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Stella there is no stopping you. Congratulations!
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OK classicsfan lets give it a go.
Clue # 1 A desperate man
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Born this day December 27th:
Co-star/supporting actor John Amos is 64.
In "The Worlds Greatest Athlete", "Touched by Love", "The Beastmaster", "American Flyers", "Coming to America", "Lock Up", "The Players Club" etc. Was is the TV series "Good Times" and mini-series "ROOTS".
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Co-star/support Tommy Rall is 74.
Appeared in "The North Star" w/ Dana Andrews, "Song of Russia", "Kiss Me Kate", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" as Brother Frank aka Frankincense, "My Sister Eileen", ""Merry Andrew", "Funny Girl" (cameo), "Pennies from Heaven" etc. He left the screen in 1988.
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Supporting actress Dorris Bowden is 88.
In Always Goodbye" w/ Stanwyck, "Down on the Farm", "Drums Along the Mohawk" w/ Fonda, "The Grapes of Wrath" as Fonda's sister Rosasharn, "Jennie" w/ George Montgomery, "The Moon is Down" w/ Lee J. Cobb. She left the screen in 1943.
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Posthumous
Supporting actor/pianist Oscar Levant (65) 1906-1972.
Comedy relief in "Kiss the Boys Goodby", "Humoresque",
"Romance on the High Seas", "The Barkleys of Broadway",
"An American in Paris", "O. Henry's Full House", "The Band Wagon" etc.
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Supreme movie star Marlene Dietrich (90) 1901-1992.
In "The Blue Angel", "Blonde Venus", "The Scarlet Empress", "Destry Rides Again", "Manpower", "Kismat", "Golden Earrings", "Stage Fright", "Witness for the Prosecution", "Touch of Evil", "Judgment at Nuremberg" etc. Received praise and medals for entertaining US troops during the war.
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Exceptional character actor Sydney Greenstreet (74) 1879-1954.
In only about 23 films including "The Maltese Falcon", "Across the Pacific", "Casablanca", "Passage to Marseille", "Mask of Dimitrious", "Conflict", "Christmas in Connecticut", "Devotion", "Ruthless", "The Velvet Touch", "Flamingo Road", "Malaya" his last.
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Mongo
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Saturday's Question:
In "Key Largo" what song was Claire Trevor forced to sing in order to get a drink?
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Stella your as sharp as a razor. Congratulations!
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What more can we say guitarmark? We sat and watched with an ache in our hearts as each of the late performers faded in and out on the TV screen, some greats, near greats and those that didn't quite catch the brass ring.
I recall we discussed the "In Memoriam" in detail due to the song that accompioned the piece which I believe is the same song for 2003.
Always a well done segment on TCMs part which most members do appreciate.
May they all rest in peace.
Mongo
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Afternoon Trivia:
In what Oscar nominated film of the 1940s was the song "Mam'selle" featured?
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Stella it is indeed Elisha Cook Jr. Congratulations!
By the way just today I posted his birthday on the Happy Birthday thread. He died at age 91 and he was certainly one of a kind.
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Right you are stlgal. I did read that he was quite an author with many books under his belt. No doubt Allen was a Jack of all trades in the entertainment business.
Mongo
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I recall a similar discussion that we had on the boards about a year ago regarding the movie "Babes in Arms" (1939) with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.
Busby Berkeley staged a minstrel number with Rooney and Garland in black face that was an absolute jaw dropper.
There were those that thought the number should be deleted after TCM aired it while others praised it.
Some said if we didn't have numbers like that on film, we would never know how it was back then.
The number was wonderful and Rooney magnificent strutting his stuff to "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee".
Could be one of the reasons he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in the film.
Mongo
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Born this day December 26th:
Supporting actress Kathleen Crowley is 72.
In "The Silver Whip" w/ Robert Wagner, ""The Farmer Takes a Wife" w/ Betty Grable, "Sabre Jet" w/ Robert Stack, "Target Earth", "The Female Jungle", "The Quiet Gun" w/ Forrest Tucker, "The Rebel Set", Downhill Racer" etc.
