SINGERS IN MOVIES – PT2.

SINGERS IN MOVIES – PT2.

September 20, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  ANN-MARGRET (1941 – )                          I openly admit it; I was seventeen in 1964 when I first saw her (in Viva Las Vegas) and I positively drooled! She co-starred with some singer whose face and name I cannot recall. Why? Because all I could see was Ann-Margret. Her co-star could […]

Movie Trivia – PT4.

May 4, 2018 Alan Royle 0

                         Laurence Olivier as Crassus in Spartacus (1960) In the 1960 Stanley Kubrick film Spartacus, the role of the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus was played by Laurence Olivier. The real Crassus was a most interesting individual. He acquired the title […]

IN THE BEGINNING…PT 2.

December 1, 2017 Alan Royle 0

in The Scarlet Pimpernel MERLE OBERON (1911 – 79) For decades it was accepted that Merle Oberon was born in Hobart, Tasmania. In fact, most of Tasmania thought so too. Few were aware that she had invented the tale to create a past for herself that was as far removed from […]