MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 13.
The delightful Leslie Caron in Gigi (1958) The three leads in Gigi (1958), Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier, were all born in France. Unfortunately, Leslie’s French accent had completely disappeared […]
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SIXTIES MOVIE TRIVIA – PT3.
Stunning Gladys circa WW1 with Wilfrid Hyde White in My Fair Lady (1964) The former World War One British pin-up girl Gladys Cooper was perfectly cast as Henry Higgins’ mother in the 1964 musical My Fair Lady. A class […]
THE BOND GIRLS – PT 4.
‘THE BOND GIRLS’ PT 4 The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) starring Roger Moore as Bond. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) starring Roger Moore as Bond. Moonraker (1979) starring Roger Moore as Bond. For Your Eyes Only (1981) starring Roger Moore as Bond. As Mary Goodnight Britt […]
THE BOND GIRLS – PT 3.
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 […]
Actors marrying other actors – PT 15
COLMAN, Ronald HUME, Benita 1938 – 58 (his death) Ronald Colman was very nearly one of the millions of fatalities of World War One. He had only been in France for two months when he was seriously gassed at the battle of Messines and invalided out of […]
Actors marrying other actors – Pt 10.
BROLIN, James SMITHERS, Jan 1986 – 95 (div.) STREISAND, Barbra 1998 – James Brolin […]
The making of the first Bond film – ‘Dr No’ (1962)
In 1961 author Ian Fleming sold a six-month option to all his James Bond novels and short stories (those already penned and future ones), with the exception of Casino Royale, which he had previously sold, to entrepreneur Harry Saltzman. Harry formed Eon Productions with Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, and […]
Did you know? Points of interest. Pt. 9
It is generally believed that Stephen Sondheim only agreed to the musically limited Madonna singing his songs in Dick Tracy (1990) because he owed a favour to Warren Beatty who directed and starred in it whilst becoming intimately involved with Madonna during the shoot. Sean Young was to […]
Goldfinger ( 1964 ) – a stupid movie?
Goldfinger (1964) was the third of the James Bond franchise offerings, and it was released at the height of Bond fever that seemed to grip movie-goers world-wide. It all began back in 1962 with Dr No, the picture that not only launched Sean Connery on the unsuspecting women of the […]