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23 October 2021
Peter O'Toole is it!
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In February 1962, for a then record amount of $5.5 million, Warner Bros. obtained the rights to produce the film version of the successful s...
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17 October 2021
I can't wait to work with you again
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Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis made three films together, i.e. the WWII drama Kings Go Forth (1958) and the two comedies Sex and the Single G...
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9 October 2021
Send this minor masterpiece whizzing through the film exchanges of America
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In December 1948, production wrapped on Irving Cummings' It's Only Money , a RKO comedy starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Fran...
30 September 2021
This thing called Zsa Zsa Gabor ...
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Seldom praised for her acting skills, Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor is probably best known for her flamboyant personality, her many marriages...
26 September 2021
Signed, David-in-quest-of-his-Mate
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In her autobiography A Private View (1983) Irene Mayer Selznick said that David Selznick didn't seriously propose to her until long af...
20 September 2021
Bette Davis & Life with Father
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When Warner Bros. decided to film Life with Father (1947), the 1939 hit play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, they quickly settled on W...
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11 September 2021
You should face the fact that he has no talent
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In 1952, Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini approached Rebecca West, British author and literary critic, to write the dialogue f...
19 August 2021
I'm sorry to have to tell you I'm hopelessly normal
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By the summer of 1950, Judy Garland was overworked, dependent on pills and had already suffered a few nervous breakdowns. Her marriage to di...
29 July 2021
Our system must be an ideal one
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During the 1920s, Darryl F. Zanuck worked as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers before becoming head of production in 1931. Around the same ...
19 July 2021
The Short-Lived History Of Oscar Write-Ins
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For two years in Oscar history —in 1935 and 1936— the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences allowed its members to vote for anyone the...
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