Tag: Frank Sinatra
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From ‘Rio Bravo’ to Raw Truths: Angie Dickinson Opens Up on Fame, Friendship, and a Seven-Decade Career
“Fair to middling” is how Angie Dickinson is feeling this morning as she talks about “Rio Bravo,” the 1959 film that made her a star. “Somebody who says they’re great at 90, you can figure out that they lie a lot.” It’s a line that could have come straight from Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett’s…
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Frank Sinatra’s Near-Miss: The Almost Casting Twist in Clint Eastwood’s Second Most Badass Movie After Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood’s decades-long acting career is bejeweled with some of the most memorable endeavors movie-goers have seen. He rose to top stardom with his spaghetti Westerns and kept offering audiences something exciting to look forward to with each release. One project in particular, which spanned multiple installments, birthed a genre-defining thriller and a performance by…
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How Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas Extended Their Support to John Wayne in His Last Days!
John Wayne was honoured by Hollywood stars Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas and US Presidents in an incredibly touching way during his final days when he was dying from cancer. John Wayne suffered years of ill health during his final couple of decades. The heavy-drinking and smoking star had a lung and some ribs removed in…