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After winning a Tony Award for playing Henry Higgins on Broadway opposite Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison followed up with the Best Actor Oscar for the 1964 movie version with Audrey Hepburn. He may have played a charming gentleman on the big screen but in real life, his Eliza Doolittle leading ladies …

Moore remains best known for playing the lightest and least serious 007 of the franchise. His films famously end with lines like Moonraker’s “I believe he’s attempting re-entry” or “she’s just coming, sir” from The Man With The Golden Gun. But when he called one famous sex scene “the hardest of …

Harrison had won a Tony Award for playing Henry Higgins on Broadway opposite Andrews and followed that up with the Best Actor Oscar for the lavish 1964 big screen adaptation with Hepburn. He was charming, suave and sophisticated, the perfect refined gentleman. But his amusingly brusque treatment of Eliza Doolittle …

My Fair Lady turned into titanic battle between Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn that divided Hollywood. This was a terrible shock for the “demonised” Hepburn, who had been a darling of the critics and public until then. The actress found herself at the centre of a distressing storm of bad …

To calm his nerves during these scenes, Moore would take a little Valium and drank a tall glass of beer to help him through close-ups, when shooting climbing scenes high up on the rock face. Heights weren’t the only challenge faced on the Greece shoot though, as the Eastern Orthodox …

Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is regarded by many as one the greatest living actors of his generation, having won a record three Best Actor Oscars. The 65-year-old is now retired, which he announced following the release of his final movie, Phantom Thread – a film that reunited him with his There …

The Longest Day producer Darryl F Zanuck had managed to negotiate $25,000 fees from his ensemble cast for what was mostly cameos. However, Wayne demanded $250,000 or he’d refused to appear in the movie – a request that was granted. The reason Duke “punished” the producer with this action was …

Brynner was the main star and the driving force behind the movie being made in the first place. In a cast filled with alpha males like Charles Bronson, Brynner was also notoriously difficult and his pride was easily provoked. He liked it to be known that he prepared breakfast in …

True Grit was a godsend for John Wayne, who lobbied for the lead role of one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn after reading Charles Portis’ novel of the same name. Duke would go on to finally win the Best Actor Oscar for the part in 1969, but production was far from …

It’s been 40 years since Steven Spielberg’s family sci-fi classic was released and made almost $800 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of just $10 million. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial surpassed Star Wars as the biggest movie of all time, a record it held until the director topped …