PROFILES – Rita Hayworth
RITA HAYWORTH (1918-87) Rita began life as a brunette named Margarita Cansino in Brooklyn, New York City at the end of World War One. In 1989, biographer Barbara Leaming claimed that Rita’s father sexually abused […]
the strawberry blonde
MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES PT4
Alan Arkin as Lester Siegel in Argo (2012) Argo is an entertaining film but should it have won the Best Picture Oscar? It followed the ‘cliff-hanger’ formula right down the line which was hardly anything […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT45.
James Dean & Paul Newman screen testing Dean with girlfriend Pier Angeli Paul Newman was a finalist for the Cal Trask role in East of Eden (1955), but it […]
The best pictures – year by year – PT 1 (1939-44).
I have often been flabbergasted or just plain disbelieving as the Academy ran out each year’s list of Oscar nominees, especially the Best Picture nominees, and time after time exceptional pictures simply did not make the list. Consequently, I thought I might (starting with 1939, the year movies came […]