LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES

June 17, 2022 Alan Royle 4

  THE DISH (2000)                                           This movie provides a light-hearted look at Australia’s contribution to the July 20, 1969 moon landing. It contains some great soundtrack hits from the era as […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT196

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT196

June 11, 2022 Alan Royle 6

  Joanna Pettet Joanna & Alan Bates towards the end of his life In 1968, British actress Joanna Pettet married American actor Alex Cord. Less than four months later, she gave birth to a boy who was the biological son of British actor Terence Stamp. The boy would die aged […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT59.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT59.

May 27, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  ANN SHERIDAN (1915-67)                        [Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was used as a body double (hands, legs & shoulders) by Paramount in her early days in the industry]: ‘I used to go to Grauman’s Chinese or Pantages and sit there waiting to see my faceless body on […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT57

RANDOM QUOTES – PT57

April 9, 2022 Alan Royle 7

  PETER USTINOV (1921 – 2004)               [Espousing the difference between acting and politics]: ‘Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics and they’ve done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other […]

UNEXPECTED ORIGINS? PT1.

UNEXPECTED ORIGINS? PT1.

March 28, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  I am mildly surprised every so often to discover that such and such an actor or actress was not born where I had always assumed he or she had originated. With that in mind I did some checking and came up with quite a few surprises. Some of these […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT55.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT55.

September 5, 2021 Alan Royle 2

  ANN SHERIDAN (1915-67)                                                She was born Clara Sheridan in Denton, Texas during World War One. It has been said that Ann was a direct descendant of Union General Philip Sheridan and maybe she was. Her sister thought she was beautiful enough to win ‘The Search for Beauty’ […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT47.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT47.

May 14, 2021 Alan Royle 0

CLAUDE RAINS (1889-1967)                    The actor who was immortalized as Captain Louis Renault in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, was born in London in 1889. This meant, of course, that he was almost fifty years old when hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany in September 1939, far too old for […]

WORLD WAR 2 – The stars & their stories – PT14.

December 22, 2019 Alan Royle 0

FALK, Peter:                                                                                                                                                 The star of TV’s Columbo (1971-2003) lost an eye to retinoblastoma in 1930 when he was three years old. Having a glass eye, however, did not deter him from trying to enlist in the US Marines at 17 in 1944. He bluffed his way past the […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT142.

October 20, 2019 Alan Royle 0

    Errol Flynn Errol Flynn had various mirrors and hiding places constructed inside his mansion, including an overhead trapdoor above one of the guest bedrooms for surreptitious viewing! Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood toured the house as a prospective buyer back in the seventies, and reported: ‘Errol had two-way […]

MOVIE QUIZ N0 1.

May 23, 2019 Alan Royle 4

  For a change of pace I have decided to toss in the occasional movie quiz. If they prove to be popular I might even incorporate a thousand or so into a ‘Movie Quiz’ book one day. There will be 25 questions in each segment and the answers will be […]