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Thought for the Day from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
“A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Share this thought for the day on our Movie Talk Facebook page or Movie Talk Twitter stream.
Name That Chest: The Loin King
The film turned this British stage actor into a screen superstar. In his latest role, he plays a toyshop owner who turns out to be a cinematic pioneer. Last week’s chest featured a screen legend who’s the subject of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Marilyn Monroe, My Week with Marilyn, Some Like it Hot
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Film review | My Week with Marilyn – A captivating peek at the woman behind the movie icon
It’s 1956 and Hollywood’s biggest star is coming to London to make a movie with Britain’s greatest actor. The pair: Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. The film: The Prince and the Showgirl, a frothy comedy based on Terence Rattigan’s recent … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Alan Clark, Colin Clark, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Kenneth Clark, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn, Vivien Leigh, Zoe Wanamaker
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Name That Chest: It’s Green…
…but has nothing to do with the upcoming superhero film Green Lantern. You can probably guess the character, but can you guess the film? How did you get on last week? Did you identify the birthday girl in the pink … Continue reading
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Tagged Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Green Lantern, Marilyn Monroe
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Farewell Jane Russell (1921 – 2011)
Michael Jackson in a grey wig? No, actually it’s Jane Russell who died yesterday at the ripe old age of 89. And to feature that picture is very unfair of me (and in appalling bad taste, sorry) because screen legend … Continue reading
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Tagged Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, The Outlaw
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All About Eve – “Fasten your seatbelts!” Quotable quotes from the Oscar-winning classic
Joseph L Mankiewicz’s bitchy backstage classic All About Eve, winner of six Oscars (out of 14 nominations, a record shared with Titanic) at the 1950 Academy Awards, has one of the most quotable scripts to come out of Hollywood’s golden … Continue reading
Some Like It Hot – Tony Curtis tribute on ITV1 tonight
ITV has been quickest off the mark to pay tribute to Tony Curtis – they’re showing Some Like It Hot on ITV1 tonight. Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 comedy sees Curtis and Jack Lemmon play a pair of 1920s musicians who … Continue reading
Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood legend
In tribute to Hollywood legend Tony Curtis we’ve selected a scene from probably his greatest film, Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. It’s the one where he first puts on his pose as an oil-rich playboy to … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | My 10 movie-themed cocktails
The last time I ‘wrote about’ Cocktail, I used it as an excuse to list my favourite classic cocktails along with the films in which they star. Actually I didn’t say much about the Tom Cruise film at all. Check … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Any Old Port, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Audrey Hepburn, avatar, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cocktail, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harvey Milk, Henry Fonda, Laurel and Hardy, Marilyn Monroe, Milk, Sean Penn, Some Like it Hot, The Grapes of Wrath, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Tom Cruise
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