MOVIE TRIVIA – PT222

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT222

August 6, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra (1968) There is a scene in Ice Station Zebra (1968), in which Patrick McGoohan’s character is required to dive into the flooded torpedo room of the nuclear sub to rescue a trapped officer. Being a strong swimmer, Patrick insisted on doing the scene himself rather […]

FORTIES MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 6.

March 11, 2018 Alan Royle 10

                     George Raft George Raft turned down the leads in High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon (both in 1941), thereby giving Humphrey Bogart’s career a huge kick-start. Contrary to public opinion though, he never turned down Casablanca (1942). Why? Because he […]

WAMPAS Baby Stars 1932

April 7, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  LONA ANDRE (1915 – 92) Tennessee-born Lona Andre landed a few leads in minor movies and a number of mostly uncredited bit parts in more important features, but overall her career never amounted to much. Her 1935 marriage to leading man Edward Norris probably set some kind of record […]