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Born this day February 7th:
Co-star/support Juliette Greco is 77.
"Protegee" of Darryl F. Zanuck she was in "The Sun Also Rises" w/Tyrone Power, "Bonjour tristesse" w/Deborah Kerr, "The Naked Earth" w/Richard Todd, "The Roots of Heaven" w/Errol Flynn, "Crack in the Mirror" w/Orson Welles, "The Big Gamble" w/ Stephen Boyd etc.
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Co-star/support Gloria Talbott (69) 1931-2000.
Probably best remembered in the cult film "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" '58. Also in "We're No Angels" w/Bogart, "Lucy Gallant" w/Wyman, "All That Heaven Allows" w/Hudson, "Strange Intruder" w/Lupino, "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll", "The Cyclops", "Alias Jesse James" w/Bob Hope, "The Leech Woman", etc.
She guested on many TV shows.
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Co-star/support Keefe Brasselle (58) 1923-1981.
Chosen by director Ida Lupino for two of her films "Not Wanted" and "Never Fear". Also in "Janie", "A Place in the Sun", "It's a Big Country" good episode as Maxie Klein w/ Marjorie Main, "Skirts Ahoy!", "The Eddie Cantor Story" a good effort, "Mad at the World", "Battle Stations" etc.
He had his own TV variety show in the 1950s.
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Co-star/support Jock Mahoney (70) 1919-1989.
Appeared in many westerns and in "I've Lived Before", "Away All Boats" w/Jeff Chandler, "Battle Hymm" w/Hudson, "The Unknown World" (lead), "Tarzan the Magnificent" (oldest actor to play Tarzan. Was in his 40s), "Bandolero!" w/James Stewart, "The Love Bug", "The End" with his stepdaughter Sally Field.
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Lead/co-star/support Eddie Bracken (87) 1915-2002.
Owl-faced comic actor in "Caughtin the Draft", "The Fleet's In", "The Miracle at Morgan's Creek" good stuff, "Hail the Conquering Hero" good stuff, "Out of this World" w/Veronica Lake, "Hold That Blonde", "Summer Stock" w/Judy Garland, "Two Tickets to Broadway", "About Face", "A Slight Case of Larceny" etc.
Was married for 60 years.
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Mongo
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Saturaday's Question:
The hat that Mercedes McCambridge wore in the movie "Giant" was given to her by which Oscar winning actor?
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Right on stella. You are correct with your answer of Joan Fontaine.
Congratulations!
Mongo
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Afternoon Trivia:
Which Oscar winning actress has been a licensed pilot, a champion balloonist, an expert rider, a prize-winning tuna fisherman, a hole-in-one golfer, a cordon bleu chef and a licensed interior decorator?
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feaito you are correct with your answer of Pete Lorre in "Beat the Devil". Congratulations!
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Born this day February 6th:
Co-star/singer Fabian (Forte) is 61.
Former teenage idol who was lucky to be in "High Time" w/Bing Crosby, "North to Alaska" w/Wayne, "Love in a Goldfish Bowl" w/Jan Sterling, "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" w/Maureen O'Hara, "Five Weeks in a Balloon", "The Longest Day" all star cast, "Ride the Wild Surf" w/Tab Hunter, "Dear Brigitte" w/James Stewart, "Disco Fever" etc.
Went on the road with Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell as "The Golden Boys".
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Former child actress Gigi Perreau is 63.
In "Mr. Skeffington" (age 2), "Yolanda and the Thief" w/Astaire, "To Each His Own", "Green Dolphin Street", "Family Honeymoon" w/Colbert, "Song of Love" w/Hepburn, "Roseanna McCoy", "My Foolish Heart", "For Heaven's Sake", "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit", "Tammy Tell Me True" etc.
Kept busy for a decade on Broadway.
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Co-star/support Rip Torn is 73.
