Tom Mix

Esther Williams dies at 91; athletic star of aquatic musicals

2013-06-07 00:00:00

The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar. With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the "aqua musical," an odd sub-genre of films that became an enormous hit...

Micky Moore dies at 98; director and early Hollywood actor

2013-03-10 17:39:00

Micky Moore and Hollywood grew up together. He was a toddler in 1916 when he began his career as a child actor in silent films and sat on the laps of such leading ladies as Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. As a 5-year-old he worked with legendary...

Letters: Framing the gun debate

2013-01-27 00:00:00

Re "The NRA's loose cannon," Editorial, Jan. 24 National Rifle Assn. Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's defense of "absolutism" on gun rights requires a strong rebuttal. The framers knew that change is a fact of life, and they wrote the...

Patrick Stewart: ‘Next Generation,’ ‘X-Men’ and Hollywood history

2012-12-26 07:23:31

Classic Hollywood: Western film pioneers have silent-era roots

2011-07-25 00:00:00

In a world that's constantly changing, it's good to know that some things basically stay the same — for example, the movie western. It's a genre that hasn't changed much in the last century of cinematic history: There are good guys and there are bad...

Edith Fellows dies at 88; child actress

2011-06-30 00:00:00

Child actress Edith Fellows had made about 30 films by the age of 13 when she starred in a heart-wrenching, high-profile 1936 custody case, which was driven, she later said, by "my money — past, present and future." Abandoned as an infant by her...

Out West, in Utah's Butch Cassidy country

2008-04-20 00:00:00

"Most of what follows is true." That's the opening of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," the 1969 movie about two bandits born as the sun was setting over the mesas and buttes of the old Wild West. Morally ambiguous, the movie struck a chord with...

Esther Williams, Hall of Fame swimmer and movie star, dies at 91

2013-06-06 15:47:28

Esther Williams, star of 1940s and 1950s "aqua-musicals" and an inaugural member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, died Thursday at age 91 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Williams appeared in Fort Lauderdale along with Johnny...

Styles in role models

2013-06-03 12:30:05

. . . "Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong." -- The old man in the movie "Hud" to his grandson. . . . Once upon a time,...

Voice: Fires cannot destroy writer's memories

2013-05-06 23:58:00

Because of the misguided and senseless actions of child arsonists, our city has suffered tragic destruction in recent weeks. Most of the destroyed buildings have been standing for decades. They are Brawley landmarks which will take much time and effort to...

Framers' intent was pure ornamentation

2011-12-09 01:05:39

Q Picture frames were very elaborate during Victorian times. The rectangular frame for an oil painting could be 3 or 4 inches deep with several different types of carving on the borders, and the frame often was covered with gold leaf. Small frames...

Holiday season was time for social calls in 1911

2011-12-18 00:00:00

100 Years Ago Paying a call From the Times' social column: "Miss Marie Wylie of Fairview has returned home after visiting Mrs. Estelle Bach of Walbrook. Mrs. Ella Tillman of Baltimore, visited her mother Mrs. Samuel Longfelter last week. Mr. and...

Movie stars "Flash," a dog, eats dinner with "Tony," a horse, and Western film actor Tom Mix on April 26, 1929. Mix was the first Western megastar and helped define the genre. He made 291 films between 1909-35, and all but nine were silent films.

2013-06-06 09:49:18

Movie stars Flash the dog, eating dinner with Tony the horse and Western film actor Tom Mix, April 26, 1929. Mix was the first Western megastar and helped define the genre. He made 291 films between 1909-35, and all but nine were silent films.

2013-01-25 15:48:19