MilesArcher
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Miriam Hopkins
Tony Orlando And Dawn Sang "______ A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree" Gene Autry Starred In "The Strawberry _______" Preston Sturges Wrote The Screenplay For "The ________ And The Glory"
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Thanks, sixes. Here's one for this weekend. Irving Berlin's song "Easter Parade" was the title song to a 1948 movie with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland that will be shown on TCM on Easter Sunday. In 1942, it had been featured in "Holiday Inn", another film featuring Fred Astaire, and sung by Bing Crosby to Marjorie Reynolds. We all know this, I'm sure. What you may not know was that it was also performed in a movie prior to "Holiday Inn", and prior to that it had originated in a Broadway show. Irving Berlin needed a holiday themed song for the show and he went back to a song that he had written in the World War I era and took the refrain from that song, changed the words, added a verse, and called it "Easter Parade". This will be a multi-part question. What was the first movie that it was featured in and who sang it in the film? What was the Broadway show that it had been featured in and who were the performers who introduced it on stage? And finally, what was the song that Irving Berlin had originally written that the melody was adapted from? Please try to answer before "Easter Parade" is shown on Sunday, because Robert Osborne may give the answers to these questions then.
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Are you John Garfield?
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Dorothy Dandridge
"You Are Love" Lyrics From "Show Boat" Include "You Are Spring, ______ Of Romance Unfurled" She Was The Original "Gidget" Tom Lester's Role On "Green Acres" + Old Song "Be Sure It's True When You Say I Love You, It's A ______ To Tell A Lie"
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Reed
Gladys, Alice, and Jackie
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Could it be "The Man On The Flying Trapeze"?
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Is it "Comrade X"?
(I posted this answer to the wrong thread earlier.)
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Is it "Comrade X"?
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Is it Katherine Thalberg, the daughter of Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg?
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I think you are referring to "Undercurrent" which was made in 1946. It starred Robert Taylor as the husband and Robert Mitchum as the brother, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli.
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Is it "Mr. Robinson Crusoe"?
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Yes, forever to be known as Col. Klinck. I actually met a relative of Werner Klemperer some years ago while playing golf on Cape Cod. Elsa Klemperer was a very pleasant older woman with a freckled weather beaten face. When she introduced herself, I asked if she was related to Werner and indeed she was. As we played nine holes together, I found out a lot about Werner and his father, Otto. Apparently, Otto was a world renowned symphony conductor. Werner had finished "Hogan's Heroes" a few years before, but was still working in television doing guest star roles. She said that it was funny that Werner had tried hard to lose his German accent so he would be a more versatile actor, but it was his accent and his name that helped him get his best known acting jobs. I don't think Elsa is with us anymore, she would probably be around 100, but I must say that I enjoyed our afternoon together. Now it's your turn, finance.
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Thanks, Cujas. My bio reads a lot like Efrem Zimbalist's. My father was a well known conductor of classical music in Europe and my mother was a soprano. We were Jews who were forced to flee Europe when Hitler came to power in the 1930's. I was just a young teenager at the time. I finished high school in the U.S. and went on to college as well. I served in the U.S. army in World War II. I followed in my parents footsteps and became a concert violinist and pianist, sometimes appearing in orchestras conducted by my father. I also sang in some operas. I had become interested in drama in college and decided to also pursue an acting career. In the 1950's, I did a lot of TV work and a few character roles in movies. I was in Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man", as well as a few episodes of his TV series. I was in a couple of movies with Cary Grant. My big film was "Judgement At Nuremberg". In the sixties, I landed a role in a long running TV series for which I'll always be remembered. I agreed to do it only if I could play the character as a buffoon, because he represented something that was reprehensible to me. I guess I was to be forever typecast. Years later I voiced that character in an episode of "The Simpsons". Do you know me?
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Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon
Barney Rubble's Wife Sharon Farrell Starred In "Night Of The _____et" A Group Of Cub Scouts Is Usually Led By A _____ Mother David Rose ______ His Orchestra In "The Cowboys" The Part Of Cimarron Was Played By ________ Martinez He Was Drago In"Rocky IV" Rodgers And Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" Was Based On The Play "______ Grow The Lilacs"
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Richard Widmark - Father-in-Law
Peter Lawford
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Jennings
Beryl and Tara
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Are you Efrem Zimbalist Jr.?
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Is it Tina Aumont, the daughter of Jean Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez?
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The earlier photo is Patsy Kelly and George E. Stone in "Road Show". The other one looks like Edmond O'Brien in "White Heat". Am I right?
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Merv Griffin - Cousin
Don Johnson
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The Story Of G.I.Joe
Robert E. Lee after his surrender
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Scott
David and Christie
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Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster
He Played The Male Lead In "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" He Sang "Like A Rubber Ball, I'll Come Bouncing Back To You" In The Army, When A Man Is Wounded, They Send For A Medic, In The Navy They Send For A _____________" "Yours, Mine, _______ Ours" Greeting Card Company Slogan "When You _______ Enough To Send The Very Best" She Played The Mom On "Good Times" Jefferson's Vice President + Alan Ladd Film "The Man In The _______"
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Is it "Hello, Dolly" with Gene Kelly directing, Roger Edens as executive producer and Lenny Hayton doing orchestrations? I couldn't name the other Freed unit members.
GENERAL TRIVIA QUESTION THREAD
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Well, you got most of it. It was sung by Don Ameche in the 1938 film "Alexander's Ragtime Band", which starred Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, and someone who would have a long association with Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman. If you have followed my posts on these boards recently, you know that Clifton Webb was a song and dance man on Broadway for years before he became familiar to movie audiences in films like "Laura", Cheaper By The Dozen", and "Mr. Belvedere Rings The Bell". Irving Berlin also took part of the verse melody of "Smile And Shoe Your Dimple" and used it in "Cheek To Cheek" for the movie "Top Hat". In case your wondering about "Smile And Show Your Dimple", here are the words to the refrain.
Smile and show your dimple,
You'll find it's very simple.
You can think of something comical
In a very clever way.
Chase away the wrinkle,
Sprinkle just a twinkle,
Light your face up,
Just brace up and smile
You know the tune. Now, everybody sing! Oh, and as Paul Harvey used to say, "Now you know the REST of the story! It's your turn, finance.