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30 September 2014
You have the guts of a lion
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Lauren Bacall and John Wayne made two movies together. The first one was the 1955 Blood Alley , directed by William Wellman and produced by...
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28 September 2014
My dear Ava
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After her roles in Mogambo (1953) and The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Ava Gardner --often seen as one of Hollywood's most beautif...
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25 September 2014
Joan, forgive me
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Classic Hollywood had its fair share of real life couples. During the 1930's, one of those couples was Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone....
22 September 2014
What a waste of time!
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In 1950, novelist Raymond Chandler was hired by Alfred Hitchcock to write the screenplay for Hitch's next film Strangers on a train (1...
18 September 2014
Dear Golden Boy
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21-year-old William Holden made his film debut in 1939 with Golden Boy . His female co-star Barbara Stanwyck, who was eleven years his se...
16 September 2014
Still in a daze about my Oscar...
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During her career, Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award three times. Twice she got the statuette for Best Actress ( Gaslight (1944)...
14 September 2014
Perhaps it wasn't as disastrous as I'd feared
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In March 1942, Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons received both positive and negative reactions from preview audiences. Focusing ...
8 September 2014
Turning down Freud
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For his film about psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud entitled Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), director John Huston had initially offered...
5 September 2014
Love letter to Grace Kelly
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In May 1955, 25 year-old Grace Kelly was in Cannes for the annual film festival when she was invited for a photo shoot with Prince Rain...
3 September 2014
The book cannot be picturised!
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In early 1934, before James M. Cain's crime novel The Postman Always Rings Twice was even published, RKO submitted a synopsis of Cain...
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