Alison Kerr

The silent star’s demise 100 years ago today lead to mass hysteria, and the suicide of his biggest fan

Actress who shot to fame as Joan Crawford’s manipulative onscreen daughter and survived a broken back to become a versatile musical and dramatic star, dies aged 98

Ken Peplowski, jazz clarinettist and saxophonist. Born: May 23 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, US. Died: February 2 2026, aged 66​

Stage performer celebrated for theatre, television and concert parties whose vivacity and wit delighted audiences across the UK

Film and TV series actor who was once described as ‘too shy’ for a role but went on to star in hits including Bridget Jones’s Diary, dies aged 92

Scott Eyman’s entertaining biography of the Classic Hollywood actress proves she was the ultimate star

Master jester, showman, millionaire publicist and ruthless landlord: the many faces of A.E. Pickard, perhaps Glasgow's Greatest Showman?

Spencer understood the director’s every strength and weakness and was a resourceful ally

Dan Morgenstern was just 20 years old, and not long in America, when he met Louis Armstrong for the first time. It was backstage at the Roxy Theatre in New York in 1950, and the young jazz fan had been brought along by a couple of new friends to pay…

Margalit Fox brings the period to life by providing sharply drawn cameos of a supporting cast of colorful characters Margalit Fox attends the “Obit” Premiere during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival (Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for Tribeca Film…

5 From our April 2024 issue Subscribe If ever a singer were difficult to pin down, it was Billie Holiday (1915-59), whose harrowing life story was first told in an unreliable memoir published just three years before her death. With Lady Sings the…

Schoolchildren were ecstatic to attend the 1954 British tour of Hollywood cowboy Roy Rogers and his beloved Palomino – the police less so A decade before The Beatles worked teenage baby boomers up into a state of hysteria, it was a singing cowboy and…

Billy Wilder’s masterpiece was inspired by a printer’s mischief and a lurid murder. But Wilder’s temper almost derailed the whole project Surprisingly, the idea for Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder’s film noir masterpiece about a gold-digging femme…

White Christmas songwriter led army of US troops in smash hit stage show HE IS perhaps most famous for White Christmas, the timeless festive classic written in 1942. But for five days in the war-time winter of 1943, Irving Berlin made Glasgow the…

Brigit Forsyth obituary: Actress best known for playing Rodney Bewes’s hen-pecking wife in the popular sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

She may have appeared in some of the most popular shows on television, but Anita Carey was familiar with tough times between acting jobs. When the parts were no

Patricia Dainton obituary: Graduate of the Rank charm school who starred in Sixpenny Corner, Britain’s first daily TV soap

The Scarface actor made his name in gangster films – but it was his offscreen underworld contacts that got him into trouble Many Hollywood stars visited the UK during the post-war years, but only one was barred from ever coming back. George Raft, one…