DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

January 30, 2024 Alan Royle 3

  The scene in which Arthur (Dudley Moore) and his ‘hooker’ date, Gloria, are dining in the 1981 film Arthur, was filmed at the famous Oak Room inside the Plaza Hotel in New York City. This was the same restaurant where Cary Grant’s character, Roger Thornhill, was abducted in the […]

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY

December 7, 2023 Alan Royle 0

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY             This writer was born in 1947 and makes no apologies for being an Audie Murphy fan since childhood, long before learning of his extraordinary combat record as a soldier in the US Army during World War Two. While other boys at my school idolized […]

ELVIS PRESLEY & HIS LEADING LADIES

ELVIS PRESLEY & HIS LEADING LADIES

November 28, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  ELVIS PRESLEY           Elvis Presley was only married once, to Priscilla Beaulieu, a girl he met in Germany in 1958 while he was stationed there serving his two-year stint as a draftee in the US Army. She was only fourteen when he first knew her. He […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – VOL 7 – PT2

MOVIE TRIVIA – VOL 7 – PT2

November 22, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  Henry Fonda When Henry Fonda first went to New York City a friend picked him up on a double date with a couple of sisters. The friend convinced the girls’ mother, Mrs. Davis, to let him and Henry show her daughters the Princeton Stadium by moonlight. The two young […]

SPEAKING OUT – PT91

SPEAKING OUT – PT91

November 16, 2023 Alan Royle 2

  ALI MACGRAW (1939 – )                           [On Steve McQueen]: ‘One thing about Steve, he didn’t like the women in his life to have balls.’ [On the surprise success of her second starring role, the 1970 film Love Story]:’If […]

DID YOU KNOW? PT1 VOLUME 7.

DID YOU KNOW? PT1 VOLUME 7.

November 10, 2023 Alan Royle 3

  THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)                    With the death of Rosenda Monteros, who played the young girl Petra in this iconic western, all seventeen featured players and the director are no longer with us. Their order of demise is as follows: VLADIMIR SOKOLOFF (1889-1962). He played the old villager and died […]

VALE 2022 – Movie identities who died in 2022

VALE 2022 – Movie identities who died in 2022

November 4, 2023 Alan Royle 0

VALE 2022 – Movie Identities who Died in 2022. The year 2022 served to remind us all that as the years roll by, stars we had grown up with, stars that had us believe they might somehow live on forever, were just as mortal as the rest of us, that […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT89

RANDOM QUOTES – PT89

October 29, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  EVA MARIE SAINT (1924 – )          [Speaking of blondes in Alfred Hitchcock movies]: ‘There were six of us blondes, and it’s like we were all married to the man at one time or another. And we all have a different take on him. Each actress was […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 226

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 226

October 26, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  Beatrice Lillie Canadian-born British actress and comedienne Beatrice Lillie, arrived in this world in May, 1894, and departed it ninety-four years later in January, 1989. In her lifetime she became intimate and close friends with numerous famous people, among them George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, Charles Chaplin and Winston […]

H.U.A.C. & MCCARTHYISM – PT2

H.U.A.C. & MCCARTHYISM – PT2

October 23, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Although membership of the Communist Party was still not illegal, those refusing to testify or answer certain questions had switched from standing on the First Amendment to invoking the Fifth Amendment, in other words endeavouring to shield themselves from self-incrimination. A ‘grey list’ came into being. Names on it […]