Jessica Tandy became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for
Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won
a BAFT and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). She was named
as one of People’s “50 Most Beautiful People” in 1990.

Jessica Tandy in The Birds (1963)

Tandy with her husband, actor Hume Cronyn

 

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Dean Martin was a popular singer,film actor, television star and comedian, best
known for being half of the comedy team, Martin and Lewis (above). Martin’s hit
singles included “Memories Are Made of This” (1956), and “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964). Nicknamed the “King of Cool”, Martin was one of the 
members of the “Rat Pack” (below).

The “Rat Pack” (left-right) Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr.,Frank
Sinatra, Joey Bishop, and Dean Martin.

Actor Liam Neeson has been nominated for an Oscar, the United Kingdom’s
BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He is best remembered in the role
of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993). Neeson was
also in Batman Begins (2005), Star Wars Episode l:The Phantom Menace
(1999), and Taken (2009).  

Liam Neeson in Taken

Neeson in a scene from Schindler’s  List

Liam Neeson as he appears in Star Wars Episode l: The Phantom Menace

The drive-in theater was the creation of Camden, New Jersey chemical plant owner Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. In 1932, Hollingshead conducted outdoor theater tests
in his driveway. After nailing a screen to trees in his backyard, he set a 1928 Kodak Projector on the hood of his car and put a radio behind the screen, testing different sound levels with his car windows down and up. Blocks under vehicles in the driveway enabled him to determine the size and spacing enabled him to determine the size and spacing of ramps so all automobiles could have a clear view of the screen. Following these experiments, he applied for a patent in 1932. Hollingshead’s drive-in opened in New Jersey June 6, 1933. It offered 500 slots and a 40 by 50 ft. screen. He advertised his drive-in theater with the slogan, "The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are”. The first film shown was the 1933 Adolphe Menjou film Wife Beware.

Film actor William Lawrence Boyd is best known for portraying cowboy hero
Hopalong Cassidy (above).