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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 9h

ORSON WELLES in 1974 on JAMES CAGNEY — “But Cagney in my view was maybe the greatest Actor ever to appear in front of a camera.”

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 9h

An overlooked dance-drama starring GREGORY HINES & SAMMY DAVIS JR. TAP (1989)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 9h

“George Harrison Sings” — The Pirate Song RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION (1975) #EricIdle

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

“They just wanted to watch the money.” QUIZ SHOW (1994) Martin Scorsese steps out from behind the camera and shows us again what a fantastic little cameo actor he is too. #RobertRedford

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

Robert Redford’s excellent QUIZ SHOW (1994) dispels any belief that television being fake and based on lies is a recent phenomenon. It’s a dramatised look at ‘Twenty-One’, a rigged 50s television quiz show. #RalphFiennes #PaulScofield #RobMorrow

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

DONALD DUCK made his first appearance in Walt Disney’s “The Wise Little Hen”.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

A pre-Rocky SYLVESTER STALLONE & his buddy (still to this day) HENRY WINKLER in THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH (1974)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

Myrna Loy & William Powell in THE THIN MAN (1934)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

— “You got types?" — “Only you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws." Myrna Loy & William Powell in THE THIN MAN (1934)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

LAURENCE OLIVIER underwent treatment for cancer during filming, which affected his memory so badly he could barely remember more than one or two lines at a time. Even so, his superb performance earned him an Oscar nomination & won him a Golden Globe. MARATHON MAN (1976)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

“Der Weiße Engel!” MARATHON MAN (1976) The brilliant 'Jewellery District' scene. #LaurenceOlivier #LottePalfiAndor #JohnSchlesinger

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

"Nobody tells me what to do in my place.” RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) #KarenAllen #HarrisonFord #RonaldLacey #StevenSpielberg

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

VIVIEN LEIGH screen-tested twice for Alfred Hitchcock’s REBECCA (1940) She made 2 tests, this one with Alan Marshal, the other with her then husband Laurence Olivier. She famously lost out to Joan Fontaine of course.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

“Get some rest Pam. You look tired.” THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (2004) #MattDamon #JoanAllen #PaulGreengrass

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

A great shot of JOAN FONTAINE at the 1942 Academy Awards gazing at her Best Actress Oscar for her performance in ‘Suspicion’ — an achievement that made her, incredibly, the only actor or actress ever to win an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h

An incredible letter (published in The Times) about the impact of TOM STOPPARD’s genius Play — ‘Arcadia’.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

This is how you accept a Best Actor gong (for “Chinatown”) — with a skit via satellite on the set of your next Movie (“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”) which will win you the Best Actor Oscar the following year. DAVID NIVEN & JACK NICHOLSON in 1975.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

Behind the scenes in 1961 with 31yr old old CLINT EASTWOOD on the set of RAWHIDE (1959-65)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton letting their affair run riot in Ischia during filming of ‘Cleopatra’ in the summer of ‘62. 📷 by Bert Stern

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

In 2001, two months before he died of cancer, JOHN THAW wrote this letter to his wife, Shelia Hancock.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

VINCE LOMBARDI at a lunch counter — Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1960

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

This is the level of creativity, talent, & imagination knocking around in the Film industry in the 70’s. Here’s Spielberg taking about the inspiration for the Mothership. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

“Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.” HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986) #MichaelCaine #BarbaraHershey #WoodyAllen #EECummings

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

“Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.” HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1985) #MichaelCaine #BarbaraHershey #WoodyAllen #EECummings

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

A fantastic piece of background to the Film SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964) JFK read the book in 1961 & encouraged Frankenheimer to make the Film believing the scenario outlined in the book entirely possible. Kennedy was assassinated just weeks before its release.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

“What I’m suggesting Mr President is a military plot to take over the Government.” SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964) JFK read the book in 1961 & encouraged Frankenheimer to make the Film believing the scenario entirely possible. Kennedy was assassinated 3 months before its release.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

The first scene from the first ever episode of DOCTOR WHO (1963)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

Life during wartime — as a woman reads The Detroit News in a Detroit diner in 1942.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

In 1977 CARY GRANT wrote to his daughter as she turned 11. (From 'Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best', by Nancy Nelson. With a foreword by Barbara and Jennifer Grant.)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

18yr old ALAN RICKMAN whilst a pupil at Latymer Upper School — London in 1964.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

- I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, it's sort of in between those really, it's like a Mach piece really. - What do you call this? - “Lick My Love Pump” THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984) #ChristopherGuest #RobReiner

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

STEVE McQUEEN on his Triumph Trophy — London (1963)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

Catwoman’s car is so far beyond ‘camp’ that ‘camp’ doesn’t cover it. BATMAN (1968) Glorious.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

Catwoman’s mode of transport has to be one of the most outrageously, gloriously camp cars ever created BATMAN (1968) #EarthaKitt #CesarRomero

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h

The late great RICHARD LEWIS recalls how when he first met LARRY DAVID at Camp when they were both 12 they hated each other and that it was only when they met up years later on the Comedy circuit in New York they realised how much they liked each other and went on to become life-long Friends.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h

PEGGY LEE with “He’s A Tramp” for LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h

Disney animators working with the real-life ‘Lady’ and the real-life ‘Tramp’ for their huge box office hit LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h

David Niven visits Vivien Leigh on the set of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) (there’s a section in Niven’s “Bring On The Empty Horses” about an un-named, deeply unstable Actress that was later revealed to be Leigh)