MY THREE SONS (1960-72) 380 EPISODES Fred MacMurray & his three sons – Ernie, Robbie & Chip At three hundred and eighty episodes over twelve years, My Three Sons was the second-longest running (live action) show in American television history. Only The Adventures of Ozzie and […]
TOMMY KIRK (1941 – 2021) Tommy was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1941. His interest in acting was ignited at the age of thirteen when he was cast in […]
THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (1961) A few nights ago I subjected myself to watching a movie that had been the fifth-highest grossing film in the USA back in 1961. Regretfully, I assumed it must have been a great deal better than its dubious title (The Absent-minded Professor) suggested. To […]
AL PACINO (1940 – ) [In 1979 he attended the Oscars for the first time]: ‘I was at the Oscars once – for Serpico. That was the second time I was nominated. I was sitting in the third […]
Warren Beatty During the making of Bonnie & Clyde (1967), the star of the picture, Warren Beatty, got into an altercation with Jack Warner in his office at Warner Bros. Voices were raised during the confrontation until, finally, in exasperation, Jack walked across the room to the window and […]
There have been a lot of very good war pictures churned out over the past 100 years or so. Here is an alphabetical list of those I believe to be worthy of watching. I have every one in my collection and have watched most of them several times. Aldo […]
Gregory Peck & Ava Gardner in On the Beach (1959) When Ava Gardner came to Australia to make On the Beach (1959), she did not exactly endear herself to the nation when she remarked that Melbourne was the most appropriate place on Earth to make a picture about the end of […]
Young Russ Tamblyn & Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah Hedy Lamarr At the premiere of Samson and Delilah (1949), Cecil B. DeMille asked Groucho Marx what he thought of the picture. The question brought […]
Paul Thomas (L) Little known actor Paul Thomas was cast as Saint Peter in the 1973 screen version of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was one of his very few mainstream performances. In the porn film industry, however, he was legendary, having starred in hundreds of sex films and […]
Prior to making The Hustler (1961), Paul Newman had a pool table installed in his home to practice upon because he had never played the game in his life until then. Jackie Gleason, on the other hand, was a very accomplished pool player and executed most of his own shots […]
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