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Recognize the woman above? She was the first Italian sex symbol to make a splash in America. No, she is not Gina Lollobrigida. Nor Sophia Loren. Nor Eleanora Rossi Drago. Nor Elsa Martinelli. And certainly not Claudia Cardinale. For those of you aching with curiosity, check out the top left hand portion of the above […]
Did you ever wonder what truly makes a movie a classic? We think about that a lot, and have come up with a credo of our own. That is, if a movie is good, will it be good five years from now and even better 10 years from now. A movie classic is impervious to time […]
Where did that stereotypical notion — that the British unlike the French are by and large are not wildly interested in sex — come from? Who knows? One of our favorite titles of any stage and screen outing is No Sex Please, We’re British. It belongs to the early Seventies British farce written by Alistair […]
His time was brief but he made quite an impression. His early (and mysterious) death snuffed out a career which might have gone on for decades. Robert Walker‘s short but tempestuous time in the limelight — covering some 22 credits over a 13-year span — earned him a notch as one of classic Hollywood’s princelings […]
Who? Ok. The name and the actress may not ring a bell unless you are an avid follower of big studio pictures of the 1950’s. But back then, watch out! The former Debralee Griffin, born in 1933 in Denver (and is still with us at 87), was the product of a classic show biz Mom […]
Sir Sean Connery died in his sleep over the weekend at his home in Nassau, the Bahamas. He was 90 years old, and had been in failing health for some time. His seven movies as James Bond are indelibly part of film history. Did anyone play 007 any better? That’s a discussion for another […]
Yes, and a few very good ones too. People often forget that actors who achieved fame on early television were once movie stars. Think Lucille Ball. Yes, Barbara Hale was an above the title star who worked opposite people such as James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Robert Young and Charlton Heston. Yet most people only […]
It’s a classic. But have you seen it lately, and does it hold up? Why are we asking? Well, for one thing, the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock Gothic romance, which won a best picture Oscar, has been remade and updated in a new Netflix version starring Armie Hammer, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas. Will the […]
In this week’s Ann Blyth Quiz, we mentioned that she made her mark at Universal studios in tandem with Donald O’Connor, who became a longtime personal friend. There they are below as costars of 1957’s The Buster Keaton Story, which suited O’Connor’s athletic dancing capabilities to a T. Born into vaudeville — actually his parents […]
How much did you know about this star of the 40s and 50s? Did you realize how good a singer Ann Blyth proved to be? At the height of her fame in the early Fifties, she balanced her appearances in all sorts of pictures — she played a Russian countess opposite Gregory Peck in 1952’s […]