B – List Beauties – PT 6
DOLORES DORN (1933 – ) The Bounty Hunter (1954) Dolores and Richard Egan and with Franchot Tone […]
Articles by Alan Royle
B-List Beauties – PT 5.
DANI CRAYNE (1934 – ) Shootout at Medine Bend (1957) […]
Robert Shaw – Thanks for the memories.
ROBERT SHAW (1927 – 78) I suppose we all have our favourite character actors. I have several, but near the top of the list is Lancashire-born Robert Shaw. […]
Random Snapshots – Vol. 3.
Sharon Stone ‘Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that’, proclaimed Sharon Stone after achieving worldwide fame in Basic Instinct (1992). ‘No, make that any man anywhere’, she added. One of her former boyfriends was Hart Bochner, the […]
B-LIST BEAUTIES PT 4
LINDA CRISTAL (1934 – ) The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) Marta Burges was born […]
The Bond Girls – Pt2 – ‘Goldfinger & Thunderball’
as Pussy Galore 1964 at 39 […]
Darwin Porter – Can we believe what he writes?
Darwin Porter (1937 – ) I doubt if there are many more controversial contemporary writers than Darwin Porter. His supporters believe he is telling the real story of Hollywood in its so-called Golden Age; his detractors consider him to be little more than a peddler of sleazy gossip. I […]
Why the studio system collapsed.
The fall of the studio system in Hollywood did not happen overnight. It took from the late forties until the late sixties, but although it happened over a couple of decades, it was always going to happen sooner or later. Indeed, if World War Two had not interceded it […]
‘THE CRUEL SEA’ (1953 – A British masterpiece.
For some reason or another I had never gotten around to watching, in its entirety, the British World War Two drama The Cruel Sea until just recently. I read the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat on which the picture […]
B-LIST BEAUTIES – PT 3.
PEGGIE CASTLE (1927 – 73) The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) opposite Rory Calhoun Audie Murphy […]