HENRY JAYNES FONDA was born on May 16, 1905, in Grand Island, Nebraska, and moved to Omaha the following year. Henry was one of three children – he had two sisters – and was raised in a close-knit, re

GRACE KELLY was born in Philadelphia on November 12, 1929. Her father Jack was a self-made millionaire as well as a three-times Olympic gold medallist in sculling – a form of rowing. Grace’s brother,

AT 15, LEONARDO DICAPRIO SAT DOWN WITH A pile of rented VHS tapes and gave himself a crash course in movie history. He’d recently, and miraculously, landed his first major movie role, playing opposite

The year 1966 saw a new bright star light up the London stage. The play was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the playwright was Tom Stoppard who, at 29, was the youngest person ever to have a

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

Dolly Parton didn’t start acting until well into adulthood, but she took right to it. From comedies to tearjerkers to campy musicals, these are the films she’ll always be remembered for.