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Frank Sinatra was in high society. Not his 1956 movie with Grace Kelly, although she was there as Princess Grace of Monaco. Also present were Cinema Bluebloods Gregory Peck and Cary Grant, who joined 1,600 others in Los Angeles to honor Sinatra as Variety Clubs International Humanitarian of the Year. Past winners-talk about high society-have included Albert Schweitzer, George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Winston Churchill. Accepting the award from his onetime costar, Sinatra was far from humble. "To Princess Grace and her royal crown," he joked, whisky in hand, "and to my Crown Royal...
Screenplay by Kimi Peck and Dalene Young...
...than Little Darlings. The film has an amusing premise: the two heroines race to see who can lose her virginity first. But Director Ronald F. Maxwell, who has done superior TV work (PBS's Verna: U.S.O. Girl), settles for slogging his way through a threadbare script. Writers Kimi Peck and Dalene Young do not know how to sustain their story beyond the initial exposition, and they are not much better at writing characters. The two teenagers' love interests (Armand Assante and Matt Dillon) are such bland hunks that the stars must play the romantic scenes in a near...
...more the Union Jack fluttered over Delhi's posh Roshanara Club, while pukka sahib types bowled on the cricket pitch. The bar of the Calcutta Light Horse, a regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days of empire? Said Niven to his Indian hosts, in a line that would...
After the victory, Peck paid a congratulatory visit to the Crimson locker room. "I just want you to know you guys played a great match," he said. Then he departed to recruit three top Milton Academy stars...