Hollywood actress Tippi Hedren has revealed her embarrassment and regret that she let a fully grown lion live with her family in the 1970s, saying they were ‘stupid beyond belief’ to let the beast play with her daughter Melanie Griffth, then aged just 13.
Tippi Hedren has revealed that looking back she finds the pictures humiliating and admits she ‘should never have taken those risks’.
Directed by Norman Taurog
Starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Agnes Moorehead, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, Lon Chaney, Jr., Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, Bob Steele
Warner Archive have released the Best of Martin & Lewis Volumes 1 and 2. Pardners is in the second batch.
Pardners would be the next-to-last picture Martin and Jerry Lewis made together. This photo seems to sum up their relationship at the time. (The battered record sleeve seems appropriate, too.)
For some reason I remember so well the final scene where The End appears on the screen and the two of them say they are not ready for the end of the film, so they draw their guns and shoot out the letters in front of us all. Very well done and very slick.
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This is a publicity still with Richard Todd and James Robertson Justice from around June 11th 1951 – the film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men was released in 1952. As we all know this was a Walt Disney picture and one he took a great deal of interest in. He did in fact come over during the summer of 1951 to England and spent some time at Denham Film Studios and at Burnham Beeches where some of the out door action was filmed.
This picture was a studio set piece and does not feature in the film as the quarter staff fight takes place over a wooden bridge in Sherwood Forest – but actually this was indeed another beautiful studio set designed and constructed by Carmen Dillon whose work on this film was exceptional. 
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Joan Rice while in Fiji to film His Majesty O’Keefe. Suva 1952.
Joan Rice and friends, Suva, Fiji, 1952
Another set, His Majesty O’Keefe, a Warner Brothers movie, 1952.
Set and Properties.
LJB threatening a figure. His Majesty O’Keefe film set, Fiji, 1952.
Chief’s Bure. His Majesty O’Keefe film set.
The Chief’s Bure, His Majesty O’Keefe film set. My Aunt Colleen on left.
Film set for His Majesty O’Keefe, 1952. Deuba, Fiji.
LJB and beauties on the set.
A closer look at an His Majesty O’Keefe set
The house and land covers three acres and offers stunning mountain and ocean views from inside
Auction house Christie’s said the house will go on the auction block between November 2014 and January 2015.
Noel Beutel, executor of Fontaine’s estate, says the home in Carmel could be worth up to $3 million.
It is a 4,500-square-foot ranch-style home with a separate guest unit and a rose garden containing 500 roses.
Kitchen: The actress spent her final days here in this home in Carmel, California before she died aged 96
Another valuable item up for sale is Fontaine’s 1941 Oscar for her role as the timid wife in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion’ could bring $300,000 on December 11.
Meanwhile, at least 104 lots of fine art, silver, lighting, furniture and jewelry are scheduled to be spread over four auctions and could realize more than $1 million.
The actress died last December in her home in Carmel, California, at age 96.
Rooms: Fontaine’s elegant property has 4-bedrooms and 4.5-baths
These two iconic aircraft flew over Lincolnshire earlier this summer – and indeed they flew together on a number of occasions recently.
They have been based at Coningsby in Lincolnshire. although I now think that the Canadian one has flown back home.
Only last month on September 24 th. 2014, we travelled to the York Opera House to see Roger Moore in his touring Show in which he recounts with great humour and brilliant story telling ability his very early days as an extra on Caesar and Cleopatra at Denham Film Studios through his early Hollywood days then back to England for Ivanhoe on TV then The Saint, The Persuaders with Tony Curtis on to Bond.
What a great night it was for us film fans.
Sir Roger was introduced onto the stage to rapturous applause and he certainly gave us all a memorably entertaining evening – one I am sure that we will remember for a long long time.
Roger covered almost every area of his film career but he did talk at some length about the film out of all his career that he is most proud of – namely The Man Who Haunted Himself based on the story The Strange Case of Mr.Pelham.
See the thrilling Trailer to this film below :-
Just liked the look of this photograph of Angie Dickinson sitting in the sun on the set of the film Rio Bravo (1959).
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| Richard Todd with his wife Catherine and ‘Baron’ their dog. |
This is a section from an article in Woman magazine of early 1952. The writer had been to visit Richard Todd and his wife Kitty at the home they had recently moved into at Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead
Richard and Kitty were married in 1949 at St. Columba’s church, Pont Street, Chelsea. They had two children Peter and Fiona.
From the article it appears that Wayside House was in a bad state of repair when the film star and his Scottish wife first purchased it. The magazine reporter Edith Blair, goes into great detail about how Richard and Kitty spent many weeks rubbing turpentine and linseed oil into the wooden beams and eventually furnishing their new home.
Richard Todd’s Home at Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead
Richard and Kitty became the owners of Wayside House (their first house) at the end of September 1950. The following spring, Richard commenced filming of The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men at nearby Denham Film Studios.
Who could ever forget this dramatic scene from The Great Escape – where Archibald Ives played by Angus Lennie is shot dead by German guards as he attempts to scale the outer fence and escape : 
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=utjMzurvz3k
Angus Lennie, the diminutive Scottish actor who played the “tunnel man” known as the Mole in the 1963 prison-camp movie “The Great Escape,” died on Sunday September 14th 2014, in a London Nursing Home. He was 84.
Mr. Lennie, who was not quite five and a half feet tall, was born in Glasgow on April 18, 1930, and began his career in show business as a dancer and a stand-up comedian. As an actor he was known in Britain for his appearances in numerous television series, but especially as Shughie McFee, in the very popular English TV series Crossroads.
He later appeared on Television in Doctor Who – at that time being played by Patrick Troughton – and in more recent time in Monarch of the Glen.
Above – Angus Lennie and Noele Gordon in Crossroads.