fredbaetz
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The Dam Busters-1955 Richard Todd
Fixes Bayonets- 1952 Frank Lovejoy
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lady e Hi, Dorothy was a very busy girl and she was hot. In 1959 alone she guest starred in almost every Warner's TV series, Sugarfoot, 77 Sunset Strip, Colt.45, Hawaiian Eye,Lawman Bronco, plus a lot more other the Warner's, some shows more the one appearance and did two feature films and started her series The Alaskans.You forget how popular she was then....
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Frederic March appeared with Colbert in "Sign of the Cross". Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon was with her in "Cleopatra". both by DeMille... they were only 2 years apart, 1932 and 1934
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The Korean War started in June of 1950 and the peace treaty was signed in July of 1953. So, your math is correct......
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Before "The Roaring 20's" she was in another Warners series called the "The Alaskans" about the gold rush in the 1880's. She co starred with Roger Moore , Ray Denton and Jeff York.It was cancelled after one season and she moved right into "The Roaring 20's". It made it's debut about three months after "The Alaskans" was canceled. A busy girl then....
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Another Clair Trevor/ Glenn Ford pairing is a dandy head em off at the pass western called "The Desperados" co starring Randolph { Chorus please } Scott. This is the very first Columbia feature filmed in color and it looks breath taking. It's a show case for Ford as they were grooming him for bigger roles.There is a stampede scene of horses and Ford is riding in front the the herd,I'm sure he didn't do the entire stunt bit you can see him clearly in at least one scene if his horse had fell it would have been the Late Glenn Ford in 1943. It's not a great Western but a fun one to watch....
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Loved her in "The Great Race" as Lily Olay the saloon singer singing "He Shouldn't A Hadn't A Oughtn't A Swang on me", the girl friend of "Texas Jack" {Larry Storch}
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Thanks for asking. I'm waiting for a more lucrative deal from Warners on a movie/book tie in , with script approval and casting OK. I see a young William Holden and sadly Warnre's see a older Peter Lorre as me . But I'll keep you informed if we reach an agreement.....
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James Mason's Rommel was such a success that 2 years later he reprised his role of Rommel in "The Desert Rats"directed by Robert Wise starring Richard Burton and Robert Newton about the British Army stopping Rommel at Tobruk. A well done if slightly inaccurate film with good performances by all....
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That shot is a publicity shot from "Of Mice and Men" with Steel and Lon Chaney Jr.. That great scene when Steele is punching Lennie [Chaney} in the Face and Chaney grabs Steele's hand in his fist and proceeds to crush it.
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Peter Falk only did two war films. "Anizo" with Robert Mitchum and "Castle Keep" with Burt Lancaster. Neither of these sound like the film you're after. Remember any other stars?
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You can buy "The Unforgiven" on e bay or Amazon for $7.00 plus shipping..
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Hate to bust anyone's bubble, I though it originated with Dr. Mudd also, but the tern was used as early as the 1820's. It's an obsolete variation of mud meaning stupid or an ****. Strikers in London used it as a reference to scabs during strikes. But I prefer the Dr. Mudd story myself....Sorry...
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Besides being a fine actress she was one of the most respected acting instructors in L.A. "Directing the Actors" at USC and also teaching at the AFI.. She was a teenage concert pianist, excelled at painting and sculpture, studied with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler in "Method" acting, worked behind the scenes with many directors like George Stevens on "Diary of Anne Frank". Made her Broadway debut in 1947 in "John Loves Mary" You could call her a true Renaissance Woman.
Her first husband was James Lipton of the "Actors Studio" fame.....
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Yes. Les the producer of the album called me one afternoon at Warners and ask if I could stop by his house in Burbank when I left the studio and I said yes. So I arrive at his place and he answers the door and says' I though you might like to meet someone who Jim { The other producer } bought over and we go into the living room and who's sitting there but Joan Blondell. I'm staring at her and I guess I has a big smile because Les said you look like a kid about to meet Santa Claus, I mumbled something about the prettiest Santa I ever saw and she said "Well are you sweet" or something to that effect and got up to shake my hand. We only spoke a few minutes and she had to leave but she wished us all the best on the albums and was looking forward to hearing them. A few days later I got another call from Les and he said she had sent me a picture to his place and I still have it like I said.......
Edited by: fredbaetz on Apr 29, 2010 1:44 PM
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I'm not sure why the cost had shot up like it has.I know I spent less then ten bucks on my dvd.. I completely agree with you on Heston's and Boone's performances. Guy Stockwell delivers one of his best also. Have you ever heard of any kind of restoration for it. Plus there's been talk of about 50 minutes cut from original version. I've heard this for years and there was ta;k in the 1990's that Heston was going to foot the bill for the restoration, but I've never heard anything else on it. I've gone back to the original reviews { N.Y. Times} and the running time was what the dvd is. So I don't know if this is a urban legend or what....Glad you like "The Unforgiven"post......
