When legendary comedian Jack Oakie passed away in 1978, his wife, actress Victoria Horne Oakie, made certain that his memory would live on through America’s younger generation of aspiring comic actors ...
TIME stands still at Oakridge. The stone house on the Northridge hilltop is locked. Through its darkened windows can be glimpsed empty rooms that for nearly a half-century echoed with the laughter of ...
Victoria Horne Oakie, a former character actress and the widow of film comedian Jack Oakie who devoted the last 25 years to keeping his name alive, has died. She was 91. Oakie died last Friday of ...
“I guess Judd Apatow is one of the funniest people that ever walked through this school,” Dean of the School of Cinematic Arts Elizabeth Daley announced as she introduced this year’s honoree at the ...
The Kardashian sisters weren’t the first celebrities to settle in the Valley. Around 1940, when he starred with Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator, Oakie bought a rustic fieldstone manor on nearly ...
NORTHRIDGE — Architect Paul Williams designed it. Actress Barbara Stanwyck built it. Comedian Zeppo Marx helped ranch it. And actors Jack and Victoria Oakie drew Hollywood to the French-English manor ...
Emmy winner Bill Hader will receive the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Masters Of Comedy Award during the virtual event. By Chris Gardner The USC Comedy Festival, Vol. 5 has announced its full ...