IN THE BEGINNING…PT 1.

November 29, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  I like to examine the backgrounds of actors and actresses, to see where they came from and how they got started in the movie business. I suppose I wonder, like most cinema fans, how ordinary people go from school plays or local amateur theatre to television and, ultimately, the […]

THE BOND GIRLS – PT 4.

November 27, 2017 Alan Royle 0

‘THE BOND GIRLS’ PT 4 The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) starring Roger Moore as Bond. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) starring Roger Moore as Bond. Moonraker (1979) starring Roger Moore as Bond. For Your Eyes Only (1981) starring Roger Moore as Bond.   As Mary Goodnight Britt […]

THE BOND GIRLS – PT 3.

November 25, 2017 Alan Royle 2

My look at ‘THE BOND GIRLS PT 3’ encompasses the beauties who enhanced the following four 007 features: You Only Live Twice (1967) starring Sean Connery as James Bond. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) starring George Lazenby as Bond. Diamonds Are Forever (1971) starring Connery again. Live And Let […]

SNIPPETS – PT2.

November 17, 2017 Alan Royle 0

Kate and Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement (1932) Kate Hepburn made her movie debut in the 1932 drama A Bill of Divorcement, in which the aging John Barrymore played her mentally unbalanced father. Known as ‘The Great Profile’, he invited her to his dressing-room where he promptly stripped naked […]

SNIPPETS – PT1.

November 15, 2017 Alan Royle 0

                             Annette Kellerman                                        and naked in Daughter of the Gods (1916) When Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman appeared naked in the […]

RANDOM SNAPSHOTS – PT8.

November 13, 2017 Alan Royle 0

Jennifer Jones (1919 – 2009)                                            On November 9, 1967 the 48 year-old Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones booked into a motel near Malibu Beach, swallowed a large quantity of […]

RANDOM SNAPSHOTS – PT7.

November 11, 2017 Alan Royle 3

HARRY JAMES (1916-83)                                      Harry James was a very good trumpet-player and a successful bandleader. He was also a bona fide skirt-chaser all his life and wound up marrying America’s number one pin-up girl of the entire Second World War – Betty Grable. Harry carried around an ego the size of […]