2006-07-31 17:08:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Yes.. Nancy Carroll.. on my Mother's side of the family..
Celebrated by movie publicist/historian John Springer as the first new star of the talkie era, Nancy Carroll enjoyed a thriving career long before the advent of the microphone. A stage performer from the age of 16, Nancy entered films in 1927, scoring a personal success with her ingenue turn in Abie's Irish Rose (1928). It was in this film--essentially a silent, with a few talking sequences added as an afterthought--that Nancy became the first Hollywood actress ever to sing and dance on a sound stage. From 1929 through 1931, Nancy was one of the brightest stars on the Paramount Pictures lot, headlining several musicals and light comedies, and exhibiting a fine flair for dramatics in such soap opera fare as Stolen Heaven (1931). Her career was irreparably damaged by the notorious flop The Night Angel (1931), and by the end of the 1930s Nancy was accepting undemanding secondary roles in films like There Goes My Heart (1938). Retiring from moviemaking in 1938, Nancy returned to the stage; she was a busy television actress in the 1950s and 1960s, at one point co-starring on a live sitcom, The Aldrich Family. Nancy Carroll died suddenly at the age of 61 while appearing with Bert Lahr in a Nyack, New York stage production of Never Too Late. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
2006-07-31 17:20:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Fletcher Christian (the guy who mutinied on the Bounty) is my great great great great uncle. And yes, Mutiny on the Bounty is a true story...the books were based on ships logs and courts-martial records.
Oh, and my aunt Grace used to play cribbage with Ed Gein while she was a volunteer at Mendota State Mental Hospital in Mendota, Wisconsin.
2006-07-31 17:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by photonic_beam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cousin Jerry Brightman used to play Steel Guitar with Buck
Owens and the Buckaroos.
2006-08-01 05:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know them directly but my dad was adopted and how the whole story went for my whole life is, it's was a big movie star.. back in the day who had an affair with his secretary.. and he forced her to put my dad up for adoption. I have an idea of who it is... and the other person I am distantly related to is John Edwards.
2006-07-31 18:03:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'm related to Hayley Mills.
2006-07-31 18:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by charmingchatty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes An actress and model(not sure about modeling but i think so)!Its my grandma, Shes dated so many movie stars!
2006-08-01 08:34:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really weird, but Kevin Costner is like my 5th cousin or so I've been told!
2006-07-31 17:24:01 · answer #7 · answered by Cherry M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cousin was on Jerry Springer once..lol.
2006-07-31 17:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. but my great grandma used to be al capones maid in chicago, the 1930s.
2006-07-31 17:19:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My great-great uncle was William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition...........Pretty cool, eh????????
2006-07-31 17:16:37 · answer #10 · answered by mizzzzthang 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