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Dorothy McGuire was in *Three Coins in the Fountain* with Maggie MacNamara.
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This film is about post-World War II France--where the Communist party is calling the shots in the villages where they successfully directed the Resistance against Hitler.
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The girl goes to New York and gets a bit acting job through her hometown connection.
But her real talent is singing.
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Anne Baxter was in *All About Eve* with Celeste Holm.
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Peter Lawford *The Thin Man*??
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Dan Duryea was in *The Little Foxes* with Herbert Marshall.
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"Over, Under, Sideways, Down, Backward, Forward, Square and Round"--I remember that from Jr. High--But I have trouble remembering my bank card number.
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Yes Fi, it's all yours--
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Very Hollywood Noir film
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Metz--2/3 ain't bad
Metz44
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Hey, Hey--Sid Luft called them butchers after they slaughtered Judy's masterpiece, *A Star Is Born*. The WB had several meat markets before they had movie theatres.
As for Selznick--he always worked in pictures--believe he started with his father-in-law, LB Mayer at MGM.
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And this cinematographer had the Oscars to back his big ego--He has tied the ASC record.
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Actually all of them worked with Mankiewicz at least twice--
I put Harrison 1st because he scored 4 times.
Not bad for a "roo"--
Phroso is on a row--
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William Holden came from a nice middle-class Pasadena family.
The young man I'm describing was partially raised in Europe--spoke several languages and had an Operatic artist in his immediate family.
He was in his youth a world class athlete in the sport displayed in Hitchcock's *The Man Who Knew Too Much*.
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I can appreciate your love for France des lumieres--
But I would have gone for the mid-19th century--the romantique roman, poesie etc.
A little better with the hygiene but still no penicillin--so all my idols died early from venereal disease--
Baudelaire, Flaubert, de Maupassant, Schubert and Schumann.
Edited by: cujas on Apr 16, 2011 6:33 PM
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This is a tale of 2 brothers in Hollywood--
Both were screenwriters and won Oscars for legendary films.
However, one went on to also be a legendary director,
Who are they and what are their 2 legendary film credits?
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Then he successfully leaves the bus and goes into the city in search of his doctor.
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I've got the founding head of Paramount--Adolphe Zukor for furs too.
Hint: The Butchers of Hollywood were noted for butchering films--i.e. *A Star Is Born*.
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Cinematographer who was "the" technicolor-cinemascope genius of Hollywood and had the Oscars to prove it.
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Thanx Phro--
Scuttlebut has it you're a Kangaroo--is that true?
next:
Rex Harrison
Gene Tierney
Jeanne Crain
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Conte
George Sanders
Thelma Ritter
Marlon Brando
Linda Darnell
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*Ball of Fire*
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Let's see--Olivier was the love of Vivien Leigh's life & Danny Kaye's--
My favorite memory of them is all 3 at a Queen's Command Performance performing The Bandwagon "Triplet" number--
"We do everything alike etc."
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Yes Rick--Terry Moore got ahold of the Hughes money and danced with Astaire in *Daddy Longlegs*.
Rick is up--
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This young man lost his father at an early age. So a number of actors acted as surrogate fathers to him. Maybe this influenced him. At any rate he was a world-class athlete in his youth--in sports associated with the rich.
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