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26 March 2016
I wish I may go broke wiring you
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In January 1938, Vincent Price was asked by Orson Welles to join the Mercury Theatre , an independent theatre company founded by Wel...
19 March 2016
You'd be most welcome
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Katharine Hepburn and Bob Dylan were once neighbours. They both lived in New York in Manhattan's Turtle Bay neighbourhood -- Hepbu...
14 March 2016
A tissue of lies and misquotations
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Recently I saw Tallulah Bankhead in Royal Scandal (1945) and Devil and the Deep (1932), which are the first films I've seen her ...
12 March 2016
One of the most rewarding locations
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source The last of five westerns director Anthony Mann and James Stewart did together was a film for Columbia Pictures, The Man fr...
7 March 2016
George Bush is no Gene Kelly!
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On 16 March 2008, Maureen Dowd, journalist for The New York Times, wrote a column about then-president George Bush in which she compared h...
4 March 2016
What's in a title?
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Before any film could be submitted to the Production Code Administration (PCA) for approval, the title of that film first had to be appro...
29 February 2016
Edward G. Robinson: Art Lover & Collector
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While Edward G. Robinson is mostly known for playing gangsters and tough guys on the big screen, in real life he was a man of ref...
19 February 2016
A fitting tribute to your judgement and courage
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With a little more than a week to go until Oscar night, here is a short letter from an Oscar winner to a fellow winner. On 26 Feb...
13 February 2016
Let's bring the art of letter-writing back into vogue!
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I know that Olivia de Havilland will be celebrating her 100th birthday this year, but I hadn't realised there's another Hollywood ...
10 February 2016
Bogie, Chess & Casablanca
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Humphrey Bogart learned how to play chess from his father and eventually became an avid and also expert player. In the early Depression y...
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