MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 27.
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman – WOW! I […]
Articles by Alan Royle
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT26
Someday I would like someone to explain to me how Annie Hall (1977) won four Academy Awards. This typical Woody Allen self-indulgent rubbish won the Best Picture Oscar, Best Director (Allen), Best Writing (Allen) and Best Actress (Diane Keaton)! Hollywood’s love affair with this guy seems boundless. He was even […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT25.
Jermy Brett in My Fair Lady (1964) and as Audrey Hepburn’s brother in War and Peace (1956) Bill Shirley & Mary Costa as Prince Phillip & Princess Aurora English actor Jeremy Brett was cast as Nicolai, the brother of Audrey Hepburn’s character (Natasha) in War and […]
TV – When the western was king – PT2.
Part two of this article looks at the 25 television westerns from the 1949-69 era that were the most successful, according to the number of episodes in each. There may be a few surprises, although number one will come as no surprise at all to anyone who remembers the […]
TV – When the western was king – PT1.
There was a time, back in the fifties when television suddenly took off, that saw the western genre dominating the box. Scores of series were launched throughout the late forties, the fifties and sixties. Many of them lasted only a single season (even less), but others made a fortune for […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 24.
In the 1983 feature Cujo, the St. Bernard at the centre of the action was played by a combination of five live animals, one mechanical head, and a man dressed in a dog-suit. The five live dogs had to have their tails tied down because they were having such a […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 23.
Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT22.
Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan (M.A.S.H.) Loretta and her husband Dennis Holahan Loretta Swit portrayed Nurse Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in the enormously successful TV series M.A.S.H. from 1972 until 1983. In […]
MY TOP 20 AUSSIE-BORN ACTORS – PT2
10 ERIC BANA as […]
MY TOP 20 AUSSIE-BORN ACTORS – PT1.
The following list is of Australian movie actors who were born in Australia. It does not include those born elsewhere who may have spent most of their formative years Down Under. Therefore, you will not find the likes of Mel Gibson (New Yorker), Russell Crowe (born in New Zealand), […]