vallo13
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Have a Happy and Healthy Birthday Anne
Enjoy your Day.....
Bill (vallo)
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No wonder I could find it fred, I was thinking one of those Dario Argento slasher films from the early 70's.
vallo
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I'm having a hard time figuring this one out. Are you sure it was in Black & White?
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Also Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra all played "Dress-up"(Cameos) Lancaster is the only person you'll never guess which one. I like this film..A good mystery movie.
vallo
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>>"Burt Lancaster is a giant pumpkinhead!"
I watched "The Young Savages" the other day on TCM. Lancaster worn a hat (bad choice) He looked good without a hat but for some reason in this film he looked like Herman Munster in a "Cowboy Hat" LOL
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Burt Lancaster lost out on two roles to Marlon Brando, Don Vito In "The Godfather and Stanley in "Street Car Named Desire" Also Patton (George C.Scott), Under Capricorn (Joseph Cotton) and the Biggest role he turned down (1959's) Ben Hur
Which won Heston,Brando and Scott the Oscar..
And the rest (as they say) is Cinema History......
vallo
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Yes it was good Fred, it was a surprise for me to see on went I got home from work. I totally enjoyed it. with Larry Parks and the always good George Macready.
Muni was sooo underrated.....shame
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Larry, Stoney, and Ziggyelman. I saw the Entertainment Tonight as they breezed over Yvonne's passing. They talked more about Tori Spelling (who really cares) and they gave more time to their commercials breaks. What a shame!! No Mention of a film career, Just The Munsters (That's what Fred Gwenn was afraid of just being type casted or remembered only as Herman)
I guess no one cares if your NOT in the 18 to 49 yr. old demographic.
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Another great Actress without a Star on the Walk Of Fame (Shame On them and Shame on Clark Gable)
Loved her in "The Rose Tattoo", "No Name on A Bullet", even with Abbott & Costello in " Mexican Hayride" and many many more films. Still waiting for a Virginia Grey Day on TCM...
Thumbs up AGAIN Mr.Mongo...
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Maybe he's retro dressing for the 70's Films they're showing tonight...Groovy Baby...
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From yahoo.com
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.
De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.
De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
Lily, vampire-like in a black gown, presided over the faux scary household and was a rock for her gentle but often bumbling husband, Herman, played by 6-foot-5-inch character actor Fred Gwynne (decked out as the Frankenstein monster).
While it lasted only two years, the series had a long life in syndication and resulted in two feature movies, "Munster Go Home!" (1966) and "The Munsters' Revenge." (1981, for TV).
At the series' end, De Carlo commented: "It meant security. It gave me a new, young audience I wouldn't have had otherwise. It made me `hot' again, which I wasn't for a while."
"I think she will best remembered as the definitive Lily Munster. She was the vampire mom to millions of baby boomers. In that sense, she's iconic," Burns said Wednesday.
"But it would be a shame if that's the only way she is remembered. She was also one of the biggest beauty queens of the `40s and `50s, one of the most beautiful women in the world. This was one of the great glamour queens of Hollywood, one of the last ones."
De Carlo was able to sustain a long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. A longtime student of voice, she sang opera at the Hollywood Bowl. When movie roles became scarce, she ventured into stage musicals.
Her greatest stage triumph came on Broadway in 1971 with "Follies," which won the 1972 Tony award for best original musical score. She belted out Sondheim's showstopping number, "I'm Still Here," a former star's defiant recounting of the highs and lows of her life and career.
Over the years, De Carlo augmented her stardom by shrewd use of publicity. Gossip columnists reported her dates with famous men. In her 1987 book, "Yvonne: An Autobiography," she listed 22 of her lovers, who included Howard Hughes, Burt Lancaster, Robert Stack, Robert Taylor, Billy Wilder, Aly Khan and an Iranian prince.
The Canadian-born De Carlo began her career with a parade of bit parts in films of the early 1940s, then emerged as a star in 1945 with "Salome ? Where She Danced," a routine movie about a dancer from Vienna who becomes a spy in the wild West.
She recalled her entrance in the film: "I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why."
Universal Pictures exploited her slightly exotic looks and a shape that looked ideal in a harem dress in such "sex-and-sand" programmers as "Song of Scheherazade," "Slave Girl," "Casbah" and "Desert Hawk."
The studio also employed her to add zest to Westerns, usually as a dance-hall girl or a gun-toting sharpshooter. Among the titles: "Frontier Gal," "Black Bart" (as Lola Montez), "River Lady," "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" (as Calamity Jane) and "The Gal Who Took the West."
