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"The Damned"?
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Born this day January 21st:
Supporting actress Ann Wedgeworth is 69.
In "Bang the Drum Slowly" w/DeNiro, "Scarecrow" w/Pacino, "Dragonfly", "Made in Heaven","Birch Interval", "Sweet Dreams" as Patsy Clines mom, "Steel Magnolias", "Green Card" etc.
Was married to actor Rip Torn.
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Co-star/support Audrey Dalton is 70.
Starlet who was in "My Cousin Rachel", "Titanic" as Stanwyck's daughter, "The Prodigal" w/Lana, "Separate Tables" as Rod Taylor's lady, "The Monster That Challenged the World" w/Tim Holt etc.
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Lead/co-star Paul Scofield is 82.
Oscar winning for best actor in "A Man for All Seasons" was also in "The Train", "King Lear", "A Delicate Balance", "Henry V", "Quiz Show" supporting Oscar nominee, "The Crucible" etc.
Declined Queen Elizabeth's II's offer to be knighted.
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Lead/co-star Steve Reeves (74) 1926-2000.
He was born in Montana, was Mr. Universe, Mr. America and became "Hercules". Also in "Athena", "Hercules Unchained", "The Last Days of Pompei", "Morgan the Pirate", "The Thief of Bagdad", "Pirates of the Seven Seas" etc.
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Co-star/support Telly Savalas (70) 1924-1994.
In "The Young Savages", "Cape Fear", "Birdman of Alcatraz", "The Interns", "Johnny Cool", "The Battle of the Bulge", "The Dirty Dozen", "Makennas Gold" etc.
He motto was "Bald is Beautiful". He was star of the TV series "Kojak" who says "Who loves ya baby?".
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Co-star/support J.Carrol Naish (76) 1897-1973.
Prolific character actor in close to 200 films including "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer", "Black Fury", "Captain Blood", "Charlie Chan at the Circus", "Ramona", "Beau Geste", "Down Argentine Way", "Blood and Sand", "Sahara", "The Monster Maker", "Dragon Seed", "A Medal for Benny" Oscar nominee best supporting actor, "The Southerner" excellent film, "Humoresque", "The Beast with Five Fingers", "The Black Hand", "Annie Get Your Gun", "Clash by Night", "Hit the Deck" etc. He was also in the Oscar winning short "Star in the Night" shown at Christmas on TCM.
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Mongo
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Kidadan Cary Grant never made a four hour film. Actually the TV movie "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1987) with Farrah Fawcett as Barbara Hutton was 233 minutes long (close to 4 hours). In the TV movie Cary Grant is portrayed by actor James Read as one of Hutton's many husbands.
I would imagine that this is the movie that you are looking for.
Mongo
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Please excuse the typos in todays Happy Birthday listing.
Since there were quite a few I was hitting the keys like a bat out of hell.
Mongo
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Here are a few. Gretchen Young became Loretta Young, Horace McNally became Stephen McNally (raped Jane Wyman in "Johnny Belinda"), Dawn O'Day became Anne Shirley (was Stanwyck's daughter in "Stella Dallas"), "Byron Barr became Gig Young, Jacqueline Brown and Jacqueline Wells became Julie Bishop.
Mongo
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Former child star of the Little Rascals Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins was killed only days before his 20th birthday.
While attempting to land his aircraft during the final 30 minutes of his basic training he crashed on March 17th 1945.
He was in 62 Our Gang comedy shorts from 1927 to 1933 as the character "Wheezer".
Mongo
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Born this day January 20th:
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Supporting actress Carlotta Monti (86) 1907-1993.
A stunning beauty in "Ben-Hur" (1925), "King Kong" (bit), "Tarzan the Fearless", "Man On the Flying Trapeze" w/W.C. Fields, "Bonnie Scotland" w/Laurel & Hardy, "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" w/W.C. Fields, "He Walked by Night" etc. She lived with W.C. Fields until his death in 1946. Her nickname for him was Woody.
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Co-star/support Leon Ames (91) 1902-1993.
In over 100 films including "Suez", "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", "Meet Me in St. Louis" as Judy's dad, "Son of Lassie", "Anchors Aweigh", "The Postman Always Rings Twice", Lady in the Lake", "A Date with Judy", "Little Women", "Battleground", "On Moonlight Bay" as father, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" as father, "Peyton Place", "From the Terrace", "Peggy Sue Got Married" etc.
This essential actor was married over 50 years.
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Lead/co-star Colin Clive (37) 1900-1937.
