Hermes Pan choreographed everything from “Swing Time” in 1936 to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” (including the spectacle – dancers, warriors, witch doctor’s, elephants, and zebras – that was Cleopatra’s procession into Rome). Pictured above with Ginger Rogers, he was a soft-spoken gregarious man who was loved by his dancers. Recently a…
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Rumor has it David Fincher has the rights to Stacy Schiff’s, “Cleopatra: a Life”- by the way, an excellent read. But, back in the early sixties the most expensive film ever produced was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by the formerly gun toting Walter Wagner. http://vickielester.com/?s=darling%2C+please+don%27t+shoot+my+agent It was a…
“Dr. Stangelove” designed by Ken Adam: . . . Ken Adam is a fascinating man – please do check out this link and hear about working with Kubrick – from his lips to your ears! This is the grace of the Internet… Click! Click! Click! Click below! Search results- Web…
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted at the time as one of the Hollywood Ten. Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus, and President John F. Kennedy crossed picket lines to see the movie, helping to end blacklisting. via Spartacus (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The…