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[LonesomePolecat]

Character actor Frank McHugh was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania

 

James Gleason is from New York, NY

 

Also from New York, NY, The Marx Brothers

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Nice job everyone. Always fun to see where celebrities came from..!

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two hundred forty-third category

 

Appeared in more than one Rod Serling television production

Burgess Meredith..in ‘Time Enough at Last;’ ‘Mr. Dingle the Strong;’ ‘The Obsolete Man;’ and ‘Printer’s Devil’ on The Twilight Zone and in ‘The Little Black Bag’ and ‘Finnegan’s Flight’ on Night Gallery. Meredith (who I suspect was one of Serling’s fave actors) was also in ‘Hunt the Man Down’ from a western series Serling created called The Loner.

Agnes Moorehead…in ‘The Invaders on The Twilight Zone and in ‘Certain Shadows on the Wall’ and ‘Witches Feast’ on Night Gallery.

Jeanette Nolan..in ‘The Hunt’ and ‘Jess-Belle’ on The Twilight Zone and in ‘The Housekeeper’ and ‘Since Aunt Ida Came to Stay’ on Night Gallery.

[MarshaKatz]

John Anderson - A Passage for Trumpet, The Odyssey of Flight, Of Late I Think of Cliffordville, and The Old Man In The Cave.

 

Jack Klugman - A Passage for Trumpet, A Game of Pool, Death Ship, and In Praise of Pip

 

John McLiam - The Shelter, The Midnight Sun, Miniature, and Uncle Simon

 

Mary Gregory - Elegy, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, The Lateness of the Hour, and The Shelter

 

Vaughn Taylor - Time Enough at Last, Still Valley, I Sing The Body Electric, The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, and The Incredible World of Horace Ford

 

Russ Bender - The Hitch-Hiker, The Fugitive, and On Thursday We Leave For Home

 

Oscar Beregi - The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Deaths Head Revisited, and Mute

 

John Dehner - The Lonely, The Jungle, and Mr. Garrity and The Graves

 

Paul Mazursky - The Purple Testament, The Gift and He's Alive

 

John Larch - Perchance to Dream, Dust, and It's A Good Life

 

Claude Akins - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street and The Little People

 

Edward Andrews - Third From The Sun, and You Drive

 

Jack Albertson - The Shelter, and I Dream of Genie

 

Ivan Dixon - The Big Tall Wish and The Am The Night-Color Me Black

 

Anne Francis - The After Hours and Jess-Belle

 

James Gregory - Where is Everybody? and The Passersby

 

John Hoyt - The Lateness of the Hour and Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up

 

Lee Marvin - The Grave and Steel

 

Burt Mustin - Night of the Meek and Kick The Can

 

J. Pat O'Malley - The Chaser, The Fugitive, The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, and Mr. Garrity and The Graves

 

Joseph Schildkraut - Deaths-Head Revisited and The Trade-Ins

 

Jack Warden - The Lonely and The Mighty Casey

 

Fritz Weaver - Third From The Sun and The Obsolete Man

 

Ed Wynn - One For The Angels and Ninety Years Without Slumbering

[GregoryPeckfan]

Not sure if you mean that it has to be at least two different TV shows, or two different episodes of the same show.

 

William Shatner appeared in two of the most famous episodes of The Twilight Zone;

 

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Nick of Time

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Not sure if you mean that it has to be at least two different TV shows, or two different episodes of the same show.

Any two episodes of any Rod Serling TV production.

[LonesomePolecat]

Bill Mumy was in "It's a Good Life" (aka wish you into the corn field) and "Long Distance Call"

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Bill Mumy was in "It's a Good Life" (aka wish you into the corn field) and "Long Distance Call"

Those are both great episodes. I love the corn field one.

Of course, I have to say I love it, or else he'll send me there.

[GregoryPeckfan]

Those are both great episodes. I love the corn field one.

Of course, I have to say I love it, or else he'll send me there.

And you keep thinking about me!

[DJBeacon]

Ross Martin in:

 

"Death Ship"

"The Four of Us are Dying"

[LonesomePolecat]

Gladys Cooper was in "Nothing in the Dark," (aka the Robert Redford one) "Night Call" and "Passage on the Lady Anne"

 

Dean Stockwell was in "The 16th Millimeter Shrine" and "A Quality of Mercy"

 

Martin Balsam was in "The 16th Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit"

 

Martin Landau was "Mr Denton on Doomsday" and "The Jeopardy Room"

 

[Mr. Gorman]

In regards to ROD SERLING I thought to mention he wrote the script for a 1966 Tv production -- except it was a Universal television movie as opposed to an episode of series television.  Apparently this TVM inspired a number of copycats and was pulled from distribution from what I've gathered and Rod Serling was sorry he ever wrote it.  Except it has not stayed buried!  This TVM was released on 'MCA Home Video' in 1986.

 

      DOOMSDAY FLIGHT, The (1966-Universal Tvm) Color/100m.  Has a noteworthy cast!   

 

      Edmond O'Brien is an angry ex-airline employee with Coke-bottle thick glasses who plants a bomb on an airplane captained by Van Johnson.  Jack Lord, trying out his 'Steve McGarrett' characterization a couple years before starring in 'Hawaii-Five-O', plays an agent tasked with finding the mad bomber and diffusing the situation.  Pun intended.     

 

      Not likely you'll see this aired on commercial television again.  With that in mind, I bought 2 copies of the MCA tape a number of years ago; I wanted a spare.

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In regards to ROD SERLING I thought to mention he wrote the script for a 1966 Tv production -- except it was a Universal television movie as opposed to an episode of series television.  Apparently this TVM inspired a number of copycats and was pulled from distribution from what I've gathered and Rod Serling was sorry he ever wrote it.  Except it has not stayed buried!  This TVM was released on 'MCA Home Video' in 1986.

 

      DOOMSDAY FLIGHT, The (1966-Universal Tvm) Color/100m.  Has a noteworthy cast!   

Sounds interesting. I mentioned The Loner western series in an earlier post. It starred Lloyd Bridges and it hasn't been released on home video. I'd love to see it. Serling was quite prolific and obviously did a lot more than TZ.

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two hundred forty-fourth category

 

Movies with reused footage

I DOOD IT..footage for a musical number from BORN TO DANCE is reused.

THE GREAT MORGAN…includes a musical number cut from another MGM film and material from several of the studio's short films.

BACKTRACK!...a feature film that Universal released in Europe in 1969. It was made by combining scenes from two episodes of the western TV series The Virginian.

[GregoryPeckfan]

Most war pictures use actual stock footage of earlier war films or from the actual war itself.

 

For example, Judgement of Nuremburg uses documentary footage of the death camps.

 

A Harold Lloyd film called The Sin of Harold Diddleback started out with footage of him playing football in The Freshman.

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Most war pictures use actual stock footage of earlier war films or from the actual war itself.

 

For example, Judgement of Nuremburg uses documentary footage of the death camps.

 

A Harold Lloyd film called The Sin of Harold Diddleback started out with footage of him playing football in The Freshman.

Great post. The Lloyd example is interesting, because Preston Sturges was obviously a fan of the comedian's earlier silent film work. We could technically say the Sturges picture is a sequel of THE FRESHMAN.

[KarmaGirl]

Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)--some of the footage used was from the 1932 version

[LonesomePolecat]

There's a rotten movie called INVASION USA which I saw via MST3K which is supposed to be about Russians bombing America, but it is about 90% stock footage of WWII. There's lots of jokes about this, including: "Would there really be dog fighting in a nuclear war?" and "I guess World War 3 will look a lot like World War 2."

 

CITIZEN KANE uses lots of stock footage in the newsreel section at the beginning.

 

There's also lots of movies about historical events that use actual footage of that event. Other than WWII, which ColumboFan mentioned, the only one I can think of right now is THE HINDENBURG.

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One that's kind of interesting is:

 

It was made years after the original films in the series. Mickey Rooney, as a grown up Andy, reminisces about his old girlfriend Betsy Booth (played by Judy Garland). But instead of using a scene from an earlier Hardy movie with Rooney & Garland, MGM actually used a clip from BABES IN ARMS. And they had to have Rooney re-dub her name, because he doesn't call her Betsy in the scene, he calls her by the character she played in that film, which was Patsy.

[Jlewis]

Road To Hollywood (1947)... composed of several Mack Sennett/Educational Pictures 2-reelers featuring Bing Crosby (1931-32) and presented as a "documentary" on his early rise to fame. In a way, this was a precursor to Robert Youngson's The Golden Age Of Comedy (1957) and MGM's That's Entertainment! franchise.

 

Warner Archive has a triple feature set: Variety Time (1948), Make Mine Laughs (1949 title spoofing Walt Disney's Make Mine Music) and Footlight Varieties (1951) that make ample use of RKO's short subject material, culled from the Flicker Flashbacks, Leon Errol and Edgar Kennedy series. Jack Paar is the host on two of these, presenting comedy "sketches" that looked eerily familiar to movie audiences who might have seen the same material preceding an RKO feature a year or two earlier..

 

The Animal World (1955, also available from WB) was Irwin Allen's nature documentary feature borrowing from a great many previous wildlife films and got into some legal trouble by not giving proper credits. The footage borrowed from the Woodards' 30s shorts on octopus, moray eels and termites was black and white, but "color tinted" in order to blend in with the other Warnercolor footage. Since Warner Brothers produced it, their earlier shorts like Thar She Blows! (needed for a whale sequence) was also fair game. However, Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion dinosaur footage was all new. The models themselves were used in a nifty View Master 3-reel set "Prehistoric Animals" and some clips were recycled in Joan Crawford's Trog  in 1970.

 

Speaking of dinos...

 

Hal Roach's "slurposaurs" in One Million B.C. (1940)... iguanas, monitor lizards and alligators dressed as Dimetrodons (and suffering animal cruelty on screen)... was recycled for such fondly remembered '50s masterpieces as Prehistoric Women, Two Lost Worlds, Untamed Women, Robot Monster (and in 3-D no less!... no wonder so many rate that one a "bomb"), The Incredible Petrified World, Roger Corman's Teenage Caveman and Valley Of the Dragons.

[LawrenceA]

The Limey (1999) starring Terence Stamp. His character would have memories of his youthful idyllic days, and they used footage from 1967's Poor Cow.

[DJBeacon]

The SciFi thriller "The Magnetic Monster" (1953) used footage from the German movie "Gold" (1934) for the big Deltatron machine used to save the world.

[DJBeacon]

"Citizen Kane" used footage from either "King Kiong" or "The Son of Kong" for a beach / picnic scene = the birds are actually pterodactyls.

[Jlewis]

They may also be fake sea birds as a "back-projection" of the scene when the ship first visited Skull Island. I can only remember the one Pteranodon that fought Kong the First.

 

CITIZEN KANE was a mighty slick flick... and, boy, did it borrow from so many earlier films! The opening Xanadu segment borrowed twice from Walt Disney's SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (a previous RKO release)... although not completely. Many fans assume that the Queen's window was used as a stock shot, but the film just used it as inspiration and created their own image... possibly with cut-out pieces from copied frames of the other film? Much more striking is the shot of Kane's hand dropping the snow-ball on the floor with his arm stretched in death (saying "rose bud") just like Snow White dropping her apple. Orson Welles and his crew really, really liked SNOW WHITE a lot. Lots of mirrors in the movie too, if not all "talking" to Kane. (Side note: Ben Mankiewicz claims that KANE is Donald Trump's favorite movie. *cough cough*)

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Thank you everyone for an excellent discussion yesterday.