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Sal Mineo, started as a child actor and successfully transitioned to "troubled teen" roles. He had major roles in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, GIANT and the starring role in the GENE KRUPA STORY. A powerhouse actor, when his open bisexuality seemed to hold his career back from landing better movie roles, he found success on Broadway & directing. In the 70's he began taking roles on TV shows like Patty Duke Show, Hawaii Five-0 & Columbo. At 37 years old he was killed in a random mugging. Who knows how his career could have gone in the next decade when homosexuality came out of the closet & became more publicly accepted. And then there's Thelma Todd. Loved by almost everyone, she had a wonderful career as comedienne at Hal Roach's Studio as foil for Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, etc. She even popularized "girl" comedies paired with Zazu Pitts & Patsy Kelly. Smart cookie, she diversified her career & opened a restaurant in this building which still stands today: At 29 years old she was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning sitting in her car parked in the garage of a friend. It has always been a suspicious case, implicating the Mob/gangsters. Loni Anderson portrayed Todd in a TV movie of her life and strange circumstances of her death. The saddest timing of a death is Glen Milstead, better known as Divine. A dramatic & creative youth, he found camaraderie with fellow local Baltimore artist John Waters and was catapulted to underground stardom as the charactor Divine. Halstead enjoyed notoriety as Divine but eventually experienced main stream acceptance after his portrayal of Mrs. Turnblatt in Waters' popular movie HAIRSPRAY '88. This seemed to be the turning point for Divine, leading to a charactor created for him in the hugely popular sit-com MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. After a day of rehearsals, Milstead died in his sleep at age 42. And yes, I have visited & paid my respects to all of them.

I’ve always felt Sandra Dee’s story is a sad one. A successful child model, she made the transition to films and enjoyed at least a decade or more of great stardom. Abused sexually by her stepfather as a child, she also suffered from anorexia at an early age, something that became a lifelong struggle, along with depression and alcoholism. Married to singer Bobby Darin from 1960 til their 1967 divorce, Sandra never remarried and died from complications of kidney disease in 2005, at age 62.

nobody ran as much as Forrest Gump great run involving brides and boulders in Seven Chances iconic run--North by Northwest running from the start==A Hard Day's Night running with Huggies--Raising Arizona

Logan's Run 1976 The Running Man 1987 The Naked Runner 1967 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Born To Run ( Bruce Springsteen Song)

Take the Money and Run (1969) Marathon Man (1976) Personal Best (1982) track and field athletes The Candidate (1972) running for office The Graduate (1967) Dustin Hoffman running again after car runs out of gas and later he and Elaine run for the bus Run for Your Life (Beatles song)

Chariots of Fire Jim Thorpe All American Jackson Browne Song (Running on Empty) Pride of the Yankees A League of Their Own (there is no crying in baseball, but there is running!) - Also, Geena D. and her sister run to catch the train.

Happy Easter!

Errol Flynn, actor, author, sailor, adventurer. His zest for living turned into his own destruction. He had it all and gradually threw it all away with booze and drugs. Dead at 50, one of the biggest stars of the late '30s and early '40s who was all but unemployable by the last year of his life.

Child actor Bobby Driscoll who starred in some of Disney's best live-action movies of the 1940s and '50s, including Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1949) and Treasure Island (1950). He was the animation model and voice for Peter Pan (1953). Awarded a Juvenile Oscar for The Window (1949). In the mid 1950s when his acting career began to decline, he became addicted to narcotics and was sentenced to prison for illicit drug use. After his release, he moved to New York to find work in television and became involved in the avant-garde art scene. In ill health because of substance abuse and broke, his body was discovered on March 30, 1968 in an abandoned building in Manhattan's East Village. He was 31 years old. Not realizing who he was, and with no one claiming his body, he was buried in Hart Island's Potter's Field in New York.

Objective, Burma!

1934

Ide, Hattie was played by Nancy Gates in Nevada 1944

Harlan, Minerva -- Ann Dvorak in Merrily We Live (1938)

Grimes, Biff -- played by Gary Cooper in ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON (1933)

Falconer, Sharon, played by Jean Simmons in "Elmer Gantry"

I would agree. You can mourn the loss of his acting career, but he led a happy and successful life, from all appearances. Joan Crawford called them the happiest couple in Hollywood.