Who could forget his excitement as he screamed "It's alive!", "It's alive!" in the movie "Frankenstein". Also in "Christopher Strong" w/Hepburn, "Clive of India", "The Bride of Frankenstein", "Mad Love" w/Peter Lorre, "The Woman I Love" w/Miriam Hopkins etc.
Died of pneomonia brought on by accute alcholism.
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Supporting actress Norma Varden ((91) 1898-1989.
In over 100 films mostly small parts and bits. Notably in "Strangers on a Train" as the women who Robert Walker almost strangles at the dinner party, "Witness for the Prosecution" as the woman Tyrone Power murders etc.
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Lead/co-star George Burns (100) 1896-1996.
Legend comic in films of the 1930s teaming up with his zany wife Gracie Allen. Also in "The Sunshine Boys" won supporting actor Oscar, "Oh! God!", "going in Style", "Oh! God! You Devil" etc.
In TVs George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Smoked 10 cigar a day until his death at age 100. Best pal was comic Jack Benny.
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Supporting actor Roscoe Ates (67) 1895-1962.
In over 100 films he mostly played a stuttering comic. In "The Big House", "A Free Soul", "The Champ", "Freaks", "King Kong" (bit), "Alice in Wonderland" as the Fish, "Gone With the Wind" (bit), "Sullivans Travels", Palm Beach Story" etc.
Also on many TV programs.
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Mongo
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Born this day January 20th:
Co-star/support Dorothy Provine is 67.
In "The Bonnie Parker Story", "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock" w/Lou Costello, "I't a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "Good Neighor Sam", "The Great Race", "That Darn Cat!" etc. The blonde actress fit perfectly into her TV series "The Roaring 20's" as a flapper. Retired.
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Lead/co-star Patricia Neal is 78 today.
Enduring actress in "John Loves Mary", "The Fountainhead" in which she most likely began her affair with Gary Cooper, ""The Hasty Heart", "Bright Leaf" again with Cooper, "The Breaking Point" w/Garfield, "Three Secrets", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "A Face in the Crowd", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Hud" She won Best Actress Oscar, "In Harm's Way", "The Subject Was Roses" Oscar nominee, "Ghost Story", "Ab Unremarkable Life" w/Shelley Winters, "Cookie's Fortune", etc. She was offered the part as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" and refused since she felt it was too soon after her strokes.
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Supporting actor/composer Ray Anthony is 82.
In "High School Confidential", "Night of the Quarter Moon", "The Five Pennies", "The Beat Generation", "Girl's Town", "The Big Operator" w/Rooney, etc. Was a great trumpeter with hit records "Peter Gunn", "The Bunny Hop" etc. Played with the Glenn Miller band during the war. Had his own TV series. Was married to sex pot Mamie Van Doren.
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Co-star/support DeForest Kelley (79) 1920-1999.
In "Varity Girl" an all star Paramount revue, "Canon City", "Malaya", "The Men", "House of Bamboo", "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit", "Tension at Table Rock", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", "Raintree County", "Where Love Has Gone" etc.
Hit his stride as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy on "Star Trek", both the TV series and the movies. Married over 50 years.
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Co-star/support Alex Nicol (85) 1916-2001.
In "Tomahawk", "Meet Danny Wilsn" w/Sinatra, "Red Ball Express" w/Chandler, "Because of You" w/Loretta Young, "About, Mrs. Leslie" w/Shirley Booth, "Strategic Air Command", "Sincerely Yours", "The Man from Laramie" good role, "5 Branded Women", "Bloody Mama" etc.
Married over 50 years.
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Mongo
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Stella, Help! My computer wallpaper is of Emmett Kelly the clown. Everyday he stares me in the face and I don't know wheather to punch him in his red nose or grab his ****. Please let me know where I can get a movie star on my screen preferbly Ava Gardner.
Thanx.
Mongo
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The movie is "A New Kind of Love" (1963) and it co-starred Eva Gabor and Thelma Ritter.
Mongo
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Antar most of us do care about the anniversary of a stars death especially one so beautiful and prominent as Hedy Lamarr. I'll never forget the first time I saw her in the movie "White Cargo" when she appeared and spoke
"I am Tondelayo". She was a vision of beauty and it took my breath away.
I saw her from a distance down here in Florida when she was entering a store. Wearing dark glasses,slender and a most attractive redhead, she was still the elegant movie star.
She lived at North Bay Village in Southern Florida and from an article in a paper down here her neighbors adored and respected her.
Did you know that she depended on TCM to send her videos of her movies? When she lost or misplaced them she would call and ask for another batch. I wonder if Robert Osborne had a hand in it.
