Eddie Cantor

Al Gordon dies at 89; Emmy-winning comedy writer for Jack Benny

2012-05-25 00:00:00

Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who spent much of his more than 40-year career writing for Jack Benny's penny-pinching, vain and perennially 39-year-old persona, has died. He was 89. Gordon died Wednesday of age-related causes at Cedars-...

Theater review: ‘Hello! My Baby’ at the Rubicon Theatre

2012-03-28 16:33:42

David Brown dies at 93; producer of 'Jaws,' 'The Sting'

2010-02-02 00:00:00

David Brown, the former 20th Century Fox executive who partnered with Richard Zanuck in the early 1970s and produced the blockbuster hit "Jaws," as well as "The Verdict" and "Cocoon" before launching a solo career as a film and theatrical producer, has...

Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children

2010-02-02 00:00:00

Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95. Ruben, who devoted much of...

Classic Hollywood: Joel Grey looks back — and forward — at his career

2011-01-17 00:00:00

There was a time in 1965 when Joel Grey thought he would throw in the towel on show business. He wanted to be Laurence Olivier but instead he was doing a dreadful musical in Jones Beach, Long Island, called " Mardi Gras" with the June Taylor Dancers. "It...

Honorary Oscars going to four 'extraordinary' men

2010-08-26 16:33:40

What 'Boardwalk Empire' really does right: American pop's salad days

2010-09-21 16:35:24

Eddie Fisher dies at 82; popular 1950s crooner was known for his high-profile marriages

2010-09-25 00:00:00

As Eddie Fisher once put it, by the time he was 33, "I had been married to America's sweetheart and America's femme fatale, and both marriages had ended in scandal. "I'd been one of the most popular singers in America and had given up my career for love....

Gloria Stuart dies at 100; 'Titanic' actress

2010-09-27 10:33:00

Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film — has...

At 'Cast Party,' the mike is open and the party is on

2010-03-28 00:00:00

By the time Liza Minnelli took the stage at Birdland, just after midnight, the party was in full swing: Michael Feinstein hugged the Broadway legend and a bubbly, upbeat crowd sang happy birthday to her. Parker Posey performed a wild, gyrating dance to...

Steffi Sidney-Splaver dies at 74; 'Rebel Without a Cause' actress

2010-02-27 00:00:00

Steffi Sidney-Splaver, who as a young actress appeared in and then gave up acting to become a Hollywood writer, publicist and producer, has died. She was 74. Sidney-Splaver died Monday of kidney failure at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, said her...

Theater review: 'Sammy' at the Old Globe

2009-10-06 04:32:40

Versatile performer and entertainer Eddie Cantor at a food show, date unknown. Some of Cantor's hits include "Makin' Whoopee", "Ida", "If You Knew Susie", "Ma! He's Makin' Eyes at Me." He also coined the phrase 'March of Dimes,' used to identify the foundation today.

2013-01-25 15:57:58

Stephen DeRosa as Eddie Cantor

2012-10-05 16:06:57

Big band singer Connie Haines, seen in 1960, also was an actress, a regular on the Abbot & Costello Radio Show and a frequent guest artist during the golden years of television variety shows.

2008-09-25 16:11:02