I feel he unjustly lumped too many in the same category. Not all "glorified" the lost cause, but simply(in the case of GWTW) displayed an exagerrated example of what the lifestyle of the "privileged " class was like. To say any film "glorified" any of that is to insinuate that the film makers endorsed any of it., which of course, they didn't. It seemed to me Mr. Hulbert gave creedence to something that didn't really happen. Like all the talk about "white saviors" in movies. Like in AMISTAD, claiming it too gave into the "white savior" narrative. But having seen the movie, I ask you... What were the chances of any of the slaves getting any legal assistance from any attorneys who WEREN'T white in 1840? And too, weren't many of the "stops" on the "underground railroad" the homes and farms of whites who also had abolishionist leanings? How does any accurate depiction of these FACTS somehow become negative? I came away with the feeling that Prof. Hulbert was too immersed in undeserved white guilt to objectively look at the subjects on hand. Sepiatone

8. She was engaged to Prince Aly Khan while he was going through his divorce to Rita Hayworth. In 1960, she married oil baron W. Howard Lee, who was previously married to Hedy Lamarr.

private fears in public places (2006) * * * * * love it

She needs a big hat to distract from the fact that woman has no behind!

Give Us This Night (1936)

Watched BLOCKHEADS on demand just now and really dug Patricia Ellis' hat More Patricia Ellis hats:

Loose lips sink ships!

I have a couple to add, Judy Garland, dead at 47 years old. Natalie Wood, found drowned, also in her forties Bruce Lee, Oh what he could haven continued doing if he did not died in 1973. Mario Lanza, dead at 38 years old

Thank you, SansFin! This is exactly the one I mean. And Rod Taylor in the shot, too, is just fine.

Those of you who had seen Hotel (1967) said that it didn't belong in the same category as Claudelle Inglish and Go Naked in the World, and you were right. Hotel must have seemed old-fashioned in the year of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate. In only a few years, stories like Hotel would have been adapted for a TV mini-series. It has the virtues of solid storytelling and competent but not flashy direction and cinematography, with plenty of drama, a little comedy, a little romance, some characters in danger, and even a sweet doggie. Carmen McRae singing and playing the piano is another plus; notice, however, how out-of-sync this choice of music is for 1967 in contrast to the use of Simon & Garfunkel in The Graduate. There are enough former movie stars for a two-part episode of Murder She Wrote. Karl Malden is fun as the key thief; Melvyn Douglas has a fine part as the aging hotel owner; Merle Oberon as the duchess nails all of her scenes; and I wish that Michael Rennie as the duke had more screen time. Richard Conte is effectively cast as a blackmailer, and Kevin McCarthy was one of the actors at this time most likely to be cast as an oily, smarmy villain. This one prays before he crushes his business rivals, an element unusual for this era. Rod Taylor as the hotel manager is handsome, masculine, and likable, as usual. Catherine Spaak, billed in the opening credits as "The Girl From Paris," is his less interesting love interest (and Kevin McCarthy's mistress). Though Spaak's first outfit, a kind of "Eloise at the Plaza Hotel grown up" look, is way off the mark, the rest of her Edith Head outfits are stunning, as are the ones designed for Merle Oberon. Especially great were the orange outfit with orange hat worn by Spaak, a fabulous blue outfit for Merle Oberon, and the plum-colored pants outfit for Spaak. I was surprised to read on Wiki that Spaak was considered a style icon in France in the 1960s and that a lot of girls imitated her hairstyle of bangs with long hair. Hotel has a subplot that involves the desegregation of the hotel, which is in New Orleans. I actually enjoyed this subplot much more than the heavy-handed, foregrounded treatments of race relations in two more popular 1967 films, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night. Hotel has the retro comfort of a meal of steak, French fries, and wedge salad served in a restaurant with red banquettes. Wiki states that one of Catherine Spaak's European films is regarded as "nunsploitation." Who knew there was such as genre?

Cathy Brenner- “Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? They haven’t harmed anyone.”

Brittany Murphy (1977- 2009) Maybe best known for her role in Clueless (1995). What happened to her I have copied from imdb, since I was unaware of the details: "She is alleged to have been a witness in the case of the former Department of Homeland Security employee and persecuted whistleblower Julia Davis. According to Davis, Brittany and her fiancée Simon Monjack were then targeted for retaliation that included land and aerial surveillance and a threatened prosecution. Monjack was arrested and detained by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Brittany and Simon confided in Alex Ben Block of the Hollywood Reporter, telling him in an interview that they were under surveillance by helicopters and their telephones have been wiretapped. This information was published by THR posthumously, in an article entitled "The Last Difficult Days of Brittany Murphy."On December 20, 2009, Brittany Murphy died an untimely death. The LAPD and Los Angeles County Coroner closed the case within one hour, attributing her death to pneumonia and anemia. Five months after Brittany's unexpected demise, her husband Simon Monjack was found dead in the house he shared with Brittany. The chief/spokesperson at the Los Angeles County Dept of Coroner, Craig Harvey, stated that Simon also died from the same exact causes as his wife, namely pneumonia and anemia. Neither Brittany, nor Simon, were given a thorough and complete forensic autopsy for poisons. Abnormally high levels of heavy metals and poisons were discovered in Brittany's hair, tested by two independent forensic labs ."

