The ‘Big Five’ major studios Up until the time the first crack in the system appeared in 1948, the movie business was controlled by the ‘Big Five’ major studios – MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros, RKO and Fox – and to a far lesser extent by the ‘Little Three’ majors – […]
Hoyts Theatre (later the Oriana) in Fremantle, Western Australia in the fifties I wonder if children today would enjoy Saturday morning matinees as much as we did back in the 1950s. Probably not, I suppose. Children’s tastes have become more sophisticated with electronic games and personal phones replacing the simple […]
Below are 50 stills from 50 movies, accompanied by the actor’s name and the year of the picture’s release. Can you supply the CHARACTER’S name and the title of the movie for a total score out of 100? 1 1939 LESLIE HOWARD 2 1944 BARBARA STANWYCK 3 […]
William S. Hart & Fritz Like most kids who attended Saturday matinees back in the fifties, I knew details about all the cowboy stars, who rode which horse and why. Most of my movie heroes back then were cowboy stars and that didn’t change when TV came along in Western […]
FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN-BORN ACTRESSES – PT2 My favourite top 10 Australian-born actresses: 10 TERESA PALMER (Adelaide, South Australia 1986) Teresa & Stuart Dew […]
I have whittled down the many actresses born in Australia to the twenty I enjoy watching the most. It would have been nice to include Nicole Kidman, Olivia Newton-John, Isla Fisher and Naomi Watts, to mention but a few that many fans (including me) consider to be Aussies. However, as […]
Right from the earliest days of the silent picture era the moving picture moguls were aware that, more than any other commodity, sex sold. And, until the Hays Office reared its censorial head in 1922, they sold plenty of it. After a string of risqué films and several off-screen […]
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 […]
LINDA CRISTAL (1934 – ) The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) Marta Burges was born […]
as Pussy Galore 1964 at 39 […]
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