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STERLING HAYDEN (1916-86) ‘I wonder whether there has ever before been a man who bought a schooner and joined the Communist Party all on the same day. After completing Johnny Guitar opposite Joan Crawford in 1954, […]
STERLING HAYDEN (1916-86) ‘I wonder whether there has ever before been a man who bought a schooner and joined the Communist Party all on the same day. After completing Johnny Guitar opposite Joan Crawford in 1954, […]
JAWS (1975) This movie was chock-full of many memorable lines of dialogue, none of which were more riveting than the monologue delivered by Robert Shaw (as Quint) when he described in detail the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine during World War Two. The horrific and […]
FATHER GOOSE (1964) This was the penultimate film of Cary Grant’s long career, and it was the last time he played a romantic lead. In the following year he refused the romantic lead in his […]
HERBERT LOM Early in 1939, shortly before the Nazis over-ran what was left of Czechoslovakia, Czech-born actor Herbert Lom arrived in Britain with his Jewish girlfriend, Didi, seeking asylum. Tragically, she was sent back at Dover because she did not have the correct papers. Her subsequent death in a […]
HERBERT LOM (1917-2012) ‘Peter Sellers was always a mixed-up guy, a childish fellow. But if you’re fond of children, you’re also fond of childish men. He was always very helpful to me. After […]
CROCODILE DUNDEE (1986) To the surprise of most of the movie world, this film proved to be the second highest grossing picture of 1986 throughout the world, behind the Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun. In […]
Aware of Elvis Presley’s infatuation with actress Debra Paget on the set of the 1956 film Love Me Tender, fourteen year old Priscilla Beaulieu, the future Priscilla Presley, copied Debra’s hairstyle in the hope of meeting Presley when he came to West Germany with the US Army in 1959. Elvis […]
JAWS (1975) This movie was chock-full of many memorable lines of dialogue, none of which were more riveting than the monologue delivered by Robert Shaw (as Quint) when he described in detail the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine during World War Two. The horrific and tragic […]
Elvis Presley It appears to be decidedly unclear with regard to the love life of Elvis Presley. Evidence has come to light that he was reluctant to become intimately involved with female acquaintances for a number of reasons. His devotion to his mother, Gladys, may lay at the heart […]
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 […]
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