In "Pork Chop Hill", "King of Kings", "Sweet Bird of Youth", "You're a Big Boy Now" w/Geraldine Page, "The Cincinnati Kid", "Beach Red", "Crazy Joe", "The Seduction of Joe Tynan", "Cross Creek" Oscar nominee best support, "City Heat", "Wonder Boys", "Men In Black II", etc.
Was married to actresses Ann Wedgeworth and Geraldine Page.
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Co-star/support Mamie Van Doren is 73.
Sexy gal in "The All American" w/Tony Curtis, "Yankee Pasha" w/Jeff Chandler, "Ain't Misbehavin'", "Running Wild", "Star in the Dust", "Untamed Youth", "Teacher's Pet" w/Gable, "High School Confidential", "Born Reckless", "The Beat Generation", "Girls Town", "The Big Operator" w/Mickey Rooney, "Sex Kittens Go to College", "Slackers" (last to date).
Married five times including to musician Ray Anthony.
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Co-star/support Zsa Zsa Gabor is 87.
Flamboyant actress in "Lovely to Look At", "We're Not Married", "Moulin Rouge" singing was dubbed, "Lili" w/Leslie Caron, "The Story of Three Loves", "Death of a Scoundrel", "Touch of Evil", "Queen of Outer Space", "For the First Time" w/Lanza, "Pepe", "Boy's Night Out" w/Novak, "Picture Mommy Dead", "The Beverly Hillbillies" (last to date).
Married 8 times including George Sanders. Sister of Eva Gabor. In serious auto accident in '03 from which she is recovering. Once said "I'am a marvelous housekeeper, everytime I leave a man I keep his house".
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Lead/co-star Ronald Reagan turns 93.
On screen from the 1930s he was in "Boy Meets Girl", "Brother Rat", "Dark Victory", "Hell's Kitchen", "Knute Rockne All American", Santa Fe Trail", "Million Dollar Baby", "King's Row" good role, "Juke Girl", "Stallion Road", "That Hagen Girl"w/Temple, "Voice of the Turtle", "The Hasty Heart" good role, "Storm Warning" good role, "Bedtime for Bonzo" w/a chimp, "The Winning Team" w/Doris Day, "She's Working Her Way Through College" w/Mayo, "Prisoner of War", "Cattle Queen of Montana" w/Stanwyck, "Hellcats of the Navy" etc.
Was married to Jane Wyman and currently married to Nancy Davis. His nicknames are Dutch and Gipper. Now suffering from alzheimers the 40th. President of the U.S. had the secret Service code name of "Rawhide".
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Mongo
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Born this day February 6th:
Posthumous
Supporting actor David Gorcey (63) 1921-1984.
Younger brother of Leo Gorcey he was Pee Wee in the East Sise Kids series and Chuck in The Bowery Boys series.
He was at his funniest in "Abbott & Costello in the Foreigh Legion". Son of Bernard Gorcey he later became a clergyman.
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Blue-eyed blonde actor in "To Each His Own" DeHavillands fella, "Perils of Pauline" w/Betty Hutton, "A Foreign Affair" w/Jean Arthur, "Miss Tatlock's Millions", "My Friend Irma", "No Man of Her Own" w/Stanwyck, "Duchess of Idaho", "The Mating Season", "Steel Town" w/Sheridan, "Latin Lovers" w/Turner, "Chief Crazy Horse', "High Society", "If a Man Answers" His last.
Was married 50 years.
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Supporting actor Russell Gleason (37) 1908-1945.
In many films with his parents actress Lucile Gleason and endearing actor James Gleason. He was also in "All Quiet On the Western Front" and his last "The Adventures of Mark Twain". He died from an accidental fall from a hotel window.****************************************
Supporting actress Lucile Gleason (59) 1888-1947.
Mother of Russell Gleason (above) acted with husband James Gleason and son Russell. She was a hoot as Big Tess in "Klondike Annie" with Mae West.
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Lead/co-star Ramon Navarro (69) 1899-1968.
