allaboutlana Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Any clues? Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Mighty handy with a rope Link to post Share on other sites
allaboutlana Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Joel McCrea? Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Not Joel. His roping led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, which led to a career in film. He wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns. Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Will Rogers ? Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Thank you, dpompper *Will Rogers* Your thread Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 "I've been criticized for singing ALL the songs in my musicals . . . but ask me if I care?" Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Your reply was a blank, Kid . . . please post again. Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Clue #2: "And I'm still alive and going strong." Edited by: dpompper on Mar 22, 2013 9:47 AM Link to post Share on other sites
tomdestry Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Maybe Irving Berlin ? Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Clue #3: "I'm a woman and won't let anyone rain on my parade." Edited by: dpompper on Mar 22, 2013 9:47 AM Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Clue #4: "I sing, act in film and on Broadway, direct, produce, and write." Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 WAG: Barbra Streisand ? Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Finally! You win and get extra points for spelling her name correctly. Your thread, FB. Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 :8} I'm glad I went the few extra yards and checked the spelling. Felt I owed it. -- I had spent considerable time checking out only male names. Next up: "Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy." Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 same source: "World peace could be a possibility -- if it weren't for all those damn foreigners!" Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 one mo time. "I don't mind dying. I just don't want to be there." If someone else were posting these quotes, I would guess Woody Allen. But the actor / writer / director behind these comments is British. Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 retiring the question. Spike Milligan, (The Goon Show, Monty Pithon, etc. Contemporary of Peter Sellers, back in the day.) OPEN THREAD Link to post Share on other sites
mudskipper Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 "When I was a kid, the only place I wanted to go was to America. I had heard them talking about America, about how people were free in America....Even then America, actually only the name of a faraway country, was a vision of paradise..." Link to post Share on other sites
BigFaceSmallRazor Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Elia Kazan in AMERICA, AMERICA? Link to post Share on other sites
mudskipper Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 That phrase was from "Goldwyn: A Biography" by A. Scott Berg. Goldwyn was referring to a time when he was a young man named Schmuel Gelbfisz in Poland....Your thread, Six. Link to post Share on other sites
mudskipper Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 "Oliver!" and "The Third Man" director Sir Carol Reed... Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 ...'skipper? Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 four days silent = abandoned thread. Next up: "My relationship with Death remanins the same. I'm strongly against it." Who? Link to post Share on other sites
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