fredbaetz
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In a movie and TV career that spanned over 50 years she was a fine actress who appeared in many Grade "B" cult films of the 1950's and 60's and hundreds of TV shows, but most will remember her as the 2nd wife of Fred MacMurray on "My Three Sons" and Kate Jackson's mom on "Scarecrow and Mrs King". As she said about the "B" movies "all you needed was a good pair of lungs and the ability to scream in different octaves"
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We've been discussing Beverly on the Westerns forum, come on over and join us....
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She could toss a smart comeback with the best of them, right up there with Eve Arden. Most likely one of the best tough dames who ever slapped a wise cracking mug or take one on the jaw. She was so great in "Narrow Margin" I was hoping the other dame would take the slug instead of her. She did so many roles in films most people never heard of. "The Sniper" is an undiscovered gem with her and Arthur Franz. She was hard, tough, sexy and a former Miss Utah in the Miss America Beauty Pageant . Dubbed the Queen of "B" movies along with several other actresses, but in my book she was a best seller.
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Who's on first? What's on second. I don't know they're buying MGM......
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Boy there's a name I haven't heard in a long time Mike Stockey. Use to watch that show faithfully. Beverly Garland and some of the other regulars if memory serves were Robert Clarey, Hans Conried, I remember Carol Burnett, I think later they renamed it "Stump the Stars". The series started in the late 1940's locally and went national in the 50's....
Beverly was always a favorite an excellent actress. She was the first woman to star in a police series called "Decoy" long before "Police Woman" or "Cagney and Lacey".
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Maureen O'Hara could handle herself on the range. Besides the westerns with John Wayne: "Rio Grande", McLintock",and "Big Jake" she also appeared with Jeff Chandler in "War Arrow", James Stewart in "The Rare Breed" and McDonald Carey in "Comanche Territory" and with Brian Kieth in Sam Peckinpah's first directed film "Deadly Companions" among others..
Jane Russell made her debut in Howard Hughes "The Outlaw" with a lot of publicity .Appeared with Bob Hope in two classic Western comedies "The Paleface" and "Son of Paleface" along with the King of the Cowboys Roy Rogers and Trigger'. This is one of the funniest western comedies ever made. She also appeared with Clark Gable in "The Tall Men: Starred as Belle Starr in "Montana Belle" and appeared with Howard Keel in "Waco"
These are just a couple of the big name stars who strapped on the six shooters and saddled up. There are many many others who rode the trails and headed them off at the pass....Francis Dee, Anne Jefferys, Beverly Garland, Jane Greer to name but a few more.....
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Barbara Stanwyck's nickname was "Missy" or The Queen and from all sources she was one of the most beloved actresses with the crews she worked with...
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OOOH Wilbur {almost any episode of "Mister Ed" }
Always like his performance in "The Time Machine" with Rod Taylor. He played David Filby and when Taylor goes into the future he meets David's son James, played also by Young.
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Your tab has been taken care of at Chumley's by Elwood. So you can return and start a new one. But be careful when you go back there, remember Veta Louise saw a white slaver step out of a taxi. He was wearing a white suit, that's how they advertise.So watch your self old girl....
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I think that "Since You Went Away" wouldn't be classified as a 2nd class epic. It would a first class tear jerker .Which is not putting the film down.Most epics tend to be costume dramas or adventure films on a grand scale.But they can fall into any category..SYWA would be a class A film but not an epic.The epic is not a genre as much as a class of film defined by its length and subject which can be War, Romance, Historical, Western, Religious among others....Remember "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" tag line ....Makes "Ben Hur " look like an Epic....
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Howdee thar Little Lady, Audie was better then a lot of people gave him credit for. Was he ever going to give Lawrence Olivier a run for his money, I doubt it, but I though he gave a good account of himself considering on the job training after James Cagney bought him to Hollywood. He had a lot of baggage and ghost that troubled him, which considering his war time experience was understandable Not many know he was also a song writer, a few he co-wrote the lyrics for were "Please Mr. Postman play a Song for Me" , "Leave the Weeping to the Willow Tree" and "When the Wind blows in Chicago".Artist like Dean Martin Eddy Arnold among others recorded some of them.I think he was more talented then a lot of people though..........
*********************************The Crosses Grow on Anzio*****************************************
Oh,gather 'round me comrades, and listen while I speak.
Of a war,a war,a war, where Hell is six feet deep.
Along the shores, the cannons roar. Oh how can a soldier sleep.
The goings slow on Anzio, where Hell is six feet deep.
Praise be to God, for this captured sod
that rich with blood does seep.
That Death awaits, there is no doubt; no triumph will we reap.
