adoreblgs
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The 2 Paramount Shirley films will be available on DVD April 19th
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These 2 Paramount films will be the colorized versions which have been on video for 9 years now and its great these will be coming to DVD!
As to her Fox films, these are being recolorized and, I have seen samples of HEIDI and believe me, the color is outstanding,looks as if it was truly filmed in color!
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Yeah, as always, its the same ol' same ol' for the billionith time!!!!!!!!!!!! Am so tired of this!
I have requested many movies that TCM owns and has not shown in a long time! They just keep on showing the same movies over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over!! Enough is enough!!!!!
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Actress June Haver dies at 79
in General Discussions
Posted
June Haver, who was groomed to be the successor to Betty Grable in the
1940s and was actor Fred MacMurray's wife until his death in 1991, died
Monday at her Brentwood home from respiratory failure. She was 79.
Rock Island, Ill., native started performing onstage at age 6, won
musical contests and by 1936 was appearing on local radio. Touring with
bands, she eventually reached Hollywood, where at 16 she was picked to
join the Fox stable by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1942.
The next year she appeared in "The Gang's All Here," followed in 1944
by "Home in Indiana." That led to "Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and, in
1945, "Where Do We Go From Here?," with future husband MacMurray, as
well as "The Dolly Sisters," with Grable.
Other films include top billing in "Three Little Girls in Blue," "Wake
Up and Dream," "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!," "Look for the Silver Lining"
(for Warners, along with "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady") and "Oh, You
Beautiful Doll."
Considered convent
Upset after a brief 1947-48 marriage and the death of her subsequent
fiance, the devout Catholic announced before 1953's "The Girl Next
Door" that after her contract ended, she would become a nun. She did
enter a convent, but stayed only a few months and reunited with the
recently widowed MacMurray, who became her second husband. The couple
later adopted twins.
Haver's last appearance before the cameras was to portray herself
briefly on TV's "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" in the late 1950s, with
MacMurray.
She didn't get around to joining the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences until best friends Ann Rutherford and Ann Miller prevailed
upon her when she was 75.
Haver is survived by her two daughters, Laurie and Kate; two
stepchildren, Robert MacMurray and Susan Pool; son-in-law Marc Gerber,
trailers producer at Ignition Creative; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be private.
Memorial donations are suggested for the Motion Picture Home in
Woodland Hills or St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica.
(Variety)