Rita haworth biography full youtube terrorist
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aka Time Bomb
In the same year that saw Glenn Ford star in one of his most iconic films, Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat, he also headlined this minor entry filmed abroad in England opposite French actress Anne Vernon and the always reliable Maurice Denham.
Director Ted Tetzlaff reteams with Ford after pairing with him for the taut thriller, The vit Tower, released in 1950. This rather short 72 minute exercise in suspense begins with Victor Maddern targeting a train loaded down with exploding mines meant for the open seas. He’s filmed jumping from a flat bed train bil and being spotted bygd a local police officer doing his nightly patrols around a rail yard. Looking suspicious, he chooses to kamp the officer and makes his flykt in the dark leaving behind a bag full of detonators and bomb making devices. Detective Denham is called in to piece the mystery tillsammans and targets the passing train as the subject of a terrorist act.
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Dorothy Dandridge and the Confidential Magazine Trial (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 17)/ by Karina Longworth
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Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Over two episodes, we will explore Hollywood Babylon’s coverage of Confidential Magazine and the two celebrities who testified against the scandal rag in the 1957 trial that helped end what Anger rightfully refers to as its “reign of terror.” We’ll begin with Dorothy Dandridge, the first black actress to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Dandridge’s testimony against Confidential reveals the publication’s racist agenda, as well as the double standards that governed her real private and public lives.
Music:
The music used in this episode, with the exception of the intro and outro, was sourced from royalty-free music libraries and licensed music collections. The intro includes a clip from the film Casablanca. The outro song this week is “Ove
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Abundant secrets pour out of family bag
Anybody who has ever doubted that truth is stranger than fiction should see “Prodigal Sons.”
Here’s the story: Marc McKerrow, one of three sons in a working-class Montana family, has part of his brain removed after an accident and is prone to violent outbursts.
Adopted as a child, he discovers that his maternal grandparents are none other than Orson Welles, creator of “Citizen Kane,” and Rita Hayworth, the red-haired Hollywood sex goddess who was briefly married to the boy wonder in the 1940s.
Wait, there’s more. One of McKerrow’s brothers, high school football hero Paul, moved to New York, where he changed his name to Kimberly Reed and his sex to female.
This and a few more family secrets pour forth in the tender documentary “Prodigal Sons,” which Reed directed.
She uses intimate interviews and old home movies to tell her story, which never resorts to exploitation.