Thankfully we get lots of requests for new pages. Well…the wife recently informed me that my way of collecting my requests was pretty weak. She seems to think that writing down requests on whatever piece of paper or napkin or bill that is currently on my desk is not the way to do it. So….since she is way smarter than me….I have decided to create a page just for requests. Plus it should give a good idea of what pages are coming down the pike.
My logic in picking which page to do next….I lean heavily towards the subject that has the most requests.
- Roger Corman – request by Dan
- Peter Cushing – request made by SteveLensman, Dan & Brando 90
- Disney Live Action 1967-1980 – request by Mimic
- Foreign Movies requested by Laurent
- Samuel Goldwyn – request by Dan
- Sam Katzman – request by Dan
- Fritz Lang – request by Lupino, Just Me
- Bruce Lee – request by Brando 90
- Harold Lloyd – request by Søren, Me
- Henry Mancini – request by Flora
- Patricia Medina – request by Dan
- Mirisch Brothers – request by Dan
- Edward Small – request by Dan
- Rudolph Valentino – request by Laurent
Completed requests:
- Kurt Russell Facts – request by WoC – 4/27/17
- Gunfight At OK Corral Movies – request by Sunter – 4/26/17
- John Sturges – request by HotHam – 4/24/17
- Favorite Movies – request by LoP – 4/23/17
- Tim Conway – request by Cogerson – 4/20/17
- Fast & Furious Movies – request by Bry57 – 4/17/17
- 1945 Movies – request by LoP – 4/15/17
- Rosalind Russell – request by Chris – 4/12/17
- Vin Diesel – request by Bry57 – 4/11/17
- 1944 Movies – request by LoP – 4/9/17
- Going In Style – request by WoC – 4/6/17
- Don Ameche – request by Søren – 4/1/17
- 1943 Movies – request by LoP – 3/30/17
- Sylvia Sidney – request by Lupino – 3/27/17
- Marine Movies – request by Alex – 3/23/17
- 2017 Actress Tourney – request by me – 3/20/17
- 1937 Movies – request by LoP – 3/18/17
- 2017 Actor Tourney – request by me – 3/16/17
- Sonja Henie – request by Kevin – 3/14/17
- Emma Watson – request by Katie – 3/14/17
- 1938 Movies – request by LoP – 3/13/17
- Sean Penn – request by Hinton66 – 3/11/17
- Arlene Dahl – request by Flora – 3/8/17
- 1941 Movies – request by LoP – 3/6/17
- Cameron Crowe – request by Cogerson – 3/4/17
- Tony Curtis – request by Dan – written 3/2/17
- Bill Paxton – request by WoC – written 2/26/17
- 1980s Action Heroes – request by me – written 2/25/17
- Kathryn Grayson – request by Flora – written 2/24/17
- Ben Kingsley – request by Hinton1966 – written 2/22/17
- Donna Reed – request by John,Lupino – written 2/19/17
- Judd Nelson – request by Cogerson – written 2/17/17
- Dev Patel – request by Aarav – written 2/16/17
- Ray Milland – request by Chris – written 2/13/17
- Michael Bay – request by Tomlin – written 2/8/17
- Mario Lanza – request by BERN1960 – written 2/7/17
- Top Hits Through 1965 – request by me – written 2/5/17
- Margaret Sullavan – request by Lupino – written 2/3/17
- Time Travel Movies – request by Katie – written 2/2/17
- Danny Glover – request by Dan – written 2/1/17
- Clifton Webb – request by Cameron – written 1/29/17
- John Hurt – request by Scotty – written 1/27/17
- Dana Andrews – request by many – written 1/26/17
- Paul Giamatti – request by BryRog57 – written 1/24/17
- Priscilla Lane – request by Kevin & Lupino – written 1/22/17
- Richard Gere – request by Chris & WoC – written 1/18/17
- Van Heflin – request by Peterson – written 1/15/17
- Donald Trump – request by WoC – written 1/11/17
- Battle of the Legends – request by WoC – written 1/11/17
- Richard Dreyfuss – request by Hinton – written 1/10/17
- George Arliss – request by Top Billed – written 1/9/17
- Dick Powell – request by Top Billed – written 1/8/17
- Your Movie Sucks – request by J. Scott – written 1/6/17
- Jason Statham – request by Michael – written 1/4/17
- Wallace Beery – request by Søren – written 1/3/17
