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Robert Blake With His Pants Down

Posted on March 12, 2023 by ronbase — Leave a comment

Long before he was notoriously tried and acquitted of murdering his wife, when he was at the top of his career, the actor Robert Blake was waiting in his trailer when I got to the set of Second-Hand Hearts, the…

Tagged with: Baretta, El Paso, Hal Ashby, Humphrey Bogart, ICM, In Cold Blood, Los Angeles, Robert Blake, Second-Hand Hearts, Shel Pinchuk, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Truman Capote
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Ghosts of the Savoy

Posted on October 31, 2022 by ronbase — Leave a comment

Seated on a banquette in a corner of the Savoy Hotel’s iconic American Bar, sipping one of Priscilla’s Buck Fizzes, the celebrated ghosts of the hotel’s legendary past swirl around. The 2022 Savoy is a sleek modern, beautifully run hotel…

Tagged with: American Bar, Death at the Savoy, Downton Abbey, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, London, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward, Prudence Emery, Richard Burton, Savoy Hotel, Scandal at the Savoy
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Black Snake: The Forgotten Life of George Raft

Posted on July 2, 2015 by ronbase — 5 Comments

Please click HERE to download The Confidence Man The difference between Humphrey Bogart and George Raft came down to this: Bogey was an actor; Raft was a gangster. Bogart acted tough. Raft was tough. Raft conspired to ensure…

Tagged with: Aljean Harmetz, Billy Wilder, Bugsy Siegel, Casablanca, Dead End, Double Indemnity, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Hal Wallis, High Sierra, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Warner, James Cagney, John Garfield, John Huston, Owney Madden, Paramount Pictures, Raoul Walsh, Round Up the Usual Suspects, Sam Goldwyn, Scarface, The Maltese Falcon, The Sea Wolf, W.R. Burnett, Warner Baxter, Warner Bros
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I Tripped Lauren Bacall

Posted on August 13, 2014 by ronbase — 5 Comments

This is how I came to trip a Hollywood legend. First of all, let’s set the scene: It is opening night at Detroit’s grand old Fisher Theatre. A new musical based on the classic 1950 Bette Davis movie, All About…

Tagged with: Adolph Green, All About Eve, Applause, Bette Davis, Betty Comden, Broadway, Charles Strouse, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lee Adams, Len Cariou, Margo Channing, Ray Bennett, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Toronto Telegram
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