Hollywood legends

JOAN CRAWFORD’S career included more than 80 movies and an Oscar. She drew on life experience for her onscreen persona of a feisty woman striving to better herself, as her upbringing was tough. Born L

THE “King of Cool” was one of the biggest blue-eyed heart-throbs of his time, but the Hollywood actor had humble and troubled beginnings. McQueen’s childhood was in no way rosy. Born to a teenage moth

Charismatic star who shunned the Hollywood limelight

LIKE Michael Caine and Albert Finney, Terence Stamp was one of a new wave of working class actors who came into vogue in the 1960s. His brooding good looks and piercing gaze mesmerised cinemagoers in

BORN Eugene Curran Kelly, Gene Kelly was the middle child of five to a phonograph salesman and his wife. Growing up in Pittsburgh, he developed a strong work ethic and a drive to succeed in everything

DEBORAH JANE TRIMMER was born on September 30, 1921, in Scotland. Her father had fought in WWI and lost his leg in the Battle of the Somme. Having anxiously awaited his return, her mother married him