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"She was worth a stare. She was trouble." That's Bogie on Bacall, in The Big Sleep, but all you need to know is, it's noir. The noir dame is one of the most awesome female archetypes out there.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Q: I would like to know what was the name of the well-known orchestra leader who made the popular song "Begin the Beguine." I saw it played in Cleveland at the Palace Theater in the '60s. Was he a horn player?
DVD Video Review: Sterling Hayden stars in a western that's somewhere between near-good and near-great, bubbling with blacklist subtext. (And a whale harpoon for Yesus' sake!)
John Hamilton (Sterling Hayden) - washingtonpost.com : "He left nine years of seafaring and his early Hollywood acting career to join the Marine Corps and the OSS under the assumed name of John Hamilton in 1941. His mastery of the seas -- he was first mate on a schooner voyage around the world in 1936 and captained a ship from Gloucester, Mass., to Tahiti in 1939 -- led OSS officials to have him set...
Talk about a secret recipe. It turns out that noted chef Julia Child was a spy. Previously classified files made public this past week confirm that Child participated in a secret spy network of military and civilian operatives called the Office of Strategic Services.
Several well-known American public figures were spies during World War II, declassified documents have confirmed. The celebrities include the chef Julia Child, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr, the film actor Sterling Hayden, and the baseball player Moe Berg. for more click here
Julia Child was a spy. I love real life more than fiction sometimes: Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world. They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an [...]
Julia Childs was an OSS spy? It seems unbelievable, doesn't it? The CIA just released a formerly classified list of over 24,000 spies working to neutralize the Axis threat during WWII. They included SCOTUS Justice Arthur Goldberg, Moe Berg, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sterling Hayden, Thomas Braden, John Hemingway, Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, and Miles Copeland. Read the whole thing here.
Trove of WWII spy files declassified Formerly classified files on famous US ex-spies such as chef Julia Child, Arab-Israeli peace negotiator Ralph Bunche, and Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden were unveiled to the public Thursday by the National Archives… Georgia war ‘blow to US energy’ [...]
Julia Child, Sterling Hayden and thousands of Americans, ordinary and extraordinary, worked for the precursor to the CIA. Before she became a famously untidy television chef, Julia Child had a secret career as an American spy, winning praise for her attention to detail as she managed the flow of classified communications from remote posts in Ceylon and China during World War II.
Today, The Boston Globe ran a story detailing Julia Child’s work in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the CIA. Why is this news? The National Archives just declassified 35,000 pages of files on OSS operatives in WWII. (Among the names is Sterling Hayden, AKA Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper.) Cool trivia from [...]