The crosses grow on Anzio, where Hell is six feet deep.
Audie Murphy** 1948
Edited by: fredbaetz on Mar 29, 2010 9:57 PM
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Boots and Saddles" aired 38 episodes in the 1957-58 season. You can see some clips on you tube..
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Yes, let's hope they can put closure to his disappearance for the family and lay him to rest.I have to think not much family left other then some cousins Errol and Lili are gone, he was an only child. Almost 40 years to the day. April 6 1970.....R.I.P.
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You're right about Audie getting pigeon holed as a gunman on either side of the badge. Even though most of the westerns films he did he was pretty good for the most part, when he had the chance to work with a top flight director he proved he could act. The two films he did with John Huston, "The Red Badge of Courage" { wish they could find the missing scenes} if they still exist.While not a great film, the studio didn't want Huston to do the film and took control of the editing and cut it from 95 minutes down to 69 minutes.Huston got fed up with the project and left to start "The African Queen". Murphy had one of his best roles in the other Huston film The Unforgiven" with Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, In "The Quite American" he helt his own with Michael Redgrave, He had a lot of demons to over come and Hollywood didn't always use him wisely . He didn't want to play himself in his bio "To Hell and Back", he though the public would see him as capitalizing on his war experiences and he hoped Tony Curtis would be cast but Universal wanted him and the film remained the biggest grosser for them until "Jaws" hit the screen 20 years later in 1975.....
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I remember the original "Time for Beany" , It was a puppet show with Stan Freberg as the voice of Cecil the sea-sick sea serpent and Dishonest John or D.J. and Daws Butler as Beany and Uncle Captain...
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Some more for your consideration:
"Island of Lost Souls" 1932 Charles Laughton
"Park Row" 1952- Sam Fullar's 1880 newspaper wars and "yellow journalism" Gene Evans
"Red Dust"- Gable,Harlow, Astor-nuff said
"North West Mounted Police" C.B.DeMille and Gary Cooper
"Mr Peabody and the Mermaid" William Powell at his charming best with Ann Blyth
"Desperate Journey" Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan take on the 3rd Reich...
Edited by: fredbaetz on Mar 29, 2010 2:08 PM
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Yes she played Elaine Wales the secretary who was afraid to admit she was Jewish, so she changes her name in order to get the job......
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This is indeed a truly strange Western. Many though it was a hidden message of the McCarthy witch
hunts of the 1950's. Francois Truffaut called it the "Beauty and the Beast of Westerns" It even made it to off Broadway in 2004 as a musical. I remember someone once said of it that it was like a car crash. You wanted to look away but you couldn't...
Joan Crawford didn't want Mercades McCrambridge for the role of Emma, Mercades was to young to suit Joan, she pushed for Clair Trevor but lost. McCrambridge and Sterling Hayden both voiced their dislike of Crawford with Mercades calling her a"mean , tipsy, powerful, rotten egg lady" Both Joan and Mercades seemed more butch at times then Hayden or Scott Brady or even Ernest Borgnine
Edited by: fredbaetz on Mar 29, 2010 3:34 AM
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It really is amazing that Ford was able to accomplish what he set out to do with "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and that was to put Frederic Remington paintings on the screen and give them life. I think he succeeded for the most part, I always felt that you could blow up almost any frame from that film and hang the picture and have it considered a work of art ......
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Try b-westerns.com, They had all the old western stars and their bios.....
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Tony: One Dollar and you'll remember me for the rest of your life"
Dr. Hackensack" "That's the most nauseating proposition I ever heard"
Chico to Groucho in "A Day at the Racea"
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Otis B. Driftwood:
"You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, You can buy a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents and for a buck and a quarter you can buy Minnie"
Groucho in "A Night at the Opera"
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"Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine"
A Star is Born Janet Gaynor or Judy Garland
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Nils almost looks like Ray Liotta's twin brother.....
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I remember seeing that when I was a kid and it was one of those Saturday Matinee type films they played in the 1950's that was so great. Lots of action { if memory serves } with good characters. It ended up around the Little Big Horn. If you like this there is a "B" Western done in 1951 called "Little Big Horn" a forgotten Western Gem with Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor and Reed Hadley.If you want to see how a low budget film can turn out to be soooo good watch this one. No big Battle of the Little Big Horn, but all the action takes place before it. The story focuses on characters but it is a very well made film directed by the great Charles Marquis Warren who directed and wrote so many "Gunsmoke" and "Rawhide" shows and many other TV and films. You can get this DVD through TCM and it's co feature "Rimfire" with Reed Hadley and Mary Beth Huges, a almost western film noir from 1949. But the real prize is "Little Big Horn"