MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 223.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 223.

August 24, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  Charlton Heston In 1999, Charlton Heston joined Karl Malden in pressing for an Honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement to be given to veteran director Elia Kazan, a man whose record re the HUAC was nothing to be proud of. Marlon Brando, who never made public appearances, refused to […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT65

RANDOM QUOTES – PT65

September 28, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  CHARLES LAUGHTON (1899 – 1962)                  [The man who played Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) admitted struggling with the characterizations]: ‘When I have a part like Father Barrett or Bligh, I hate the man’s guts so […]

KAY KENDALL, SUZY KENDALL, PATSY KENSIT

KAY KENDALL, SUZY KENDALL, PATSY KENSIT

September 16, 2022 Alan Royle 2

    KAY KENDALL (1926-59)              Vivacious Kay Kendall hailed from Yorkshire. Her father was the vaudevillian son of a music hall star so the theatre was in her blood. Fame came her way suddenly with her performance in the popular British comedy Genevieve (1953). […]