RANDOM QUOTES – PT88
AVA GARDNER (1922 – 90) [On her time at MGM]: ‘I thought I was making fifty dollars a week, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white […]
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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT224
Nigel Green in Zulu British actor Nigel Green was rightly praised, by both the public and the critics, for his superb portrayal of Colour-Sergeant Bourne in Zulu (1964), a performance for which he might always be remembered. A veteran of the Korean War (1950-3), Green suffered a serious head wound […]
WORLD WAR 2 – The Stars & their Stories – PT18.
GREENE, Lorne: The ‘Voice of Canada’ Recognized around the globe as Ben Cartwright of the Ponderosa Ranch in the long-running TV series Bonanza, Lorne Greene was yet […]
War Pictures Worth Watching – Pt1.
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 […]
‘THE CRUEL SEA’ (1953 – A British masterpiece.
For some reason or another I had never gotten around to watching, in its entirety, the British World War Two drama The Cruel Sea until just recently. I read the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat on which the picture […]
Actors marrying other actors – PT 16.
CRAIG, Yvonne BOYD, Jimmy 1960 – 63 (div.) If things had worked out differently Yvonne might have spent her days dancing instead of acting. As a teenager she showed enormous promise, enough to be chosen as one of the youngest ever dancers by the Denham’s Ballet […]
The longest Hollywood marriages?
Richard Benjamin & Paula Prentiss 53 years and still going (1961-) Richard in Westworld Paula with Rock Hudson Mr & Mrs Benjamin today Ann Prentiss 1970 Sixties fans would remember Paula Prentiss. She was a pretty comedienne who possessed a deep, throaty chuckle that fans (including me) found very sexy. […]