‘MAMMA MIA!’ & ‘MARY POPPINS’

‘MAMMA MIA!’ & ‘MARY POPPINS’

December 27, 2022 Alan Royle 6

  MAMMA MIA! (2008)                                                                                  It will probably come as a shock to readers (it certainly did to me) to learn that this bloody awful musical became, in December 2008, the highest-grossing movie in UK history, surpassing Titanic (1997)! It has, however, since been passed by Avatar in 2009. […]

20 of Today’s Movie Beauties

20 of Today’s Movie Beauties

July 17, 2022 Alan Royle 3

  MADELEINE STOWE: A native of Los Angeles who now spends her days with her husband on their working cattle ranch in Texas, Madeleine Stowe is actually in her early sixties, and no doubt still a knockout. Back in the late eighties and throughout the nineties, however, she was the […]

Actors marrying other actors – PT 7.

August 8, 2016 Alan Royle 2

  BLOOM, Claire                                STEIGER, Rod                                 1959 to 1969 (div.)   Claire & Chaplin in Limelight Claire Bloom was catapulted into stardom in 1952 when Charlie Chaplin personally selected her for his leading lady in his sentimental drama Limelight. From then until 1954, however, the Shakespearian-trained actress toured with the Old […]