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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT129.

Lee Fierra as Mrs. Kintner confronting the police chief in Jaws (1975)

Lee Fierro played Mrs. Kintner in the 1975 hit Jaws, mother of the boy, Alex, taken by the shark at the beach. She only made three movies; this one, Jaws – The Revenge (1987) and The Mistover Tale (2015). She turned 90 in February 2019. Several decades after Jaws she walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed there was…

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KIDS & JUVENILES - PT5.

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT5.

LAUREN CHAPIN (1945 – )

Californian Lauren Chapin became known in households around the world when, as an 8 year-old, she was cast to play Kathy Anderson (nickname ‘Kitten’) in the new TV family sitcom Father Knows Best (1954-60). The cast featured Robert Young and Jane Wyatt as her parents, supported by Elinor Donahue and Billy Gray as her…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - P128.

MOVIE TRIVIA – P128.

Henry Fonda & his wife Margaret Sullavan

Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat (1944)

Tallulah Bankhead was dismissive about her only sexual encounter with legendary screen star Henry Fonda. ‘Oh, please, dah-ling, don’t mention Hank to me’, she laughed. ‘I went to bed with him only one time. He failed to produce an erection. Now I know why that magnolia Southern bitch, Margaret Sullavan,…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - PT127

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT127

Sir Laurence Olivier

Producer David Lewis said of his friend Sir Laurence Olivier, ‘He would sleep with anyone.’ Larry’s first wife, actress Jill Esmond, was a lesbian and gave him free reign to pursue male lovers at will. And he did so with considerable relish. He and Noel Coward were lovers for years – Danny Kaye was his bed-mate for a decade. Sir John Gielgud always claimed he and Larry had…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - PT126.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT126.

Geoffrey Rush as Walsingham in Elizabeth (1998)

Conspiracy buffs should enjoy this. In the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett in the title role, there is a dining scene featuring Sir Francis Walsingham, Mary of Guise and Duc d’Anjou, during which the Duc says that he cannot marry Queen Elizabeth because she is really a man. He is referring to the legend of the Bisley Boy. The legend…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - PT125

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT125

Greer Garson & Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942)

Ronald Colman portrayed a man suffering from shell shock/amnesia in the 1942 melodrama Random Harvest. He was familiar with shell shock, having witnessed it many times during his time as a British soldier in the trenches of World War One. In fact, during the Battle of Ypres…

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KIDS & JUVENILES - PT4

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT4

BOBBY BREEN (1927 – 2016)

Bobby Breen was a boy soprano who had his moment in the sun back in the thirties. He was born Isadore Borsuk in Montreal, Canada in 1927, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrant parents. Between 1936 and 1942 he only made nine films in total before ditching his movie career to focus on a nightclub singing act. Unfortunately, patrons who came to see and hear him were expecting…

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MOVIE QUIZ No 2.

QUIZ NO 2

26 Which male comedy star was Sir Laurence Olivier’s lover for over ten years?

27 Name the song from the 1942 film Holiday Inn that won the Oscar that year.

28 Which actor is Shirley MacLaine’s real life brother?

29 Which 1988 movie made Alan Rickman a star?

30 Who played the detective in Laura (1944)?

31 What…

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MOVIE QUIZ N0 1.

For a change of pace I have decided to toss in the occasional movie quiz. If they prove to be popular I might even incorporate a thousand or so into a ‘Movie Quiz’ book one day. There will be 25 questions in each segment and the answers will be listed at the end of the article. Have fun.

MOVIE QUIZ NO 1

1 In which country was Claudia Cardinale…

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KIDS & JUVENILES - PT3.

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT3.

LINDA BLAIR (1959 – )

Linda Blair entered this world in St. Louis, Missouri on January 22, 1959. Long before she became world famous as the possessed child Regan in The Exorcist (1973), Linda was modelling, appearing in commercials (75 of them before she turned 12), and her picture was adorning hundreds of magazines and catalogues across America. She was even in minor roles in a couple…

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KIDS & JUVENILES - PT2.

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT2.

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW (1924 – 92)

London-born Freddie Bartholomew’s career spanned just 21 years and 28 screen appearances. Twenty-two of those performances were as a boy or juvenile; the other six after he was no longer a teenager. He was a precocious boy, reciting and performing on the stage from the age of three. He also sang and danced. MGM signed him to a seven-year contract and…

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KIDS & JUVENILES - PT1.

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT1.

Ever since the movies began at the turn of the 20th century, there have been child and juvenile stars, male and female, who have turned out to be walking gold mines for the studios. Some have even been responsible for saving their respective studios from going under. Until around thirty years ago (maybe a bit longer), 90% of the best child actors have undoubtedly been American-born. Whether…

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THE PLAYBOYS - PT1. Greg Bautzer

THE PLAYBOYS – PT1. Greg Bautzer

Greg Bautzer & Lana Turner

There has never been a shortage of playboys in Hollywood, especially during the studio system’s heyday. I thought it might be of interest to take a close look at some of these gentlemen as they cut a swathe through the ranks of stars and starlets down the decades. I have lit upon the attorney Greg Bautzer to start the ball rolling. No particular reason,…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - PT124.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT124.

‘Prince’ Michael Romanoff outside his restaurant

Romanoff’s was an extremely popular restaurant in Hollywood, owned by a gentleman named Michael Romanoff who proclaimed himself to be of royal blood, a Russian prince, in fact, and nephew to the late Tsar Nicholas II. It was widely known in Hollywood that his royalty claims were completely false, but everyone played along regardless. In truth,…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - PT123.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT123.

Ashley Judd

Actress Ashley Judd was not about to take a backward step when she spoke about having an abortion when she was young. ‘As everyone knows, and I’m very open about it, I’m a three-time rape survivor’, she said. ‘And one of the times I was raped, there was a conception, and I’m very thankful I was able to access safe and legal abortion, because that rapist, who is a Kentuckian, as am…

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MOVIE TRIVIA - PT122.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT122.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT122 edited May 02 2019

Red Buttons in The Longest Day (1962)

Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt in New York City’s Lower East Side in 1919. He got his name from a combination of his red hair and the uniform he wore as a singing bellhop at Dinty Moore’s Tavern in the Bronx. Having commenced his show business career singing on…

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CENTURIONS - PT3.

CENTURIONS – PT3.

102 & 8 MONTHS* KIRK DOUGLAS (Dec 9, 1916 – )

Kirk Douglas was born in New York over 100 years ago to Jewish immigrant parents from what is now Belarus. Despite several close shaves, he is still going strong as of April 2019 and heading towards his 103rd birthday. Had he not taken the advice of his then wife, Anne, he would have accompanied his friend…

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