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 […]

TODAY’S TV BEAUTIES

TODAY’S TV BEAUTIES

July 14, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  Being born in the ‘baby-boomer’ era I have been guilty of focusing on screen goddesses of yesteryear, those at their peak between the 1930s and the 1980s, but there now exists a whole crop of beautiful actresses (including in the world of television), who seriously challenge the validity of […]

,RANDOM QUOTES – PT54

RANDOM QUOTES – PT54

February 14, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  LAUREN BACALL (1924-2014)                [Commenting on Broadway columnist Walter Winchell]: ‘Winchell was a good newspaperman but a vain man, convinced he could change the course of world events – slightly deluded, but never mind. He also fancied himself a ladies’ man.’ ‘I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I […]