feaito
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Lights of New York, which starred the sister of Drew Barrymore's grandmother, Helene Costello?
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Thanks Kimbo.
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Totally stumped....Robert Rossen's The Brave Bulls?
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Clifton Webb is a fave of mine...either in "Laura", "Sitting Pretty" or in this one, "Cheaper by the Dozen"....opposite ever-lovely Myrna Loy...
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I love Ava Gardner too....but "The Bullfighter & the Lady" is a 1951 Republic Pictures release, produced by John Wayne, in which John Ford also was "involved", directed by the master of 50's western, Bud Boetticher, and it stars Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Katy Jurado and Virginia Grey...an excellent drama!
Ava Gardner starred in the 1957 "The Sun Also Rises" (Fox Movie), based on the Hemingway Novel, set in the 1920's in Pamplona, Spain, with bullfighting in full display...co-starring Tyrone Power, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert....Gardner also starred in another based-upon Hemingway flick, the highly entertaining 1952 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" opposite Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Hildegarde Neff (Kneff)...
The movie here could also be "The Sun Also Rises"??
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The Bullfighter and the Lady?
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Fiesta?
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To the 50 real POWS who were murdered by the Gestapo after their escape?
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Anne Baxter in Carnival Story
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Lou Costello in Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein
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And specifically for MI16?
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He's an Agent of The British Secret Service?
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William Powell starred in "One Way Passage"...a masterpiece by Tay Garnett.
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Thanks Mongo this trivia threads make my day...I've been a happier person since I found these Boards...Before I felt so "alone", when it comes to movie tastes!...My only film buff friend likes late 1960's & 1970's films and Gore/Horror Films mostly.
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Yes MovieJoe thanks very much for all the information and for sharing your personal experiences...."The Golden Girls", what a great show, such good lines, wisecracks...that was witty dialogue...Rue as Blanche Devereaux really excelled, well Estelle Getty, Betty White and Bea Arthur too! They're grand!! Lucky Guy, to have worked with Rue!!!
I'd love to write to Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland...they are both all-time faves!! It also would be wonderful to write to Anita Page, she is another legend.
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Mr. Spencer Tracy in Boys Town
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Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers?
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Mongo is right, Joan Crawford, was exceptional on that count, I read that since her stardom days, she always signed personally all of her stills, and that she had a high regard for her fans, throughout her life, and answered every letter sent to her.
It's so sad that so many classic stars are dead now, I'd been so happy if I had gotten signed stills from Claudette Colbert and Irene Dunne, but they never answered my letters. For me, the value of this stuff is "sentimental". I'd never sell my signed stills, not for "all the money in the world", beacuse they really mean a lot for me, more than money can buy.
Well at least got three stills, sent specifically to me ('cos the others were a gift), and in the ole' romantic way (and for free!).
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Edge you're right, the problem with classic stars' autographs is not what they have signed when they were retired, like the ones you mention, but with the autographed stills, they "supposedly" signed back in their glory days, many of them could have been signed by secretaries, especially committed for that task, thus the importance of buying from serious dealers, when it comes to "Vintage signed portraits" or "Vintage autographs", made in the 1930's, 1940's or 1950's for example. Because it seems that a Lana Turner signed still from let's say 1945, would be more valuable than a Lana Turner signed still from 1987.
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Gimme all those early thirties!!!!!!
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Some specialists may know how to distinguish; I've checked some tips at the website of one of the most respectable dealers of all kinds of memorabilia, letters of historical figures, signed vintage portraits, collectibles, etc...."Profiles in History" www.profilesinhistory.com, they've got catalogs, images, etc.
So I feel that first one has to have money to buy these "vintage" signed stills, and second: you ought to buy this kind of stuff from respected dealers, who guarantee the authenticity of the material.
Someone mentioned that nowadays some stars do not sign their stills, but someone else does....It's no new "practise". In the old days, many stars, had secretaries, who signed stills and answered fan-mail on their behalfs.
I've got 21 vintage stills from the mid 1940's signed by such stars as Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, etc, around 1945-1947, and I know they must be authentic, because they belonged to my country's ambassador in the USA, during that period of time, and they're dedicated to him!!! I've got them as a gift from a dear relative, who bought them many, many years ago at an auction of all his belongings...there was even some correspondence between the ambasador's wife and Dal? or Picasso....
I must say that I compared Bette Davis'signature on the photograph she dedicated to the aforementioned amabassador with the one written on the still she sent to me in the early '80s (some 40 years later), and they're very much alike...
Still, I think, that someone may have the luck of getting a signed photograph from a classic star (Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Debbie Reynolds, Luise Rainer, etc.) if you write to them, with truth, telling them how much you admire their work, how much you've enjoyed their movies, how important they've been in your life....from the bottom of your heart...
I did that as a young lad, and I even had not seen any of Lillian Gish's films, but boy!!...Had I read a lot about her!!, Her work with D.W. Griffith, her masterpieces directed by Sjostrom at MGM, the story about the filming of La Boheme, How she ended her contract with MGM, her way of living, her rise to stardom, etc....I admired her so much, that words came out of my mind & heart, I was 14 or 15 years old....and she sent me back the most greatly dedicated (to me) still I own: For...."with every fond wish and remembrance, Lillian Gish"... the writing shows it was written by a person of some age, so I'm sure it was dear Ms. Gish.
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Victor Mature as Samson in "Samson and Delilah"
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Thanks for the feedback Bracken...you're probably right. And concerning Barbara Eden, you're right, she didn't have a big movie career, mostly supporting roles since the early '6Os, some series and TV Movies, but here in Latin America, her "I dream of Jeannie" series had a lot of success and are object of constant revivals....I'd say that "I dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" are two of the sixties most dear TV series, for audiences, maybe for that magic element? Besides Eden was right for the part, beautiful, charming and funny! Well and after, Larry Hagman had all that success as J.R. in late 70's and early 80's, in "Dallas", the series gained even more success...the same guy more than 10 years ago in such a different roles.
So, being that TV series one of the "pillars" of the current schedule, she's the best choice....The Three Stooges are all death and the luv'ly Liz Montgomery too.
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Wild guess Diamond Horseshoe?
Trivia -- Week of August 23, 2004
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Frank Sinatra in Ocean's Eleven