MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 223.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 223.

August 24, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  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 […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT85

RANDOM QUOTES – PT85

August 9, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  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 […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT31.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT31.

September 3, 2020 Alan Royle 2

  KIM NOVAK:                                              ‘The head of publicity at the Hollywood studio where I was first under contract [Columbia] told me, ‘You’re a piece of meat, that’s all’. It wasn’t very nice but I had to take it. When I made my first screen test, the director explained to everyone, ‘Don’t […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT13.

December 10, 2019 Alan Royle 3

EBSEN, Buddy:                                                                    It took quite a long while for Buddy to recover from the effects of the toxic aluminum paste he had breathed in as the Tin Man in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, (he had to leave the production). So he took up sailing and became quite proficient in […]