MOVIE TRIVIA – PT185.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT185.

November 25, 2021 Alan Royle 5

  Bob Hope in the 1930s In 1938, Bob Hope landed his own radio show, The Bob Hope Pepsodent Show, for which he was paid $2,500 a week! The season ran for 39 weeks and that presented him with a problem, for now he had to come up with thirty-nine […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT50.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT50.

October 26, 2021 Alan Royle 0

  SHIRLEY TEMPLE: (1928 – 2014)           [On her adult experiences as a former child star]: ‘I do get pinched a lot. Mostly it’s women, my peer group and even older than I am, and I’m old. They tend to want to touch. If I go on tour I’ll get pinched […]

The making of ‘TOP GUN’ (1986)

March 4, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  This was the highest grossing movie of 1986, raking in over $350 million worldwide. For the record, Crocodile Dundee ran second and Platoon third. In North America alone it sold nearly 50 million tickets in its first theatrical release. It was such a popular picture with young people that […]

Did you know? Points of interest – Pt. 17

October 20, 2015 Alan Royle 0

Yesterday, I watched an old 1937 classic on Foxtel called They Won’t Forget. In all honesty I chose it because I wanted to see for myself why audiences in 1937 instantly fell in love with newcomer, 16 year-old Lana Turner, in her debut performance as the ill-fated Mary Clay. It […]