Kid Dabb
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Right on Gipper! You're hanging in there
Who's this?
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I was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1880 - I passed away in1946
I'm a famous actor, juggler and writer. I so deeply resented intrusions on
my privacy by curious tourists walking up the driveway to my Los Angeles
home that I would hide in the shrubs by my house and fire BB pellets at the
trespassers' legs.
I married a fellow vaudevillian, chorus girl on April 8, 1900. Our son, was
born in 1904. I had another son, born in 1917 with my girlfriend who was
killed in a bar fight several years later, leaving our son to be raised in foster
care.
I started as a juggler in vaudeville, appearing in the makeup of a genteel
"tramp" with a scruffy beard and shabby tuxedo. He juggled cigar boxes,
hats, and a variety of other objects in what appeared to have been a unique
and fresh act, parts of which are reproduced in some of my films.
I confined my act to pantomime so that I could play international theaters.
I toured several continents and became a world-class juggler and an
international star. I worked bits of juggling into many of my films.
When I was young my mother would sit with me on the front steps and
mumble comments about the passersby. One of my films included a silent
version of the porch sequence which would one day be expanded in a
sound film of 1934.
I often contributed to the scripts of my films, under pseudonyms.
I was a staunch atheist; despite that, or perhaps because of it, I also
studied theology, and owned several volumes on the subject as well as
more than one Bible.
I also guested occasionally on radio as late as 1946.
I was the original choice for the title role in a very, very famous film. One
rumor was that I believed the role was too small. Another alleged that I
was asking too much money: my asking price was $100,000, while MGM
offered $75,000.
As I lay in bed dying, my longtime and final love went outside and turned
the hose onto the roof, so as to allow me to hear for one last time my
favorite sound—the sound of falling rain
I was cremated and my ashes interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial
Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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Wallace Beery - Got it, man. Nice hit musicalnovelty.
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*186* (did you hear something?)
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Well, that only lasted a few hours. The next day a nasty little virus wiped out my OS (Windows XP). In a freak coincidence, my computer was hit by a power surge (lightning storm) at the same time.
Just lucky I guess
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Gotcha on that one Gipper. It is none other than Lex Barker. Nice pick mudskipper.
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*185*
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*184*I..I..I'm not getting in th.. th.. thATthing. He didn't tel m..m..mme whatitwasonly I saw him gesturing to Robert. Wild gestures. Arms f..f..flAILing. Horrible.
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Ha! That was too easy Gipper. Good show.
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184 (somebody stop me)
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Nice, finance. Correctamundo
Your turn
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Man, you're good. *On the Beach* is correct.
Your turn 'stick
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Franklin? Desi Arnaz, yes. Nice shot.
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For me, pre-1950 are my classic films. I pick these mostly because, as a child, I grew upwatching these every afternoon on our b&w tv. My impression of post-1949 films is theymoved to a more reality/gritty style. One example would be The Blackboard Jungle. It's afine movie but shatters my idealism (escapism). A straight line cannot be drawn throughproduction years and I do feel there are some films post-1949 I feel should be included inmy classic era, such as; Father of the Bride, Monkey Business and White Christmas. Thisis highly subjective. Had I grown up a decade later my classics would surely reflect it.
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Don Ameche. Nice. You got it.
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*183*
These weren't just any bugs. These wore hats, and what they did to themayor of Paris was unthinkable. -
A professor is brought before a board of inquiry. He and his friend are beingclosely examined - threatened by accusations from a jealous colleague.
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Just to keep it moving until ScrewballDame returns - may I ?*Fishing, an automobile race, and poison.*
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Got it. Your thread.
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I will turn the thread over to thestick
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Name the film
This film premiered in San Francisco on May 9, 1958 at the Stage Door Theater at Mason and
Geary (now the Ruby Skye nightclub). Its performance at the box office was average, and reviews were mixed. Variety said the film .... was too long and slow for "what is basically only a ....murder mystery". Similarly, the Los Angeles Times admired the scenery, but found the plot "too long" and felt it "bogs down" in "a maze of detail"; scholar Dan Aulier says that this review "sounded the tone that most popular critics would take with the film". However, the Los Angeles Examiner loved it, admiring the "excitement, action, romance, glamor and crazy, off-beat love story". As well, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther also gave this film a positive review by explaining that "the secret of the film is so clever, even though it is devilishly far-fetched." Additional reasons for the mixed response initially were that this director's fans were not pleased with his departure from the romantic-thriller territory of earlier films and that the mystery was solved with one-third of the film left to go.
The director blamed the film's failure on the lead male actor , at age 50, looking too old to play a convincing love interest for the actress, who at 25 was half his age at the time.
This film was removed from circulation in 1973 and re-released in 1983 and then on home video in October 1984, it achieved an impressive commercial success and laudatory reviews. Similarly adulatory reviews were written for the October 1996 showing of a restored print in 70mm and DTS sound at the Castro Theater in San Francisco.
Do You Know Me? II: 1900 - 1970
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Nope. But hey 'flash, ya almost got it. You could have almost spelled it Drunk enfield. Since this ain't the old Jeopardy (pre Alex) we're gonna let you have it.
I'll take red noses for 1000 Alex
Answer: Who was {size:11px}William Claude Dukenfield
CORRECT FOR $1000 !!!!!
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