A still from The Sound of Music (1965) MARNI NIXON (1930-2016) [Marni provided the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in both The King and I (1956), and in An Affair to Remember in (1957). She dubbed Natalie Wood’s singing, (as well as Rita Moreno’s rendition of ‘Tonight’) in West Side […]
THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY This writer was born in 1947 and makes no apologies for being an Audie Murphy fan since childhood, long before learning of his extraordinary combat record as a soldier in the US Army during World War Two. While other boys at my school idolized […]
In the 1964 film Fail Safe, it is mentioned that the United States has never been to condition red (DEFCON 2), but that is not true. The US was at DEFCON 2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. At the time this movie […]
ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis Presley was only married once, to Priscilla Beaulieu, a girl he met in Germany in 1958 while he was stationed there serving his two-year stint as a draftee in the US Army. She was only fourteen when he first knew her. He […]
David Crockett was born August 17, 1786, in North Carolina, in what today is Greene County, Tennessee. His grand-parents had been killed back in 1777 by Creeks and Chickamauga Cherokees led by chief Dragging Canoe. At thirteen David was sent to school but played ‘hookey’ following an altercation […]
Henry Fonda When Henry Fonda first went to New York City a friend picked him up on a double date with a couple of sisters. The friend convinced the girls’ mother, Mrs. Davis, to let him and Henry show her daughters the Princeton Stadium by moonlight. The two young […]
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) Of all the featured players in this movie, the one that launched Sean Connery as a superstar a year after he played James Bond in Dr. No, only Italian actress Daniela Bianchi (who played […]
ALI MACGRAW (1939 – ) [On Steve McQueen]: ‘One thing about Steve, he didn’t like the women in his life to have balls.’ [On the surprise success of her second starring role, the 1970 film Love Story]:’If […]
L to R : Shirley Booth, Don Defore, Whitney Blake & Bobby Buntrock HAZEL (1961-66) 154 EPISODES ‘Hazel’ was the first situation comedy to be broadcast in color. The first season (1961 to 1962) was filmed in black and white (except for one episode), […]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) With the death of Rosenda Monteros, who played the young girl Petra in this iconic western, all seventeen featured players and the director are no longer with us. Their order of demise is as follows: VLADIMIR SOKOLOFF (1889-1962). He played the old villager and died […]
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