- December 2016 (9 requests written)1959 MoviesCarrie Fisher, Lyle Talbot,Video Game Movies,1976 Movies,George Lucas,Fredric March,Daniel Radcliffe,Virginia Mayo
- November 2016 (13 requests written) Nicole Kidman,Dorothy Lamour, Gail Russell, Victor Mature, Michael Biehn, Jeanette MacDonald, Donald Crisp,Paul Henreid,Linda Darnell, Christopher Plummer, Jean Arthur,Career Top Ticket Sellers,Ray Harryhausen
- October 2016 (12 requests written) Jake Gyllenhaal,Paulette Goddard,Justin Timberlake,Bad Blockbusters,Quigley 1939 Stars,Paul Muni,Gary Oldman,John Barrymore,Ronald Reagan,Robert Zemeckis,Warner Brothers Ledgers Trip,Sydney Greenstreet
- September 2016 (16 requests written) Jeremy Irons, Maureen O’Sullivan,Joel McCrea,Mr. Moto Movies,Who Is Next Brando?,Betty Hutton,Gene Wilder,Van Johnson,Richard Pryor,Top 200 Science Fiction Movies,627 Science Fiction Movies,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Robert Altman,Tiger Theater,Thelma Ritter, George C. Scott
- July 2016 (14 requests written) McClane vs Bourne,Frank Marshall,Kathleen Kennedy,Esther Williams,Mel Brooks,Vincente Minnelli,Tommy Lee Jones,Walter Pidgeon,Melissa McCarthy,Greer Garson,Garry & Penny Marshall,Gene Tierney,Steven Seagal,Walter Wanger
- June 2016 (15 requests written) Glenn Close,Audie Murphy,Sigourney Weaver,Robert Montgomery,Chevy Chase,Anton Yelchin,Josef von Sternberg,Michael J. Fox,George Stevens,Deanna Durbin,Ryan Gosling,Robert Taylor,John Goodman,Peter Sellers,Annette Bening
- May 2016 (12 requests written) Robert Ryan,2016 Movies,Shelley Winters,Ernest Borgnine,Ann-Margret,Michael Fassbender,Yul Brynner,Tim Burton,John Williams,Jennifer Jones,Roger Moore, Western Movies
- April 2016 (13 requests written) Top 100 Westerns, Sally Field,Kay Francis, Leslie Howard, Diane Keaton, Top 100 Stars, Deborah Kerr, Top 25 Actresses 1950-2010, Top 25 Actors 1950-2010, Rob Reiner,Elia Kazan, Ice Cube, Fred MacMurray
- March 2016 (16 requests written)Top 100 Film Noir Movies, Warren Beatty, Movie of the Year, Keira Knightley, Film Noir Movies,George Cukor, Peter Lorre, Lucille Ball, Kevin Smith, Frank Capra,Claude Rains, Chuck Norris, Top 100 Musicals, Seth Rogen,Alan Ladd Movies, Daniel Craig Movies
- February 2016 (13 requests written) Lionel Barrymore Movies, AFI Top 100 Movies, AFI Top 50 Screen Legends,Mary Pickford, Drew Barrymore, Buster Keaton, Sam Peckinpah, Jessica Chastain, Lillian Gish, John Hughes, Richard Burton, Warren Oates, 1952 Top Grossing Movies,
- January 2016 (19 requests written) Kate Winslet, Claudette Colbert, Ben Stiller, Carole Lombard, Top Ticket Selling Movies, Edith Head, Joan Fontaine, Zoe Saldana,Ronald Colman, Stephen King Movies, Roy Scheider,Classic Movie Actor Stat Table ,Steve Carell, Glenn Ford, David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson, Tarzan Movies.Francis Ford Coppola, Randolph Scot, Mark Ruffalo
- December 2015 (18 requests written) Anthony Quinn, Vincent Price, Peter O’Toole, Charles Laughton, Walter Brennan, Betty Grable, Best Christmas Movies, Terry Gilliam ,Natalie Wood, Paul Rudd, Rita Hayworth, Jason Bateman, David Niven, Fred Zinnemann, William Powell, Bruce Dern, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder
- November 2015 (10 requests written) Dan Patrick, David Lean ,Julianne Moore, Orson Welles, John Candy, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman Movies
- October 2015 (9 requests written) Cecil B. DeMille, Goldie Hawn ,Mickey Rooney , Andy Hardy Movies, Chris Evans Lauren Bacall ,Debbie Reynolds ,Ma and Pa Kettle Movies, Tom Hardy
- September 2015 (8 requests written) Ava Gardner, Emily Blunt , Jean Harlow , Kevin Costner, 1942 Top Grossing Movies ,Susan Sarandon , Abbott and Costello ,Screen Duos
Many more to come…have to find all of my old napkins and transfer the requests to this page.
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Hello Bruce,
I would be interested by a Cornel Wilde page. Thanks.
