Victor Mature Victor Mature was notorious in Hollywood for being frightened of his own shadow. When he was required to fight the lion bare-handed in Samson and Delilah (1949), he managed to convince director Cecil B. DeMille to use stunt double Kay Bell instead. ‘I had no love for […]
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995) . This delightful romantic comedy focuses on the relationship between the fictional US President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) and a lobbyist named Sydney Ellen Wade portrayed by Annette Bening and the impact their romance has on his chances of re-election. The movie is stolen by Miss […]
CLINT EASTWOOD (1930 – ) The ninety-three year-old director/actor (as of May 2023), has impregnated at least nine women; the six who have confirmed having his babies, plus actress Sondra Locke, Anita Lhoest and Jane Cameron Agee, whose terminated pregnancies have been documented. Beginning in 1959, Clint was […]
JOHN WAYNE – THE MOVIEMAKER It may not have been the case early in his movie career, but by the time he had become established as a true superstar, John Wayne must surely have had a major say in the casting of his pictures. […]
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 […]
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