(MOVIE TRIVIA AND STORIES OLD AND NEW)
One thing there is no shortage of in Hollywood, (or in the movies in general), is information about the making of the films and of the people who appear in them. This section of our site will be devoted to snippets of interesting items pertaining to the cinema and all those people who contribute to the production of the entertainment we see on our screens. Enjoy.
Agnes Moorehead as Endora in Bewitched A founder and charter member of Orson Welles’ famous Mercury Theatre Players, Agnes Moorehead succumbed to uterine cancer at seventy-three in 1974, eighteen years after making The Conquerors in 1956. It is strongly believed by many people that her death, along with […]
JENNIFER LOPEZ (1969 – ) She is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who came to continental USA in their childhood. They met in New York City and Jennifer entered this world via The Bronx in 1969. She loved […]
THE GENTLEMEN Below are listed the six actors who reached the magical milestone of surviving in this world for a minimum of one hundred years, as of April 20, 2023. 106 years & 153 days NORMAN LLOYD (1914-2021) A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Norman was one of […]
THE CENTURIONS Since the movies and television began there have been a total of thirteen notable actors and actresses who have had the good fortune (or bad luck, depending on your point of view), to attain the age of one hundred years or more. Seven of these are of […]
CAROLE LOMBARD (1908-42) The inimitable Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in October 1908. She was eight years old when her folks divorced and her mother chose to settle down in Los Angeles. At twelve years of age Carole was spotted by film director […]
Heath Ledger There was a great deal of conjecture over the cause of death after Heath Ledger’s body was discovered on January 22, 2008 in his apartment in the Manhattan neighbourhood of SoHo. His housekeeper and a massage therapist found him face down and unconscious in his bed with […]
VIVIEN LEIGH (1913 – 67) Laurence Olivier was Vivien Leigh’s second husband and admitted his marriage to her was ‘unusual’. ‘We were like brother and sister, just like she always wanted. But fortunately, occasional incest was allowed. Apart from her looks, which were magical, she possessed beautiful poise. She […]
DIANE KEATON (1946 – ) [After landing her first major stage role in the Broadway musical ‘Hair’, as understudy to the lead, and gained attention by not removing her clothing, she wrote to her family about the show]: ‘After the show tonight, Richard Avedon is photographing the whole cast […]
HOPE LANGE (1933 – 2003) Hope was one of four children of an actress mother. Her father died in 1942 when Hope was just nine. She worked as a waitress in the family’s Greenwich Village restaurant (‘Minette’s […]
Michael Crawford Michael Crawford, before he hit it big on British TV in 1973 as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, performed in theatre as a teenager in the Coventry Rep. One of his earliest bit parts was playing Lucius, servant to Brutus, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. […]
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