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07/01/2025

1988 Cannes Film Festival ⛱📽🏆

06/24/2025

The Forsyte Saga (2002-03)
This series is based on the books by John Galsworthy, which were published in the 1920s. It follows the lives of the upper class Forsyte family. There was also an adaptation from the 1960s- I haven’t seen either but I think they’re both on BritBox!

06/23/2025

Great Expectations (2011)
Here is yet another adaptation of this novel! I don’t know why so many were released in such a short time. I like Douglas Booth and Vanessa Kirby so I’m interested in this version! The costumes look pretty too!

06/23/2025

Burt Reynolds and Dinah Shore met in 1970 when he appeared on her show, Dinah’s Place. They were instantly attracted to each other, despite the age difference. �
Dinah was 53 and Burt was 34. �They began a four-year love affair, keeping much of their relationship private. ��Dinah said, “A human relationship has nothing to do with chronology. It has to do with chemistry. A man is a man. And an attraction is an attraction.”�
Burt said, “We couldn’t have been more in love. But there was a snag. Dinah wouldn’t marry me. She said it was because she couldn’t give me children, and it’s true I wanted them badly. But we could have adopted.”

Dinah had already raised two children with her ex-husband, actor and stuntman George Montgomery, whom she divorced in 1963 after nearly two decades of marriage.

After their relationship ended, Dinah never remarried. Burt married actress Loni Anderson (1988-1994) and they adopted a son named, Quinton.

Burt often said Dinah had been the love of his life. They remained friends until Dinah’s death in 1994.

Burt stated later in his life, “My biggest regret is parting ways with her; it was so stupid of me. We were soulmates. … I was so lucky to have had someone like that in my life. She was so young of heart and spirit in every way.”

06/20/2025

The love story between Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) and Madeline Fabray LaMotte (Lesley-Anne Down) is a central and poignant element in John Jakes’ novel North and South trilogy, which was also adapted into a popular 1985 television series.

In 1842, Orry Main, a Southern gentleman, falls in love with Madeline Fabray, a strong-willed belle, when he rescues her on the way to West Point. Despite their mutual affection, Madeline is forced into an abusive marriage with Justin LaMotte after her father hides Orry’s letters.

Years later, Madeline and Orry rekindle their love in secret, even as the Civil War tears the country—and their lives—apart. Their romance becomes a symbol of forbidden love, tested by war, family loyalty, and personal sacrifice.🌺

If you get a chance to find the trilogy it’s worth the viewing, especially if you like romance and unrequited love. 💕

06/19/2025

January 31, 1914 Arnold Raymond Cream (Jersey Joe Walcott), Hall of Fame boxer, was born in Merchantville, New Jersey.
Walcott made his professional boxing debut in 1930 and in 1951 won the heavyweight championship at the age of 37. At the time, he was the oldest man to win the heavyweight championship.
Over his 23 year professional boxing career, he had a record of 51 wins, 18 losses and 2 draws. After retiring, Walcott worked as a boxing referee and in 1972 became Sheriff of Camden County. From 1975 to 1984, he served as Chairman of the New Jersey State Athletic Commission. In 1990, Walcott was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and he died on February 25, 1994.

06/18/2025

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95.

Hackman was a frequent and versatile presence on screen from the 1960s until his retirement. His dozens of films included the Academy Award favorites “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” a breakout performance in “Bonnie and Clyde,” a classic bit of farce in “Young Frankenstein,” a turn as the comic book villain Lex Luthor in “Superman” and the title character in Wes Anderson’s 2001 “The Royal Tenenbaums.”

Although self-effacing and unfashionable, Hackman held special status within Hollywood — heir to Spencer Tracy as an everyman, actor’s actor, curmudgeon and reluctant celebrity. He embodied the ethos of doing his job, doing it very well, and letting others worry about his image.

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1930, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at 16, lying about his age. While in the military, Hackman worked as a broadcast journalist, before being discharged in 1951.

