Swithin Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Thank you for the beautiful photo of the lovely Nanette! I worked with her on a project about ten years ago, she is as generous and sweet as she is talented. I have a nice photo taken with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 >Thank you for the beautiful photo of the lovely Nanette! You are most welcome! I can't wait for you to look over my list for January and tell me how many of those you know or have worked with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 *George Barbier* In TARZAN'S REVENGE: I'm going to take back to Evansville a bunch of rare animals that'll make the New York Zoo look like a hicksville proposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 *Stockard Channing* In GREASE: I've got so many hickies people will think I'm a leper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Great, diverse list, TopBilled! So -- here are my degrees of separation from this group. I have four connections: 1. Lily Tomlin and I shared a personal friend. I met Lily at lunch once, at our friend's table (I would guess around 2004, or something like that). It was a big event, so we didn't get to chat much. 2. I met Eva Le Gallienne once (Miss Le G), in the 1980s, I think. She was carrying a small dog -- perhaps a Yorkie. 3. Angela Lansbury did a professional favor for me. We had a nice chat on the phone, then follow ups via fax and mail, then she did this incredible kindness. She is lovely, professional, and not the least bit grand. 4. I worked on a brief project with Lynn Redgrave. I also worked with her niece, Natasha Richardson, at which time I met Vanessa Redgrave. I met Lynn's mother, Rachel Kempsen, when she was in a revival of The Cocktail Party at the Phoenix Theatre in London, in 1986. An acquaintance of mine was in the cast, and a friend of mine gave us all a lift home, including Ms. Kempson. So that's it for my personal connections to your lovely January group! Happy New Year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 I love it! I never know which ones you are going to say you have met or worked with...though I was sure you and Mrs. Patrick Campbell had probably never crossed paths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 *Margaret Rutherford* In THE V.I.P.s: I have two enormous pills to steady me down and the two pep-pills I took this morning - the pep-up pills. I'm flying already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 *Arthur Hunnicutt* To Randolph Scott in THE TALL T: Nothin' plain about Old Man Gateway's holdin's. Folks say that his worth's just the other side of one half million dollars. That's too much money for one man to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 3, 2013 Author Share Posted January 3, 2013 *Lily Tomlin* In NINE TO FIVE: Oh, God. They know about the rat poison. I might as well just turn myself in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 *Frank McHugh* In ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT: (writing a note) Should I leave out the curse words? (suddenly stops) No message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 *Eva Le Gallienne* To Ellen Burstyn in RESURRECTION: If we could just love each other, as much as we say we love Him, I 'spect there wouldn't be the bother in the world there is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 *Charles Ruggles* In RUGGLES OF RED GAP: I ain't gonna' have no English valet. I got about as much use for one of them as a pig has for side pockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 *Carol Channing* In THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE: There's certainly nothing wrong with being a working girl. I was a working girl myself in the chorus, but I wasn't a boob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 *Thomas Mitchell* In ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS: He's made of rubber, he is. He wants to hit the ground to see how high he can bounce! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 *Isobel Elsom* In MY FAIR LADY: I do hope we wont have any unseasonable cold spells, they bring on so much influenza. And the whole of our family is susceptible to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 *Luise Rainer* In THE GAMBLER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 *Molly Picon* In FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: People! I tell you, Tzeitel, if God lived on earth, people would break his windows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 *Eddie Cantor* In ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN: Parlez-vous Fran?ais? Se hable espanol? Capisce Italian? Verstehse bissel Yiddish? Hi de hi de ho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 *Angela Lansbury* In THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon', just simply isn't one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 > {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote} > *Angela Lansbury* > > In THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: > > I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon', just simply isn't one of them. My favorite actress of all time. Played a wide range of characters from Mrs Potts to Mrs Lovett to the princess in Court Jester who somehow doesn't bust up laughing at Danny Kaye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberella1 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Wow. Landsbury in the Manchurian Candidate... Fantastic. She scared the hell out of me. Although I never thought of her as a character actor. The ones I remember fondly are Edna May Oliver, Helen Broderick, Thomas Mitchell, May Robson, Peter Lorre, Oscar Levant, Charlie Ruggles, Peter Ustinov... Way too many to mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I agree. Moreover, I'll add that Meryl Streep in the 2004 remake couldn't hold a candle to Lansbury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberella1 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Hello out there. I'm new here. Can someone tell me how to respond to a specific person? I wanted to respond to Lonesome Polecat. Is there a tutorial? I have an aversion to them so help! Don't make me go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Hi, cyberella. Welcome! Just click on the post of the person you want to reply to. You may also find it helpful to start your post by addressing the person you are replying to just as I have done here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I imagine that to some Lansbury fans calling her a character actor would be an insult. She was a star in the early years for sure, always playing roles of women that were older than her. Just loved her in State of The Union as well as other films. As for her playing a mother in MC. Well the old saying is 'that is a child only a mother could love'. Well in this case this was a mother no one would dare love To reply to someone use the icon on the upper right hand corner of a post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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