Not everyone who rides to the rescue is a hero. Consider Jerome Robbins — who is widely credited with saving the classic Broadway show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" out of town. He ...

Madeline Lee Gilford, who died Tuesday at 84, was an actress on Broadway and radio, a social activist who organized fellow students and defied the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the wife ...

Jack Gilford Eaves didn't mind having friends and family refer to him as a jack-of-all-trades. "It was a compliment to someone who had so many talents. Jack could fix anything and really liked being ...

Lisa Gilford (far right) with her parents, Madeline Lee and Jack Gilford. Both Madeline and Jack were actors who were blacklisted for being active in left-wing and labor causes. Lisa Gilford remembers ...

The dialogue of Joe Gilford’s “Finks” crackles: “You dance well for a Leninist.” “You move well for a bourgeois parasite.” And it ought to, given its subject matter. Gilford wrote the show based on ...

In this 1988 file photo, Estelle Getty, who plays Sophia, poses with her new husband Jack Gilford, who plays Max, and the other “Golden Girls” after taping an episode of the show in Hollywood. Left to ...

Actress and producer Madeline Lee Gilford died April 14 in New York. She was 84. Services will be held Thursday, April 17 at 11:15 a.m. at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 180 West 76th St. Married to actor ...