Princess of Tap

Azure-- you're really something! I thought that was a hard question. When I thought about doing this question I had seen all of the shows except Jane Wyman. And she was the pioneer of all, starting in the late 1940s even before I Love Lucy. So maybe that's why I didn't know it, because I hadn't been born.LOL Oh, how we all just loved Loretta coming through that door with that gorgeous wardrobe. Now Azure, it is your turn to come through that door with that Lilt Home Permanent--

Love Me or Leave Me

Frank Langella had a long relationship with Whoopi Goldberg.

William Bendix played comedy in Greenwich Village with Carmen Miranda.

Barbra Next: A married couple at War

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8) Erle Stanley Gardner, the lawyer who created Perry Mason, wanted Gail to played Della Street on the TV series. Aftr Gail declined the offer, she recruited Barbara Hale to play the part.

Gale Sondergaard

Claude Rains was cruel to Bette Davis in Deception.

Basil Rathbone appeared on Broadway starring in The Heiress with Wendy Hiller.

Bette Davis

4) Gail was the first woman to serve as vice president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Loretta Young June Allyson Jane Wyman Barbara Stanwyck

Vertigo-- and it took me so long--it's my favorite!

Lawrence, I have to say this man is a Hollywood Insider and a directors director and producer. Mervyn LeRoy was a triple threat - - he directed the movies, he produced movies and he married one of the daughters of the Warner Brothers. In other words, he was a big success in Hollywood. The biggest movie that he produced was The Wizard of Oz at MGM. But he cut his teeth and made his reputation at Warner Brothers. He was the top pre- code director at Warner Brothers - - directing Edward G Robinson in the legendary Little Caesar and Paul Muni in the historical I was a fugitive on a chain game. At Metro he endeared himself to Louis B. Mayer by directing hit after hit-- Johnny eager, 30 seconds over Tokyo, Little Women and quo vadis, just to name a few. The 1950s came and he continued his pace of hits-- Mr. Roberts, The Bad Seed, No Time for Sergeants and the FBI story. Everyone can find one of their favorite movies in his resume. My favorite is Goldiggers of 1933, featuring a very young Ginger Rogers singing We're in the Money in Pig Latin. Lawrence, this was a good choice!

It's always fair weather

Psycho

Terrence, be my guest--

Claude Rains' American film debut in Hollywood, The Invisible Man, was directed James Whale.

Peter Lorre with in Mad Love Colin Clive.

10) Robert Stack and Rosemarie had two children: Elizabeth and Charles. Next: Gail Patrick

It's a Dickie Goodman 1961 break-in classic - - based on a popular hour-long TV dramatic series that was a Period Piece. And some of the artists in the break-ins are Bobby Darin singing Artificial Flowers, Elvis singing Are You Lonesome Tonight? Johnny Burnette singing You're Sixteen and Bobby Vee singing Rubber Ball-- all hits of the day. It was called The Touchables based on the TV show The Untouchables. Goodman did 2 other break-in records with The Untouchables theme. Dickie Goodman was the Weird Al of his era. Basically what he did was to use pieces of hit records of the day to describe a plot from a popular TV show. The plot of this record centered on the St.Valentine's Day Massacre. Goodman even did a break-in record for a congressional hearing featuring Bobby Kennedy and Senators questioning mobsters, as those hearings were very current at the time--preempting the daily soap operas on television. The Touchables reached number 60 on the Hot Billboard 100. I declare this thread is open.

I'v already met Glenda Jackson so I'll just say Diana Rigg-- Next: Vanessa Redgrave or Maggie Smith?

Doris Day was married to Richard Widmark in the Tunnel of Love.

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