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Forties Movie Trivia – PT4

February 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

the former SS. Normandie on her side in New York When the French luxury liner Normandie [...]

SPENCER TRACY – A nightmare of a man.

August 6, 2015 // 10 Comments

As an actor Spencer Tracy had few peers and cinema-goers adored him. Off screen he was a very ordinary human being, a man beset with all kinds of problems. He was a violent alcoholic his entire life and a rampant womanizer who had almost as many conquests to his name as Gable although, unlike ‘the King’, he is alleged to have taken male lovers as well. When he went on a ‘bender’, [...]

CARY GRANT – The loves in his life

May 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Outside of Hollywood debate raged for years about matinee idol Cary Grant’s sexuality. Was he heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual? He had lovers from both sexes, so I guess that makes him bisexual, although I admit I have no real idea if that is the sole criteria used to assess such things. From what I have read down the years, he appears to have been deeply in love with two [...]