MilesArcher
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OK, This one shouldn't be too difficult. I was a singer and actress who had previously appeared on Broadway. In my first feature film, I sang a song that became a hit at the time. The song was called "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry". Do you know me and do you know the movie I sang it in?
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OK, Princess, it's your turn now.
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Yes, It's Smiley Burnette. Princess was so close. He played Gene Autry's sidekick, Frog Millhouse, in many movies before Gene entered the army. Republic Studios kept Smiley playing that character with other cowboys in Gene's absence. When Gene returned after the war to finish out his contract, Smiley had moved on to Columbia pictures. In the late forties, Gene established his own production company and made movies and a TV series that featured Pat Buttram as his sidekick. In 1953, Smiley Burnette became available and he and Gene made about half a dozen western movies before they both retired. In the sixties, Smiley was lured back into the business, playing an engineer on the Hooterville Cannonball on "Petticoat Junction". He died of leukemia in 1967.
Smiley Burnette
Good job, Lavender. It's your turn now.
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Sorry Princess. It's not Pat Buttram, although you are in the right neighborhood. Pat Buttram worked with Gene Autry in Gene's TV series, and a few movies, but that was all after World War II. This guy worked with Gene before the war and then they were reunited in the early 1950's.
By the way, Dale's horse was Buttermilk, not Buttercup.
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James Cagney led a campaign against the use of real bullets in movies. In this clip from "The Public Enemy", There are real bullets hitting the building where Cagney is hiding.
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Yes, you are correct, Starliteyes. Frank Morgan will forever be known as "The Wizard Of Oz", but he was in many fine films in his career, including "The Great Ziegfeld", "The Mortal Storm", "The Shop Around The Corner", and "The White Cliffs Of Dover". You may remember Ralph Morgan in films like "The Kennel Murder Case", "The Orient Express", and "Anthony Adverse".
Frank Morgan Ralph Morgan
Good work, Starlit. You get to go next.
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Thanks, Mr. Gorman. Now, do you know me? I was a triple threat entertainer, I could act, sing, and play several musical instruments. However, I lacked leading man looks. I was working on a national radio show called "The Old Barn Dance" in Chicago in the early 1930's. It featured country and western music. I worked with a young fellow from Texas who played guitar and sang . He became the top star on the show and was called to Hollywood to audition for the movies. I went along as part of his back-up band and ended up in movies with him. In time I became his regular sidekick in many films. When he west into the service for World War II, I became a sidekick to several other western stars, After the war, he came back and finished out his contract with the studio, but I had since left and was now with another studio playing sidekick to Charles Starrett in the "Durango Kid" series. Finally, in the early 1950's, I was reunited with my old pal. We were paired in a series of about a half dozen movies. We ended our movie careers as we had begun, together. Years later, I became a regular cast member on a popular TV sitcom with a rural theme. Now, do you know me?
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There were two brothers who were both character actors and their movie careers were both mainly in the 1930's and 1940's. One almost always played kind, gentle souls who could be somewhat irascible at times, but always was on the side of right. His brother, however, played characters who tended to be suspects in crime stories. Sometimes his character was guilty, and sometimes not, but he almost always played a suspect. Most of his movies were grade "B' mysteries or romantic dramas where he played a supporting character. These two brothers bore a resemblance to each other. They are not George Sanders and Tom Conway who, of course, were leading men.
Do you know who these two brothers were?
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I believe you would be John McGiver, who was a character actor in many movies and TV shows. He starred in a TV series called "Many Happy Returns", where he played the head of the complaint department for a large store.
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You are correct, Princess. If you look up his TV history, Bill Cullen was probably on more game shows than anyone as either a panelist or as a host. I was thinking about old game shows when I heard that game show veteran Orson Bean was killed yesterday when he was hit by two cars outside a theater in Venice, California where his wife, actress Alley Mills, was appearing. He was 91.
Nice work, Princess, and quick, too. You're up next.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Next: Nancy Drew: Detective - Bonita Granville
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Thanks, Lavender. Now, one of the regular celebrity panelists on "I've Got A Secret" was also the original host of a long-running game show. Who was this person and what was the other game show?
