TV SITCOMS – PT11

TV SITCOMS – PT11

September 5, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  THE BETTY HUTTON SHOW (1959-60)              30 EPISODES                       The talented but erratic Betty stars as Goldie, a showgirl turned manicurist. When one of her regular customers, a millionaire named Mr. Strickland, suddenly dies, he leaves her everything he owns. That includes, not only his $60 million fortune, but also his […]

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT7

June 28, 2019 Alan Royle 0

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT7           JUNE 28 2019                       edited              1023   JACKIE COOGAN (1914 – 84) in The Kid (1921) Jackie Coogan enjoyed fame at three separate times in his life. The first was when Charlie Chaplin spotted him performing on a vaudeville stage and planned a movie in which he and […]

More Thirties Movie Trivia – PT3

February 7, 2018 Alan Royle 1

      Ann Miller                                               in You Can’t Take It With You You Can’t Take it with You (1938) was dancer Ann Miller’s ninth movie as an adult, […]

Actors marrying other actors – PT 5.

August 2, 2016 Alan Royle 2

  BAXTER, Meredith                         BIRNEY, David                                 1974 to 1990 (div.)                                                                 BLODGETT, Michael                      1995 to 2000 (div.)   […]

Tragic Hollywood – Who killed funnyman Ted Healy?

December 18, 2015 admin 8

  Wallace Beery won the Oscar in 1931-2 for The Champ, even though he actually scored one less vote than Fredric March that year. The rules of the previous year awarded Oscars to performers who finished within three votes of the winner. Presenter Conrad Nagel, unaware that the regulations had […]

JOAN CRAWFORD – A star at any cost?

February 13, 2015 admin 14

    Of all the movie stars that have come and gone down the decades, none strove so hard, or for so long, as Joan Crawford did, to get to the top of the pile and remain there. In effect, there was almost nothing she would not do to become […]