Legendary actor Kirk Douglas has been candid about his extramarital affairs in the past, and his wife of more than 60 years says she accepted his infidelity — and willfully turned a blind eye to his lovers.
“Kirk never tried to hide his dalliances from me,” Anne Douglas, 98, writes in Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood, a new book out Tuesday that reveals intimate letters between the longtime couple. “As a European, I understood it was unrealistic to expect total fidelity in a marriage.”
This “European” attitude toward love created the space for their unconventional romance to bloom.
“Kirk never tried to hide his dalliances from me,” Anne Douglas, 98, writes in Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood, a new book out Tuesday that reveals intimate letters between the longtime couple. “As a European, I understood it was unrealistic to expect total fidelity in a marriage.”
This “European” attitude toward love created the space for their unconventional romance to bloom.
- 5/2/2017
- by Sam Gillette
- PEOPLE.com
Today in 2001, the first Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing opened at the Plymouth Theatre now the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. Bells Are Ringing is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there. The original Broadway production, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse, opened on November 29, 1956 at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than two years, and starred Judy Holliday as Ella and Sydney Chaplin as Jeff Moss.
- 4/12/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2001, the first Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing opened at the Plymouth Theatre now the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. Bells Are Ringing is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there. The original Broadway production, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse, opened on November 29, 1956 at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than two years, and starred Judy Holliday as Ella and Sydney Chaplin as Jeff Moss.
- 4/12/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2001, the first Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing opened at the Plymouth Theatre now the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. Bells Are Ringing is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there. The original Broadway production, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse, opened on November 29, 1956 at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than two years, and starred Judy Holliday as Ella and Sydney Chaplin as Jeff Moss.
- 4/12/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
From ’The Birth of a Nation’ to ’Iron Man’: The love affair between Hollywood and the Pentagon (photo: Lillian Gish and her Ku Klux Klan saviors in ’The Birth of a Nation’) In TomDispatch.com’s excellent March 2008 article "The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Pentagon-Style," journalist and author Nick Turse (The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives) traces the mutually rewarding — and very close — ties between the American film industry and the American military complex throughout the decades. And there goes Hollywood’s reputation as a liberal enclave filled with unpatriotic, treacherous, anti-flagwaving pacifists. As author and professor Tom Engelhardt explains in his introduction to Turse’s article, "Hollywood and the Pentagon have been in an intricate dance of support and cross-promotion for almost a century, from a time when the Department of Defense was still quaintly — if more accurately — known as the War Department.
- 10/19/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Today in 2001, the first Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing opened at the Plymouth Theatre now the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. Bells Are Ringing is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there. The original Broadway production, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse, opened on November 29, 1956 at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than two years, and starred Judy Holliday as Ella and Sydney Chaplin as Jeff Moss.
- 4/12/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Did you know that Charlie Chaplin once failed to win a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest? Now it’s your chance to give it a go! The Broadway musical “Chaplin” launched a look-alike Instagram contest on Oct. 15. Chaplin look-alikes can enter the contest by snapping photos of themselves and uploading them to Instagram using the hashtag #ChaplinLookAlike. Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest are also supporting the contest. The top 10 photos will be chosen Oct. 29, and their subjects will each receive two tickets to the 7:30 p.m. Halloween performance of "Chaplin." Afterward, cast members Rob McClure (Chaplin), Wayne Alan Wilcox (Sydney Chaplin), and Hayley Podschun (Mildred Harris) will choose one winner, who will receive a prize package. Want to check out the competition? Go to @ChaplinBway on Instagram, Facebook.com/ChaplinBway, Twitter.com/ChaplinBway, or Pinterest.com/ChaplinBway. So what are you waiting for? Find a bowler hat, paste on a mustache,...
- 10/17/2012
- backstage.com
The producers of the new musical Chaplin have just announced full casting for the production, which will star Rob McClure in the title role, as previously announced. The production will also feature Jim Borstelmann Alf Reeves, Jenn Colella Hedda Hopper, Erin Mackey Oona ONeill, Michael McCormick Sennett, McGranery, Emcee, Christiane Noll Hannah Chaplin, Zachary Unger Young Charlie, Jackie and Wayne Alan Wilcox Sydney Chaplin.
- 7/11/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2001, the first Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing opened at the Plymouth Theatre now the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. Bells Are Ringing is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there. The original Broadway production, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse, opened on November 29, 1956 at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than two years, and starred Judy Holliday as Ella and Sydney Chaplin as Jeff Moss.
