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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

GOOD NEWS / BAD NEWS

The good news is that, finally, the complete four seasons of THE HUCKLEBERRY HOUND SHOW have been released after 20 years since the first season premiered on DVD on November 15, 2005. I had been waiting for the missing episodes of this show ever since then and now its here in a great Blu-Ray package looking better than ever thanks to the Warner Archive Collection!

THE BAD NEWS:

Claudia Cardinale passed away on September 23 at 87 years old.

Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of producer Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with Egyptian star Omar Sharif in Goha (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy, with roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Cartouche (1962), The Leopard (1963) and Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963).

From 1963, Cardinale appeared in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. She went on to appear in the Hollywood films Blindfold (1966), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), Don't Make Waves (1967) with Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroes (1968), The Red Tent (1969), A Fine Pair (1968), The Salamander (1981), and the Sergio Leone Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint U.S.–Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.

(From WIKIPEDIA)

Arrivederci, cara bella Claudia!

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AGENT 99!

Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Anne Hall; March 12, 1933) is an American actress primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 in the 1965–1970 sitcom Get Smart.

Would you believe Barbara Feldon is 91 years young today, March 12, 2024? I confess I had a big crush on her from the very first time I saw her on TV, which was not in her debut as 99 on the GET SMART show but rather as Mandy Stevenson on another spy series: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

IMDb and WIKIPEDIA can offer you her entire biography and career filmography so I won't dwell into that. All I can say is that Barbara Feldon had the most beautiful and tantalizing eyes I had ever seen and she stole my heart from the very moment I saw her on my TV set. Today, I am thankfully glad she's still with us, although the chance of meeting her in person is extremely remote since she lives in New York and from what I've read, she's a very private and laid back person nowadays. Anyway, I am happy to visit her via my DVD collection...and loving it!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BARBARA FELDON AND LONG LIVE AGENT 99!

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

MARILYN MONROE : The "Mmmm" Girl.

Marilyn Monroe was born June 1st, 1926.

WIKIPEDIA: "Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution."

Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career. The Internet Movie Data Base lists 33 films to her credit which includes shorts and TV appearances.

So much has been written about her, it is quite pointless to dwell on her career and life details here.

All I can say for myself is that she had sex appeal, charm and talent comparable to no other actress before or since. She has become an icon for several generations and is one of the very few personalities from the 50s that is instantly recognizable today.

Some interesting facts about her:

The licensing of Marilyn's name and likeness, handled world-wide by Curtis Management Group, reportedly nets the Monroe estate about $2 million a year.

The first time she signed an autograph as Marilyn Monroe, she had to ask how to spell it.

She didn't know where to put the "i" in "Marilyn".

Often carried around the book, "The Biography of Abraham Lincoln."

There are over 600 books written about her.

When she was told that she was not the star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) she verbally said

"Well whatever I am, I'm still the blonde."

Her classic shape, according to her dressmaker, is actually measured at 37-23-36.

Although Monroe's famous nude calendar grossed $750,000,

the actress only got $50 and a bad cold out of it.

Today, 95 years after her birth, Marilyn Monroe is still remembered as one

of the movies most beautiful and widely admired stars.

Here's one of Marilyn Monroe's better remembered songs, from SOME LIKE IT HOT,

featuring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

MARILYN MONROE:

ONE OF THE FEW TRUE LEGENDS OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN AGE.

Marilyn Monroe on Pinterest

https://www.pinterest.com.mx/ferllera/marilyn/

Monday, January 25, 2021

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody!

A SALUTE TO THE SEXY GIRLS OF ENTERTAINMENT!

Someone said : "If we all had the same taste in women, we'd all be married to the same girl!"

Whether that's true or even possible, it is a fact that we all have different tastes in almost everything, including women.

And as years roll along, I find myself reminiscing about all those beautiful girls of films and television that captured my imagination and became the subject of many a daydream, not only during my youth but well into my autumn years.

So here's a toast to some of those magnificent women and the wonderful dreams they provided me over the years...

(There were a lot more but I won't go into that right now.)