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I love those scenes in Julia Ross with Dame Mae Whitty! She was really quite a character shielding her murderous son played expertly by George MaCready! I think that is my favorite one too. Another wonderful film that stayed with me was The Lady Vanishes in which Dame Mae Whitty was the appealing new friend of Margaret Lockwood on the train. Though these ladies had been previously unknown to each other, Miss Froy (the title character) had helped Iris Henderson (Margaret's character) when a flowerpot fell on her head at the train station. Later the grateful girl begins to worry about the disappearance of her new friend who vanishes soon after she helps the girl's headache with soothing kindness and a cup of tea. The story progresses with frightening suspense. At the time I began to notice Michael Redgrave and Paul Lukas in films. Both were very noteworthy here as well. One great film seems to lead to watching another, it seems! I first saw and taped this neat British film in the mid-80s. Just recently I rewatched and enjoyed it. Dame Mae is one of my favorites !

Another underrated actress. Before I had seen King Kong in the 60's, I saw various 30's films with Fay Wray. She was just lovely and possessed a lot of acting talent. Not long ago I found Fay riveting in a Perry Mason episode of the early 60's.

I just guessed the name of the mystery star when you mentioned So Proudly We Hail with the wonderful Claudette Colbert. Recalling that George Reeves played her love interest, I thought....could it be Superman? I remember the thrill of seeing the show on TV - from my earliest viewings at age 3 or 4. What a thrill it was watching every episode! Years later it was very saddening to see a segment on Unsolved Mysteries about his mysterious death. After fifty years or so, the mystery of the demise of the man the world admired has not been solved.

Thanks so much for the info., MilesArcher! IF I have any others to identify, it will be great to have your help as well as Lavenderblue, and MusicalNovelty (plus some of others on the message boards). These are wonderful pictures here! Thank you so much for sharing with me! I love the ones of Frances and Patty. I do love films of the 30's and 40's and may have seen them quite some time ago. I just acquired The Glenn Miller Story from a friend and will be watching it to see some of the acts from WWII. Best, Janet

Great to read the information about Nina Foch. She was an excellent actress in Film Noir. I really liked her perfomance in Escape in the Fog and My Name is Julia Ross. It's great that she continued to perform throughout her lifetime!

I really like Elsa in all three films and in The Bishop's Wife and Mary Poppins, The Spiral Staircase, etc. Elsa had a unique voice and talent in each film portrayal. To all of these I just had to add her marvelous performance as Charles Laughton's "stern" nurse in Witness for the Prosecution.

I too was surprised about the print quality. I liked the film and first bought it in the 80's on VHS. At the time I first saw it there were some dark scenes and small flaws, but I usually don't mind and keep watching (if I like a film). Years later I taped it from TCM with the same experience., I had taped Dive Bomber for a friend and found myself watching it too. (But the contrast from one to the other was something else. The vivid color of the latter film brought out the flaws of the earlier one). Anyway, I do like Swing High, Swing Low and hope we get a better print someday.

Yep, that was the one with the scary scene. I was really shocked that anyone would use a fork (anything but a knife) for a weapon Of course it would never occur to a yong kid. I have since seen some where the prisoners secreted knives for weapons and attacked the warder or another prisoner.. Betty Garde was very good as the woman who threw the fork. SHe did a great job trying to ignore the matron, who was really getting to her. But since I was very young I had never viewed a prison one before - lol. In the last 30-some years or so I have seen seen some other scary ones. One prison film that really scared me was one with Ida Lupino as the jealous warden of a prison -- jealous of an inmate played by Audrey Totter.. Howard Duff was in charge of the men's area. I remember he had empathy with the prisoners. The story was quite violent and disturbing. Ida was a wonderful actress and director. Since that time I have seen her in other numerous great performances which really held my attention. The BIg Knife and Roadhouse were two very compelling movies as well as The Hard Way, and On Dangerous Ground. From child to teen to adult I have been her staunch fan. Another masterpiece starred Ida with Robert Ryan and was called Beware, My Lovely. Whether it was the victim or the killer, Ida could play the part with skill. Robert Ryan did a tour de force with his wonderful performance in Beware, My Lovely. He could be a tough police officer softened by the sister of a killer in one film or could play the killer himself! These two performers were a class act!. The viewer can just envision them living their parts.

