Time to honour some very distinguished film people in Notable Nonagenarians in random order. Some are national treasures, others have just been around an extremely long time. It seems a good moment to quote Stephen […]
MTV’s television cartoon series hits the big screen in director Mike Judge’s 1996 American adult animated comedy film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, a very much to (bad) taste comedy, directed firmly at the fans. Funnily enough, actually […]
Director Val Guest’s 1964 British drama The Beauty Jungle [Contest Girl] stars Janette Scott as a cute Bristol typist who goes in for a beauty contest at a Butlin’s holiday camp and, helped by a […]
Director Alexander Hall’s 1952 MGM musical comedy Because You’re Mine stars Mario Lanza as an opera singer who becomes an army rookie and romances the sister (Doretta Morrow) of his music-loving sergeant (James Whitmore). That […]
Director Roy Rowland’s 1957 Italian-American film international co-production The Seven Hills of Rome [Arrivederci Roma] stars the troubled Mario Lanza, in his movie comeback, as an American TV singing star called Marc Revere who goes […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s sentimental 1959 musical film For the First Time is Mario Lanza’s ironically titled swansong, filming For the Last Time in a tailor-made role as a temperamental operatic tenor called Tony Costa who falls […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1944 MGM musical Music for Millions stars Margaret O’Brien, June Allyson, José Iturbi and Jimmy Durante. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1946 O’Brien won a special child actor Oscar in […]
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