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Your Travalanche Daily Digest for July 19, 2026
Today’s new Travalanche posts for July 19, 2026 are about Helen Gallagher, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the recently late Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon. Earlier Travalanche posts for July 19 (in no particular order) include ones on: Lizzie Borden Fleischer Studios Florence Foster Jenkins Arthur Rankin (Rankin-Bass) Faith Bacon Edgar Degas Dallas McKennon Juano Hernandez Patricia…
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On Thackeray, Vanity Fair, and Becky Sharp
July 19th was the birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), author of some 30 books, though we’ve only had the wherewithal for three: We touched on The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) in our post on Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. I’m also acquainted with one of Thackeray’s more obscure volumes, The Book of Snobs (1848) a collection of humor pieces he wrote for Punch. It was Thackeray…
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R.I.P. Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
Thanks, Eve Golden, for news about the passing of Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon (Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr., 1936-2026.) We’ve had occasion to mention Cannon here on Travalanche a couple of times, with reference to his 1962 hit “Palisades Park” which went to #3 on the charts. The song was written by Chuck Barris of The Gong Show and was about a real life amusement park in New Jersey, so of…
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The Helen Gallagher Centennial
The actress Helen Gallagher (1926-2024) was born 100 years ago today, and left us a mere matter of a few months ago. It’s probable that Gallagher is most widely known for having played the lead on the television soap opera Ryan’s Hope (1975-1989), a gig that began just over a half century ago. But though soap fans may be more numerous among the public at large, that branch of Gallagher’s career…
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Your Travalanche Daily Digest for July 18, 2026
Today’s new Travalanche posts for July 18, 2026 are about silent screen comedian Walter Hiers and New York area screenings of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Earlier Travalanche posts for July 18 (in no particular order) include ones on: Red Skelton Red Skelton’s comedy films Monty Banks Dave Chasen Lupe Velez Richard Dix Jane Frazee Hunter S. Thompson Ian Stewart (the Rolling…
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New Yorkers! "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is Coming to Screens Near You!
Man, what a great image: “The Last Supper” of Comedy! Another shoe dropping in the wake of our recent post on James Curtis’s new book Comedy is a Grim Business: The Making of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — not to mention our original massive post on that hilarious film. In conjunction with the book’s release, New York area comedy fans will be graced with some rare local screenings. Film…
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The Wide World of Walter Hiers
“I’m told you need my type”, is what Walter Hiers (1893-1933) is reported to have said upon meeting D.W, Griffith at Biograph in 1910. Fortunately he was correct, and others concurred, for Hiers wound up being part of comedy ensembles at other studios as well including Lubin, Thanhouser, Christie, and even majors like Paramount and Metro in a career spanning over 20 years. The portly comedian…
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Your Travalanche Daily Digest for July 17, 2026
Today’s new Travalanche posts for July 17, 2026 are about Lucille Benson, Mabel Van Buren, and some recent ink I got in the Wall Street Journal. Also happy National Tattoo Day. Earlier Travalanche posts for July 17 (in no particular order) include ones on: James Cagney Erle Stanley Gardner and Perry Mason Phyllis Diller Art Linkletter Donald Sutherland Will Ferrell Diahann Carroll John…
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Mabel Van Buren: Maven of the Movies
July 17 was the birthday of silent screen actress Mabel Van Buren (Mabel Brown Southard, 1878-1947). Not to be confused with Abigail Van Buren a.k.a. Dear Abby! Originally from Chicago, Mabel Van Buren started out with stock companies, appearing in popular plays such as The Virginian and The Squaw Man before beginning her career at Biograph in 1910. She appeared in nearly 100 films in a career…
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The Late Blooming Lucille Benson
If you’re around my age you’ll have no trouble recollecting character actress Lucille Benson (1914-1984). Benson’s years of peak visibility were her last ones, in the 1970s and early ‘80s. For someone so distinctive looking (short, heavy-set, white-haired, and possessed of a lively expressive face) she had a surprising amount of range. Her little old ladies could be sweet, stern, hearty,…
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Your Travalanche Daily Digest for July 16, 2026
Today’s new Travalanche posts for July 16, 2026 are about Orville Redenbacher, Millicent Hearst, and Mary Philbin. Also RIP Hal Williams. For World Snake Day: On Sideshow Snake Charmers and Related Matters For World PR Day: On Vaudeville Publicity Earlier Travalanche posts for July 16 (in no particular order) include ones on: Barbara Stanwyck Ginger Rogers Blossom Seeley Bess…
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Rah, Rah, Redenbacher!
For the life of me I’ll never understand public facing millionaires who don’t trouble to visit the dentist. Here at Travalanche we love entrepreneurs in general especially ones who appeared as costumed characters and yet as themselves in their own advertisements which is why we have previously profiled Colonel Sanders, Chef Boyardee and many others of their colorful ilk. Orville Redenbacher…
Only the Good Die Old: Two Cases of Holiness vs. Hollywood (Millicent Hearst and Mary Philbin)
We don’t often bundle together multiple biographies in the same post but we saw a common theme today, so it made sense to do so in this case. Today’s text concerns two women with showbiz ties who were both born on July 16, and whose Catholic faith dictated a parting of the ways with their old associations. Millicent Willson (1882-1974) was a second-generation vaudevillian who started out in an…
Your Travalanche Daily Digest for July 15, 2026
Today’s new Travalanche post for July 15, 2026 celebrates Harry Dean Stanton. And here are two posts for National Hot Dog Day. Earlier Travalanche posts for July 15 (in no particular order) include ones on: Tom Kennedy Dorothy Fields Charles Frohman Marjorie Rambeau DA Pennebaker Duke Moore Raymond Hackett The Bennetts of Australia Addie McPhail (Mrs Fatty Arbuckle) Bud Ernst If…
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Happy Heavenly Hundredth, Harry Dean Stanton
Born 100 years ago today, the jackermost of the crackermost, actor Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017). I’m of cracker stock myself; I feel it empowers me to reclaim the usually disparaging term as I see fit. More often than not, I wear it with pride. Stanton, who was from Kentucky, has always looked to me like one of my relatives, an uncle or a cousin, say, from my Tennessee side. He was homely as a…
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Your Travalanche Daily Digest for July 14, 2026
Today’s new Travalanche post for July 14, 2026 is about female impersonator Charles Pierce. Also see posts celebrating… Bastille Day World Chimpanzee Day World Orca Day Cow Appreciation Day National Nude Day (Live Nude Elf) Non Binary People’s Day (Tre’vell Anderson) Earlier Travalanche posts for July 14 (in no particular order) include ones on: Ken Murray Woody Guthrie Tom…
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The Charles Pierce Centennial
Once Upon a time there were three American drag stars all named Charles, all treading the boards of American theaters at the same time. Charles Pierce (1926-1999) was a generation older than Charles Ludlam and Charles Busch, but he was still going strong when the other two first came on the scene. When one saw ads for their shows in the newspaper, one was apt to get them confused. But whereas…
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