On Buck Mack, Stanwyck's "Uncle Buck"
August 17 was the birthday of Buck Mack (1888-1959), best known to vintage film fans as "Uncle Buck", the somewhat shadowy friend, fixer, butler, bodyguard, and all around caretaker for Barbara Stanwyck. Hailing from Erie, Pennsylvania, Mack was a member of the vaudeville team of Miller and Mack. He was apparently unrelated to Willard Mack, […]