In 1956 she veered from her former image when Cecil B. DeMille chose her to play Sephora, wife to Charlton Heston's Moses in "The Ten Commandments." The following year she co-starred with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in "Band of Angels" as Gable's upper-class sweetheart who learns of her black forebears.
Among her later films: "McClintock" (starring John Wayne), "A Global Affair" (Bob Hope), "Hostile Guns" (George Montgomery), "The Power" (George Hamilton), "American Gothic" (Rod Steiger) and "Oscar" ( Sylvester Stallone).
De Carlo was born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sept. 1, 1922, (some sources say 1924). Abandoned by her father, she was raised by her mother in poor circumstances. The girl took dancing lessons and dropped out of high school to work in night clubs and local theaters. She continued dancing in clubs when she and her mother moved to Los Angeles.
Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in 1942, and she adopted her middle name and her mother's middle name. Dropped by Paramount after 20 minor roles, she landed at Universal, which cast her as the B-picture version of the studio's sultry star Maria Montez.
In 1955, De Carlo married Bob Morgan, a topflight stunt man, and the marriage produced two sons, Bruce and Michael, as well as much-publicized separations and reconciliations.
During a stunt aboard a moving log train for "How the West Was Won," Morgan was thrown underneath the wheels. The accident cost him a leg, and for a time De Carlo abandoned her career to care for him. They later divorced.
In her late years, De Carlo lived in semiretirement near Solvang, north of Santa Barbara. Her son Michael died in 1997, and she suffered a stroke the following year.
I was just talking about her and Burt lancaster on another thread.
vallo
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It was on Today @11am.EST
But it is NOT on VHS/DVD. I found a VHS version (but it maybe a copy)here:http://www.robertsvideos.com/product.php3?invid=3528&ref=/browse.php3
Welcome Aboard and Good luck.
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No relation between the 2 Coburns.
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I could not find anything @ IMDb.com in reference to your Husbands Grandfather.
But I did fid this at Google. http://www.aprilchristofferson.com/about_april_christofferson.html
She maybe a relative.
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Maybe it's from "Shrek" (2001)???
Or 1940's "Pinocchio" (Jiminy Cricket: [shouting] Pinocchio! So, this is where I find you! How do you ever expect to be a real boy? Look at yourself. Smoking! Playing pool ! ) -Cool
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It's 1944's "The Uninvited" with Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey and Gail Russell
Try Here:http://imdb.com/title/tt0037415/
And Welcome Aboard.....
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I'd pick Strother Martin as Coffer & L.Q. Jones as T.C. . Robert Ryans sidekicks in 1969's "The Wild Bunch".
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Unfortunately most of the stars of the orginal are gone now, and in that "Big Studio in the Sky".
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There are two I can think of with Gandhi (but in color) "Bhowani Junction" (1956) and "Nine Hours to Rama (1963). Also there was a documentary called "Mahatma Gandhi- 20th Century Prophet (1953)"
Try Here:http://imdb.com/Find?select=Plots&for=life%20of%20gandhi
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Could it be "My Darling Clementine" (1946) with Henry Fonda and Victor Mature. try here:http://imdb.com/title/tt0038762/
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Burt Lancaster grabbing Denise Darcel in 1954's "Vera Cruz" kissing her and slapping her across the face sending her falling to a chair. Because he knows she deceived him.
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1933's "Alice In Wonderland". Grant Played The Mock Turtle and Cooper Played The White Knight.
Try Here:http://imdb.com/title/tt0023753/fullcredits
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Always liked him for some reason. Glad he's back. It is always sad when a career has ended as fast as it came.
Also in the 2006 Re-make of "All the Kings Men." as Sugar Boy. orginally played by Walter Burke.
He went from long hair (his trade mark) to being bald.
For a pic. try Here: http://imdb.com/name/nm0355097/
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According to IMDb.com:
At the beginning of the movie, Neal Page races a character played by Kevin Bacon for a taxi. Later, Neal phones his wife to tell her that he has been delayed (again), in the background, you can here the fight from "She's Having a Baby" (1988) (also directed by John Hughes) between Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern, when she screams that she doesn't like his friend's girlfriend.
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Western Villains: Love Those Black Hats!
in Westerns
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Henry Fonda played a real mean "slimeball" in "Once Upon a Time in the West" those Sergio Leone close-ups of Frank (Fonda against type) really made him look ruthless.
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