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TONY MARTIN — A Long and Varied Career
He was a big band singer, a movie star, a star on radio, a nightclub performer and a recording artist. He was one of the few crooners to have a sustained Hollywood screen career. He was in no way as imposing as Bing Crosby, but he was reasonably close during his Hollywood prime from the […]
Remember VIRGINIA GREY?
There she is with best pal, Lana Turner. She had quite a career in B movies and as Clark Gable’s on again off again lover. In fact, Grey was a child actor but never a star. Her father Ray Grey was a director in the silent era. Legend has it that Gloria Swanson was one […]
CARY GRANT Quiz — Answers
There’s our man above with a familiar costar. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn made four pictures together including one of the most infamous box office bombs of the 1930’s. Sylvia Scarlett is director George Cukor’s idea of a light comedy based on a novel about a girl disguised as a boy to help her errant […]
CARY GRANT — Ultimate Quiz for an Ultima
We suspect that you are reasonably confident that you pretty much know already everything important that there is to know Cary Grant. That’s why for today’s Cary Grant Quiz, we are tightening the screws a little bit. Our questions this time are inspired by a most pleasurable reading of author Scott Eyman’s recently published biography […]
EVERETT SLOANE — A Class Act
Most often associated with Orson Welles, Everett Sloane had a distinct career with and without the boy genius. We put his name among the very finest supporting actors ever produced in classic Hollywood. In addition to his distinguished work with Welles — notably his film debut as the down-to-earth Mr. Bernstein, manager of Charles Foster […]
HILDEGARD KNEF — Who?
Once upon a time in Hollywood the notion that foreign actresses with a certain Mata Hari charm would offer multiple pleasures to domestic film audiences gained currency. The result: the rare imported actress made the cut did but most didn’t. German actress Hildegard Knef gave it a good try. But no cigar. She starred in […]
Remember RICHARD BASEHART?
Perhaps because he made movies in Europe — most notably in Federico Fellini’s seminal La Strada (The Road) in 1954 — some of us thought Richard Basehart was actually born in England. The truth is more prosaic. The actor was born in 1914 in the wholesome locale of Zanesville, Ohio. (He died of multiple strokes […]
Our DOROTHY MALONE Quiz — Answers
How much did you know about the Oscar winner? And do you recognize her with Bogart? Ok, on the answers to our Dorothy Malone Quiz. 1) Question: What do Dorothy Malone and Ginger Rogers have in common? a) They shared (at different times) a darkly handsome, actor-playboy French husband; b) They shared troubled early childhoods; […]
DOROTHY MALONE — Our Quiz
A contract player who rose to stardom. She served an apprenticeship, then attained major stardom, then faded and retreated to television. Nonetheless, the former Dorothy Maloney kept going and going, outlasting — through more than 110 film and tv credits over a half century — many if not most of her A-list contemporaries. Dorothy Malone, […]
REPEAT “Repeat Performance”
Happy New Year. As regular readers of this blog know Joe’s favorite New Year’s film is the 1947 cult classic, Repeat Performance, starring Joan Leslie and Louis Hayward. Regular contributor Jeff Woodman wrote not too long ago to tell us: Yes indeed, finally caught up with (1947’s) ‘Repeat Performance’ and quite enjoyed it — thanks […]
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