This essay has been adapted from the research behind Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s book The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon. (Viking) New ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Time commissioned this charcoal sketch of singer-actor Rudy Vallee, but it never appeared in print for unknown reasons ...

Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a band leader. In the 1920s and early 30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (where he was hated ...