I wanted to add that I too will be re-watching Abandon Ship. Tyrone Power is one of my all-time favorites. I think his appeal is not just his appearance (lol!) but quite often his fine acting; an earnest air of projecting his feelings and thoughts. Anyone who has seen The Razor's Edge and The Rains Came can see this as well as This Above All. In all three films and several others we see the actor projecting himself into the role. This is nothing new, but TYrone Power had a unique way of doing this. (Am I just an obsessed fan?) Sadly, he left this world before I had seen him in anything. MY mother loved The Rains Came, so we watched that when we were quite young. WHenever a Tyrone movie was on TV, we saw it! By the end of the film my sister and I had fallen for Tyrone Power! I was 6 or 7 and she was close to 10. Since that time I have viewed many of his films and am consistently struck by his fine acting. I loved his performance in Lloyds of London, Son of Fury, Witness for the Prosecution. After awhile one gets quite engrossed in each and every story. I do wish he hadn't done that duelling sequence in his last film with George Sanders. Noone knew he had a bad heart. Thanks from me too on the fine post!

You are right that Tyrone got de-glamourized in this film He did look pretty rough. I have to admit that most of my favs. with him have him looking pretty attractive; The Rains Came, The Razor's Edge, etc. But his great acting fit well with those films as well as his different image did him proud here. At the end it is hard to determine if his decisions were the right thing morally. In some pretty nail-biting events we have to wonder what was the best thing to do.

It has been so long since I saw the film! Agnes Moorhead must have been great as the prison warden. and Hope as the matron who makes the girls put money in her little box.. They were both perfect for those roles! I remember the woman she kept bugging finally threw a fork at her. Was that in this film? I just remember the stampede and how shocking that scene was.

Anyone else a big Elvis fan besides me? I grew up loving Elvis since I was in first grade! That was awhile ago...lol This was in the late 50's. I was just listening to some great Elvis music on You TUbe when I discovered a singer from the 50's and 60's who sounded a lot like Elvis. His name was Ral Donner. He and Elvis sang Suspicion (as well as Terry STafford). Great song and great singers. Anyway, I was just reading that he did a song called You Don't Know What You Got. IT really blew me away - his voice and the great background. I added him to my great singers on my player. Getting mighty crowded with 4500 songs! I love Elvis doing Fame and Fortune, Return to Sender and so many others growing up. Thought I would share with everyone about this other great singer. Sadly, Ral is not with us anymore either, but we can enjoy his great music!

Yes, my dad had other photos and postcards he kept in an old cigarbox his dad had given him. Sadly, we lost them in a house fire a few years ago. These are pretty much it, but there are some that are duplications. I can post those later. I have 18. Some are pictures of my dad going back to the barracks with his friends, snowball fighting (on their East Coast stops), and lining up for drills. That was it on the celebrities. It turns out that these are the main ones. Thanks again for your help! i am a posting novice, so hadn't even scanned yet! This is a good way to preserve the pictures, like you were saying. I am happy to have shared them,

