Charlton Heston In 1999, Charlton Heston joined Karl Malden in pressing for an Honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement to be given to veteran director Elia Kazan, a man whose record re the HUAC was nothing to be proud of. Marlon Brando, who never made public appearances, refused to […]
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER (1957-63) 236 EPISODES For those of us who were around in the mid-fifties, Leave it to Beaver was the epitome of good, wholesome family entertainment. It seemed to have everything: a cute little kid named Theodore Cleaver (known as ‘the Beaver’ and portrayed by Jerry […]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) When the inhabitants of a small Mexican village become fed up with being robbed and terrorized by a forty-strong bandit gang, led by Calvera (Eli Wallach), they send a delegation across the border into Texas to look for help. Everything of value in the village […]
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) Most cinema fans of my era (baby-boomers), would agree that Singin’ in the Rain (1952) is the greatest Hollywood musical ever produced – bar none! This writer would disagree, […]
Seventeen popular actors and actresses passed away during 2021. In case you did not hear of all of their passing, here is the list of those better known performers who departed this mortal coil that year: TANYA ROBERTS (1949 – January 4, 2021) – Tanya died aged seventy-one from […]
CHER (1946 – ) ‘I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven to cure polio. When Doctor Salk did that I was really pissed off.’ ‘In this business you have to be tough, and if someone […]
Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra (1968) There is a scene in Ice Station Zebra (1968), in which Patrick McGoohan’s character is required to dive into the flooded torpedo room of the nuclear sub to rescue a trapped officer. Being a strong swimmer, Patrick insisted on doing the scene himself rather […]
TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH (1949) It is the early days of World War Two and the USAAF is conducting daylight bombing raids over Nazi Germany and suffering heavy casualties. The 918th has been labelled the ‘hard luck’ Group, its morale at rock bottom and General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) has […]
THE GALE STORM SHOW: OH! SUSANNAH (1956-60) 127 EPISODES Texan Gale Storm had been around in Hollywood since making her screen debut at seventeen in Tom Brown’s School Days (1940). Despite having won national radio talent contest ‘Gateway to Hollywood’ in 1939, she found herself […]
JULIA ORMOND (1965 – ) [On Sabrina (1995) and her mid-1990s stardom]: ‘It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn’t Audrey Hepburn [she starred in […]
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