Comedienne Phyllis Diller, who died in August 2012, spent time in Florida, including performing her comedy act at the Fontainbleau, the Eden Roc and many other locations across the state. She was also in Cape Coral in 1964 to film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Frogs” set loose hundreds of frogs around Wewahitchka in the Panhandle. Frogs you find in the area are likely descendents of the frogs used for this film. The celebrity frog relatives are a bit difficult to get an autograph from,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Creature from the Black Lagoon is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots of The Gill-Man[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to learn of the death of Rod Taylor. Taylor was the best of the few to portray John D. MacDonald‘s ‘Travis McGee’ in film. Taylor starred in ‘Darker than Amber’, adapted from MacDonald’s book of the same name. McGee[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida is sad to learn of the death of Lauren Bacall. She was an incredible beauty that portrayed a steel will in most all of her characters from her ‘Key Largo’ Nora Temple character to Margaret Kramer in ‘My Fellow Americans’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just had a lot of fun on Twitter commenting about locations & history as ‘Flipper’s New Adventure’ (1964) on TCM played. Have to do that again sometime. Here’s the IMDb page for the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058105/ By the way, you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Neat evening shot of the Silvermoon Drive In in Lakeland. The drive-ins are still out there! Do you have one near you?