Distinguished British Actor Dirk Bogarde (1921 - 1999)

From comedy to tragedy - first as Dr. Simon Sparrow in all the Doctor films (such as Doctor In The House, Doctor At Sea and Doctor At Large, etc.); then as the love-sick Sydney Carton who went to the guillotine for love in A Tale of Two Cities, as the ill-fated Anacleto in The Singer Not The Song, and as the wrongly accused Jose in Spanish Gardener, Bogarde had demonstrated he was really a multi-talented actor.

I also like him playing Franz Liszt in Song Without End with beautiful Capucine. The film won the Best Music Score Academy Award for Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Musical).



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The Exceptionally Handsome Alain Delon

Below is a recent photo

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From heartthrob to screen legend, this handsome French actor has made many films from the '60s until today, most of them were French productions while a few of them were from Hollywood. I first saw him in the French movie, "Christine" where he played opposite the beautiful Romy Schneider, (1938 - 1982) whom Delon was engaged to at the time. I think Delon's character died during the duel at the end of the movie and I believed I was so moved that I did cry a tear, and that's how I became a fan of Alain Delon.

His romance with Schneider ended in real life, but they both went to Hollywood to make several movies, separately though. However, they remained good friends and made two more movies together at later years. Delon's Hollywood movies included "Once A Thief" and "Yellow Rolls-Royce", etc. He later abandoned Hollywood and returned to France to make many more local movies. One of them was called "Plein Soleil" - an early version of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (a film remade by Matt Damon in 1999) where Delon played the talented Tom Ripley.

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Little Princess - Shirley Temple

The following excerpt is from one of her websites:

"At the age of six, Shirley received a special Academy Award 'in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.' She had made nine films that year, and the special juvenile Oscar she received for her work made Shirley the youngest person in the then-short history of the Academy Awards ever to receive an Oscar. It is a distinction she still holds more than 70 years later."

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Lovely Goddess Kim Novak

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Remember her breathtaking performance as both Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo"? Or her playing Madge with William Holden in that memorable "Moonglow" scene in "Picnic"?

Here's the famous Moonglow scene from "Picnic":



She didn't make many films, but most of her films are quite special, like "The Eddy Duchin Story" (1956); "Pal Joey" (1957); "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958); "The Notorious Landlady" (1962); "Of Human Bondage" (1964), etc. She left Hollywood in the '70s and only played selected roles occasionally.

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The Magic Bow, the Movie with Stewart Granger

Do you remember Stewart Granger (史超域格蘭加) and his many great movies such as Scaramouche (美人如玉劍如虹) and The Magic Bow (劍膽琴心)?

Someone has generously placed The Magic Bow, the whole movie on YouTube in 12 parts:

The Magic Bow:
1) http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kfg1-E_JXc4&feature=related
2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7WDFWy3KY&feature=related
3) http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRNQ_x5HLLk&feature=related
4) http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gj0F2-led90
5) http://youtube.com/watch?v=5nKFeeX7xpc&feature=related
6) http://youtube.com/watch?v=aUDhm133ukk&feature=related
7) http://youtube.com/watch?v=TAcceFyJwUU&feature=related
8) http://youtube.com/watch?v=YYCQFEaOllo&feature=related
9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=e0cDKd557x8&feature=related
10) http://youtube.com/watch?v=EnLYsbr284M&feature=related
11) http://youtube.com/watch?v=k5MmTBoeKdI&feature=related
12) http://youtube.com/watch?v=Awu2UICIVGs&feature=related
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