To many Baby Boomers and younger Americans, truly famous people in their day like Reginald Denny may not be familiar names. But Denny’s day was a long and productive one.For Denny that included performing on the streets in England as a young boy, then on stage, still as a youth. From there he developed his operatic voice for more live stage productions, and all that was before he came to America.Once in America, he began in silent movies, then moved on to “talkies,” one of few to make the leap. He was famous by then and starred with some of the most famous actors and actresses eventually transitioning into Technicolor. Then in June, 1957 through July, 1959 he went back to the stage and musicals, playing and singing as Col. Pickering alongside Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” on Broadway. It was during that year that granddaughter Kim was born and Julie Andrews held her backstage at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.As varied and famous as Denny was performing, he had always had a passion for flying model airplanes, which he eventually controlled via radio signals. He built his own prototype for these models and sold them at a storefront in Hollywood.Having been a World War I pilot flying the Sopwith Snipe, Denny later acquired one and flew for a time as the 13th Black Cat in the flight demonstration team in 1926.Later in the 1930s as war began to look inevitable against Germany once again, Denny formed the company Radioplane with much larger radio controlled airplanes that could be used for target practice and for more sophisticated pilotless uses, as well.Having been unscrupulously forced out of his own company by two partners he’d taken on, he later was brought back to full recognition for his achievements by the guilty-feeling partner after the other had died.Radioplane was later acquired by Northrup-Grumman and Reginald Denny’s visage and name adorn the main entry wall along with Jack Northrup, Leroy Grumman and Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites (Spaceship One) plus a few others.This thoroughly researched book by granddaughter Kim Pucci, with many vintage photos combines the acting, singing, flying and aeronautic development skills of an unforgettable character in British and American 20th Century life.