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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT61.

September 25, 2018 Alan Royle 7

Jane Wyman & Ronald Reagan Lew Ayres & Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda (1948) Ronald Reagan married Jane Wyman in 1940, but by the time she made Johnny Belinda (1948) she wanted out. She was tired, she said, of her husband’s incessant talking, for one thing. Her unutterable boredom was palpable to […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT58.

September 19, 2018 Alan Royle 2

Donald Sutherland & Jane Fonda in Klute (1971) Jane Fonda hung out with prostitutes and pimps for a week as preparation for her role as the hooker Bree in Klute (1971). She also spent time at the local morgue and emerged visibly moved by what she saw there. She and co-star Donald […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT50.

September 1, 2018 Alan Royle 6

Several scenes in the 1952 film The Sound Barrier required stars Nigel Patrick and Ann Todd to be seated in one of the new de Havilland Comets. They were blissfully unaware that in just two years’ time two de Havilland Comets would break up in mid-air, killing everyone on board […]

THE BOND GIRLS – PT 3.

November 25, 2017 Alan Royle 2

My look at ‘THE BOND GIRLS PT 3’ encompasses the beauties who enhanced the following four 007 features: You Only Live Twice (1967) starring Sean Connery as James Bond. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) starring George Lazenby as Bond. Diamonds Are Forever (1971) starring Connery again. Live And Let […]

Natalie Wood – what happened?

February 28, 2016 admin 5

  Aboard ‘Splendour’ 17 Nov, 1981 It was November 19, 1981 when 43 year-old actress Natalie Wood lost her life off the coast of Catalina Island in Southern California. There have always been important details missing from the official account of her ‘accidental death’, but it has generally been accepted […]