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Neither was nominated for a Golden Globe although Gish was nominated Best Actress for an Independent Spirit Award and National Board of Review voted her Best Actress in a tie with Holly Hunter for "Broadcast News".
Bette Davis came up nil for any nominations in "The Whales of August".
Mongo
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Oh...Ann Sothern was nominated in a supporting role for "The Whales of August".
Mongo
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Unfortunately feaito neither Bette Davis nor Lillian Gish were nominated for Oscars in "The Whales of August"
although they certainly should have been.
Mongo
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Born this day January 11th:
Lead/support Rod Taylor is 74 today.
Rugged Austrailian actor in "The Catered Affair", "Giant", "Raintree County", Separate Tables", "The Time Machine", "The Birds", "The V.I.P.s" "Sunday in New York", Young Cassidy", Do Not Disturb", "Hotel", "Welcome to Woop, Woop" etc.
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Posthumous
Supporting actress Veda Ann Borg (58) 1915-1973.
In over 100 films this brassy blonde was in "San Quentin", "Glamour for Sale" w/Anita Louise, "The Penalty" w/Lionel Barrymore, "**** Tonk" w/Gable, "Revenge of the Zombies", "The Big Noise" w/Laurel & Hardy, "Fog Island", "Mother Wore Tights" w/Grable, "Mildred Pierce", "Big Jim McLain" w/Wayne, "Love Me or Leave Me", "I'll Cry Tomorrow", "The Alamo" her last.
In 1939 she was in a severe auto crash which required full facial reconstruction by plastic surgery.
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Co-star/support Don 'Red" Barry (68) 1912-1980.
On screen from the 1930s in "The Crowd Roars", "Only Angels Have Wings", "The Adventures of Red Ryder" followed by oodles of westerns, "The Purple Heart", "I'll Cry Tomorrow", "The Last Mile" w/Rooney, "Ocean's Eleven", "Walk on the Wild Side", "Dirty Dingus Magee", "Junior Bonnor" w/McQueen, "Orca", "Doctor Dracula" his last.
Was married to serial queen Peggy Stewart. He commited suicide.
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Supporting actor Nick Cravat (82) 1912-1994.
Pint-sized acrobat and partner of Burt Lancaster in an acrobatic team. Co-starred with Lancaster in "The Flame and the Arrow", "Ten Tall Men", "The Crimson Pirate", "Run Silent, Run Deep", "The Scalphunters", "Valdez is Coming", "Ulzana's Raid", "The Midnight Man", "The Island of Dr. Moreau" his last.
He was also the plane eating gremlin in "The Twilight Zone" episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" with William Shatner.
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Character actor Lionel Stander (86) 1908-1994.
In "The Milky Way" w/Harold Lloyd, "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", "A Star Is Born" '37, "The Last Gangster" w/Edward G. Robinson, "Guadalcanal Diary", "The Kid from Brooklyn", "Unfaithfully Yours" w/Linda Darnell, "New York, New York" w/DeNiro etc.
He was Max on the TV series "Hart to Hart" and there was no mistaken his gravelly voice.
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Supporting actress Eva LeGallienne (92) 1899-1991.
Only in a few films and primarily a grand stage actress she gave a touching Oscar nominated performance in "Resurrection" as Ellen Burstyn's grandma.
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Mongo
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Sunday's question:
Who says "Money! Money! The Frankenstein monster that destroys souls!" and in which comedy?
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Classicsfan there have been many horror type films made throughout the 1950s and 1960s by cheapjack studios like American International and Monogram.
Vincent Price just about became the master of the macabre
from the 1950s with "The House of Wax" and into the '60s and '70s.
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" is one of my favorite films of the macabre as is "Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte"
and "What's the Matter With Helen?". Both Jane and Charlotte were nominated for a number of Oscars. It was Baby Jane that triggered a ten year spate of older female stars in horror films.
Mongo
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Stella your saintly answer of "Meet Me in St. Louis" is 100% correct. Congratulations!
