Hibi Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Those who feel Loretta Young should not be canonized as a saint, feel free to post here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 well just go ahead and spit all over the scads of lepers she healed with her touch. Philistine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Those who feel Loretta Young should not be canonized as a saint, feel free to post here! In other words, most people DO feel that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 I wont hazard a guess, but equal time for the opposition! Some people apparently do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Those who feel Loretta Young should not be canonized as a saint, feel free to post here! I suppose some may feel she deserves a cannonading instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 She used to collect a quarter from anyone on the set who uttered "a bad word." She must be a saint. (either that, or a PITA). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 She used to collect a quarter from anyone on the set who uttered "a bad word." She must be a saint. (either that, or a PITA). If she had been on the set during the making of Goodfellas, she would have been a billionaire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 If she had been on the set during the making of Goodfellas, she would have been a billionaire. Yes, had Loretta been on the set of that one, the DePalma SCARFACE remake, or- oddly enough- THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS- she would've CLEANED UP with a swear jar. (Somewhere out there, there is a "stag" reel of Hayley Mills and Roz Russell having the SALTIEST, most EXPLETIVE laden back and forth following a blown take. Names are called, lines are crossed. It will burn your ear hairs out.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Somewhere out there, there is a "stag" reel of Hayley Mills and Roz Russell having the SALTIEST, most EXPLETIVE laden back and forth following a blown take. Names are called, lines are crossed. It will burn your ear hairs out. Hmm. Your notion of a stag reel is considerably different than most. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Those who feel Loretta Young should not be canonized as a saint, feel free to post here! This should kill the notion for canonization. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=113142&page=1 Loretta Young with Gable's love child. It's rumored Judy Lewis's last words was she didn't give a damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 She used to collect a quarter from anyone on the set who uttered "a bad word." She must be a saint. (either that, or a PITA). Excuse me for returning to this but I just remembered getting the above from some book. There a specific reference to a movie in particular. Loretta walked up to Spencer Tracey and asked for a quarter and he said something that was very funny but I can't remember what it was. He might have said something relative to a PITA (which is the inspiration for usage above though at the time I did not associate it with anything.) Now the question is, what movie did Loretta and Spencer do together? I tried to google this but with no success. Anyone know? I think it is a popular, high-profile favorite. Thanks. = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Excuse me for returning to this but I just remembered getting the above from some book. There a specific reference to a movie in particular. Loretta walked up to Spencer Tracey and asked for a quarter and he said something that was very funny but I can't remember what it was. He might have said something relative to a PITA (which is the inspiration for usage above though at the time I did not associate it with anything.) Now the question is, what movie did Loretta and Spencer do together? I tried to google this but with no success. Anyone know? I think it is a popular, high-profile favorite. Thanks. = Man's Castle (1933)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGayDivorcee Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I do like her, but agree that canonization might be a tad much. Saint Loretta she wasn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyCronin Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I've read that it was Robert Mitchum, fed up with her antics, who put $20 in the jar and then proceeded to get his money's worth. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I would say, that in terms of sainthood that Loretta was about as deserving as Bing Crosby. Actually having owned a "Lives of the Saints" book and finding out that many of the ones pictured were just concocted out of thin air, especially the saint of the roadways, good old Saint Christopher, that the term "saint" has mostly lost its lustre anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 you're also TOTALLY IGNORING the oft-repeated accounts of numerous witnesses who claim that- on the evening of her miraculous Best Actress win for THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER- Loretta, on her way back to her seat at the Pantages, passed her hand over a water glass and transformed it to a delicious merlot with a chocolately boquet and distinct aroma. Now what would that be in most people's terms? Oh yeah: A MIRACLE. BOOM. BUT I GUESS HISTORY JUST DOESN'T MATTER TO SOME PEOPLE!!!! (and by "some people" I mean "YOU.") 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Hmm. Your notion of a stag reel is considerably different than most. MINE especially! I've a splitting headache trying to get that image of Rosalind Russell out of my mind! And pardon my ignorance( at least a very small portion of it!) but since I usually rely on plain talk, or traditional referrences, and also don't text, tweet, snapchat or any of that idiotic "social media" nonsense( forums like these are as far as I go), I don't know what PITA is other than a type of bread! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 She used to collect a quarter from anyone on the set who uttered "a bad word." She must be a saint. (either that, or a PITA). She is known as the "Mother of Autocensors". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 you're also TOTALLY IGNORING the oft-repeated accounts of numerous witnesses who claim that- on the evening of her miraculous Best Actress win for THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER- Loretta, on her way back to her seat at the Pantages, passed her hand over a water glass and transformed it to a delicious merlot with a chocolately boquet and distinct aroma. Now what would that be in most people's terms? Oh yeah: A MIRACLE. BOOM. BUT I GUESS HISTORY JUST DOESN'T MATTER TO SOME PEOPLE!!!! (and by "some people" I mean "YOU.") Harsh words, Lorna but a good call. I wasn't excommunicated for nothing! I'm the kid who in second grade told the nun that having one's cancer mysteriously cured was not a good test for miracles since that happens spontaneously sometimes, but that a true miracle would be having an amputated limb reappear after prayer and penance. She was not pleased. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Harsh words, Lorna but a good call. I wasn't excommunicated for nothing! I'm the kid who in second grade told the nun that having one's cancer mysteriously cured was not a good test for miracles since that happens spontaneously sometimes, but that a true miracle would be having an amputated limb reappear after prayer and penance. She was not pleased. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 She is known as the "Mother of Autocensors". Don't give them any ideas. Next thing you know we'll be depositing quarters into our computers. = 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Ya know, this Loretta, Saint or Sinner controversy might just be able to be solved if only Ben Mankiewicz would get involved. As I recall, Loretta dated his relative, Joe Mankiewicz of "All About Eve" fame, and might have shared some tales with the family. Since Joe was married at the time, again Loretta playing innocent seems a bit disingenuous. Mankiewicz declined to get a divorce hence he was not available to marry Loretta, so that was that. I wonder if Joe ever told tales out of school about the saintly Loretta that he was involved with and if so, now is the time for Ben to come clean and share them with his compatriots here who love the truth about films and actors. In my book, even if Loretta was only kissing him on the forehead, why was she doing such with a clearly married man, if she was so moralistic in her personal life? Another person who might have been fun to interrogate about Loretta would be her ex-hubby, Tom Lewis since it appeared that they had not the most amicable divorce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Don't give them any ideas. Next thing you know we'll be depositing quarters into our computers. = Speak for yourself. I'm as clean as a whistle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Speak for yourself. I'm as clean as a whistle. That's not what I heard via the grapevine, Saint Downie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 That's not what I heard via the grapevine, Saint Downie. Sounds like sour grapes, from a sour grapevine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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