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Dude! Are you sure that that's not Edward Arnold in drag??? (...okay...maybe not)

"Strange" you'd bring this guy up here, Miles. (...as in "Glenn", of course)

Yeah, that's true, Fred. BUT, as I hope you observed, there were absolutely NO errors in EITHER spelling OR grammar anywhere to be found in the SprocketMan's reply to you!!! (...so, AT LEAST give him THAT, huh?!) LOL

Hey Sepia, you forgot to mention THIS guy here... ...which of course would be Paul Muni in the biopic Juarez .

That's pretty darn specific there, Sepia. (...btw, and just for the record here..yep, as an adopted "illegitimately born" child, I was born a bastard, BUT as you probably know, many many "legitimately born" people in the world seem to work very hard all their lives at becoming one!)

Absolutely! (...couldn't agree more)

Just the wages of a misspent youth...as the class clown, my dear. (...and some kids never grow up, ya know!)

Yeah twinkeee, I think that picture of Jack Kruschen IS of him holding an apartment key from the movie "The Apartment"...'cause I don't remember him bein' in the movie "The Car"! (...sorry, couldn't resist that one)

That would be, Ruta Lee. Saaay, that rhymed, didn't it! (...and here I ALMOST was gonna answer with: "Nobody doesn't like Ruta Lee", but if I'd have done THAT, we wouldn't have had a little "poem" there, huh!)

And speaking of 1977 biopics, in Pumping Iron, the future governor of "Cal-LEE-forn-ya" is maid...ahem...I mean MADE to order for his role, 'cause the big juiced-up dunderheaded Austrian egomaniac plays himself in it, along with TV's Incredible Hulk, aka Lou Ferrigno who plays himself in it too. (...btw, as you folks can probably tell, AND "just for the record" here, before I retired to beautiful Sedona AZ and still resided in The Golden State, when I voted in that infamous Gray Davis recall election, the "chad" on my ballot next to Arnold's name was definitely NOT "hanging", 'cause I made absolutely SURE it was STILL attached to my ballot as I dropped it into that box!!!) LOL

I'll stack...ahem...I mean STAKE my reputation that that's Natalie's sister, Lana Wood there, dark!

And, Muhammand Ali played himself in the 1977 biopic The Greatest .

Yeah, really! They don't look like the same lady at all.

Mrs. Steve Allen had crossed my mind for a second also twinkeee, but I'm sure that's not her.

Oooh...those lips, those eyes. Yep, I like her too! But sorry, I have no idea who this sultry beauty is/was, and even after envisioning her as a brunette. (...how's 'bout another clue?)

I don't think anyone has gotten darkblue's "real life marionette man" down there yet. Do ya have any idea about that one, 'cause I don't.

Well, 40 years plus IS a pretty good run, wouldn't ya say?! LOL

Otto Kruger...except he did play "a guy you could trust" in Cover Girl . (...well, at least Rita Hayworth could trust him to tell her the truth that she was really in love with Gene Kelly in THAT movie, anyway)

Yeah, I guess in THIS regard, you could've called me a "child prodigy" back then, huh twinkeee! (...yep, I guess I owe much of my early sexual awakening to Abbe here...WOW did I think she was hot!!!)

Abbe Lane....ooh la la. (...I think I was about 10 when I first gazed upon this sultry beauty on some TV variety show and discovered some "new kinda feelin's" my body was givin' off to me)

>I am wondering. - which comics alive at the time of Mad, Mad World did NOT participate or werenot asked. Who turned down parts and why? Here ya go, Vertigo2. This according to Wikipedia: Film and television comedian Ernie Kovacs was originally scheduled to play the character "Melville Crump"[3] before being killed in an automobile accident on January 13, 1962. Kramer subsequently filled the role with comedian Sid Caesar. Kovacs' wife, Edie Adams, remained in the cast as Caesar's screen wife, in part due to the enormous tax obligations that Kovacs left behind. Wally Brown was also going to be given a role but died two months before Kovacs, not long before filming began. According to Robert Davidson,[4] the role of Irwin was originally offered to Joe Besser, who was unable to participate when Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas could not give him time off from his co-starring role in The Joey Bishop Show. Judy Garland, Groucho Marx, Stan Laurel, Bud Abbott, George Burns, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Judy Holliday, and Red Skelton were among the many celebrities offered or considered for roles in the film. Ethel Merman's role was originally written for Groucho (as Finch's father-in-law), who reportedly demanded too much money; so the part was rewritten. Laurel did not want to be seen in his old age, especially without his comedy partner Oliver Hardy, who died in 1957.

Nope, they were not brothers, but I'm pretty sure leo was just kidding about that, as many people including myself have noticed their similar "brooding" looks.

I guess you're somehow forgetting the hitchhiking scene(among others) in her Oscar winning performance in "It Happened One Night", eh lavender?! Yep, she was pretty "saucy" in that role, also. But yeah, on the whole, I pretty much agree with you and with finance's "grandmotherly" thing here. (...though I wonder how much of this we can attribute to the little Page Boy hairstyle she sported for so many years, which I always thought made her appear too "matronly")

Eeh! This one's easy, dark! Why, THAT of course is none other than millionaire astronaut Jim Tracy of "Thunderbird" command!!! Uh huh. Here's another picture of the guy... (...sorry, couldn't resist...though ya gotta admit that guy DOES kinda sorta look like this marionette, wouldn't ya say?!)

Hey Sepia! How about correctly spellin' the name of the girl we BOTH had a crush on back then, eh?! (...it of course is, "Angela Cartwright")