Showing posts with label Christopher Reeve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Reeve. Show all posts

Saturday, May 8, 2021

PHOTOS OF THE DAY: ODD PAIRINGS - 6TH EDITION

Here is the sixth edition of odd Hollywood/celebrity pairings. This feature has become an annual thing almost. I love seeing the different pairings of famous people...

Sammy Davis Jr & Clint Eastwood

Elvis Presley & Liberace

Hugh Hefner & Ella Fitzgerald

Danny Devito & Christopher Reeve

Marlene Dietrich and The Beatles

Martin Luther King Jr and Marlon Brando

Monday, May 14, 2018

RIP: MARGOT KIDDER

Margot Kidder, who famously played Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in 1978's "Superman," died on Sunday at the age of 69.

The actress passed away at her home in Montana, a spokesperson at Franzen-Davis funeral home in Livingston, Montana, confirmed  on Monday. Her cause of death is unknown at this point.

Kidder went on to portray her iconic character in the film's three sequels "Superman II," "Superman III" and "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" and continued acting in the decades since her breakout role.

The Canadian actress also appeared in "The Amityville Horror," "Black Christmas" and TV series "Boston Common." 


Kidder suffered a widely-publicized manic breakdown in April of 1996, which led to her being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. After a computer virus caused her to permanently lose years worth of drafts of her autobiography, Kidder disappeared for days before being found in a distressed state after reportedly being raped. She was placed in psychiatric care and later said in 2007 that she hadn't had a serious manic episode in over a decade.

The actress was married and divorced three times and shared her only daughter, Maggie McGaune, with first husband, novelist Thomas McGuane. She was also romantically connected with Steven Spielberg, former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau (father to current PM Justin Trudeau) and Richard Pryor.


Kidder appeared on Broadway in The Vagina Monologues in December 2002, and toured with the show for two years. After this, she appeared on Robson Arms, a Canadian sitcom set in an apartment block in Vancouver's west end. She played a quirky neighbor of the main cast members. She also had a cameo in Rich Hall's Election Special on BBC Four. In 2006, Kidder played Jenny Schecter's mother Sandy Ziskin on The L Word, a repressed Jewish woman coming to terms with her daughter's sexuality. In 2007, Kidder began appearing on the television series Brothers and Sisters, playing Emily Craft. In 2004, Kidder briefly returned to the Superman franchise in two episodes of the television series Smallville, as Bridgette Crosby, an emissary of Dr. Swann (played by her Superman co-star, Christopher Reeve).

She portrayed an embattled guidance counselor in the 2008 gay-themed mystery film On the Other Hand, Death, as well as a supporting role as Laurie Strode's therapist, in Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009). In 2015 Kidder won an Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming for her performance in R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour. Kidder's last movie appearance was in last year's The Neighborhood, a Canadian drama film...




Wednesday, November 27, 2013

25 MOVIES I AM THANKFUL FOR

I love making lists of almost anything, not only classic movies! For Thanksgiving this year, I wanted to make a list of the movies I am thankful for. Now, they are not necessarily my favourite movies - a few are though. They are just movies I am thankful that I have seen. They are in no particular order...


THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (1941)
GIGOT (1962)
SOLDIER IN THE RAIN (1964)
JAWS (1975)
CHAPLIN (1992)
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
WHITE HEAT (1949)
THE BOY WITH THE GREEN HAIR (1949)
THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974)
FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
KING KONG (1933)
THE COUNTRY GIRL (1954)
THE GREEN MILE (1999)
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963)
BLAZING SADDLES (1974)
VERTIGO (1958)
THE MUSIC MAN (1961)
LIMELIGHT (1952)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1964)
LIFE (1999)
FORREST GUMP (1994)
SUPERMAN (1978)
STAR WARS (1977)
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)