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Stella Sarrazin had the same problem with not finishing "They Shoot Horse's, Don't They" (1969) on time to snag the role of Joe Buck. I have a paperback book about "Midnight Cowboy" and Sarrazin is pictured in cowboy duds fo a screen test.
I did note that Majors had the same problem contracted to "The Big Valley".
We'll call it a tie and congratulations to you!
Mongo
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The following recipe is from former child star Virginia Weidler the sweet kid who played little Mary in "The Women", and Hepburn's sister Dinah in "The Philadelphia Story". Sadly she had a heart condition for most of her life and died at age 42.
Virginia's Molasses Ginger Cookies
1 cup shortening
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
1/4 cup sour milk
2 tsps. soda
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
21/2 cups flour
Cream the shortening, add the butter and cream together until light and fluffy.
Sift together the soda, ginger, salt and flour and add it to the creamed mixture, alternately with the milk.
Add only a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
Chill for fifteen to thirty minutes, then roll thin and bake on buttered baking sheet in moderate oven for twelve minutes.
For icing, use two egg whites, beaten stiff, with two tablespoons of corn syrup beaten into it.
You can tint the icing pink or green with fruit coloring.
You can also decorate the cookies with cinnamon or chocolate drops.
This recipe is from a 1941 movie magazine.
Mongo
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Evening Trivia:
In which MGM musical comes the following line?
"Wasn't I lucky to be born in my favorite city".
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Here I am stella. The answer to Afternoon Trivia is the actor Michael Sarrazin (remember him?). He starred in "They Shoot Horse's, Don't They?" with Jane Fonda.
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"The Count of Monte-Cristo"?
By the way stella do I dare mention the Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey version of "Of Human Bondage"?
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Afternoon Trivia:
What actor was the closest to getting the part as Joe Buck in "Midnight Cowboy" which went to Jon Voight?
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Lon although your correct in your choices regarding the movie "Lolita" it was Errol Flynn who came the closest to getting the part. The poop hit the fan when it was realized that Flynn was actually like the character in real life.
Congratulations!
Mongo
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Perhaps I should have titled this subject "What were they thinking?" which appears to be more appropriate.
In any event James Cagney also went out in style (thank goodness) with "Ragtime" and "Terrible Joe Moran" for TV.
Also I for one liked "Lady in a Cage" with Olivia de Havilland a film that she herself defended. It had an interesting premise with a incapacitated lady stuck in an elevator terrorized by thugs. Leonard Maltin gave the movie three stars ***.
Mongo
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Born this day January 10th:
Former child actor Sonny Bupp is 76.
In "Annie Oakley" w/Stanwyck, "San Francisco", "Lost Horizon", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "On Borrowed Time", Three Faces West", his greatest moment in "Citizen Kane" as Charles Foster Kane III, "Sergeant York", "The Devil and Daniel Webster" etc.
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Posthumous
Co-star/supporting actor Sal Mineo (37) 1939-1976.
Former child actor who graduated nicely into adult roles. In "Six Bridges to Cross", "Rebel Without a Cause" (he was Oscar nominee), "Somebody Up There Likes Me" w/Newman, "Giant", "Dino", "The Young Don't Cry", "Tonka", "The Gene Krupa Story", "Exodus" (Oscar nominee), "The Longest Day", "Cheyenne Autumn", "The Greatest Story Ever Told", "Who KIlled Teddy Bear" etc.
Tragically stabbed to death. Ironically Mineo's nickname was The Switchblade Kid.
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Supporting actor/singer Johnnie Ray (63) 1927-1990.
In only a few films "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Rogue's Gallery" w/Roger Smith etc. He was one of the greatest of the transition singers between the crooners and the rockers. Wore a hearing aid. Performed on TV. He died of liver failure.
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Co-star/support Lee Philips (72) 1927-1999.
In "Marty" w/Borgnine, "Peyton Place" as Michael Rossi, "The Hunters" w/Mitchum, "Middle of the Night" w/Kim Novak, Psychomania" etc. Directed many TV shows.
