(MOVIE TRIVIA AND STORIES OLD AND NEW)
One thing there is no shortage of in Hollywood, (or in the movies in general), is information about the making of the films and of the people who appear in them. This section of our site will be devoted to snippets of interesting items pertaining to the cinema and all those people who contribute to the production of the entertainment we see on our screens. Enjoy.
MAMIE VAN DOREN (1931 – ) Steve Cochran ‘Steve Cochran was the sexiest man I have ever known. We made two movies together, The Beat Generation and The Big Operator [both released in 1959], and we were always hot for one another, slipping off for a ‘quickie’ here and […]
DOROTHY LAMOUR (1914-96) In 1931, at the age of seventeen, Mary Slaton (later to become Dorothy Lamour) was crowned Miss New Orleans. Even as a child she had ambitions; not as an actress but as a singer. After her beauty pageant win, […]
Rosie O’Donnell In 2006, Rosie O’Donnell donated $5,700,000 to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, including Renaissance Village (a temporary shelter for Katrina victims), day care centres, a rehabilitation centre in San Antonio, Texas, and a Habitat for Humanity subdivision in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Not enough is reported about the generous […]
Martin Sheen Martin Sheen is now in his eighties. He has been arrested more than seventy times, mainly for liberal protests. He was one of twenty-two people arrested for crossing over a line established by the US Air Force, in an anti-militarization protest at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base […]
NASTASSJA KINSKI (1961 – ) The daughter of disturbed actor Klaus Kinski entered this world via Berlin, Germany in 1961. Klaus ditched her mother for another woman and young Nastassja soon found herself supporting both her parents at thirteen, partly through her appearing topless at that age in […]
Ronald Reagan & Piper Laurie (1949) In her 2011 autobiography titled Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir, Piper Laurie revealed that she lost her virginity to Ronald Reagan during the time they were filming Louisa (1950) together. She was seventeen and Reagan, who played her father in the […]
EMMA STONE (1988 – ) The Favourite stars – (L to R) Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman & Emma Stone [Actors and actresses appear to be an entirely different breed today than before, as we see when Emma describes her lesbian scene with actress Olivia Colman in The Favourite (2018)]: ‘When […]
MARGOT KIDDER (1948-2018) Brian De Palma Margot’s name and face became known to the world when she portrayed Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the title role of the 1978 movie Superman, a box-office smash that grossed over $300 million worldwide. Margot was born […]
Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp (1994) If you have ever watched the film Wyatt Earp (1994), starring Kevin Costner in the title role, you were probably shocked to see how emaciated Dennis Quaid looked in his role as the consumptive killer Doc Holliday. By the time Quaid had […]
EVELYN KEYES (1916 – 2008) Evelyn hailed from Port Arthur, Texas, arriving in Hollywood at the age of twenty. She soon hooked up with one of Cecil B. DeMille’s writers who introduced her to the boss. CB placed her under personal contract at Paramount Pictures, ‘without even making a […]
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