Yep, Mick summoned! What a crazy experience that was! IT was toward the end of the concert that things began to be out of control. People were out of their seats and yes, one or two girls were lifted over the railing. I wondered later if they lost their tickets. Of course my sister did not know why I was headed for the stage. Later she said she thought I was going nuts over the Stones like she and the others did. In the confusion she had not seen Mick Jagger summon to me! I wish we had not lost the camera, but were lucky to escape with our purses! My new autoggraph book was empty, as I never got up there! Like I was saying, I will always wonder why Mick (and I saw that he was visibly nervous) still summoned for me to come up to the stage! I was about 20 feet away when it happened! Even if he were signalling to someone else, it was risky. Even a moment of delay......The stampede was on once he sang the last note. I was lucky not to be injured,. I will always remember Mick throwing down his guitar with a hunted look in his eyes! Whoever stepped on me must have thought omg there's a live body on the ground! By that time I was on my feet, but Mick and his pals were driving away in their limo. My sister and another girl pulled me to my feet. I was one dazed girl. Could not tell mom and dad, as i had Scoliosis and I might not get to go to another concert! My sister did the most screaming at the concert, but I was excited too! I can tell you it was really contagious! Those days in '66 were quite precious for the concerts. We were really into the rock groups and subscribed to Rave and Fave Magazines that had the doings of the Beatles and the Stones and other Brit. groups. We loved 'em all! Sounds like you had a great time too in '69! Lifted over the railing for getting too close? Worth the gamble!

WEll, my big sis and I liked Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass I was in jr. high and she in high school when we heard The Lonely Bull and some other good ones. The instrumental is great (though I am totally opposed to bullfighting!!). THey had some other good hits too. That must have been great going to see them! I just remember hearing them on the car radio. AT that time I started to really notice the groups and individual singers like Lesley Gore and Mary Wells. And this was before the big British Invasion! It did not take much time to fall for the Beatles! They were and are our favorites today!

I always have respect for those that write and perform music (even if I don't care for it). That I an relate to. I was less tolerant as a teen if you can believe it! Some of those rock songs like Satisfaction by the Stones I did not like because of the sound - no harmony. I loved a lot of their music, but did not like a couple of them.. My grown up kids - sons and daughter like the 60's music as well as the new things, so it is all in perception, I think. We all agree about the Beatles being #1. To be honest, I have not heard a lot of the new music, but I am sure there are some gems out there. Some studio concoctions aren't bad, considering they don't have the publicity the other groups have.

You know, I feel perennially young when I listen to this great music of the 60's and 70's. it was fun seeing the Rolling Stones and the Beatles in the 60's. I too felt very sad about Jim Morisson and others we have lost (Ray Manzarek, Mama Cass, etc.) I like THe Mamas and Papas, Cream, and all of them are on my list along with the Buffalo SPringfield and Creedance Clearwater Revival Band. I was just hearing the Association (big group when I was still in high school) singing Never My Love on You Tube. They were spectacular! Every year there were more to love like The Troggs, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, etc. Wish we could go back in time and meet them! The Rolling Stones song BLue Turns to Grey is my favorite. I just heard it on You Tube and they were fantastic too with great guitar sounds.. A lot of my friends haven't heard that one. It was on the LP the STones handed out at their concert. IT is little known but was on the Get Off of My Cloud album. THat was the concert my sister and I attended in '66. Like I was saying in earlier posts, I was little when I fell for the 50's, for my big sister was always playing them on the car radio. So today I have a great collection of the past which includes a lot of 50's harmonies. I still love Ricky Nelson, Ritchie Valens, The Everly BRothers and the Fleetwoods. When I say Fleetwoods, I mean the earlier late 50's group. Most people think I mean Fleetwood Mack. I like them too, but the harmony of the earlier group stayed with me growing up. I was seven or eight when I first heard them. Anyone familiar with Mr. BLue? One of their big songs. And of course there were 100's or rock music bands I never heard of - a lot were from the 50's and preceded the Drifters, who are one of my favorites, but there were many more. I learn about them with Oldies.com who has wonderful CDs of 50's and 60's rock. I ordered several Doo **** 45's on CDs and it is fun to find more that had enjoyable singers, harmony and background music. So I have a wild collection now of 4500 songs on my MP3 player built into my cell phone. I just added another one.