- 4/12/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
With the holiday movie season come movie tie-in books galore, from The Art of The Adventures of Tin-Tin to the truly impressive Harry Potter Stage to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey by Bob McCabe (both from Harper Design). I prefer to focus on books that may not have as high a profile but warrant your attention. I haven’t had time to read these through, so these aren’t reviews, but rather an overview of the current crop. Chaplin scholar Lisa K. Stein has put years of research into the first-ever biography of Syd Chaplin (McFarland), Charlie’s half-brother who has been little more than a footnote in most accounts of his famous sibling. Born into the same dire...
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- 12/14/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Here’s another major casting announcement for the eagerly anticipated upcoming Broadway revival of “Funny Girl,” which begins its pre-Broadway run in February 2012 at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre. Joining the previously announced Lauren Ambrose (of “Six Feet Under’ fame), who will star in the coveted role of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice in this first Broadway revisit to the Jule Styne classic is two-time Tony nominee and Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale. This versatile actor will take the male romantic lead role opposite Ambrose, that of Brice’s flashy gambler husband Nick Arnstein, a role played by Sydney Chaplin in the original 1964 Broadway production, and by Omar Sharif in the 1968 film adaptation. Each of these leading men played opposite Barbra Streisand in a role strongly associated with her, which earned her an Oscar in her film debut. Cannavale seems an ideal fit for the character of the charismatic fast-talker who wins Brice's heart.
- 9/14/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Les Spindle)
- backstage.com
The British Silent Film Festival has done much to lift the lurid lid on the film industry before the arrival of the talkie
In November 1918, as victory bunting fluttered between lamp-posts all over London, a young British movie star had his day in court. Lionel Belcher, much more handsome than his name, the leading man of Bonnie Mary and In Another Girl's Shoes, did not emerge with his reputation intact. He had been one of the last people to speak to Billie Carleton, a West End musical comedy actress, before her drug-swashed body was discovered in her apartment next door to the Savoy hotel. The subsequent inquest revealed that Belcher was not as redeemable as some of the troubled romantics he embodied on the screen. He had deserted his wife. He was a heroin addict. Thanks in part to his father's bankruptcy, he was supplementing his earnings by dealing cocaine,...
In November 1918, as victory bunting fluttered between lamp-posts all over London, a young British movie star had his day in court. Lionel Belcher, much more handsome than his name, the leading man of Bonnie Mary and In Another Girl's Shoes, did not emerge with his reputation intact. He had been one of the last people to speak to Billie Carleton, a West End musical comedy actress, before her drug-swashed body was discovered in her apartment next door to the Savoy hotel. The subsequent inquest revealed that Belcher was not as redeemable as some of the troubled romantics he embodied on the screen. He had deserted his wife. He was a heroin addict. Thanks in part to his father's bankruptcy, he was supplementing his earnings by dealing cocaine,...
- 4/8/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
I was saddened to learn this morning that Betty Garrett, the great star of stage, screen, and TV, passed away yesterday at the age of 94 after suffering an aortic aneurysm.
Garrett was one of those rare people — like, say, Jack Valenti — who happened to be a witness to and/or participant in a remarkably high number of historic events of the 20th century. She was a member of Orson Welles’s famed Mercury Theatre company, and was with him on the night that he shook up America with his infamous radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” (1938); she was Frank Sinatra’s leading lady in two of the earliest great M-g-m musical-comedies, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (1949) and “On the Town” (1949); her career was greatly hurt by the Hollywood Red Scare after her husband, the Oscar nominated actor Larry Parks, refused to name names before the House Committee...
Garrett was one of those rare people — like, say, Jack Valenti — who happened to be a witness to and/or participant in a remarkably high number of historic events of the 20th century. She was a member of Orson Welles’s famed Mercury Theatre company, and was with him on the night that he shook up America with his infamous radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” (1938); she was Frank Sinatra’s leading lady in two of the earliest great M-g-m musical-comedies, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (1949) and “On the Town” (1949); her career was greatly hurt by the Hollywood Red Scare after her husband, the Oscar nominated actor Larry Parks, refused to name names before the House Committee...
- 2/13/2011
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Syd Chaplin, The Better ‘Ole Edmund Goulding’s The Constant Nymph: Packard Campus’ August 2010 Highlight Packard Campus’ August 2010 Schedule and Film Information (from the Campus’ press release) Thursday, August 5 (7:30 p.m.) Thanks For The Memory (Paramount, 1938) A struggling novelist living well beyond his means refuses the financial support of his wife. Comedy-drama with songs. Directed by George Archainbaud. With Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. Black & White, 75 minutes. Friday, August 6 (7:30 p.m.) Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1942) An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up. War drama. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid & Claude Rains. Black & White, 102 minutes. Selected to the National Film Registry in 1989. Saturday, August 7 (2:00 p.m.) The Better ‘Ole (Warner Bros., 1926) The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in [...]...
- 8/3/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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