JON PERTWEE (1919-96) [He is best known for his portrayal of the third doctor in the BBC series of Doctor Who, a portrayal that lasted from 1970 to 1974. Fans may be unaware, however, of his work during World War Two as an RNVR officer and in a special […]
THE REAL MCCOYS (1957-63) 225 EPISODES Walter Brennan as Amos McCoy A little along the lines of the later series The Beverly Hillbillies, The Real McCoys saw Amos McCoy move his family from West Virginia to an inherited farm in California. Week after […]
AMOS ‘N’ ANDY SHOW, THE (1951-3) 78 EPISODES Alvin Childress as Amos These thirty-minute episodes usually centred on ‘The Kingfish’s’ ‘get rich’ schemes that often involved duping his brothers in the ‘Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge’. Andy was the most gullible and […]
A League of Their Own (1992) is a most entertaining film that tells us a little about the wartime decision to introduce women’s baseball to the American public at a time when most of the nation’s male players were in the services or overseas, or both. The idea originated, […]
June Allyson MGM’s profits in 1952 were its lowest in twenty years, so costs were cut by dropping the contracts of many of the studio’s highest-paid stars. Clark Gable, Greer Garson, June Allyson, Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Deborah Kerr, Kathryn Grayson, George Murphy and Lionel Barrymore were all unceremoniously […]
HARPO MARX: [The famous harp-playing Marx Brother recalled the act performing in vaudeville] ‘If an audience didn’t like us we had no trouble finding it out. We were pelted with sticks, bricks, spit-balls, cigar butts, peach pits and chewed-out stalks of sugar cane. We took all this without flinching […]
ALBERT, Eddie […]
Here is a run-down of most of the parent/offspring deals in the movie industry in the west. I keep thinking that movie acting must be extremely difficult, but then I see the number of sons and daughters of movie stars who take up the profession and succeed at it. […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT122 edited May 02 2019 Red Buttons in The Longest Day (1962) Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt in New York City’s Lower East Side in 1919. He got his name from a combination of his red hair and the uniform he wore as a singing bellhop at […]
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 […]
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