‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) Of all the featured players in this movie, the one that launched Sean Connery as a superstar a year after he played James Bond in Dr. No, only Italian actress Daniela Bianchi (who played […]
SPEAKING OUT – PT91
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 […]
TV SITCOMS – PT15
L to R : Shirley Booth, Don Defore, Whitney Blake & Bobby Buntrock HAZEL (1961-66) 154 EPISODES ‘Hazel’ was the first situation comedy to be broadcast in color. The first season (1961 to 1962) was filmed in black and white (except for one episode), […]
DID YOU KNOW? PT1 VOLUME 7.
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 […]
‘THE BIRDS’ (’63) & ‘For Me and My Gal’ (’42)
THE BIRDS (1963) In the opinion of this writer this is quite possibly the most over-rated suspense (so-called) film in the history of the movies. No doubt, much of the hype was due to the fact that it was directed by Alfred […]
VALE 2022 – Movie identities who died in 2022
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 […]
TV SITCOMS – PT 14
MY THREE SONS (1960-72) 380 EPISODES Fred MacMurray & his three sons – Ernie, Robbie & Chip At three hundred and eighty episodes over twelve years, My Three Sons was the second-longest running (live action) show in American television history. Only The Adventures of Ozzie and […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT89
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
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
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 […]