Also in the 1980s she wrote some songs after getting her poor eyesight corrected. She also said that Spencer Tracy wasn't one of her favorite people and that she taught Robert Taylor how to kiss correctly on the screen.
Ah yes Miss Lamarr was certainly one of a kind and in my opinion in a tie with Ava Gardner as the most beautiful women in Hollywood.
Mongo
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Neptune for your information it has already been noted about the resemblance between Herbert Marshall and Fay Bainter on the "Relatively Speaking" thread.
Although Marshall wasn't your typical hunky actor he certainly held his own with Hollywood's leading actresses especially Dietrich in "Blonde Venus" and with Bette Davis in "The Letter" and "The Little Foxes". As far as the name Van goes Mr. Heflin most likely paved the way for Tab, Rock, Guy, Rip, Lex, etc.
Mongo
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Born this day January 19th:
Co-star/support Tippi Hedren is 73.
Alfred Hitchcock's cool blonde in "The Birds" and in "Marnie". Also in Chaplin's "A Countess from Hong Kong" etc. Mother of actress Melanie Griffith. She presides over the Roar Foundation, an animal preserve outside of Loa Angeles.
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Supporting actor Fritz Weaver is 78.
In "Fail-Safe", "Day of the Dolphin", "Marathon Man", "Black Sunday", "Demon Seed", "Creepshow" etc.
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Co-star/support Jean Stapleton turns 81.
In "Damn Yankees", "Bells Are Ringing", "Up the Down Staircase", "Michael" w/Travolta, "You've Got Mail" etc.
Of course she was the one and only Edith Bunker on TVs "All in the Family".
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Co-star/support Nicholas Colasanto (61) 1924-1985.
In "Fat City" a fine film, "Family Plot", "Ranging Bull" etc. Of course he played Coach on TVs "Cheers".
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Lead/co-star/support Guy Madison (74) 1922-1996.
Handsome actor in "Since You Went Away", "Till the End of Time", "Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven", "Drums in the Deep South" w/Barbara Payton, "The Charge at Feather River", "Hilda Crane" w/Jean Simmons, "Jet Over the Atlantic" w/Virginia Mayo etc.
Was in the TV series Wild Bill Hickok. Made some Italian Westerns. Was married to the beautiful Gail Russell.
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Co-star/support Anthony Dexter (88) 1913-2001.
His claim to fame was in the starring role of "Valentino" who he resembled. Also in "The Brigand" w/Tony Quinn, "The Story of Mankind" as Columbus?, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" etc.
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Character actor Harry Davenport (83) 1866-1949.
Wonderful, beloved old timer adored by many in the business especially Bette Davis. In "Maytime", "The Life of Emile Zola", "They Wont't Forget", "Marie Antoinette", "You Can't Take It With You", "The Sisters", "The Cowboy and the Lady", Juarez", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Gone With The Wind" as Dr. Meade, "All This, and Heaven Too", "Foreign Correspondent", "Meet John Doe", "The Bride Came C.O.D.", "Son of Fury", "Kings Row", "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Kismet", "Meet Me in St. Louis" as Grandpa, "The Enchanted Forest" a charmer, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer", "Little Women" etc. etc.
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Mongo
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Well that about does it for this weekend. It was nice discussing Cary Grant on what would have been his 100th.
birthday. He certainly was one of the very best.
Hold tight because coffeedan is getting ready for another great week of his stylish trivia.
Adios
Mongo
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minatonga your answer is correct. Congratulations!
It's good to see you back on the boards.
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Cary Grant Trivia Day:
Final question of the evening.
What was Paramount Studios first choice of his movie star name before choosing Cary Grant?
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Grant his his stride in "Topper" and was on his way to success.
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Cary Grant Trivia Day:
In which comedy did Grant hit his stride with toward success?
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You are correct path. Congratulations!
Actually the stone says Archie Leach.
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Cary Grant Trivia Day:
What is so extraordinary about one of the tombstones in the movie "Arsenic and Old Lace"?
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Actually feaito the two films Grant turned down to star opposite Audrey Hepburn were "Roman Holiday" and "Sabrina".
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I am sorry moira. I credited Stella with the correct answer for Royces' mother role. Congratulations moira since you had the correct answer.
Mongo
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Cary Grant Trivia Day:
Which two movies did Grant turn down to star opposite Audrey Hepburn?
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Stella you are the closest to the correct answer. Actually Ms. Landis was 10 months younger than Grant.
Congratulations!
feaito I never saw the movie "Derelict" and I was surprised that Ms. Landis only made about 20 movies.
Mongo
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