Nightmare Alley News

Okay, it's not exactly one of those The Clown Who Wants to Play Hamlet deals, but in 1947, Tyrone Power -- as ridiculously good looking a leading man as the studio system ever coughed up, and then at the height of his success -- decided he wanted to do something dark, edgy and unexpected .

This Minnesota farm girl made a good start in movies in the late 1940s, but her career quickly peaked.

Forgotten today, source novelist William Lindsay Gresham actually worked with the freaks among a carnival before writing Nightmare Alley .

"I'm not in a war. I'm back carrying the mail." During the little over two years from the beginning of the Second World War to the attack on Pearl Harbor, there existed a marked isolationist sentiment in the United States, particularly among those on the extreme left.