TV WESTERNS – PT 38

TV WESTERNS – PT 38

October 16, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  TALES OF WELLS FARGO (1957-62) 201 EPISODES              This long-running series proved to be very popular (certainly in this writer’s household), due in the main to its star Dale Robertson who positively oozed integrity as Special Wells Fargo Agent Jim Hardie. The real Wells Fargo actually employed special agents who […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT127

June 7, 2019 Alan Royle 0

  Sir Laurence Olivier Producer David Lewis said of his friend Sir Laurence Olivier, ‘He would sleep with anyone.’ Larry’s first wife, actress Jill Esmond, was a lesbian and gave him free reign to pursue male lovers at will. And he did so with considerable relish. He and Noel Coward […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT6

May 8, 2018 Alan Royle 0

Ava Gardner in 55 Days at Peking (1963) Ava Gardner had a long-running nervous breakdown during the making of 55 Days at Peking (1963). She was drunk on several days, continually demanded rewrites, and was extremely difficult to deal with. Charlton Heston stated that her character, Baroness Natalie Ivanoff, was killed off […]