Six Degrees of Bacon for April
Okay, now that we've gotten through April Fool's Day, I have flipped my 2017 Classic Film Posters Calendar to a new month, and we all know what that means.
Six Degrees of BACON!!!!
"The African Queen" was released in 1951, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, directed by John Huston. Bogie played the gin swilling captain of the riverboat in the title and Katherine Hepburn was the strait-laced missionary who persuaded him to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above," Hepburn says when Bogie tells her drinking gin is just his nature.
A Facebook friend pointed out that this film was essentially remade in 1975, with Hepburn reprising her strait-laced missionary role, but with John Wayne in Bogart's role (Bogart had died of lung cancer 18 years earlier). It was billed as a sequel to the very popular "True Grit," for which Wayne won his Oscar in 1970, but aside from the eye patch, it was for all intents and purposes "The African Queen Out West."
By the way, John Wayne will make an appearance later on this year. Everyone knows you can't put together a calendar of classic film posters without one from the Duke.
So let's make our way to Kevin Bacon, starting with Katharine Hepburn:
1. Who was in "The Rainmaker" with Burt Lancaster,
2. Who was in "Atlantic City" with Susan Sarandon
3. Who was in "Dead Man Walking" with Sean Penn
4. Who was in "Mystic River" with KEVIN BACON!!!!!!
As always, feel free to come up with your own Bacon connections.
Judy Nichols is the author of several mysteries available on Amazon.
Six Degrees of BACON!!!!
"The African Queen" was released in 1951, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, directed by John Huston. Bogie played the gin swilling captain of the riverboat in the title and Katherine Hepburn was the strait-laced missionary who persuaded him to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above," Hepburn says when Bogie tells her drinking gin is just his nature.
A Facebook friend pointed out that this film was essentially remade in 1975, with Hepburn reprising her strait-laced missionary role, but with John Wayne in Bogart's role (Bogart had died of lung cancer 18 years earlier). It was billed as a sequel to the very popular "True Grit," for which Wayne won his Oscar in 1970, but aside from the eye patch, it was for all intents and purposes "The African Queen Out West."
By the way, John Wayne will make an appearance later on this year. Everyone knows you can't put together a calendar of classic film posters without one from the Duke.
So let's make our way to Kevin Bacon, starting with Katharine Hepburn:
1. Who was in "The Rainmaker" with Burt Lancaster,
2. Who was in "Atlantic City" with Susan Sarandon
3. Who was in "Dead Man Walking" with Sean Penn
4. Who was in "Mystic River" with KEVIN BACON!!!!!!
As always, feel free to come up with your own Bacon connections.
Judy Nichols is the author of several mysteries available on Amazon.
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