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Could it be "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" which starred John Astin and Marty Ingels? John Astin, who played the married one, later married Patty Duke. Marty Ingels later married Shirley Jones.
Emmaline Henry played Mrs. Dickens. Here's a clip:
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Yes, the band leader in "Twenty Million Sweethearts" was Ted Fio Rito. In the early 1940's, a young horn player named Carl "Doc" Severinsen joined his band. After leaving for military service, Doc returned, but he then played for several different bands for some years before becoming a member of "The Tonight Show" orchestra, which was led by Skitch Henderson when Johnny Carson took over the show from Jack Paar. Skitch Henderson left after a short time and was replaced by Milton DeLugg, who worked for NBC in a number of musical capacities. When he eventually left, Doc Severinsen was pulled from the band to become the new leader. He stayed until Johnny's retirement.
Nice work, Lavender. You get to go next.
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
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Thanks, Lavender. I wish I could be on the boards more often too, but, as someone once said, sometimes REAL life gets in the way of REEL life.
Now, this next one is a bit of a stretch because it really has nothing to do with the movie that I refer to. If you watched the clip that I posted from "Twenty Million Sweethearts", you saw a band leader who was one of the leading band leaders of the day. Some years after this movie was made, a young man would play in that band before World War II interrupted his musical career. This young musician would go on to become the leader of a band on a long running TV show. Can you name him and the TV show? Here is a hint: He became known for wearing rather gaudy outfits.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Yes, it is Waylon Jennings. He was a twenty-one year old bass guitar player in Buddy Holly's band at the time, who gave up his seat to The Big Bopper. He felt terrible guilt the rest of his life, thinking that he should have died in the crash. He went on to be a leader of what became known as "Outlaw Country"music. He sang the theme song and served as narrator for "The Dukes Of Hazzard" TV series. Here is an audio clip:
Nice work, Lavender. You're up next.
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Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965)
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Sorry Princess. It's not Dion. This man was not yet a star at the time, but later he became a big star in country music. He also sang the theme song and served as narrator for a popular TV series in the late 70's and 80's. At the time of the plane crash, he was a member of Buddy Holly's band, and yes, he felt guilty about the incident for the rest of his life. Now, can you name him?
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In "A Place In The Sun", Montgomery Clift plays the nephew of the wealthy business owner. He also starts out in the mail room of the company.
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I believe it's Doris Day in "My Dream Is Yours'. It was only her second film and the second of three that she made with Jack Carson. It was a remake of "Twenty Million Sweethearts" from 1934 that had starred Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. The original introduced the song "I'll String Along With You", and Doris sings that song in this remake. In the movie, Doris is a widow with a young son. In real life, she had a young son who she often had to leave with his grandmother while she pursued her show biz career. Here's Doris:
Here's Dick and Ginger:
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On 2/3/2020 at 4:20 PM, lavenderblue19 said:
It could be American Bandstand and is. "The Committee" was a nickname given to Bob Clayton and Justine Carrelli, Ken Rossi and Arlene Sullivan who were regulars who danced daily on American Bandstand. These teens received 15,000 Fan Letters weekly! American Bandstand was on tv for 37 years. 1952-1989. Dick Clark hosted beginning in 1956. Good work Miles. Your thread
"it's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to. I'll give it an 85". That's the thing I'll always remember about "American Bandstand". It was on weekdays at 4 PM from Philadelphia. There was a series called "American Dream" that was on in the early 2000's about a family in Philadelphia whose oldest daughter, played by Brittany Snow, wanted to be an "American Bandstand" dancer. They made sure that there were plenty of old songs from that era on the show.
Now, we just had the anniversary of "The Day The Music Died" when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash. There was only room on the plane for three passengers. Another singer gave up his seat to The Big Bopper, whose name was J.P. Richardson, because Richardson had the flu. That way Richardson could get to their destination early and nurse his condition. Who was that now famous singer/musician who gave up his seat?
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Could it be "American Bandstand"?
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It was composed by John Barry with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. It was sung in the movie soundtrack by Shirley Bassey.