PROFILES – HOPKINS & HORNE

PROFILES – HOPKINS & HORNE

November 26, 2020 Alan Royle 1

MIRIAM HOPKINS (1902 – 72)                 Born Ellen Miriam Hopkins into a wealthy Savannah, Georgia family in 1902, ‘Mims’ Hopkins attended the finest educational institutions, including (according to most historians but not all of them) Syracuse University in New York State. She studied dance in New York and got her feet […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT22.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT22.

April 30, 2020 Alan Royle 0

LENA HORNE (1917 – 2010)                                                                                                                     Throughout the Second World War, black USO entertainers were treated as second-class citizens, given segregated living quarters and ordered to perform to segregated audiences. Most of them were disinclined to complain or revolt at the injustice of it all. But not Lena Horne. […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT20.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT20.

March 4, 2020 Alan Royle 0

  ANGELINA JOLIE: [Discussing her reaction if she ever caught her then husband Billy Bob Thornton cheating] ‘I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 32.

July 11, 2018 Alan Royle 5

Errol Flynn Errol Flynn tried everything to get into uniform during World War Two, but he was simply not a well man. He had a heart condition, tuberculosis and malaria. He even suffered from a severe back problem that precluded him from carrying anything remotely heavy for any length of […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 23.

June 19, 2018 Alan Royle 7

                                                                                             Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra […]