LawrenceA Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Is that Dub Taylor and Ann Miller from You Can't Take It With You? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Dub Taylor & Ann Miller in You Can't Take It with You Miles, you're being really nice-- I suspect your next one will be a doozy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 I always try to be nice, Princess. You got them and the movie. Now, who are these folks? They are all character actors with something in common. How many can you name? Is this what Princess calls a doozy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchyB Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 #2 is ROBERT WARWICK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Miles, actually Lawrence was one minute ahead of me because I took time to write a little message. Anyway, Lawrence can post and you'll have to give him the next opportunity to do that. The first one is Robert Greig. The third one is Jimmy Conlin. BTW-- Miles, your questions are always a doozy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 #4 is Torben Meyer. I can't figure out what they have in common, though. Were they all in Sullivan's Travels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Thank you, Lawrence, Princess, and TorchyB. All of your answers are correct. The common denominator is that they were all part of the Preston Sturges stock company. That is, they each appeared in several Sturges films, along with William Demarest, Al Bridge, Raymond Walburn, and several others. Now, who gets to post the next photo? I know that Princess doesn't. I don't know if Torchy can, but I do know that Lawrence can. I owe a turn to Lawrence, so he gets the first crack at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Here's a lovely lady making an awkward face: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchyB Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Glenda Farrell ?....just a guess.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Glenda Farrell ?....just a guess.. No, but the right era. This was another blonde star of the early 30's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisR Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I googled your image because I was curious lol anyways the actress is very obscure is all I am saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Well, poor Evalyn Knapp..she actually got top billing in several early 30s films Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Correct, shutoo, it's Evalyn Knapp. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 This thread has been abandoned for more than a week, so I'll jump in. Do you know this young lady? She was a very young band singer before getting into movies in the late 1930's. By the time she was twenty-one, she had retired to marry and raise a family. She was in a movie with this young lad. He was a very busy child actor who was also an excellent horseman. He had an adult career in westerns, mostly on TV. Here they are together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Mary Lee? The photo of the boy is Dickie Jones. They were in Nancy Drew Reporter together ?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 You are correct, Lavender. Mary Lee had been a very young band singer with Ted Weems and his orchestra. Perry Como and Marilyn Maxwell also sang with the band at that time. After "Nancy Drew, Reporter", which was a Warner Bros. film, she signed with Republic Studios and was featured in several movies with Gene Autry, usually playing a precocious kid named Patsy. When Gene went into the army, she appeared with other Republic stars, including Roy Rogers. Dickie Jones had been a trick rider in rodeos since he was very young. He made many movies in the thirties, often playing the star as a child, or the son of the star, He played Bogart's son in "Black Legion". In "Nancy Drew, Reporter"(1939), he does his imitation of Donald Duck. I don't know how much influence that had with Walt Disney, but the next year found young Dickie Jones providing the voice of Pinocchio. Like Mary Lee, he worked frequently with, and for, Gene Autry. He was in several movies with Gene in the late forties and early fifties, as well as several episodes of Gene's TV series. Gene's production company produced "The Range Rider" TV series and Dick Jones (no longer known as Dickie) played the Range Rider's young sidekick, Dick West. Later Gene starred him in his own series as "Buffalo Bill Jr." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Thanks Miles again sorry I have to pass on posting a photo Thread Open Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Who is this cowboy star? He is credited with discovering Dickie Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 <p><p>Who is this cowboy star? He is credited with discovering Dickie Jones. Miles,Well I know I'm not in your league when it comes to westerns. But if I'm right, this was pretty easy for me: Hoot Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Hoot Gibson is right, Princess. It seems that this thread has slipped through the cracks. Maybe we can revive it. Here is an actor whose career has lasted over seventy years and he's still with us. Equally adept at comedy and drama, he started making movies during the World War II era. He was still active in TV as of last year. Who is he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Well, I knew it was Richard Erdman even before I saw his autograph on the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Well, I knew it was Richard Erdman even before I saw his autograph on the photo. Then you get to post the next one, Rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I will leave the thread open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Do you know who these two young performers are? He starred in a popular movie series. She headlined many movies as a child, usually playing a rambunctious, mischievous, but well intentioned girl. They both had long careers, although she became more recognizable because of some TV work. Do you know which movie this photo is from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Do you know who these two young performers are? He starred in a popular movie series. She headlined many movies as a child, usually playing a rambunctious, mischievous, but well intentioned girl. They both had long careers, although she became more recognizable because of some TV work. Do you know which movie this photo is from? It's been a week and nobody has ventured a guess. It's Jimmy Lydon and Jane Withers from a 1942 movie called "The Mad Martindales". He played Henry Aldrich in a series of movies in the forties. She had been a child actress and she would later be known as Josephine the plumber in a series of commercials for Comet cleanser. They are both over ninety and still with us. Now, who is this young actress? She was known for her musicals. Later in her career, she had a recurring part in a TV cop show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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