 She looks calm now but you never know what crazy thing she's about to do. 
We're usually pretty good at guessing when screen performers are using pseudonyms, but this time we were fooled. We figured Italian actress Crippy Yocard's name was so bizarre it had to be real. We were wrong, though. Her real name is Cristina Amodei. Her pseudonym is memorable, but looking at the photo above, do you think she's in any way forgettable? Yocard was one of the least inhibited actresses of her era, but never really got her career into high gear, appearing in only five films, among them 1976's La nipote del prete, and the 1977 blaxploitation flick Mr. Mean. The above shot is undated, but probably from 1977.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1936—Crystal Palace Gutted by Fire
In London, the landmark structure Crystal Palace, a 900,000 square foot glass and steel exhibition hall erected in 1851, is destroyed by fire. The Palace had been moved once and fallen into disrepair, and at the time of the fire was not in use. Two water towers survived the blaze, but these were later demolished, leaving no remnants of the original structure. 1963—Warren Commission Formed
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However the long report that is finally issued does little to settle questions about the assassination, and today surveys show that only a small minority of Americans agree with the Commission's conclusions. 1942—Nightclub Fire Kills Hundreds
In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the fashionable Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people. Patrons were unable to escape when the fire began because the exits immediately became blocked with panicked people, and other possible exits were welded shut or boarded up. The fire led to a reform of fire codes and safety standards across the country, and the club's owner, Barney Welansky, who had boasted of his ties to the Mafia and to Boston Mayor Maurice J. Tobin, was eventually found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. |
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