Who was it? I can't hold my breath any longer!
Sorry - that last comment refers to Graham's question re. the film star in hospital. It seems to have appeared in the wrong place!
Well
remember the Saturday matinees at the Ambassador on the Cregagh Road,
well before it became known for adult movies of a very different kind!
Used to trip out into the daylight, having been scared by gangster and
war in black and white - seem to remember a lot of Victor Mature and
Robert Mitchum..and then there were the glorious technicolor tm
westerns..
Favourites down the years include All Quiet On the Western Front,Wages
of Fear,and first time viewing of The Italian Job,Butch Cassidy and The
French Connection. Weirdest cinema moment- audience in the Strand
cheering in the seventies when Richard Widmark, playing a cop in
Madigan, was gunned down (as we used to say in the trade)
Richard Widmark. A very under rated actor. Curiously after he was gunned down in the title role of Madigan on film, he was brought back to life for a television series of the same name. A bit like Bobby Ewing only not as wet.
The passing of the Canadian actor, Barry Morse, who as Lt. Gerard in TV's "The Fugitive" chased Dr. Kimble (David Janssen) all over the place back in the 1960s, reminded me of the betting scam carried out by a few journalists who shall remain nameless. The very last episode in 1967 kept secret who the killer really was. Bookies took bets on whether it was the one-armed-man, or Kimble's friend. Or his brother-in-law. The episode was shown in the States a few hours before it was shown here and disclosed who the murderer was. The one-armed-man. Several unscrupulous newspapermen hit the betting shops and phoned bets to out of town bookies to avert suspicion. A few years after this, Frank Carson told the story of meeting actor David Janssen in a lift. In the brief conversation Carson told the actor "I'm not nearly as old as I look. These are laughter lines." Janssen replied deadpan, "Nothing could be that funny." But maybe Frank exaggerated. He's been known to.
Died March 24 208
Best line from "Some Like It Hot". Marilyn Monroe to Tony Curtis in the Yacht Scene. "Oh, do you play water polo?"
Curtis, (in his Cary Grant voice) "I'll say. I've had two ponies drowned under me."