From the Archives: La Jolla Playhouse launched 75 years ago
75 years ago, film stars Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire launched the La Jolla Playhouse as a summer stock company.
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75 years ago, film stars Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire launched the La Jolla Playhouse as a summer stock company.
On TV and in film, Wild West cowboys were clean shaven, wore wrinkle-free clothes, and never uttered a four-letter word. Bob Connors' grandfather is here to set the record straight.
Although Hollywood is now considered a monolithic bastion of leftist and “woke” political and cultural sentiment with almost no dissent tolerated, it was not always that way, at least not to the degree that exists today. Go back sixty years ago, and that progressivist uniformity was not as apparent. Certainly, “Tinseltown” was never a haven for conservative and traditionalist cinema, actors, and screen writers, but back then to be on the Right and practicing a career in movies was not a rare oddity like it is in 2021. In particular, the sub-genre of Westerns, during its heyday on the b...
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