bansi4 Posted November 8, 2015 Author Share Posted November 8, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCILLE LA VERNE (1872 - 1945) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY NORMAN LLOYD is 101 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 Birthday boy Norman Lloyd in his twilight years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Probably one of the reasons Joel McCrea looked so strong in his old age was that he did his own ranching. He said once that someone had told him at the beginning of his career to live on half his salary and save the other half, which he did. He also bought his ranch and did much of the work on it, A very determined man with his feet on the ground. My favorite movie of his: "The More The Merrier." Classic. That someone was the Great Will Rogers. McCrea said he first met Rogers when he was just starting out in films and Rogers told him to "Invest in land in Ca., because God didn't make any more" By the late 1940's ,McCrea was a multi-millionaire due to his real estate dealings... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Two Fabulous Ladies MARIE DRESSLER (1868 - 1934) EDNA MAY OLIVER (1883 - 1942) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I loved Edna Mae Oliver. Her wonderful performance as Miss Betsy Trotwood in "David Copperfield" always remains one of my fond memories of her. She could be funny or solemn or tender or anything she chose and make you believe her. She was a friend of my mother's boss, Congressman Billy Connery, who had been in vaudeville with her. An amazing woman, who said she had to go into show business, since there was no other career for her with a face like hers. I didn't think she was that bad. I think she did exaggerate it on purpose and made her expressions even more comic. She's my favorite Lady Catherine De Burgh in "Pride and Prejudice." Even Judy Dench wasn't as good, though Oliver's performance was a lot more broad, intentionally so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I loved Edna Mae Oliver. Her wonderful performance as Miss Betsy Trotwood in "David Copperfield" always remains one of my fond memories of her. She could be funny or solemn or tender or anything she chose and make you believe her. She was a friend of my mother's boss, Congressman Billy Connery, who had been in vaudeville with her. An amazing woman, who said she had to go into show business, since there was no other career for her with a face like hers. I didn't think she was that bad. I think she did exaggerate it on purpose and made her expressions even more comic. She's my favorite Lady Catherine De Burgh in "Pride and Prejudice." Even Judy Dench wasn't as good, though Oliver's performance was a lot more broad, intentionally so. Edna May Oliver is always terrific. I think my favorite of all her roles is as Mrs. McKlennar in Drums Along the Mohawk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDE RAINS (1889 - 1967) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 Birthday boy Claude Rains and director James Whale take tea on the set of "The Invisible Man." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 Birthday boy Claude Rains with wife Frances and daughter Jessica in 1939. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Edna May Oliver is always terrific. I think my favorite of all her roles is as Mrs. McKlennar in Drums Along the Mohawk. She was a joy to watch. "Drums Along the Mohawk" was her only Academy Award nomination. She was up for Best Supporting Actress, but 1939 was not a good year for nominations unless you were in "GWtW". Sadly, she died 3 years later in 1942 on her 59th birthday..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Thank you, thank you! What a terrific head shot of Claude Rains ... what a face he had! My favorite moment of his is in "Deception," when Bette Davis is threatening him on the staircase of his magnificent house, and he's telling her he will see who he wants when he wants, etc. ... what an actor. What a performance that was. There were several bits in that movie that were classic ... the dinner scene when it appears he's trying to wreck Paul Henreid's concert performance ... the scene where he comes in when they're having the wedding reception and cuts himself on the broken glass as she's playing the Appassionata ... fantastic old-time drama, yet without any touch of triteness. Just Claude at his best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT RYAN (1909 - 1973) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 Birthday boy Robert Ryan and Jessica (his wife) in Stratford, Connecticut. 'He was dependent on her for her critical attitudes,' director Arvin Brown observed. 'He admired a great deal what she had to say about him in performances, and he took her very seriously.' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 Birthday boy Robert Ryan with his son Timothy. The actor had 3 children 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 BETSY DRAKE (1923 - 2015) R.I.P.She past away on Oct. 27th in London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE KELLY (1929 - 1982) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapphiere Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Birthday boy Robert Ryan with his son Timothy. The actor had 3 children What a nice photo of Robert Ryan and his son Timothy. I can see the resemblance of Robert in his son Timothy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Birthday gal Grace Kelly and her love Prince Rainier candid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Birthday gal Grace Kelly with her Oscar for "The Country Girl" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT STERLING (1917 - 2006) JACK ELAM (1920 - 2003) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 Birthday boy Robert Sterling with wife Anne Jeffries and son Jeff in 1955 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK ELAM (1920 - 2003) My father and I noticed Jack in a lot of early Western films. We couldn't remember his name, so we would always say "Ugly" is going to be in the film! We'd go watch a Western just to see him. if we saw him in a trailer, and that would tell us his gang was going to be both mean and a little crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 My father and I noticed Jack in a lot of early Western films. We couldn't remember his name, so we would always say "Ugly" is going to be in the film! We'd go watch a Western just to see him. if we saw him in a trailer, and that would tell us his gang was going to be both mean and a little crazy. And thus of course the very reason some people think Bruce Dern MIGHT be Elam's illegitimate son! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 Birthday boy and delicious bad guy Jack Elam near the end of the trail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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