Silent screen idol in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" w/Valentino, "The Prisoner of Zenda", "Scaramouche", "The Arab", "Ben-Hur" early epic,
and talkies "Son of India", "Mata Hari" w/Garbo, "The Sheik Steps Out", "We Were Strangers", "Crisis" w/Grant, "Heller in Pink Tights" w/Loren.
Was brutally beaten to death in his Hollywood Hills home by a pair of teenage thieves.
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Lead/co-star Elmo Lincoln (63) 1889-1952.
The first actor to play Tarzan in "Tarzan of the Apes" (1918). Also in "The Romance of Tarzan", "Elmo the Fearless" as Tarzan, "The Adventures of Tarzan", etc.
At the end of his career he had a bit part in the movie "Carrie" with his idol Laurence Olivier.
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Mongo
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stella you are correct. Congratulations!
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Stella you have my deepest sympathy on your recent loss.
I will be hoping and praying for your friends child to make a complete recovery. God bless.
Mongo
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Is it "Pinocchio"?
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Afternoon Trivia:
Which actress sang Happy Birthday Mr.President to JFK at his final birthday?
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You are indeed correct antar. Congratulations!
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Unfortunately stella has an illness in the family and also a friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with her.
Mongo
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Glad you found your way back in moira. I still have that trouble every so often.
Is it "David Copperfield"?
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Right on Cher! You go girl! Your admiration for Hepburn is refreshing. Your turn in "Moonstruck" was a delight and many thanks for keeping up with the times...xoxoxox.
Mongo
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mfinny you are absolutely correct. Congratulations!
Welcome to the boards.
It's your turn to play.
Mongo
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Born this day February 5th:
Co-star/support Charlotte Rampling is 59.
Beauty from England played in "Georgy Girl", "Asylum", "Zardoz", "Farewell My Lovely" good role, "Orca", "The Verdict" good role, "Stardust Memories", "D.O.A.", "The Wings of the Dove", "The Cherry Orchard", "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" (love that title), etc.
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Co-star/support Red Buttons is 85.
In 1944 was in "Winged Victory" as Cpl. Red Buttons. He won best supporting actor Oscar for "Sayonara" w/ Marlon Brando. Also in "Imitation General", "The Big Circus", "Hatari", "The Longest Day", "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Harlow", "Stagecoach" remake, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" good role, "The Poseidon Adventure", "Gable and Lombard", "Pete's Dragon", "When Time Ran Out", "It Could Happen to You" etc.
Had hos own TV comedy series in the 1950s. Was wed 3 times.
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Posthumous
Lead/co-star Tim Holt (55) 1918-1973.
Although in many "B" westerns he appeared in "A" films as well. "Stella Dallas", "Stagecoach" '39, "Swiss Family Robinson", "Back Street", "The Magnificent Ambersons", "Hitler's Children", "My Darling Clementine", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" excellent performance.
Son of star Jack Holt. In the 1940s at the peak of his career in westerns he was the fastest draw. Wed 3 times.
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Siamese twins Daisy & Violet Hilton (60) 1908-1969.
Co-stars of the macabre movie "Freaks" (1932) and leads in the movie "Chained for Life" (1951).
Born in England to a barmaid and raised by the midwife that delivered them they were exploited and abused until they got their freedom at age 23. Appeared in a hit musical "Sideshow" on Broadway based loosly on their lives. They learned hypnosis from Houdini as a way to be alone from one another. Violet was married in 1936 and was later anulled. In the 1960s the ladies fell into poverty and obsurity. They were running a vegetable stand in North Carolina. In 1969 they were found dead in their apartment, victims of the Hong Kong flu.
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Lead/Co-star/Support John Carradine (82) 1906-1988.