7) She seriously dated John F Kennedy. The relationship ended because he could not marry a movie star, being a future presidential contender.

If I correctly recall reading in Franchot Tone was at it again about ten years later, and some of his scenes in the episode entitled "The SILENCE" reflect the improvisational camouflaging of the injured leftside of Tone's face: !

Vera Kholodnaya (1893-1919) She was the first great star of silent movies. Her beauty and charm led one of the leading directors of the day to cast her in a magnificent movie. She was instantly popular both on-screen and off. She was in perhaps one-hundred movies in five years. It is sad to say that five only are extant and there are sections of three others. She was such a great actress and was so much beloved that there is life-sized statue of her in Odesa. She was only twenty-five years old when she was murdered by the French who feared she was having an affair with their Ambassador and might be a security risk. Thousand lined the street for her funeral and a short film of it became the most popular movie for months after.

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6.) Her situation with her daughter inspired Agatha Christie's "The MIrror Cracked".

John Garfield, dead of a heart attack at 39, the stress of his being on the Hollywood blacklist blamed by many as a major contribution to his death. A great acting talent extinguished so early in life.

None of this is new. In the "18 problematic..." thread, I posted reviews from 1961 on Breakfast at Tiffany's regarding the casting of Rooney and his portrayal. This criticism is nothing new, even for TCM. It dates back to the film's original release. I'll repost them here: The Hollywood Reporter, James Powers Mickey Rooney gives his customary all to the part of a Japanese photographer, but the role is a caricature and will be offensive to many. The New York Times, A. H. Weiler Mickey Rooney's bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic. Variety, Larry Tubelle Mickey Rooney’s participation as a much-harassed upstairs Japanese photographer adds an unnecessarily incongruous note to the proceedings. For a more recent TCM view on the subject, here's the great Robert Osborne discussing the issue on a TCM cruise. The Rooney discussion starts at around 1:55

Hedy Lamarr I barely recognize Hedy Lamarr laughing here

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Hey Everybody. Happy Easter. Hey. I just thought of this yesterday. I’ve got another really great idea for a Spotlight. How about a Phantom Of The Opera Spotlight? With every single movie version ever made? I think that would be really neat. Besides the movie version of Andrew Lloyed Webber’s and Andrew Lloyed Webber’s play? The only movie versions I’ve seen so far out of the original ones are. The silent version here on TCM on Silent Sunday Nights and the one with Nelson Eddy as the Phantom. Which was the one Michael Crawford saw and studied for the role in London. New York on Broadway and LA and I also own that version on VHS too. It’s great. Even though the movie version of Andrew Lloyed Webber’s came out a while back. At first I thought it kind of actually might still be a little to new to be included. But here on TCM. They’ve also shown movies from the early and mid 2000s from time to time. So I think it will actually be alright to be included. Again. Happy Easter everybody.

Poor Little Rich Girl

I think they do refer to the empty clothes. Diana says to the other guy, "That's why I can't hate Quintus." The guy says, "I can't hate him either." Then he looks over at the empty clothes and says "All I have left for his is pity."

GIVE US THIS DAY (1949)

Sal's career was on the upswing at the time of his murder. He had been getting excellent reviews in the theatrical production of "P.S. Your Cat is Dead." (And playing a gay character.)

Scarecrow 1973 next: Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon and Cary Grant

Another movie song about hats -- "I'll be wearing ribbons down my back this summer" from HELLO DOLLY

Lady Godiva of the Coventry (1955) Next: bickering couple

Jayne Mansfield untimely death had a change to tractor trailer safety. (1933 - 1967) The "Jayne Mansfield Bar" or Rear Underrun Protection System

Is this the one you mean?

LUCKY PARTNERS (1940)

My first and last Warren Beatty movie was BONNIE AND CLYDE. I was 18. Never again, Warren; never again.