Movies

Today at 12pm, Easter Parade will hit BBC 2 screens, with the indefinable Judy Garland starring alongside the exceptional Fred Astaire. The MGM picture was released in 1948, just under ten years after Garland’s career-defining 1939 picture The Wizard of Oz – but she didn’t have an easy time bringing …

Legendary actor Sean Connery brought an end to his James Bond role in 1971 after appearing in Diamonds Are Forever. After that, the Scottish star began focusing on some other pictures that excited him. Six years later, he took on a main role in the 1977 picture A Bridge Too Far – which …

WARNING: This article contains full spoilers for No Time To Die. Daniel Craig wanted to quit playing James Bond after his fourth 007 movie, Spectre, back in 2015. But Bond bosses Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson urged him to come back for one final film. He agreed, but on …

The race to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond didn’t just start when his incarnation of the British secret agent made the definitive exit (in many small pieces) on the receiving end of a missile. The frenzied speculation actually started back in 2015 when Craig gave the impression he might …

Donna Douglas was one of the biggest stars on American TV in the 1960s playing Elly May Clampett in the smash hit show The Beverly Hillbillies. It was the top-rated series in the country for two years and remained hugely popular for all nine seasons from 1962-1971. During all that …

John Wayne was fiercely proud and protective of his beloved Western and war movie genres. He vocally blasted films like Gary Cooper’s High Noon or Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter that he believed degraded the ideals and values of the Old West – values which the conservative Duke believed should …

Yul Brynner was a notoriously proud and prickly man, obsessed with always coming out on top, whether in billing or screen presence. He had infamously cried when his King and I Broadway co-star Gertrude Lawrence died – not out of grief but because it meant he would finally get top …

Later today, at 2:40pm, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid graces BBC 2 screens. The exciting Western movie was brought to life by director George Roy Hill, but it was made famous by its legendary Hollywood stars: Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Behind the scenes, however, the two actors did …

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Smokey and the Bandit: Burt Reynolds stars in 1977 film Burt Reynolds certainly had an impressive Hollywood career, including the Cannonball Run films, which are back on TV this weekend. His early career was blighted with despite numerous false starts – most of which were caused by his own behaviour …