mudskipper
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"State Of The Union"...?
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Not that one....This movie was in color...
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Clue:...Biographical movie...
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Clue:...In the cast was a French actress who died in 1990 by jumping from her 8th floor apartment in Switzerland...
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"All That Jazz", the autobiography of Bob Fosse, starring Roy Scheider...
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Correct...The stars were John Payne on the piano and Lynn Bari singing, but the actual voice was Pat Friday's, one of Glenn Miller's singers...Here's a nice version by Joseph Morris with Billy Vaughn's orchestra:
Here are the nice lyrics:
Why do robins sing in December
Long before the Springtime is due ?
And even though it's snowing, violets are growing,
I know why and so do you.
Why do breezes sigh ev'ry evening,
Whispering your name as they do ?
And why have I the feeling stars are on my ceiling?
I know why and so do you.
When you smile at me,
I hear gypsy violins.
When you dance with me,
I'm in heaven when the music begins.
I can see the sun when it's raining
Hiding ev'ry cloud from my view,
And why do I see rainbows when you're in my arms
I know why and so do you
Your thread, Miles...
Edited by: mudskipper on Jan 6, 2011 1:27 AM
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Miles, Audie Murphy was my favorite actor back in the mid to late fifties when I was in grade school...
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In this blockbuster film from the early 60s, the stars were all too old for their characters, so the movie was nicknamed "Elderly Gang Goes Off to War" by the British press.....Name the movie...
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Thanks, Lavender...I know the story behind that song having read about it in a CD booklet three years ago, but I couldn't remember the name of the lady...
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In the first season of this early western series, an actor who was soon to have his own series and later become a major movie star appeared at least three times. In the initial episode and in another he was a cavalry officer. He played a minister traveling in a train in a third one....Name the series and the guest actor.
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Anthony Quinn was very disappointed when another actor was cast in the title role of this movie... To solve the argument, both actors competed to see which of them could **** furthest into the Rio Grande. Quinn lost the bet...
Movie and star ?
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I watched that movie a few months ago from a DVD set of Doris Day movies...Thanks.
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According to IMDB, this movie contains the origin for the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus. ..The hero wanders aimlessly through the jungle confused to his identity, while his beard grows long and his clothes wind up in tatters. Finally he comes to a clearing where there is a pool. He sees his reflection and exclaims, "It's..." But instead of an offstage voice saying Monty Python's Flying Circus, he just says, "It's... me!". ..
Name the movie and the star...
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During the making of this movie, set in Malaya during the early 50s, filming was delayed when actual squatters took up residence in the Chinese squatter village set. After their removal, filming resumed and the Chinese squatters stayed to watch. When the village is torched, crying and wailing can be heard. This wasn't from the Malay extras but from the real squatters who just lost their new home...Name the movie and the star.
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Here's an easy one, a beautiful song from a 40s movie:
"...I can see the sun when it's raining,
Hiding every cloud from my view;
And why do I see rainbows when you're in my arms...
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Gene Nelson, the dancer, is right...Your thread, Lana.
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Audie Murphy and Buster Crabbe were in "Arizona Raiders"(1965) a western about Arizona Rangers...Buster Crabbe was the lead in "The Arizona Raiders"(1936), loosely based on a Zane Grey story...
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...In 1939, Hoagy Carmichael composed the melody to a poem called "I Get Along Without You Very Well" . Several years earlier he had been handed this poem by a student at Indiana University. It was signed only J.B. So the song was published with the note: Words inspired by a poem written by J.B.
Carmichael made a national plea for the author to step forward, even enlisting the help of top newspaper columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell, but only impostors turned up. Finally, the author was located in Philadelphia ? Mrs Jane Brown Thompson. Sadly, Mrs Thompson passed away the night before Dick Powell introduced the song on national radio....They say she first wrote the poem years before when her husband passed away...It is a very sad song about coping alone, and the words convey her feelings
Here's the song as sung by Matt Monro and by Frank Sinatra (Frank should have kept his mouth shut except to sing the song..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYh5_rvYSj8
I get along without you very well,
Of course I do,
Except when soft rains fall
And drip from leaves, then I recall
The thrill of being sheltered in your arms.
Of course, I do.
But I get along without you very well.
I've forgotten you just like I should,
Of course I have,
Except to hear your name,
Or someone?s laugh that is the same,
But I've forgotten you just like I should.
What a guy, what a fool am I.
To think my breaking heart could kid the moon.
What?s in store? Should I phone once more?
No, it?s best that I stick to my tune.
I get along without you very well,
Of course I do.
Except perhaps in spring.
But I should never think of spring,
For that would surely break my heart in two...
Edited by: mudskipper on Jan 5, 2011 6:47 PM
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Yes, it was Myron Healey... Reading his life story showed me a different perspective on a man who otherwise would have been just another villain in the movies. Now, whenever I see him on the screen, I'll always remember that he flew more combat missions than Jimmy Stewart during WW II. Not that it really matters though, except to me....Your thread, Miles.
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That's right, Miles, with James Best and Richard Long...and before Tony Curtis became a leading star....Your thread.
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"Thou Swell"..
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Clue:... Once, I played a good guy in a cliffhanger serial with Phyllis Coates...
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His father James Booth used the stage name George Formby, adopted from the town of Formby, Lancashire, and was one of the great music hall comedians of his day, fully the equal of his son's later success....
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I was barely a teen when I saw the Fred Astaire movie 'Flying Down to R?o (1933)' which would change my life. After graduating from high school, I joined the Sonja Henie Ice Show and toured for 3 years before joining the Army in World War II. After I was discharged, I appeared in a handful of movies in the late forties and worked in a number of musicals in the early 50s. I would probably be best known for my role of a cowboy twirling a lasso in a 1955 movie. After my movie days ended, I turned to directing including two Elvis Presley films. For Television, I directed episodes for "I Dream Of Jeannie", "Star Trek", "The Donna Reed Show" and others....Who am I ?
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I see a wicked witch:...MARGARET HAMILTON.
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Edited by: mudskipper on Jan 5, 2011 12:20 AM
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No. I haven't seen the movie...I just read San Francisco + young man killed = "Barbary Coast", and there it was...
Next: Five young men join Quantrill during the civil war...
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Ingmar Bergman's classic...Your thread, Six.
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Correct on all counts, C....The role of Brett was not a Maverick role. Brett was a minister traveling to California on the same train as Cheyenne Bodie....
Your thread...