Today is the birthday of the great stage and screen actor Walter Hampden (Walter Hampden Dougherty, 1879-1955). For better or worse, Hampden is probably best known today for the meta, self-referential in-joke that begins All About Eve (1950) — he is the long-winded, aging thespian who presents Anne Baxter her award. Well over a half century later […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:30AM on June 30, 2016