Hollywood legends

THE Hollywood star who went on to marry eight times and become an icon of the era was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner on February 8, 1920, in Wallace, Idaho. Aged six, Lana moved with her famil

GREGORY and Bernice Peck clearly had ambition for their son (born in La Jolla, California on April 5, 1916), naming him Eldred. However, their later divorce caused the child much upheaval; a move to h

Louisiana soul man ROBERT FINLEY overcame his hardscrabble origins, loss and blindness to finally find success in his later life. Amazingly, he believes he still has much to prove. “Most people retire at 65,” he tells Kevin EG Perry. “Hell, I came alive at 65.”

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

Paul Hill considers…

Steven C Smith Oxford University Press 978-0-197-68128-2 312pp (hb) £31.99 Theirs remains one of the most thrilling composer-director collaborations of all time, and while Bernard Herrmann and Alfred