bansi4 Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Director Gregory La Cava instructs Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea and Edgar Dearing in the details for a scene in "Primrose Path" Link to post Share on other sites
Dothery Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 I thank you too, Tom. I love the boxers of yesterday. My dad and I used to sit ourselves down by the radio when Joe Louis was fighting and I would time the rounds and listen to the blow-by-blow descriptions. One night when I had got myself settled for the fight I was terribly disappointed when it was over almost before it began. He was fighting Two-Ton Tony Galento. TV was yet to come, however I still have the chance to see it, and here it is: http://www.boxing.com/tony_galento_vs._joe_louis_1939_ill_moider_da_bum.html As Max Baer said (different quotes, but essentially the same), "Fear is when you look across the ring at Joe Louis and realize he wants to go home early." Link to post Share on other sites
TomJH Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Thanks, Dothery for the Tony Galento article. Love that Max Baer quote. Maxsie always had a sense of humour. And, yes, the night Baer fought Louis, Louis did go home early. Mongo, just so you don't think this is an attempted boxing hijack of your great movie photo thread, I hope you don't mind if I combine boxing and movies together with this shot from the set of The Harder They Fall. Yes, that's Bogie, of course, with Max Baer on the left and Jersey Joe Walcott on the right, both of whom appeared in the film with him. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 No problem at all, Tom. After all I started it. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Ella Raines bandages Sal Mineo?s arm under the guidance of nurse Harriet Stambach, technical advisor on Raines? TV series "Janet Dean, Registered Nurse" Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Virginia Bruce and husband John Gilbert relax after a game of tennis Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 JEAN STAPLETON (1923 - 2013) Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Doesn't look like a very happy couple. Of course their marriage lasted less than 2 years. Gilbert looks fine in this picture and he was able to play tennis, but he died from health issues within 3 or so years of this picture. Also, I wonder who's pants those are hanging on the tree to the left? Might they be Dietrich's? Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 Poor Alfred Hitchcock still can't find it. Link to post Share on other sites
wouldbestar Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Another trip down Memory Lane. I watched *Janet Dean* on our first TV; an old Crosley we got from my grandparents in 1952 when they got a new Admiral. Years later I learned Ella Raines was a classmate of a classmate's mother and by then knew she'd been a movie star before she was one on TV. Thanks for the photo. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLY KELLERMAN is 76 today MAX SHOWALTER (1917 - 2000) JOHNNY WEISSMULLER (1904 - 1984) Link to post Share on other sites
twinkeee Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 I love the 'PUCCI' Dress Jean Stapleton is wearing! Twink Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 Birthday boy Johnny Weissmuller plays with his son Johnny Jr. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 Pals Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall have a chat on the set of "Designing Woman" Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY CURTIS (1925 - 2010) COLLEEN DEWHURST (1924 - 1991) LEO GORCEY (1917 - 1969) ELLEN CORBY (1911 - 1999) PAULETTE GODDARD (1910 - 1990) Link to post Share on other sites
wouldbestar Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 I had no idea who any of the other *The Waltons* actors were but when I saw they had Ellen Corby on board I knew it was worth watching. The same thing happened when Barbara Bel Geddes and Jim Davis were the first *Dallas* stars on the cast list. None of them let me down. You bet these grand old character performers mattered! I've stuck with many a movie I disliked the lead(s) in because the supporting casts were so top-notch. Tony Curtis? He never looked that "come hither" in his films, at least not to me. Great photo! Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 I am also a big character actor fan, Star. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 Birthday boy Tony Curtis having fun with Marilyn Monroe and a hotdog Link to post Share on other sites
bagladymimi Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 It is character actors who enable the stars to shine. Movies like: You Can't Take It With You, It's A Wonderful Life, Bringing Up Baby, or Mr Smith Goes To Washington would have been really bland without all the character actors. And when you think of people like Claude Rains, Edna May Oliver, Edward Everett Horton, Eve Arden, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Mary Wickes, Eugene Pallet... I could go on forever. These are the people that feed the lines to the major characters in the story. They keep the blood flowing in a movie. What would Cool Hand Luke have been without Strother Marting or George Kennedy? I would never even know how good a dancer Shirley Temple was without the talented Bill "Bojangles" Robinson beside her. Thank God we have all these wonderful people on video so that we can see just how good they were. And, if I can ever get my grandchildren to watch black and white movies or tv, maybe they will be able to appreciate them also. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 Well writtten, Mimi. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 Birthday boy Tony Curtis pensive on the set of "Some Like It Hot" Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Beans wants to share owner Tab Hunter?s lunch on the Arizona location of "Gunman?s Walk" Link to post Share on other sites
Dargo2 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Speakin' o' Tab in the desert here, Joe... A few months back, my wife and I saw Tab and Joyce DeWitt perform A.R.Gurney's play "Love Letters" at the Mary Fisher Theater here in Sedona AZ. And I gotta tell ya, for an 81 y/o dude, Tab is STILL lookin' mighty fit and soundin' great! Link to post Share on other sites
bagladymimi Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Thanks, Joe. Link to post Share on other sites
bagladymimi Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Thanks for the link Dothery. I really enjoyed that. I don't remember - were those three (including Adrian) regulars on Jack Benny's show? Link to post Share on other sites
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