Hagerstown Brandt Lois Kauffman, 30, and Wing Kuen Lo, 34,...

Obituary: Macie Holt

2011-01-03 16:00:00

PERRYVILLE — Macie Elizabeth Brady Holt, 65, of Mitchellsburg, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Saturday in Lexington. She was the wife of Billy Joe Holt. Born Oct. 24, 1945, in Boyle County, she was a daughter of the late Stanley and...

She made a great dumb blond in the 1953 comedies "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "How to Marry a Millionaire." Of course, she became the object of every man's desires when her white dress flipped up thanks to the subway grating on a New York sidewalk in 1955's "The Seven Year Itch.

2008-05-08 12:24:13

Singer and musical comedy star Alice Faye appears in character for the film 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' in this 1964 file photo. Faye died May 9. (AP Photo)

1998-05-09 13:46:00

Alice Faye appears in character for the film "In Old Chicago" in this 1937 photo. Faye, whose lilting songs, blond beauty and sunshiny personality brightened 20th Century Fox musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, died May 9.(AP Photo)

1998-05-09 13:45:00