Thank you! I am looking forward to seeing The Glenn Miller Story. Following the link, I just had a nice time watching Somewhere in the South Pacific on You tube. and the performers were introduced. I just got immersed in an interesting documentary on Bob Hope, but wanted to return to thank you again. It will be interesting to see if more clues develop on the identity of the guy I thought was Charles Lane and our mystery girl. It has been a worthwhile endeavor and I really am glad to have it pretty much cleared up. Best, Janet

Hi Top Billed, I wanted to thank you personally for your help on me getting started posting the pictures. Most of our mystery is cleared up on identifying the performers. It really helps to bring the time my dad was overseas back into focus. With your help and some of our other TCM Message Board friends, we have nearly all of the links we need in identifying them. My very best regards, Janet

Hi musicalnovelty, Thank you so much for helping with identifying the celebrities in the photos. It is confusing with the Mystery Lady and the Charles Lane mystery. It might have been a war buddy of my dad. Though he spoke of meeting Charles and other celebrities often (in the early 60's primarily) we did not have the names or captions on the pictures. The one he mentioned most was Frances, but at the time we had not seen her films. Any light on them is greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Janet

Hi Lavenderblue19, Thank you so much for your help in identifying my dad's overseas pictures. We had very little to go on, but with the combined help of you and MilesArcher and TopBilled, we have filled in most of the gaps! (I am afraid I could have tried out for the role of "Dr. Watson" in making these identifications). We lost other memorabilia associated with that time in a house fire a few years ago. I had the few remaining pictures. My dad treasured the time he was in charge of the teletype unit in his area and meeting these celebrities. This helps to bring the time alive and back into focus for my sister and myself. Best Regards, Janet

Hi MilesArcher, I wanted to thank you directly for your wonderful help in identifying the celebrities in the photos. All I had were the memories my dad shared with my big sister and me when we were little. He spoke often of that time when he was overseas and how thrilling it was to meet Bob Hope and other celebrities. He did mention the names of the celebrities he met, but the names were not on the pictures. The pictures you have supplied here are wonderful! Thanks again for making that time stand out again and I appreciate the link. It was an unforgettable period in history. I am sorry we did not have more info. What I did find later was a picture of the band with Bob on Corbisimages.com. I will check out your link now. Best Regards, Janet

Just saw your post and want to thank you for the help. IT is very good have them verified at last. My dad had additional pictures and cards related to the time he was overseas. Sadly, these were lost in a house fire a few years ago. My Thanks again and to MilesArcher and TopBilled for shedding most of the light we needed for identification! Doesn't seem possible it was a little over seventy years ago. These pictures were all that remained of the time my dad was in the Signal Corps over in New Caledonia He often spoke of the time he had operating the teletype machine over there and oved meeting celebrities. Best Wishes, Janet

Thanks for all the help. Too bad we didn't have captions on the back. Memories of what my dad had told us when we were little. I did find out some of it on CorbisImages.com It did say the guitarist was Tony Romano, but we thought this one might be Ernie! As for Charles Lane, I have a lot of films with him, but must be mistaken. I had not seen many of Kay. It is good to have some of the mystery cleared up.

Saw this good film on TV when I was 11. IT really scared me! Betty Garde was really effective in her role. Eleanor Parker was really superb as the naive pregnant girl who drove the get-away car for a heist (urged on by her husband). When he is killed, she is sent to prison. She is made to scrub floors and to learn how to get along with some intimidating people. I remember a particular scene where we can see that all the women were united in one respect; they wanted a pet. When a kitten shows up there, they are all charmed. Of course that is contraband and a stampede follows in a protest. It is a very vivid portrayal that stays with one long after the film is over.... Yes, Betty was quite effective there. I had forgotten the name of the warden and thought it was Hope Emerson. She was great in those kind of scenes in other films. That is too funny about the housekeeper that set her own rules in The Honeymooners! Well, Ralph did appear to have a lot of midnight snacks. I am going to watch that episode again.