The Far Country (1954) 20 Weird Facts That You Didn’t Know About It’s frozen. It’s violent. [music] And the hero, he doesn’t want to save anyone. The far country wasn’t your typical John Wayne frontier fantasy. It [music] was cold, morally gray, and filmed where Frostbite was a daily threat. Behind [music] the scenes, the…
Laramie (1959) 20 Weird Facts That You Didn’t Know About It looks like any other Western. [music] Cowboys, stagecoaches, dust-covered frontier justice. But Laramie wasn’t playing by the rules. Stars vanished mid-season. >> [music] >> Stunts went wrong in ways that changed TV safety forever. And one actor, he showed up to set carrying a…
The Wild Wild West (1965) 20 Weird Facts That You Didn’t Know About Artemis Gordon wasn’t supposed to be the sidekick. He was nearly written out after episode 3. The Wild Wild West didn’t follow the rules of 1960s television. It mixed westerns with James Bond. Gadgets exploded on set. Stunts sent actors to the…
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976): 20 SECRETS Hidden For Decades Get out of my way, fool. A quiet farmer, a Union ambush, a trail of revenge that redefined [music] the Western. But, behind Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece, nothing was simple. The director got fired by his own star. [music] The author wasn’t who everyone thought he…
Cheyenne (1955) 20 Weird Facts That You Didn’t Know About All right, up high. I heard there were outlaws in the basin. That’s why I’m here to smoke out one of them. Me? He walked tall, carried a Winchester, and changed [music] television forever. But Cheyenne wasn’t supposed to be a TV show. The star…
Gregory Peck’s Bold Move When Audrey Hepburn Was Doubted At Dinner The last week of August 1952 and Rome had not yet decided to cool. William Wyler had rented a long table at a trattoria near the Piazza del Popolo, the kind of place where wine arrived before you asked and the Roman Holiday company…
AUDREY HEPBURN’S Return to Hollywood—Gregory Peck Heard What the Executive Said and STEPPED FORWARD The backstage corridor of the Shrine Auditorium smelled of hairspray and cut flowers and the tension that fills any building where 42 million people are watching. It was the 11th of April, the 60th Academy Awards, and Gregory Peck had arrived…
Audrey Hepburn’s Last Love Started at a Party—Gregory Peck Was the Reason They Ever Spoke November of ’80, Bel-Air, California. Gregory Peck stood near the fireplace in Connie Wald’s living room with a glass of water he rarely drank, watching the room the way he always watched rooms, quietly before deciding what it meant. Wait,…
Audrey Hepburn’s Secret Told to Gregory Peck After Somalia Left Her Speechless October, London. Gregory Peck stood in the corridor of the Dorchester Hotel holding two cups of tea. Watching Audrey Hepburn through the half-open door as she gave her fifth interview of the afternoon to a BBC crew. Wait. Because what happened in the…
Minutes After His Oscar Win, Gregory Peck Made a Call That Left Everyone Stunned the 8th of April, 1963, and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was still running its ceremony. Wait, because what Gregory Peek did next, the phone call he made from a production assistance office before the night was over, would tell you…
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