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The small wedding party gathered on a beautiful spring day outside the courthouse in Greenwich, Conn. The ceremony was delayed by the late arrival of the best man, Jerry Lewis, who had earlier advised Janet and Tony against their marriage (but later recanted). Here’s Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis in their own words. He said, She said. Janet said: It was “short, sweet, sedate and […]
Time once again to dip into our trusty email bag, one of our favorite pastimes. As we’ve said multi times, we love hearing from you, our readers. And since you are collectively a very discerning bunch, we often learn from your comments — especially when you catch us in a goof. For example, Maureen let […]
There’a a wonderful artist out there, Joe Phillips, doing great posters of what classic film stars would look like as comic book heroes. If you’d like to see more, or order his posters, contact the following link. http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/07/21/this-artist-creates-superheroes-of-the-classic-screen-era-3398804?lt_source=external,manual Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
At first glance a cut-rate Hollywood version of Marilyn Monroe, she has confounded Hollywood watchers in recent years because she was more — skilled both promotionally and as a thespian (doubters should check out her earliest movies). Jayne Mansfield made a big imprint in Hollywood during the Fifties and Sixties, the dying days of the […]
Her A-list contemporaries dismissed her as a no-talent, publicity-seeking sexpot. Bette Davis famously remarked that her definition of “dramatic art” was knowing how to fill a sweater. She died early — at age 34 — in a grisly automobile crash that still fascinates the more ghoulish element of Hollywood savants. Her good looks and her […]
She has done more for Italy than Pizza and Pasta combined. That’s an exaggeration of course, but not much of one. Sophia Loren is Italy’s most prominent international star, and has been for some time. She was born in a hospital ward for unwed mothers in Rome in 1934, and raised in a fatherless household […]
Today we zip so easily from London to Paris or Brussels using the Chunnel that we forget what a marvel it is. And yet visionaries not only envisioned a tunnel under the English Channel, but indeed a tunnel across the Atlantic. Michel Verne, the son of Jules Verne wrote about such an idea in […]
Recently we discussed Splendor in the Grass, the film with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty and alluded to their on screen chemistry. Of course they were having a torrid affair while making the movie, and it continued for some time. There are dozens of examples of co-stars taking the love scenes they’re playing to a […]
Did you remember Coleen Gray? Did you know about her performances in some of the leading Film Noir classics such as the one that inspired the picture above (with John Payne in 1952’s Kansas City Confidential)? She was called “the most utilitarian of Dark City dames” by film noir scholar Eddie Muller. She was that […]
She started off as the girl next door type, but Coleen Gray soon joined the ranks of the women who peopled the dark circles of Film Noir. She may not be as revered today as her noir sisters (such as Lizabeth Scott, Gloria Grahame or Jane Greer) but she played in the Forties and Fifties key roles […]