TV WESTERNS – PT28

TV WESTERNS – PT28

May 24, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  THE OUTCASTS (1968-9) 26 EPISODES                 The major claim to fame for The Outcasts television series was that it boasted the first ever African-American to co-star in a western series. Otis Young played the black bounty hunter Jemal David and established screen star […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT67.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT67.

March 7, 2022 Alan Royle 2

ANNA MAY WONG (1905-61)                  Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles in 1905. She managed to have a relatively successful screen career (mostly in silent features), in an era that was deeply racist. It was a time when the taboo against […]

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT6.

June 19, 2019 Alan Royle 0

    GARY COLEMAN (1968 – 2010)                                      Gary Coleman was born to a homeless woman in 1968 and adopted from a Chicago hospital by a fork-lift operator and his nurse practitioner wife. The boy experienced severe health issues from the age of two, having entered this world with one atrophied […]

TOP 10 RELATIONSHIPS – PT1 – CLARK GABLE

January 4, 2018 Alan Royle 0

When deciding to look at some of the big stars and their personal lives, I thought it might be intriguing to settle on a ‘Top 10’ loves for each of them. Commencing with the ‘King of Hollywood’, I immediately realized that selecting just ten and placing them in order of […]

LORETTA YOUNG – A good Catholic girl?

June 28, 2015 admin 4

  If Olympic medals were given out for hypocrisy, Loretta Young (1913 – 2000) would have won gold many times over. The studio blurb described her thus: ‘Her true beauty lies in her dedication to her family and her faith.’ About the only truthful word in that whole line would […]