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24 October 2020
I forgot everything you had done for me
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A Swedish elevator boy, who worked in the New York building where Kay Brown had her office, once told Brown of his parents' enthusias...
15 October 2020
Hoping I will always live up to your praises
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In Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) fifteen-year-old Judy Garland sang You Made Me Love You ( I Didn't Want to Do It ) to a photogr...
11 October 2020
Grace Kelly's favourite teenage books
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In April 1966, Evelyn Byrne (Faculty Advisor at the Elizabeth Barrett Browning High School in New York City) wrote Grace Kelly a letter on b...
6 October 2020
Tying at the Oscars
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Oscar ties rarely happen. Of the 92 times the Oscars have been awarded, there were only six ties. Four times the ties occurred in minor ca...
30 September 2020
"Golden Arrow" seems to make unusually good sense
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Bette Davis hated most of the films she made during the first half of the 1930s. There were exceptions like Of Human Bondage (1934), Dange...
22 September 2020
The friendship of Martin Landau and James Dean
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Martin Landau and James Dean got to know each other in the early 1950s when Dean moved from Fairmont, Indiana, to New York City. Landau had...
15 September 2020
It shows that our industry has a warm heart
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On 17 April 1961, Elizabeth Taylor received what is generally regarded as a Sympathy Oscar. After having been nominated in the Best Actre...
11 September 2020
I strongly feel that "The Maltese Falcon" is not an important picture
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During his career, George Raft had rejected a lot of roles. He seemed to have made a habit of turning down good parts, often in films that...
6 September 2020
My thanks to you for the break you gave me
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Following his successful portrayal of Count Dracula in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931), Hungarian-born Bela Lugosi was typecast in horr...
30 August 2020
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis & the Hitler Quote
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In 1959, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis shared a kissing scene in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot and a fterwards Curtis mad...
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