Hey Laurent… I will add him to the request list….thanks for the suggestion.
Will be interesting to see the stats on Clifton Webb! He was an unusual box office attraction by Hollywood Standards! As for Donna Reed- I can’t remember a single film that she was supposed to carry on her shoulders alone. I think she became so popular with her TV career and her own show.
My request: Maybe one of the brightes “forgotten” stars of the 30’s and early 40’s- Miss Margaret Sullavan. She only made 16 movies if I counted correctly, but she was critically acclaimed for her acting chops on screen as well as in the theater.
Hey Lupino…. the Clifton Webb page is now published….I wish they were all that easy to do.
You are correct about Donna Reed. I am sure can let us know how many times she carried a movie on her own….it will be few for sure.
I will add Margaret Sullivan to the request….wow only 16 movies…sounds promising. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hey Bruce,
thanks for including Miss Sullavan. I was so smitten by her that I used to have a youtube channel dedicated to her years ago…never done anything similar before or since lol. Good news is, she was NOT under contract to Paramount, but to Universal for most of her career. Will check out CW now 🙂
Hey Lupino….well the good news is…of her 17 movies….10 of them are already in the database
Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) $72.30 million 90.00%
Mortal Storm, The (1940) $99.70 87.33%
So Ends Our Night (1941) $71.40 77.50%
Three Comrades (1938) $149.00 77.00%
Good Fairy , The (1935) $72.60 76.50%
Shopworn Angel (1938) $90.20 73.00%
So Red The Rose (1935) $41.60 64.50%
Moon’s Our Home, The (1936) $46.90 62.00%
Shining Hour, The (1938) $117.60 57.00%
No Sad Songs For Me (1950) $41.40 54.00%
Of the remaining 7 movies….I feel good about finding box office on 5 of them….her very first two movies might be an issue….but doing only deep research on 2 movies is nothing at all to research. So in a nutshell….she will probably be coming soon…especially the next time I get into a time squeeze. 🙂
Wow, thanks for the quick “delivery”! In a book assessing the box office hits of the 30’s, author Allen Ayles lists Only yesterday and Little Man, what now? both among the hits of its respective year. Unfortunately, he only very rarely offers exact numbers- not in these cases. Anyway, looking forward to Miss Sullavan’s own UMR Page!
Hey Lupino….glad you found these partial stats on Maureen….she was actually born in my same town….sadly that never gets mentioned these says…as Norfolk, Va does not seem to claim her anymore…but I imagine back in the day they.
Good to know there are some sources out there for her first few movies. I will have to check out that book by Allen Ayles. Typically I rotate between current performers and classic performers….the next one will be a current performer…and then Maureen might be next.
As I said, one of the brightest forgotten stars, not even her hometown seems to remember her…but then, she died almost 60 years ago, her last big success as a movie actress was almost 80 years ago. Nowadays, I am afraid the most common knowledge about Margaret Sullavan centers around the pretty depressing book written by her daughter, Haywire. This has been turned into a TV movie starring Lee Remick. Sullavan seemed to have been highly troubled throughout her life and highly depressed towards her end. Without a “Gone with the Wind” like classic among her films, people seem to forget easily.
I remember when two time Oscar winner Luise Rainer died at 104, I was looking through the papers waiting to find an obituary. Rainer was born “just around the corner”, was the first Oscar winner to win back to back Oscars and was a welcomed guest on german Talk Shows in her later years. What did I find? 5 or 6 lines without a photo, and no mention in the major german TV news.
Hey Lupino…..well….I will try and help some people remember her….the next page we do (Danny Glover was last night) will be a classic star….current it will either be Maureen or Donna Reed.
Yes indeed it is a shame that time is like a high tide rolling on a sand castle on the beach…no matter how great a job you do…..the tide eventually starts to make it go away.
I look forward to finding out more of a “local girl done good”…in my area.
Looking forward to either of them- Margaret Sullavan or Donna Reed!
Hey Lupino….as you now know….it turned out to be Margaret Sullavan.
Here is a plethora of what I am looking for; Giovanni Ribsi, Scott Caan, Will Patton, and Rachel Weisz. Thanks.
Hey BryRog57….thanks for all of the suggestions….very interesting picks from you….Rachel Weisz might have the best movies….the others would be interesting to see.
Maybe, Giovanni…Saving Private Ryan….Avatar…he would have some good ones.
Hey BryRog57….true he has some blockbusters in his past…..just not sure how many GR fans are out there….I guess we will find out.
Hey Cameron…I will put Clifton Webb on the request list….thanks for the suggestion.
Clinton Webb might be an interesting one to read.