Dorothy Dandridge – a beautiful talent wasted.
DANDRIDGE, Dorothy (1922 – 65) What happened to Dorothy Dandridge was one of the greatest wastes of beauty and talent in the history of the movies. She was gorgeous and she could sing […]
Articles by Alan Royle
SNIPPETS – PT2.
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.
Annette Kellerman and naked in Daughter of the Gods (1916) When Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman appeared naked in the […]
RANDOM SNAPSHOTS – PT8.
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.
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 […]
RANDOM SNAPSHOTS PT6
Joanne Dru (1922 – 96) Joanne Dru was born in Logan, West Virginia in 1922 with the unfortunate name of Joanne Letitia LaCock. She started out in some important productions, but her sojourn near the top was short-lived and by the fifties she was taking whatever offers came her way. […]
RANDOM SNAPSHOTS – PT5.
BERGMAN, Ingrid (1915-82) Joseph Mankiewicz had this to say about Ingrid Bergman. ‘Even when she learned about Spencer Tracy’s involvement with […]
JOHNNY STOMPANATO 1958 – Who killed him – Lana or Cheryl?
Johnny Stompanato & Lana Turner 1957 Hoodlum Johnny Stompanato was intimately involved with actress Lana Turner at the time of his death on April 4, 1958 in Los Angeles. There has been argument and speculation about how he met his end since that day. One […]
‘NOTTING HILL’ (1999) – easy to watch and easy to fault.
NOTTING HILL (1999) The 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill was a huge success at the box-office, grossing a staggering $363.1 million […]
RANDOM SNAPSHOTS No 4.
Rory Calhoun (1922-99) The star of 80 movies, mostly westerns, and over 1,000 TV episodes, 6’4” Rory Calhoun made the most of a life that began badly, especially in his teenage years. At 13 he cut […]