He was an early retiree — essentially done, by choice, with movies by his mid-70s — and a late bloomer. Hackman was 35 when cast for “Bonnie and Clyde” and past 40 when he won his first Oscar, as the rules-bending New York City detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the 1971 thriller about tracking down Manhattan drug smugglers, “The French Connection.

In 1956, Hackman married Fay Maltese, a bank teller he had met at a YMCA dance in New York. They had a son, Christopher, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Leslie, but divorced in the mid-1980s. In 1991 he married Betsy Arakawa, a classical pianist.

Statement from his family:

“He was loved and admired by millions around the world for his brilliant acting career, but to us he was always just Dad and Grandpa. We will miss him sorely and are devastated by the loss,” Hackman’s children from a previous marriage, Elizabeth and Leslie, and granddaughter Annie.

06/17/2025

Olivia Newton-John, Victoria Principal and her husband on winter holidays in Gstaad, 1984.

06/17/2025

Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard behind the scenes of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961).
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Some facts:

• Author Truman Capote envisioned Marilyn Monroe in the part of Holly Golightly. Marilyn was originally asked, but her drama coach, Lee Strasberg, told her that playing a call-girl was not good for her image. Shirley Maclaine and Kim Novak also turned down the role.

• Steve McQueen was offered the main role of Paul Varjak. However, he was still under contract for the show Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958), which prevented him from appearing.

• Although not visible on camera, hundreds of onlookers watched Audrey’s window-shopping scene at the beginning of the film. This made her nervous and caused her to keep making mistakes. It wasn’t until a crew member nearly got electrocuted behind the camera that she pulled herself together and finished the scene. Audrey also hated Danish pastries, which made filming the famous opening scene even worse.

• The movie was shot only three months after the birth of Audrey first son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer.
• Audrey said the scene where she throws Cat into the rainy street was the most distasteful thing she ever had to do on film.

• George Peppard was a student of Method acting, a style Audrey found difficult to work with. Nonetheless, the two actors remained close friends until her death in 1993.

• At a post-production meeting following a screening of the film, a studio executive, in reference to “Moon River,” said, “Well, I think the first thing we can do is get rid of that stupid song.” Audrey stood up at the table and said, “Over my dead body!”

06/16/2025

Ernest Hemingway and his Cuban cat by Hans Malmberg, 1954.

Ernest Hemingway was known for many things, including his love for cats and writing. At his home in Key West, he kept a colony of cats, many of which were polydactyl, meaning they had extra toes. These cats, known as Hemingway’s six-toed cats, have become a beloved attraction at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.

06/15/2025

Audrey Hepburn greeting her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, in Hoboken New Jersey after the Baroness traveled aboard the liner Nieuw Amsterdam, December 17, 1953. The Baroness, who lived in London, was visiting the United States for the first time to reunite with her famous daughter who she had not seen since 1951. She stayed in New York Until May.

Kathryn Beaumont was the live action model for Alice in "Alice in Wonderland" 1951.

"I started out doing the voice and then the animators wanted me to do the live action as well because that was the reference work for the artists to be able to see the way the human figure was moving. So we would record first and then go to the soundstage and it would be filmed but basically just for the animators. Their seeing my movement and the way that I interpreted the character, they would look at that and then that gave them the help that they needed to draw the character." Kathryn Beaumont.

06/15/2025

On June 12, 1963, the film Cleopatra premiered in New York City.

Adjusted for inflation, Cleopatra is one of the most expensive movies ever made, with a budget of $44 million. It became the highest-grossing film of 1963, earning a remarkable $57.7 million in the United States and Canada. At a global scale, it stood as one of the highest-grossing films of the decade.

Elizabeth Taylor’s costumes were a significant expense, amounting to $194,800. One of her 65 costumes included a dress crafted from 24-carat gold cloth.

While making the movie, Elizabeth and Richard Burton began a relationship, including being married (March 1964), divorced (June 1974), and then married again (October 1975), and divorced again (July 1976).

What is the scar on her neck? After battling a severe case of pneumonia, Elizabeth underwent an emergency tracheotomy, which left a scar on her throat. Despite this, she embraced the scar as a symbol of strength, proudly referring to it as her “war wound.”

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