Essential actor on screen from the 1930s in 250 films
including "Les Miserables", "The Bride of Frankenstein", "The Prisoner of Shark Island" good role, "Under Two Flags", "Mary of Scotland", "Ramona", "Captain January", "Winterset", "Captains Courageous", "The Hurricane", "Of Human Hearts" as Pres. Lincoln, "Jesse James" as that dirty little coward, "Stagecoach" '39, "Five Came Back", "Drums Along the Mohawk", "The Grapes of Wrath", "Blood and Sand", "Son of Fury", "Captive Wild Woman" eerie, "The Mummy's Ghost", "Bluebeard" a career favorite, "Fallen Angel", "House of Dracula", "Johnny Guitar", "The Court Jester", "The Ten Commandments", "The Last Hurrah", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Cheyenne Autumn", "The Shootist", "The Sentinel", "The Howling", "Peggy Sue Got Married" etc.
Father of actors David, Keith and Robert Carradine. Was wed 4 times. Once said "I've made some of the greatest films ever made- and a lot of crap, too".
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Mongo
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Clue # 8 An angry dwarf
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Clue # 7 Drugs, sex and cockfights
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Clue # 6 The collapse of a movie set
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Clue # 5 A strange and religious man
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Correction:
The title of the Ida Lupino film is "The Man I Love".
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Born this day February 4th:
Co-star/support Gary Conway is 68.
From the 1950s he got stuck in "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein", "How To Make a Monster" and the ultimate title "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent" (phew). Also "The Young Guns of Texas", "Black Gunn", "Once Is Not Enough", "The Farmer" etc.
He was on the TV series "Land of the Giants".
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Supporting actor Conrad Bain is 81.
In "Madigan" w/Widmark, "A Lovely Way to Die", "Star!" w/Julie Andrews, "Coogan's Bluff", "Lovers and Other Strangers", "I Never San for My Father" w/G. Hackman, "Bananas", "The Anderson Tapes", "Up the Sandbox" w/Streisand, "C.H.O.M.P.S", "Postcards from the Edge" (last to date).
Was on the TV series "Maude" and "Diff'rent Strokes".
Has an identical twin brother Bonar.
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Posthumous
Lead/co-star/director Ida Lupino (81) 1914-1995.
Superior actress in "The Light That Failed", "They Drive by Night" w/Bogart & Raft, "High Sierra", "The Sea Wolf" w/Edward G., "Out of the Fog" w/Garfield, "Moontide", "Forever and a Day", "The Hard Way" won N.Y. Film Critics Award, "In Our Time", "Devotion", "The Main I Love", "Deep Valley" w/Dane Clark, "Road House" sing Ida sing, "Lust for Gold" w/Glenn Ford, "Woman in Hiding", "The Bigamist", "The Big Knife", "Junnor Bonner" w/McQueen etc.
Was married to Louis Hayward and Howard Duff. She directed films and many TV shows.
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Co-star/support James Craig (73) 1912-1985.
On the order of Clark Gable he was in "Black Friday", "Seven Sinners", "Kitty Foyle" Ginger's cheap date, "Valley of the Sun", "Lost Angel", "The Human Comedy", "Kismet", "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes", "Northwest Stampede", "Side Street", "A Lady Without Passport" w/Lamarr, "While the City Sleeps" etc.
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Supporting actor Robert Coote (73) 1909-1982.
Classy Englishman in "A Yank at Oxford" w/Robert Taylor, "Gunga Din", "Vigil in the Night" w/Lombard, "Forever and a Day", "Cloak and Dagger" w/Cooper, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", "Forever Amber", "The Three Musketeers" w/Gene Kelly, "The Red Danube", "The Merry Widow" w/Lana, "The Swan" w/Grace Kelly, "Merry Andrew", "The VIPs", "The Swinger" w/Ann-Margret etc.
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Mongo
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Clue # 4 A former vaudevillian
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It sounds like this author is hitting below the belt now that Katharine the great has died.
Anything for the almighty buck. Besides what more do we need to know about Kate?
Mongo
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"The Mad Genius"? You went into the archives for this one moira.