TOMMY KIRK – A TALENT UNTAPPED
TOMMY KIRK (1941 – 2021) Tommy was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1941. His interest in acting was ignited at the age of thirteen when he was cast in […]
Articles by Alan Royle
RANDOM QUOTES – PT88
ROBERT DUVALL (1931 – ) [Robert Duvall says the work he is most proud of (by far) is his role as the former Texas Ranger Augustus McCrae in the outstanding 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove]: ‘Everybody likes to win’. One of the biggest disappointments was when I didn’t get an […]
SINGERS IN MOVIES – PT2.
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 – PT225
Ann Blyth Ann Blyth is best known for her Oscar-nominated performance as Joan Crawford’s malicious, spiteful daughter Veda in the 1945 classic Mildred Pierce, yet she spent her youth being trained as an opera singer in readiness for a career with the San Carlo Opera Company. In fact her […]
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN – THE PRINCESS DIARIES
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (1980) This intriguing ‘what if’ movie examines what might have taken place if the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz had traveled back in time (from 1980) to December 6th, 1941, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and had the opportunity to alter history by interceding in the Japanese attack on […]
TV SITCOMS – PT12
THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS (1959-63) 148 EPISODES It may surprise readers to learn that this series served as one of the influences in the development of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Scooby Doo, Where Are You (1969). In it, the character of Fred Jones is based […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT87
YUL BRYNNER (1920 – 85) ‘I had a rule when I was doing ‘The King and I’, that I never allowed anybody backstage, except after the show, because all this work went into creating an illusion and would be destroyed by a visit backstage… And one […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT224
Nigel Green in Zulu British actor Nigel Green was rightly praised, by both the public and the critics, for his superb portrayal of Colour-Sergeant Bourne in Zulu (1964), a performance for which he might always be remembered. A veteran of the Korean War (1950-3), Green suffered a serious head wound […]
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TV SITCOMS – PT11
THE BETTY HUTTON SHOW (1959-60) 30 EPISODES The talented but erratic Betty stars as Goldie, a showgirl turned manicurist. When one of her regular customers, a millionaire named Mr. Strickland, suddenly dies, he leaves her everything he owns. That includes, not only his $60 million fortune, but also his […]
‘AN IDEAL HUSBAND’ & ‘THE GREAT ESCAPE’ – MOVIE DIALOGUE.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1999) I suppose there are those who dislike the works of Oscar Wilde, but I am not one of them. He was high society (I am not), he was homosexual […]