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Distinguished lead actor Paul Henreid (84) 1908-1992.
In "Goodbye Mr. Chips", Joan of Paris", "Now, Voyager" lighting those two cigarettes, "Casablanca", "In Our Time", "The Spanish Main" w/Maureen O'Hara, "Devotion" w/Lupino, "Of Human Bondage", "Song of Love", "Rope of Sand", "So Young, So Bad", "A Stolen Face" w/Lizabeth Scott, "Holiday for Lovers", Never So Few" etc. He directed Bette Davis in "Dead Ringer".
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Co-star/support Ray Bolger (83) 1904-1987.
Delightful singer and dancer began in Vaudeville. In "Sweethearts" w/Eddy & MacDonald, "The Wizard of Oz" is immortal as the Scarcrow, "Four Jacks and a Jill", "The Harvey Girls", "Look for the Silver Lining", "Where's Charley", "April in Paris" w/Doris Day, Disney's "Babes in Toyland" etc.
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Mongo
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Saturday's Question:
Which actor was considered for a part in "Lolita" before James Mason got it?
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Correction:
Roll the graham cracker crumbs fine with the rolling pin
NOT the filling.
Mongo
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Hattie McDaniel's Ice Box Cake
1/2 lb. of butter
1lb. powdered sugar
six eggs
1 ts vanilla
1lb graham crackers
1 1/2 pint of whipping cream
1 cup pecans
Cream butter and add powdered sugar a little at a time.
seperate yolks of eggs from the whites, and add yolks one at a time.
Mix throughly after each yolk is added.
Fold in beaten whites.
Add Vanilla.
Whip the cream and add.
Mix in the pecans.
Roll fine with a rolling pin.
Crumb the graham crackers.
Use a loaf cake pan.
Use wax paper and fit in pan neatly allowing enough to hang over on each side of the pan so that the cake can be lifted out with paper when ready.
Put a layer of crumbs and a layer of filling. Layer crumbs and filling alternately. Let the last layer of crumbs be on the top.
Put in refrigerator (or use an icebox if you have one)
until cold and it is ready to serve.
When ready, remove from pan by lifting from the ends of the waxed paper, lay on a board, slice and serve.
We tried it and it was yummy. Later on I'll print Hattie's Fried Chicken a la Maryland and her recipe for Dumplings.
Mongo
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Stella your answer of Ingrid Bergman is corect. Congratulations!
Mongo
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I just watched a movie on Showtime with Jennifer Jones and it was trash. It was called "Cult of the Damned" made in 1969. Jones plays a mother who drinks, pops pill and is a tramp. One of her lines is "I made 30 stag films and never faked an ****". Could you believe this coming from Jennifer Jones? Although she looked lovely she was out of place here.
Its a shame that many former stars resort to such junk as did Ray Milland in "The Thing with Two Heads", Bette Davis in "Wicked Stepmother", Joan Crawford in "Trog", Joseph Cotten in "Island of Mutations", Tallulah Bankhead in "Die! Die! My Darling", Ida Lupino in "The Devil's Rain", Lana Turner in "Persecution" and Veronica Lake in "Flesh Feast".
Can anyone think of any others?
Mongo
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Afternoon Trivia:
Which actress was the movie "The Farmer's Daughter" set for before Loretta Young got the part?
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Lon you are correct with todays trivia question. Congratulations!
Why do they do it?
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Classicsfan you did make your post clear to me and I was agreeing with you although I sometimes get muddled in my explanations.
By the way I also saw Crawford in the TV show "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" in episode "Eyes" when there is a blackout. It was directed by noneother than Steven Spielberg.
I also liked her in "Strait-Jacket" (1964) especially when she was all jazzed up as the good time dame with the jingling spangles. She still looked damn good.
Another star who went out in style was Marlene Dietrich who is my guilty pleasure. Loved her as the Gypsy in "Golden Earrings" with Ray Milland and many others.
Mongo