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

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset REBECCA PROBERT is professor of law at the University of Exeter STEVE THOMAS is a genealogist with over 20 years’ experience PHIL TOMASELLI is a mi

YOU won’t make it ring by looking at it every two minutes, you know.” My sister Joy has a habit of stating the obvious. I put my phone down and start drumming my fingers on the kitchen table; somethin

Earlier this summer, at one of Billie Eilish’s O2 Arena gigs, I witnessed tens of thousands of young girls, many of them queer, screaming the ‘Birds of a Feather’ singer’s name in tribal unison — and

BORN Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 5, 1908, Bette was a childhood nickname which she kept throughout her career. Bette started acting in plays and taking drama classes while s