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Lead/co-star Richard Widmark is 89 today.
In "Kiss of Death" (threw Mildred Dunnock down a flight of stairs in a wheelchair), "Road House" w/ Lupino, "Yellow Sky" w/Peck, "Down to the Sea in Ships", "Panic in the Streets", "No Way Out", "Don't Bother to Knock" w/ Monroe, "Pickup on South Street", "Broken Lance" w/ Tracy, "The Alamo" w/ Wayne,
"Judgment at Nuremberg", "Murder on the Orient Express", "Coma" etc. Widowed after 55 years he has remarried.
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Co-star/support/composer Steve Allen (78) 1921-2000.
Began films in the 1950s in "I'll Get by" w/ Haver, "Warning Shot" w/ Lillian Gish, "The Benny Goodman Story" w/ Donna Reed, "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?" w/ Doris Day, etc. Was a longtime TV host, wrote over 7,000 songs. Was married to Jayne Meadows.
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Co-star/supporting actor Elisha Cook Jr. (91) 1903-1995.
In over 100 films since the 1930s this slightly built, jittery, pop-eyed actor was in "They Won't Forget", "Tin Pan Alley", "The Maltese Falcon" as Wilmer, "I Wake Up Screaming", "Ball of Fire", "Dillinger", "The Big Sleep", "Shane" he got blasted into the mud by gunslinger Jack Palance, "Trial", "The Killing", "Baby Face Nelson", "Emperor of the North Pole" etc.
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Mongo
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Close anough antar. Congratulations!
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Addition:
Superior actress Sissy Spacek is 53.
She starred in "Badlands", "Carrie", "Coal Miner's Daughter" (Oscar win), "Raggedy Man", "Missing", "The River", "Crimes of the Heart", "Night Mother" with Anne Bancroft, "JFK", "In the Bedroom" etc.
Mongo
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And a Merry Christmas to all you guys too!
I'm off to my second feast of the day, in some new clothes, which the buttons will most likely pop off of by the end of Christmas day. Bloat-burp-ugh.
Mongo
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Afternoon Trivia:
In "The Miracle on 34th. Street" why did Kris Kringle sleep with his beard laying over the blankets instead of under the blankets?
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Stella you have the correct answer in todays trivia question. Congratulations and Merry Christmas to you.
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Since I won't be home on Christmas day I will post the birthdays for those born on Christmas December 25th:
Co-star/comic Alan King is 76.
In "Hit the Deck", "Miracle in the Rain", "The Helen Morgan Story", "Bye Bye Braverman, "The Anderson Tapes< "Enemies: A Love Story", "Casine" etc.
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Former child star Billy Watson is 80.
In "The Little Minister" w/ Hepburn, "The Plough and the Stars" w/ Stanwyck, "In Old Chicago" w/ Alice Faye, "Young Mr. Lincoln" w/ Fonda, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" w/ Stewart etc. Brother of the incredible child actor Bobs Watson.
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Co-star/support Tony Martin is 91 today.
In "Pigskin Parade" w/ Garland, "Banjo on my Knee", "Ziegfeld Girl", "The Big Store" w/ Marx Bros., "Casbah" w/ Boyer, "Two Tickets to Broadway", "Easy to Love", "Hit the Deck" etc. Was married to Alice Faye. Current wife is Cyd Charisse.
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Co-star/supporting actor Barton MacLane (66) 1902-1969.
In 150 films including "Black Fury", "G Men", "You Only Live Once", "The Prince and the Pauper", "High Sierra", "Come Live with Me", "Manpower" w/ Dietrich, "The Maltese Falcon", "In This Our Life", "The Big Street" tripped Lucy down the stairs, "The Spanish Main", "The Glenn Miller Story" etc. Was on TVs "I Dream of Jeannie".
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Legendary movie star Humphrey Bogart (57) 1899-1957.
In "The Petrified Forest", "Marked Woman", "Dead End", "Crime School", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Dark Victory", "They Drive by Night", "High Sierra", "The Maltese Falcon", "Casablanca", "To Have and Have Not", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Key Largo", "The African Queen", "The Caine Mutiny", "Sabrina", "The Harder They Fall" his last.
