‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) Of all the featured players in this movie, the one that launched Sean Connery as a superstar a year after he played James Bond in Dr. No, only Italian actress Daniela Bianchi (who played […]
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) Of all the featured players in this movie, the one that launched Sean Connery as a superstar a year after he played James Bond in Dr. No, only Italian actress Daniela Bianchi (who played […]
Jeremy Brett in My Fair Lady (1964) Handsome Jeremy Brett played Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady (1964), the suitor of Eliza Doolittle, who sings ‘On the Street Where You Live’ as he mopes about outside her residence. Jeremy was a non-singer so his vocals were supplied by Bill Shirley who […]
PETER PAN (1953) Bobby Driscoll was the voice & model for Disney’s Peter Pan. Walt Disney was disappointed in the finished product of his 1953 adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s classic play about the boy who never grew up. Walt felt that Pan […]
THE MISSION (1986) This film was released 236 years after events associated with the Treaty of Madrid (1750) – also known as The Spanish-Portuguese Treaty – saw the Spaniards hand over part of Paraguay to Portugal. Jeremy Irons portrays a Spanish Jesuit devoted to converting the local Indians in […]
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) Michael Caine and Sean Connery play two ex- British Army non-coms named Peachy Carnehan and Daniel Dravot in this delightful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s 1888 novella of the same name. It is set in the 1880s in India where Kipling (played by […]
THE WIND AND THE LION (1975) This uneven and generally silly movie is based (very, very loosely) on a real incident that took place in Tangier, Morocco in October 1904. It focuses on the kidnapping of an American ex-patriot […]
Frobe & Connery in Goldfinger (1964) In Goldfinger (1964) there is a golf game between James Bond (Sean Connery) and his nemesis Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe). The two men end up playing the match for a bar of solid gold. Anyone who has ever picked up a club could see that Connery […]
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE (1898 – 1952) The English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy star was in her forties when WW2 began, but her husband was a Lieutenant in the US Navy and she was determined to do her bit to entertain Allied troops. The UK’s Entertainments National Service […]
SEAN CONNERY: [His response regarding co-starring with his then wife, Australian actress Diane Cilento] ‘Diane and I are often asked why we don’t make a film together. Frankly, it would be a bloody disaster. I don’t go along with husband and wife double acts. I […]
Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote If you ever wondered why most actors and actresses jump at the chance to star in their own television series, it is worth comparing payments in the case of English-born actress Angela Lansbury. For her first movie role in Gaslight (1944), for which […]
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