Who Said This ?

[cujas]

Steve Allen,husband of Jayne Meadows

[cmvgor]

cujas, you have been making some good guesses, but on a question that doesn't really fit on this thread. I had thought that Information Please! was a radio panel show that had continued over into television. Wrong. It was radio only, and ended in 1953. Pretty much off the path for most of the users of this Forum. The witty guest panelist was the great George M. Cohan ("My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you."). The story was passed along in the mimoirs of that great amnesiac, Oscar Levant, who was a _regular_ on Information Please! , not a guest.

 

Open thread.

[cujas]

I should have guessed Oscar anyway--thanx.

 

 

 

"A demon within her threatens to break out and eat everybody.

 

The studio was afraid of her. They confused it (the demon) with overacting.

 

Over their objections, I let the demon go."

 

You can name the speaker--for Brownie points you can also give us the studio and the movie.

 

Caveat: The actress, in question here, shouldn't be too hard to guess.

 

Edited by: cujas on Sep 25, 2010 5:08 PM

[cujas]

Yes, and that was easy and hard.

 

All yours, 6.

[cujas]

I'm watching this movie right now--Coincidence?

 

John Garfield and Joan Crawford in WB's *Humoresque*.

[DownGoesFrazier]

MGM's nice lady must be Greer Garson, no?

[mudskipper]

How about Errol Flynn in "That Forsyte Woman" ?

[mudskipper]

Give it to Finance...He answered first.

[DownGoesFrazier]

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their job".

[allaboutlana]

Samuel Goldwyn ??

[DownGoesFrazier]

One of his best. Yours, Lana

[allaboutlana]

What professional stuntman turned two-time Oscar nominee said, when asked what he was most proud of in his career, that it was the fact that in over 60 movies he never said one cuss word. (This is not researchable by quote, but I will offer additional clues, as needed.)

[allaboutlana]

Changing to:

 

Who said:

 

"I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around."

 

Edited by: allaboutlana on Oct 6, 2010 8:02 PM

[DownGoesFrazier]

Lana Turner?

[allaboutlana]

Yes. Your turn.

[DownGoesFrazier]

"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg".

 

Edited by: finance on Oct 7, 2010 1:57 PM

[cmvgor]

Sounds like Samuel Goldwyn.

[DownGoesFrazier]

Correct, cmvgor. Yours.

[cmvgor]

Thanks, finance.

 

This one came to mind after a recent spate of online contacts with members of my HS graduating class, and getting updates on old acquaintences. It's from that sibling of showbiz, the world of Competetive Sport.

 

"Most people my age are already dead."

 

???

[cmvgor]

The same speaker gets credit for:

 

"Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself."

 

??

[cmvgor]

Right, sixes, and your thread.

(I researched, trying to credit Casey with "dejavu all over again", but that turned out to be Yogi Berra.)

[cmvgor]

Without any attempt at research, I'm guessing either Groucho or W.C. Fields.

[cujas]

And of course, that also sounds like Bernie Schwartz from the old neighborhood.

 

Let's go!

 

 

"I was disgusted by James Dean's hep cat attitude and insolent manner. I hate that type of person. I hate his dirty shirt school of acting. It should be outlawed, along with this rock and roll recording business."

 

Speaker was a well-known Hollywood actor of the Golden Era, who later gave up acting for a political career.

 

Edited by: cujas on Oct 15, 2010 5:34 PM

[DownGoesFrazier]

George Murphy or Ronald Reagan

[cujas]

Fi, my man, you know there's only one guess/answer to a customer. But you got it with the actor who went straight to the top, politically speaking.

 

The James Dean hater was, indeed, Ronald Reagan.

 

Fi's turn----