The original Doctor Dolittle returns to Cineplex theatres this month!The original Doctor Dolittle returns to Cineplex theatres this month!Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine2/14/2018 9:31:00 Am
Hollywood pros know working with animals is hard, but that didn’t stop 20th Century Fox from going ahead with Doctor Dolittle(1967), a big-budget musical that turned out to be a colossal headache.
Rex Harrison stars as a doctor who administers aid to animals (he can speak 498 animal languages) and goes in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. More than 1,200 live animals were used during filming, and the creatures regularly bit the film’s stars, including Harrison, Samantha Eggers and Anthony Newley. Squirrels gnawed at the sets, which stank of ammonia used to clean up animal waste, and the multiple takes needed while working with the animals meant the film took an entire year just to shoot.
Today, Hollywood simply creates...
Hollywood pros know working with animals is hard, but that didn’t stop 20th Century Fox from going ahead with Doctor Dolittle(1967), a big-budget musical that turned out to be a colossal headache.
Rex Harrison stars as a doctor who administers aid to animals (he can speak 498 animal languages) and goes in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. More than 1,200 live animals were used during filming, and the creatures regularly bit the film’s stars, including Harrison, Samantha Eggers and Anthony Newley. Squirrels gnawed at the sets, which stank of ammonia used to clean up animal waste, and the multiple takes needed while working with the animals meant the film took an entire year just to shoot.
Today, Hollywood simply creates...
- 2/14/2018
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn return in Charade at Cineplex theatres!Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn return in Charade at Cineplex theatres!Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine1/24/2018 10:23:00 Am Cary Grant did not want to work with Audrey Hepburn.
It wasn’t personal. The 59-year-old actor admired Hepburn, but when director Stanley Donen offered him the romantic male lead in Charade (1963) opposite 33-year-old Hepburn he turned it down. He felt their 26-year age difference was too great and audiences would find it unseemly.
He eventually agreed to star with the condition screenwriter Peter Stone address the issue by changing the script so Hepburn takes the lead in the couple’s budding romance.
The result is a topsy-turvy crime thriller set in Paris that casts Hepburn as Reggie Lampert, whose dead husband stole gold bars during World War II. Pursued by three thugs who believe Reggie knows where the gold is hidden,...
It wasn’t personal. The 59-year-old actor admired Hepburn, but when director Stanley Donen offered him the romantic male lead in Charade (1963) opposite 33-year-old Hepburn he turned it down. He felt their 26-year age difference was too great and audiences would find it unseemly.
He eventually agreed to star with the condition screenwriter Peter Stone address the issue by changing the script so Hepburn takes the lead in the couple’s budding romance.
The result is a topsy-turvy crime thriller set in Paris that casts Hepburn as Reggie Lampert, whose dead husband stole gold bars during World War II. Pursued by three thugs who believe Reggie knows where the gold is hidden,...
- 1/24/2018
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
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