MOVIE TRIVIA – PT38.
Greg Bautzer & Joan Crawford at the Stork Club Bautzer and his wife Dana Wynter The Hollywood playboy attorney Greg Bautzer spoke from experience when he said of […]
peter lawford
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 21.
the incomparable Ava with boyfriend Peter Lawford Ava Gardner’s very physical affair with the bisexual Peter Lawford ended, or so […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 17.
Peter Lawford Frank Sinatra wrongfully blamed his actor buddy Peter Lawford for President Kennedy cancelling plans to stay at the crooner’s Palm Springs retreat in 1962. In reality it was Bobby Kennedy who insisted his brother cut his ties with Sinatra […]
‘THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER’ – Spot the stars.
I recently saw an old 1944 melodrama called The White Cliffs of Dover on Foxtel and it turned out to be one of those ‘spot the star’ fests that we come across from time to time. I did not think much of the movie per se; it was a […]
Dorothy Dandridge – a beautiful talent wasted.
DANDRIDGE, Dorothy (1922 – 65) What happened to Dorothy Dandridge was one of the greatest wastes of beauty and talent in the history of the movies. She was gorgeous and she could sing […]
RANDOM SNAPSHOTS – PT5.
BERGMAN, Ingrid (1915-82) Joseph Mankiewicz had this to say about Ingrid Bergman. ‘Even when she learned about Spencer Tracy’s involvement with […]
The many loves of Ava Gardner.
AVA GARDNER (1922-90) Ava was a ‘knockout’, possibly the sexiest woman ever to grace a movie screen. She married Mickey Rooney when he was the number one box-office draw in movies (she refused to sleep with him unless he married her first). Within three weeks or so of the […]
The many loves of Lana Turner.
LANA TURNER (1921-95) 1936: Wayne Morris, who would become a fighter pilot hero in World War Two, was Lana’s first Hollywood crush. 1937: Ronald Reagan was her first studio-arranged romance, although it is generally believed that their relationship did not go beyond a few horse-riding outings. However, […]
Hollywood Mysteries Pt 2.
The victim – 1959 – Beverly Hills, California George Reeves (45) The corpse of George Reeves, television’s Superman, was found naked in his bedroom at 1.59am by his party guests who then waited 45 minutes before calling police. Why the delay? And why would George get completely […]
Did you know? (D)
Recently I watched a British WW2 drama made in 1953 called Appointment in London (aka Raiders in the Sky). It was pretty good, too, although the final segment (a bomber raid on Germany) was drawn out far too long. The cast was first class with Dirk Bogarde, Ian […]