RANDOM QUOTES – PT44

RANDOM QUOTES – PT44

May 11, 2021 Alan Royle 0

    PETER O’TOOLE:                          [Speaking about his attendance at the 75th Annual Academy Awards in 2003] ‘I enjoyed it. The only thing that wasn’t enjoyable was in the green room. I said, ‘Can I have a drink?’ [He was told]: ‘We have lemon juice, apple juice, still or sparkling.’ […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT172

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT172

April 23, 2021 Alan Royle 4

  Barbara Windsor in her ‘Carry On’ days ‘Carry On’ and Eastenders diminutive star (she is 4’10” or 1.47m tall), Barbara Windsor’s autobiography titled All of Me is a most candid work. In it she discusses her affairs with ‘Carry On’ co-star Sidney James, London gangster Reggie Kray and footballer […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT35.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT35.

November 20, 2020 Alan Royle 0

SUSAN PETERS:                            [Susan was a beautiful young actress who was paralysed from the waist down in a duck-hunting accident in 1945, when a rifle discharged and the bullet lodged in her spine] ‘I do not believe that I shall ever be able to walk. It would be the most wonderful […]

TV WESTERNS – PT3.

TV WESTERNS – PT3.

July 11, 2020 Alan Royle 2

    BAT MASTERSON (1958-61) – 108 Episodes                              Gene Barry (1919-2009) New Yorker Barry started out as a fine baritone singer, landing several parts in Broadway musicals during the forties before Paramount signed him in the early fifties. Despite carrying a couple of successful TV series – Bat Masterson and […]

RYAN O’NEAL – Father of the Year material?

October 26, 2015 admin 6

  Every once and a while the movies (or television) unearth a phenomenon, someone who strikes a chord with audiences around the world. One such performer in the sixties was Ryan O’Neal, and all because of a staggeringly successful TV soap called Peyton Place that ran from 1964 until 1969. […]