Trivia: One of the precious few actors of the "pretty boy" school to survive past the 1950s, Robert Wagner was the son of a Detroit steel executive. When his family moved to Los Angeles, Wagner's original intention of becoming a businessman took second place to his fascination with the film industry. Thanks to his dad's connections, he was able to make regular visits to the big studios. Inevitably, a talent scout took notice of Wagner's boyish handsomeness, impressive physique, and easygoing charm. After making his unbilled screen debut in The Happy Years (1950), Wagner was signed by 20th Century Fox, which carefully built him up toward stardom. He played romantic leads with ease, but it wasn't until he essayed the two scene role of a shellshocked war veteran in With a Song in My Heart (1952) that studio executives recognized his potential as a dramatic actor. He went on to play the title roles in Prince Valiant (1954) and The True Story of Jesse James (1956), and shocked his bobby-soxer fan following by effectively portraying a cold-blooded murderer in A Kiss Before Dying (1955). In the early '60s, however, Wagner suffered a series of personal and professional reverses. His "ideal" marriage to actress Natalie Wood had dissolved, and his film career skidded to a stop after The Pink Panther (1964). Two years of unemployment followed before Wagner made a respectable comeback as star of the lighthearted TV espionage series It Takes a Thief (1968-1970). For the rest of his career, Wagner would enjoy his greatest success on TV, first in the mid-'70s series Switch, then opposite Stefanie Powers in the internationally popular Hart to Hart, which ran from 1979 through 1983 and has since been sporadically revived in TV-movie form (a 1986 series, Lime Street, was quickly canceled due to the tragic death of Wagner's young co-star, Savannah Smith). On the domestic front, Wagner was briefly wed to actress Marion Marshall before remarrying Natalie Wood in 1972; after Wood's death in 1981, Wagner found lasting happiness with his third wife, Jill St. John, a longtime friend and co-worker. Considered one of Hollywood's nicest citizens, Robert Wagner has continued to successfully pursue a leading man career into his sixties; he has also launched a latter-day stage career, touring with his Hart to Hart co-star Stefanie Power in the "readers' theater" presentation Love Letters. He found success playing a henchman to Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies, and in 2007 he began playing Teddy, a recurring role on the hit CBS series Two and a Half Men.

Trivia: Born Stefania Federkiewicz, she is a lead actress of routine Hollywood films of the '60s and '70s. Soon after graduating from Hollywood High, she debuted onscreen in 1961; early in her career she was billed as Taffy Paul. She starred in the TV series Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Hart to Hart. From 1966-74 she was married to actor Gary Lockwood, then she became the constant companion of aging actor William Holden; following his death in 1981, she continued being active with the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, which worked to create a big-game preserve and study center in Kenya.

Trivia: Though an occasional bit player in films, character actress Carrie Nye enjoyed her broadest reception as a stage performer. Born Carolyn Nye McGeoy in Greenwood, MS, on October 14, 1936, Nye began her career as a thespian around 1955 at the Williamstown Theater Festival, in Williamstown, northern Massachusetts. She moved to Manhattan five years later, where she made her Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of a Colette novel, A Second String. Nye quickly became trademarked by her southern drawl and deadpan quips. She starred in numerous on and off-Broadway productions over the ensuing decades, such as the Ruth Gordon-penned A Very Rich Woman (1965) and Tom Stoppard's Real Inspector Hound (1972). She sporadically returned to Williamstown over the decades and became a key component of the festival.Nye took her first film bow in Sidney Lumet's 1966 The Group, with a cast that included Candice Bergen, Joanna Pettet, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, and Shirley Knight. Many additional cinematic and TV roles followed, including Diana Proctor in the 1972 Liz Taylor/Richard Burton small-screen vehicle Divorce His, Divorce Hers, and Aldena Kittner in the 1979 Alan Alda/Jerry Schatzberg effort The Seduction of Joe Tynan. In the Stephen King/George Romero omnibus effort Creepshow (1982), Nye portrayed Sylvia Grantham, the woman unexpectedly terrorized when her nasty deceased husband returns in zombie form to claim his father's birthday cake. She also appeared in the Shelley Long vehicle Hello Again as Regina Holt. Nye won a Best Actress Emmy for the 1980 telemovie The Scarlett O'Hara War.Nye died of lung cancer on July 14, 2006. She was survived by her husband, talk show host Dick Cavett. Nye met Cavett in the early '60s at Yale Drama School and they wed in 1964.

Trivia: American actor Stewart Moss played supporting roles on television, stage, and feature films of the late '60s through the early '80s. He also writes teleplays for both cable and network television and directs stage productions in Los Angeles.