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Thanks, RobinsHood. When you said slime-ball villain, I thought of him. Now: I was originally from Arkansas and I started singing with bands in the midwest. It was while working in Pittsburgh that I was "discovered" and brought to Hollywood. After a couple of small roles, I landed a pretty big part in a very popular musical, although I did not play the lead. The movie was so successful that the studio quickly cast me in several more musicals. I did an occasional supporting role, but I generally played the lead from then on. Most of my films were quite popular, despite some rather shallow and predictable boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl plots. In the middle of this very busy stretch, I was in a non-musical with an all star cast. I was mis-cast and I knew it, so I went back to musicals for a few more years. As time went on, I knew that I couldn't keep playing those same roles for much longer. I was in my thirties and still playing college students. I changed studios and insisted in my contract that if I did one musical then they would let me star in a very serious dramatic film. It worked, and now my career started to take off in the way that I had hoped for. In the next ten years, I did a variety of roles, including serious dramas and light comedies. I got into television as a producer and I did a little acting. I formed my own production company with some show biz friends, and again my career had taken a successful turn. I also did some directing. I directed a movie with location filming in Utah, not far from where the government had done some atomic testing. Within twenty five years, almost half of the cast and crew had developed cancer, and half of those folks, including the star, had died from it. I, myself, was one of them. I died seven years after the movie was made. In my career, I worked with the greats and the near greats. I worked with James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Abbott and Costello, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Claire Trevor, Alice Faye, and many more. I was married for a while to a versatile star of both dramas and musicals. After we divorced, I married another versatile star. Do you know me?
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It was the audience sing-a-long that I was looking for. Your thread, finance!
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Are you Dan Duryea?
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Danielle Darrieux
A Cloth Spread Over A Coffin Eva Marie Saint Appeared In " Because Of ________-Dixie" Composer Of The Song "A Boy Named Sue" "My Friend Irma" Marked The Screen Debut Of Dean Martin ____ _______ Lewis Eddie Cantor Favorite " ______, She's Making Eyes At Me" He Sang "Tiny Bubbles" French Film "Claire's _______"
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How about Mr. Moto with Peter Lorre? I would also like to see some 'Our Gang " shorts. Also, the "Boyfriends" series from the forties as well as some of the "Mickey McGuire" shorts with Mickey Rooney. Maybe they could get some of the "Buster Brown" shorts for Silent Sunday Night.
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Dana Andrews
Actress Sterling, Who Was In "The High And The Mighty" Alan Ladd Starred In "The Man In The ________" Dorothy Gish Appeared In "Our Hearts Were Young And ________" + "Neither A Borrower ______ A Lender Be"
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Previously, for "The Last Two Hours Of The Day", I was going for "10 To Midnight", a Charles Bronson movie.
Now try this:
A Three Hour Lunch Break
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Could that be Minerva Urecal?
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Are you sure Claire Bloom was in "Road House"? I don't recall seeing her in it.
HIGH SIERRA
Cornell Wilde, Ida Lupino
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The Major And The Minor
By the way, in my previous post, I probably should have said "Youngster From The Queen City Of The Ohio River", I was referring to "The Cincinnati Kid". Cleveland, once called "the mistake on the lake", is on the Cuyahoga river. That river is famous because some years ago, it was so polluted that it caught on fire.
The Last Two Hours Of The Day
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Correct, Robinshood. Alexis Smith won the 1972 Tony for "Follies". She was married to Craig Stevens. It's your thread.
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The Carradines are correct. Please take your turn.
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Morgan
Eve, I should have known Michael and James were Dunn. I think I may have posted those same names some months ago.
Jack and Marjorie
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Thanks, finance. Do you know me? I was born in Canada, but I moved to California with my family at an early age. When I was in college, I took singing and dancing classes and joined the drama club. I was spotted by a talent scout and offered a contract at a major studio. Well, it wasn't quite as glamorous as it sounds. I was given a few small parts for a while, then I got my big break working with Errol Flynn. All of a sudden, my career seemed to take off. I was cast in several more movies with Flynn. I was also the leading lady for people like Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. I got to sing in one movie with Errol Flynn, but when I was cast in a movie with Bing Crosby, I was the second female lead and did not get to sing. During World War II, I married a handsome actor who later had a very big television career in the fifties. Errol Flynn was our best man. Unlike other Hollywood couples, we stayed married until my death, nearly fifty years later. I was rather tall, 5'9", in fact, too tall for some of the leading men of the day. In one movie recently shown on TCM, I remarked that I always thought of myself as too tall. My movie career went well all through the forties and fifties. In the sixties, I decided to give Broadway a chance. Now, I had a whole new career. In the seventies, I received a Tony award for the leading actress in a musical. After all those years in movies, people finally realized that I could sing and dance! I did some TV work in the eighties and early nineties. My final film was released after my death. Do you know me?
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Yes, it is Jack Pennick. He had quite an interesting life! Now that Charlie is going away, I'm reminded of the movie and musical play "Where's Charley?" Ray Bolger was the star of both, and his rendition of the song "Once In Love With Amy" became a fan favorite. What was so unique about the way he performed this particular song?
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It looks like we have "Shack Out On 101" for Eve, and "There's a Girl In My Soup" for Finance.
The Youngster From The Queen City Of The Ohio
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Angela Lansbury - Not too tricky!
Tim Robbins Played Pitcher Nuke La________ "_____ A Lonely Place" Alan Hale Played ________ John In Two Robin Hood Movies + Joseph Wambaugh Wrote "The Onion ________"
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Craig fits, but if it wasn't Craig, was it Fox?
Jon, Jerri, and Monty
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It's funny. Shirley Temple made a movie called "Little Miss Marker", where she was passed back and forth among small time Broadway gamblers. Does that sound a little like Sybil Jason in "Little Big Shot"? Then Shirley was in "Captain January" with Guy Kibbee as a crusty old lighthouse keeper. Sybil Jason was in "The Captain's Kid" with Guy Kibbee as a crusty old sea captain. It was very obvious what Warner Bros. was trying to do. Sybil was cute and talented, but not as cute and talented as Shirley.
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Where Love Has Gone
How monarchs get a small boat across a lake.
Do You Know Me?
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