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I loved her. She played the wise cracking dame in the pre codes,and in the great Warners musicals was sexy as all get out with those beautiful doll eyes and face, her figure was nice to look at also. In 1926 she won the "Miss Dallas" beauty pageant and came in fourth for Miss America in Atlantic City under the name Rosebud Blondell. But would not change her name to Inez Holmes as Jack Warner wanted her to.One of my favorite possessions is an autograph picture she gave me while I was working on the Warner Bros. albums and got to meet her. I'm looking at it as I type this, she's in her money costume from "Gold Diggers of 1933." Like I said I just loved to watch her preform......
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Well now,for your information, Angelina Jolie actually "LOST" her Oscar for "Girl Interrupted" and has no idea where it is.So I guess your statement is incorrect "No one's ever lost an Oscar"....
Edited by: fredbaetz on Apr 29, 2010 3:24 AM
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The War Lord with Chuck Heston and Richard Boone? It's available on DVD but costly, the cheapest I've seen it is about $ 85.00 on e bay or Amazon.I have a dvd I got 4 or 5 years ago from Good Times video, but I got it at a reasonable price.
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This has been one of my all time favorites since I can remember. I know my mother told me my father took me to see it when it first came out, but I don't remember. I watch it every time it's on. Lewis Milestone, who gave us the great WW1 war film "All Quite on the Western Front' directed. Wonderful cast, great script, just a simple film, no Hollywood heroics , only men doing their best to stay alive and get home. The narration at the beginning and end is by Burgess Meredith and the song is preformed by Kenneth Spencer, who died in a plane crash in 1964. The restored version came out a few months ago.
There are quite a few great WW2 films. Here's a few of my other favorites.
"The Story of G.I.Joe" directed by William Wellman. It star a young and upcoming Robert Mitchum in his only Academy Award nominated film, It's a gutsy, dirty almost documentary film with superb acting and direction. Again Burgess Meredith but on camera this time as war corrpondent Ernie Pyle. Wellman later said he couldn't watch this film because he was able to use actual G.I.'s who were later sent over seas and many were killed in combat. As was the real Ernie Pyle. A must see ...
"They Were Expendable" directed by John Ford starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne. Based on the true story of the PT Boats at the beginning of the war. It is a well told exciting naval war story. It is not a war film where America is the winner or victor, but the dark hours of the start when we were taking a beating. Superb sea battles with the PT boats going against the Japanese Navy.
Edited by: fredbaetz on Apr 28, 2010 9:03 PM
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I always though she had the most mesmerizing eyes of anyone including Bette. They seem to draw you into them and hold you. Every time I see a picture of her I go right to her soulful sad eyes. Even when she smiles her eyes remain sad. I think she was one of the under rated actresses and great beauties of her time. A very unique face.......
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Holly, I forgot that it is on DVD, Old age is not only catching up to me it's passing me. So I'll stick with Sam Fuller and replace "Helmet" with a little know piece from Mr. Fuller. "Park Row" a personal favorite of his regarding the newspaper wars of the 1880's in New York. Starring the wonderful Gene Evens. As one reviewer called it the "Citizen Kane of B movies" a masterpiece..
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I hope that's a Lucky Strike that Kay is firing up......
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Here's my five to consider:
"Beau Geste" 1926- Ronald Colman & William Powell, suppose to be better then 1939 version with Gary Cooper. Hard to believe, but.....
"Red Dust" 1932- Gable & Harlow, nuff said
"The Great Gatsby" 1949- Alan Ladd, much better then Redford Version
"Steel Helmet" 1951 Maybe best film of Korean war directed by Sam Fuller
"American Hot Wax" 1978- Tim McIntire is outstanding as Alan Freed, the DJ who coined the term "Rock and Roll" great story of the start of it all...
50th Anniversary of the Korean War on TCM?!
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There are quite a few films on the Korean Conflict, now that was a war:
"Pork Chop Hill" 1959- Gregory Peck
"M.A.S.H." 1970- Donald Sutherland Elliot Gould
Bridges at Toko Ri-1954- William Holden, Grace Kelly
"Hill in Korea" 1956- British war film Stanley Baker
"Men of the Fighting Lady" 1954- Van Johnson
"The Hunters" 1958- Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner
"Fixed Bayonets" 1951- Richard Basehart
"All the Young Men" 1960- Sidney Poitier, Alan Ladd
These are just some of the films covering the Korean War. If available there are quite a few more...