MOVIE TRIVIA – PT199

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT199

July 29, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  Sarah Bernhardt Paris-born star of the French stage, Sarah Bernhardt, had an unspectacular, (in comparison to her illustrious stage career), venture into the movie-making business, developing a kind of sporadic love/hate relationship with it. Her screen debut was in Le duel d’Hamlet (1900), after which she promptly declared she […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT13.

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT13.

August 25, 2020 Alan Royle 0

The comic science fiction feature Mars Attacks! (1996), was based on the cult trading card series of the same name. Initially budgeted at $60 million, the film eventually cost $80 million to make once Warner Bros. added another $20 million for marketing. It returned $101 million, a disappointing return affected […]

GLORIA GRAHAME (1923 – 81)

GLORIA GRAHAME (1923 – 81)

May 6, 2020 Alan Royle 5

GLORIA GRAHAME (1923 – 81)             May 06 2020                        Twenty-one year old Gloria was appearing in a couple of plays on Broadway when MGM chief Louis B. Mayer spotted her, liked what he saw, and signed her to a $250 a week contract. It was 1944. […]

Actors marrying other actors – PT 5.

August 2, 2016 Alan Royle 2

  BAXTER, Meredith                         BIRNEY, David                                 1974 to 1990 (div.)                                                                 BLODGETT, Michael                      1995 to 2000 (div.)   […]

Did you know? Points of Interest Part 3.

August 18, 2015 admin 4

  Kathlyn & Annette Stephen Ira Beatty Annette Bening became pregnant to her co-star Warren Beatty when they made Bugsy together in 1991. They married, and in 1992 she gave birth to the first of their four children, Kathlyn. At the age of 14, Kathlyn changed gender and became Stephen […]