Married four times including widow Lauren Bacall.
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Mongo
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Afternoon Trivia:
Question: What does Santa usually say when he greets someone?
Answer: MERRY CHRISTMAS! And HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL THE MEMBERS ON THE BOARDS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Also GOD BLESS ALL OUR MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING TO KEEP US SAFE FROM THE TERRORISM THAT IS EVIDENT.
GOD BLESS US ALL EVERYONE!
MONGO
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samkqboro you are correct with your answer to today's trivia question. Congratulations!
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Pallete was also a bigot. While making a movie with Preminger a scene called for him to be seated at a table with a black actor. When he was directed to do so he refused saying he wouldn't be seated next to a ni--er.
He was fired and when word spread of the incident his career went down hill from there.
Mongo
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Born this day December 24th:
Posthumous
Supporting actress/dancer Carol Haney (39) 1924-1964.
She danced her way into "Wonder Man" w/Danny Kaye, "On the Town", ""Summer Stock" w/ Garland, "Tea for Tow", "Kiss Me Kate" and swell in "The Pajama Game" performing "Steam Heat". She as assistant choreographer to Gene Kelly in "On the Town", "Singin' in the Rain" and "An American in Paris". Was married to Larry Blyden.
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Ultra beautiful movie star Ava Gardner (67) 1922-1990.
Appeared in "Ghost on the Loose" w/ East Side Kids, "The Killers" w/ Lancaster, "One Touch of Venus", "The Great Sinner" w/ Peck, "My Forbidden Past", "Show Boat", "Mogambo" (Oscar nominee), "On the Beach", "Night of the Iguana", "Earthquake" etc. Was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra.
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Producer/director Howard Hughs (70) 1905-1976.
"The Outlaw" w/ Jane Russell, "Hell's Angels", "The Front Page", "Scarface" w/ Muni, "His Kind of Woman", "Underwater!" etc. Millionaire owned RKO and was considered the world's greatest womanizer. Married to Jean Peters and possibly to Terry Moore.
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Exceptional director Michael Curtiz (75) 1886-1962.
At the helm in "20,000 Years in Sing Sing", "Mystery of the Wax Museum", "Black Fury", "Captain Blood", "Marked Woman", "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Four Daughters", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "The Sea Hawk", "The Sea Wolf", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Casablanca", "Roughly Speaking", "Mildred Pierce", "Life with Father", "Young Man witha Horn", "White Christmas", "The Comancheros" (his last).
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Mongo
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An appealing, pretty actress by the name of Madlyn Rhue died last week at the age of 68.
She appeared in the films "Operation Peticoat" with Cary Grant, "The Ladies' Man" with Jerry Lewis, "A Majority of One" with Roz Russell and was hilarious as Secretary Schwartz in a scene with Spencer Tracy in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
She also starred and guest starred in close to 100 TV shows. Unfortunately she contacted MS in the 1970s which progressed throughout the 1980s and '90s. At a time when she was in a jam concerning health coverage it was Angela Lansbury who came to the rescue. Since she had guested on "Murder, She Wrote" once before Miss Lansbury found out if she was a regular on the show she would have Health Insurance which was a blessing to Miss Rhue.
Thus she played character Jean O'Neal on the series.
In October Miss Rhue entered the Motion Picture and Television Fund Campus Hospital where she died on December 16th. She was indeed a fighter to the very end.
Mongo
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I read this on the People page recently.
Hope Lange was once asked how she would sescribe working with Bette Davis in "Pocketful of Miracles" and with Joan Crawford in "The Best of Everything" she replied "Formidable", then muttered under her breath, "bit--es".
Also on this thread her age is given at 70 while many other sources say 72.
Mongo
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Very touching stella and plenty of food for thought. Our
prayers are with those guys and gals over there and God bless them all.
I was also impressed with Time magazines Person of the Year The American Soldiers. A fine choice indeed.
Mongo
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