GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT7 – ‘CASABLANCA’ (1942)
CASABLANCA (1942) Any compilation of movies replete with great dialogue would be incomplete if it did not include the immortal Casablanca. Each of us has his or […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT171.
Helen Reddy Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1941, Helen Reddy will long be remembered for writing and recording ‘I Am Woman’, the feminist movement’s anthem of the radical 1970s. Six years earlier twenty-five year old Helen had won an Australian Bandstand International contest that took her to New York […]
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT23.
THE OMEN (1976) Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) is the US Ambassador to Great Britain in this movie. He and wife Katherine (Lee Remick) are desperate for a child of their own so, when their baby is stillborn, Robert arranges through a priest […]
WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT45.
ROBERT PRESTON (1918-87) This charismatic Robert Preston was born in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts as Robert Preston Meservey towards the end of World War One. As Bob Mesevey he joined the US Army Air Corps, the predecessor of the US Army Air Force (USAAF) after Pearl Harbor and served for three […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT43
JANE POWELL: [At the age of 88, the delightful coloratura soprano who starred as Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) has moved on from her days as a musical movie star]: ‘I don’t think about the past except now, when we’re talking about it. I never felt […]
MARTHA HYER & MICHELLE JOHNSON.
MARTHA HYER (1924-2014) The beautiful blonde actress labelled ‘Universal’s answer to Grace Kelly’ (although she initially signed with RKO), hailed from Fort Worth, Texas where she entered this world on August 10, 1924. Her father was a Texas state senator and International President of the Lions Club. At the […]
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT22.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962) How The West Was Won (1962) was an ambitious attempt to encapsulate several stages of American history and westward expansion, over several decades in the nineteenth century (1839-89), and to squeeze the findings […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT170.
Johnny Weissmuller Johnny Weissmuller achieved worldwide fame by winning five Olympic gold medals between 1924 and 1928, breaking the Olympic record in each victory. He represented the United States even though he was actually born in Timisoara, Romania, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Johnny would claim he […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT42.
BING CROSBY: [Crosby had a torrid affair with Grace Kelly before she became Princess Grace of Monaco, something he was sure not to mention when asked to comment on her character]: ‘She’s a great lady, with a great talent and kind, considerate, friendly with everybody. She was great with […]
WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT44.
SIDNEY POITIER (1927- ) Sidney L. Poitier hails from Cat Island in The Bahamas, although he was not born there. He arrived in this world two months prematurely in Miami, Florida while his parents were visiting there. At the age of fifteen his parents sent him back to Miami to […]