MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204

October 13, 2022 Alan Royle 6

  (L to R) Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Edd Byrnes & Roger Smith – stars of 77 Sunset Strip The very first private detective TV series was the Warner Brothers production of 77 Sunset Strip (1958-64), and ran for over 200 one-hour episodes. Such was its popularity, it spawned another four […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT33.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT33.

October 15, 2020 Alan Royle 0

LEE MARVIN (1924-87)                             Like Audie Murphy, Lee Marvin was not an actor when war broke out, but became one after hostilities ended. He was still a teenager when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps Reserve on August 12, 1942. As a member of the 4th Marine Division, he took […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT83

November 28, 2018 Alan Royle 3

Sandra Bullock & her Oscar for The Blind Side (2009) Sandra Bullock enjoys a reputation for being kind and attentive, highly professional and a pleasure to work with. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she does not permit her ego to interfere with her sense of humour either. In 2009, she readily turned […]

FIFTIES MOVIE TRIVIA – PT3.

March 17, 2018 Alan Royle 3

In the 1955 Hitchcock picture To Catch a Thief, there is a scene in which John Robie (Cary Grant) is discussing the cook’s ‘sensitive hands’ with an insurance agent and casually mentions that those hands once strangled a German general without a sound. For German audiences, however, the words were […]

Forties Movie Trivia – PT5.

February 25, 2018 Alan Royle 4

Richard Jaeckel was a terrific character actor who racked up a total of 190 screen credits in his 51-year career. In 1943 he was a 17 year-old messenger boy at 20th Century Fox when he was cast as a US Marine private in his first picture Guadalcanal Diary. If you […]