Linda Blair: Exorcised
It’s not much of a holiday movie, but Warner Bros. released the classic horror The Exorcist on December 26, 1973. Based on a novel by author William Peter Blatty …
Keeping it in The Family
Based on Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel, Francis Ford Coppola’s three Godfather films were released in 1972, 1974, and 1990. Together they won numerous Oscars, netted more than half a …
Bruce Lee: Round Robin
Martial arts star Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco in 1940, but spent much of his childhood in Hong Kong and made his movie debut there while still …
Walter Matthau: Goodbye, Dolly
Having won an Academy Award for his performance in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie, by the late 1960s comedy actor Walter Matthau was riding high. He had just signed …
Steve McQueen & James Garner: Neighbors from Hell
Although Hollywood gossip likes to focus more on the catty rivalries between its leading ladies than it does its leading men, there have been more than a few times …
A mountain to climb
1965’s The Sound of Music opens with a long sweeping shot, flying over endless green Alpine meadows and mountaintops, with the sun shining and the lakes in the distance …
Wouldn’t it be lovely?
When she won the Best Actress Oscar for her title role in Mary Poppins in 1964, Julie Andrews could scarcely believe it. In a 2019 interview, she explained that …
Joan Crawford & Bette Davis: What Happened?
Few Hollywood feuds compare to that between renowned Oscar-winners Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. But as legendary as their rivalry has become, incredibly the pair only made one movie …
Drunk and Disorderly
As well as sweeping the boards at the Oscars, 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia also made an overnight star of its leading actor, Peter O’Toole. O’Toole is one of cinema’s …
Get Out of Jail Free
After nabbing seven Oscars for his Second World War epic The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, director David Lean was keen to embark on another large-scale movie. …