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Born this day December 20th:
Co-star/support John Hillerman is 71. In "The Last Picture Show", What's Up Doc?", "Paper Moon", "Blazing Saddles", "Chinatown", "The Day of the Locust", etc.
Was a regular on the TV series "Magnum P.I.".
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Co-star/Supporting actress Mala Powers is 72 today.
Director Ida Lupino selected her for the lead in "Outrage". Also in "Cyrano de Bergerac" as Roxane, "City Beneath the Sea", "The City That Never Sleeps", "Tammy and the Bachelor"
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Lead/co-star/support Audrey Totter is 85.
She appeared in "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Lady in the Lake", "The Unsuspected", "Alias Nick Beal" with Milland, "The Set-Up", "Tension" (a real bitc-), "The Blue Veil", "The Saxon Charm" etc. Did some TV work.
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Posthumous
Lead/co-star Dennis Morgan (85) 1908-1994.
The smiling Irishman was in "The Fighting 69th", "Kitty Foyle", "In This Our Life", "The Hard Way" with Lupino,
"The Desert Song" (had a rich baritone voice), "Christmas in Connecticut", "My Wild Irish Rose", "This Woman is Dangerous" with Crawford.
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Co-star/support Albert Deckker (62) 1905-1968.
In "Marie Antoinette", "Beau Geste", "Strange Cargo", "Dr. Cyclops" (amazing performance), "Seven Sinners" with Dietrich, "**** Tonk" with Lana, "Wake Island", "The Killers" with Lancaster, "Gentlemens Agreement", "East of Eden", "All My Sons", "Suddenly Last Summer" with Hepburn etc. He accidentally hanged himself?
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Superior lead actress Irene Dunne (91) 1898-1990.
The five time Oscar nominee (never won) was in "Cimarron", "Back Street", "Show Boat", "Theodora Goes Wild", "The Awful Truth", "Love Affair", "Penny Serenade", "A Guy Named Joe", "Life with Father", "I Remember Mama" etc. She left the screen in 1952.
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Endearing character actor Charley Grapewin (86) 1869-1956.
In over 100 films he is in "Alice Adams", "The Petrified Forest", "Libeled Lady", "The Good Earth", "Captains Courageous", "Three Comrades", "The Wizard of Oz" (Uncle Henry), "The Grapes of Wrath", "Tobacco Road", "They Died with Their Boots On" etc.
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Let's put this game on hold since I will be watching "Christmas Vacation" with the Griswolds.
Laughter is good for the soul.
Mongo
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Who's Jonathan Brandis?
Mongo
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I'm back and I made it in one piece. In any event it was fun and I got into the holiday spirit.
By the way Stella I lived in up-state New York for many years and I know what COLD weather is like. Brrrrrrrrr and I don't miss it at all.
Shall we have a go at a game?
Clue # 1 A stagecoach
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The lovely Capucine was a joy to watch in "North to Alaska" with John Wayne. They made a good match. Also enjoyed her in "A Walk on the Wild Side" with Laurence Harvey and Barbara Stanwyck.
One wonders what could have been so bad in order for her to take her own life.
Mongo
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And don't forget where the saying "In like Flynn" came from. One guess?
Mongo
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Forgive me I have to go out into the wilds of Christmas shopping in a bit. Off to the Florida (cold here today) malls and fend for myself.
I'll check in later if I'm still in one piece.
Mongo
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"Gigi"?
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"Libel"?
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"Summer and Smoke"?
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Oh no. What the heck is a bon vivant? I know what bon bons are (I used to eat them) I think.
"Moulin Rouge"?
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"To Each His Own"?
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"The Citadel"?
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"Watch on the Rhine"?
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"Goodbye Mr. Chips"?
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"The Cardinal"?
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Stella you are bright eyed and bushytailed this morning (whatever that means).
Congratulations.
Mongo
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Not yet Sandy.
Clue # 4 An endearing boy
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Born this day December 19th:
Lead/co-star Cicely Tyson is 70.
Oscar nominated for "Sounder" she was also in "The Blue Bird" with Liz Taylor, "Bustin Loose", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "The Concorde: Airport '79". Won awards for her sensitive TV movies. Was married to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.
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Co-star/support Edmund Purdom is 79.
Appeared in "Julius Caesar", "The Student Prince", "The Egyptian", "The Prodical" with Lana, "Strange Intruder" with Ida Lupino, "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" etc. Was married to Linda Christian.
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Posthumous
Lead/co-star/support Ralph Richardson (80) 1902-1983.
Was in "The Ghoul" with Karloff, "Things to Come", "The Citadel" with Roz Russell, "The Four Feathers", "The Fallen Idol", "The Heiress" (Oscar nominee as Catherine's father), "Exodus", "Long Day's Journey Into Night" with Hepburn, "Dr. Zhivago" etc.
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Character actress Mabel Paige (74) 1879-1954.
In "Lucky Jordan" with Ladd, "Murder, He Says" with MacMurray, "Johnny O'Clock" with Dick Powell, "Someone to Remember" (grand touching performance in underrated
film), "Roseanna McCoy", "Houdini" her last. On TV she sold Lucy the dress shop.
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Mongo
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Same here Stella. My neck is bent from painting the ceiling so I will also chill out.
Mongo
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Clue # 3 A mysterious stranger
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Clue # 2 A busybody
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I never saw that movie. My next guess was gonna be "Black Magic" which I know nothing about.
Clue # 1 An old codger
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"THE BLACK ROSE"?
~*~Classic Film 21 Questions~*~
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Clue # 2 Outlaws