‘RANDOM QUOTES’ – PT49.
SOPHIA LOREN: (1934 – ) [On why she, although being a nominee, could not attend the 1961 Academy Awards]: ‘I decided that I could not bear the ordeal of sitting in plain view of millions of viewers […]
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LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT2.
Daniel Day-Lewis as ‘Bill the Butcher’ Englishman Daniel Day-Lewis is a Method actor and an eccentric one at that. He was working as a cobbler in Florence, Italy when Harvey Weinstein, director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio lured him into coming back to New York, so they could […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 24.
In the 1983 feature Cujo, the St. Bernard at the centre of the action was played by a combination of five live animals, one mechanical head, and a man dressed in a dog-suit. The five live dogs had to have their tails tied down because they were having such a […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT 13.
The delightful Leslie Caron in Gigi (1958) The three leads in Gigi (1958), Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier, were all born in France. Unfortunately, Leslie’s French accent had completely disappeared […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT7.
Cindy Morgan […]
More Movie Trivia
Clara Bow Silent star Clara Bow’s 1926 contract with Paramount guaranteed her a bonus of $500,000, a staggering amount of money at the time, if she could manage to stay ‘scandal-free’ for its tenure. She never even came close to collecting. Oddly enough, given her tawdry reputation, Clara had […]
FIFTIES MOVIE TRIVIA – PT7.
Martin Milner The brilliant film noir Sweet Smell of Success (1957) was to have starred Robert Vaughn in his breakout role, but the draft intervened and he was sent off to do national service. Martin Milner inherited the role of Steve Dallas in this superb classic and […]
BEST OF THE BEST – Pt1 – CARY GRANT
CARY GRANT Here is a brief look at the very best movies from the very best actors and actresses (in my opinion). If you have never seen any or all of these movies, I sincerely […]
PETER O’TOOLE – the actor and the man.
PETER O’TOOLE (1932 – 2013) Peter O’Toole hailed from Leeds in Yorkshire. He always maintained he was born in Ireland, but there are simply no records indicating that. As a teenager he started out as a newspaper copy boy, showed promise as a reporter, but was drawn to the […]
Feminine allure in the movies – 50 of the best
These days if a man mentions that a woman looks ‘hot’ or ‘desirable’, he runs a very good chance of being labeled a ‘sexist’ by that annoying, nameless bunch that take it upon themselves to decide for the rest of us what is politically correct and what is not. […]