flashback42
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The star of a 50s series about a knockabout dandy, sometimes a lawman, appears as that character serving as referee at a championship boxing match.
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Framing device for these nostalgia nuggets: The title hero is on an urgent dash across the West to San Francisco. A deadline; an event that many others also want to attend.
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*The Cardinal* (1963) Tom Tyron was the star.
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I'll go ahead and use the name. If I'm right about this, the lady with the negative RSVP to Johnny's farewell bash was Kim Novak. I've scrounged a little more, and there's one correction. She and her MD husband raise horses in Oregon, not Northern California.
Again, can anyone confirm this event I think I remember reading about?
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Another guest cameo: Midcentury series about a man who worked various assignments; Cavalry scout, lawman, ranch hand, etc. Had a government contract that sent him in the same direction as the title hero. They escorted each other through some hostile territory.
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Uh, "real but not real..." Animated?
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Open thread.
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Evans, Francine -- Liza Minelli in *New York, New York* (1977)
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One of the guest cameos: An actor who was a teenager in a midcentury series turns up in this TVM as the same character, fully adult, teaching horsemanship to actors in the budding movie industry. Serving as stand-in in some of the difficult cases.
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Correct, Sixes. "Look", AKA "Wild Goose Flying in the Night Sky" portrayed by Beulah Archuletta.
And, re the Gipper answer, I wasn't sure if this was one of the 'wait for confirmation' threads. Apologies.
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Next up:
Character name: "Look" 1950s; color.
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Sixes, the product named in the series title. A metal? A metal alloy? A beverage? A communications device? Wha?
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Mann left the project, couldn't work with Audie Murphy?
The more plausible explanation focuses on the other star, James Stewart. Between 1950-53,, Stewart and Mann worked well together on eight movies, five of them Westerns. In films like *Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie* and others, they formed up a basic Stewart Western hero that was viable and popular. By the time of filming *Night Passage*, Stewart was making changes in what he wanted in a hero image. One specific point mentioned: The Mann-influenced Stewart hero would not take in the orphaned boy (Brandon de Wilde) and become a surrogate father to him. Stewart and Mann had worked together to good effect, but they just came to a parting of the ways.
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The TVM was one of a series. Lots and lots of cameos from 50s-60s Western TV series. Some in their character names, some not.
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> {quote:title=cagney69 wrote:}{quote}why thank you stick
> here's one "its round on the end and high in the middle it's "
The answer to that is usually "Ohio". Does that help anyone find the title?
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...In the belief that the last entry was intended for "A to Z of Actresses and Actors" ( and giving poor Sergeant York a rest), the following is posted.
Yuri -- Mikhail Baryshnikov in *The Turning Point* (1977)
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Again, posting a question I don't have a sure answer to. I'm going on memory of something read years ago. I have a name, but I have not been able to confirm. As I remember, it involved the anticipation and preperation for Johnny Carson's retirement from *The Tonight Show.* Almost everyone knows about the questions as to who would take the show after he left -- that's been worth a TVM that exposed a lot.
My question is about the series of farewell performances leading up to the retirement. There was one actress, Very Big Name, that Johnny wanted to be a guest at or near the end. She just didn't want to do it. She was in retirement, or semi-retirement somewhere in northern Cal, if memory serves. and she just didn't want to take the trip and put in the effort. Johnny's retirement fetes went down without her.
Is this familiar to anyone?
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Charlie Croker: Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea. . . .uh. . . . uh. . .
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> Michael Caine
> The Italian Job
...at the end of the meeting:
"...And one more thing to remember. In this country, people drive on the wrong side of the road."
...same source.
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Pssst, Baker;
What movie is the character named "Michael York" in, and what actor played that role?
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Early 1990s TVM. Built-in tributes to a lot of 1950s series.
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Work on 1957's *Night Passage* was started with Anthony Mann as the director. Mann dropped out, and it was then directed by James Neilson, who got the proper credit.
Urban Legend: Mann left because of the presence of war hero-turned-actor Audie Murphy; Mann objected to working with him. Other information contradicts this theory. Any contributions or discussion before I return to the subject?
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Xuncax, Arturo -- Ernesto Gomez Cruz in *El Norte* (1983)
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Mexican-born actor Pedro Armendez (1912-1963), Suicide by gunshot. His last role was that of Kerim Bey, 007's Turkish contact in Istanbul. A man with multiple wives and many children, Bey employed his sons as operatives in pro-West matters in the Cold War. Sr. Armendez knew he was dying from cancer, and he had the filming schedule of *From Russia With Love* arranged to make sure all his scenes were completed, so that his family would get his salary. In choosing his own time, he avoided a prolonged period of suffering, and he provided for his family. While saddening, it commands respect.
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Correct, Sixes, at just over 110 Views. I guess this is one of those cases where, I'm open to charges of violating the title of this thread, in that Carson, while a very big star, had a very small acting resume`. A bit of drollery in the credits: Johnny's billing was "Special Guest Conductor".
Sixes' thread.
Find the Movie Star in Classic TV
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Sixes, taking a shot. The areas I can research include little or no commentary about plot or story. If I've guessed right, this aired 4 years before my family had television. The clues that seemed to make sense to me:
"worse pies in London" Well, Angela Lansbury did a turn as Sweeny Todd's consort in 1982
"ordinary household product" Ms. Lansbury had four appearances on *Lux Vidio Theater*.
One episode, entitled Operation Weekend, aired on 21 Apr 1952. Besides Lansbury, the cast included Ian Keith, Richard Kiley, Lloyd Knight and Marcel Hillaire. Does that come anywhere near to the show you have in mind?