Saturday, November 8, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 8, 2025 is about British actress Angela Scoular. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 8 (in no particular order) include ones on: Some Famous an…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18PMAngela Scoular (1945-2011) turned 20 the day I was born; it’s hard not to feel a bond with someone when there’s a correspondence like that. As it turns out, that period was to be the pea…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AMFriday, November 7, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 7, 2025 is about Joni Mitchell and a can of worms she opened. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 7 (in no particular order) include ones on: I…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AMJoni Mitchell (b. 1943) was born on November 7. Unlike some of my friends (all of them singers, and all of them female) I know very little of Joni Mitchell’s music apart from her hit singl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:12AMThursday, November 6, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 6, 2025 is about rock musician, movie actor, and murderer Bobby Beausoleil. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 6 (in no particular order) incl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AMNovember 6 is the birthday of murderous Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil (b. 1947). I’m not here to celebrate the man’s life, by any means, but I just wanted to point out some areas…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:18AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 5, 2025 is about silent movie child star Baby Marie. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 5 (in no particular order) include ones on: Hats Off w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AMThus far we have told you of Baby Peggy, Baby Leroy, and even Baby Rose Marie on this all-encompassing universal Ur blog! Today we tell a tale of yet ANOTHER baby! Can there be more babies? …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:12AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 4, 2025 is about Ralph Spence (The Gorilla). Earlier Travalanche posts for November 4 (in no particular order) include ones on: Will Rogers Joe Fr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PMLittle is known about the origins of Ralph Spence (1890-1949), but by the mid ’20s he had earned a reputation as Hollywood’s most highly paid and best known title writer, and was highly …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:31AMMonday, November 3, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 3, 2025 is about the life and death of Hungarian Jewish silent comedian Charles Puffy. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 3 (in no particular …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PMI first learned about plus sized silent comedian Charles Puffy (Károly Hochstein, 1883-ca. 1943) from Ben Model’s excellent book The Silent Film Universe earlier this year. He also wrote …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06AMSunday, November 2, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 2, 2025 is an All Souls’ Day message. For real! Earlier Travalanche posts for November 2 (in no particular order) include ones on: Burt Lancaste…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AMNovember 2 is, for some of us, All Souls’ Day, the day when we remember the Departed, which is to resurrect them, so to speak. Confusingly, it’s the third day of Allhallowtide, with All …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:12AMSaturday, November 1, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 1, 2025 is about about barnstorming Shakespearean Daniel Bandmann. On this day 100 years ago, three significant things happened: 1) Buster Keaton�…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:48PMWe had occasion to mention 19th century actor Daniel Bandmann (1837-1905) the other day. As it happens, November 1 was his birthday. A German Jew from the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Bandmann firs…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AMFriday, October 31, 2025
Ah, Worlds within Within Worlds Within War of the Worlds! As it happens, 50 years ago was the broadcast premier of the TV movie The Night That Panicked America (1975)…whereas the actual �…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:36AMBrian Doyle-Murray (b. 1945) turns 80 today. I always find it amusing when someone who has seemed old and crusty and cantankerous for many decades reaches such a benchmark, because what’s …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:36AMHappy Halloween! Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 31, 2025 are about Brian Doyle-Murray, John Keats, a new documentary about John Candy, the 1975 TV movie The Night That Panicked …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:36AMJohn Keats (1795-1821) had a lot of nerve being born on Halloween when it was Byron and Shelley who were were at that Frankenstein party, but on the other hand he was obsessed with death, an…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AMHow fitting for a man named Candy to have been born on Halloween, eh? My original post on John Candy (1950-1994) was written a dozen years ago, and now it’s over three decades since he lef…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AMI have very little intel on character actress Jessica James (1929-1990) but man oh man am I intrigued, and only partially because of the attribute so energetically highlighted above. This po…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:18AMTed Shapiro (1899-1980) was a show biz legend, though he was usually mentioned as a sort of footnote to other stars. The son of Jewish immigrants from what is now Lithuania, he came to fame …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:18AMThursday, October 30, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for October 30, 2025 is about Bobby Alto. Earlier Travalanche posts for October 30 (in no particular order) include ones on: Ruth Gordon Ruth Gordon’s Darker…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:42PMBobby Alto (Robert Altomare, 1938-2012) was born on October 30, though this post won’t strictly be about him, because he often worked with partners. I came across Alto’s name when I was …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 29, 2025 are include tributes to the late Prunella Scales, as well as Lew Parker (That Girl), and vaudeville and Broadway comic actress Rose Stahl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PMThanks to Eve Golden for the sad intel about the passing of Prunella Scales (b. 1932). Natch every obit is foregrounding Fawlty Towers but she’s just supporting John Cleese there. For my m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PMThe title of this post is to clarify that we are not referring to the ex-wife of troubled actor Nick Stahl, who has acted and done other work in the film business, but was born Rose Murphy. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AMThat Girl with Marlo Thomas was one of the very first TV shows I ever watched when I was a very small child. A few years ago I reconnected with it and it was a very happy experience. It reaw…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Folks my age recall Dolores “Dody” Goodman (1914-2008) primarily as a comedienne or comic actress. She came off as a kind of dippy, flighty, small town woman, probably Southern, with a s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:24AMHere’s why you’d better pay attention when the ringmaster or emcee tells you “no flash photography”. Ormer Locklear (1891-1920) was a barnstorming stunt pilot who perished while in t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:24AM 
