jdb1 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Dan, I searched on the web using various word combinations, asking for dates, Pulitzer Prize dramas, etc., but I couldn't find anything that linked those three films. The Net hasn't yet caught up. Very interesting. I've never seen the 1940 film, but I'm a big fan of the musical version "The Most Happy Fella." Love Frank Loesser, period. Do I get partial credit, and should I go next? Link to post Share on other sites
jdb1 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Well, it's been an hour and no one has responded to my last post. I'm getting restless. Here's my next question: Name a star besides Shirley Temple who received a diplomatic appointment from an American president. Link to post Share on other sites
Gerb Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bob Hope. Link to post Share on other sites
jdb1 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 I guess that's correct, but it's not the one I was thinking of. My fault for not being more specific. Sorry. So you are right, and I ask bad questions. I'll bet you can come up with a better constructed one than I just did, Tex. Please do. Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi jdb1: Well, as I told you in my last post, this information is from the book "The MGM Story," by John Douglas Eames. I believe the IMDb does credit Sidney Howard as the author of the underlying play, in all three films. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I guess I'm not one of these folks who remain at their computers hour after hour. Cheers, Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
Gerb Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Alrighty, here goes: Koko, was what B-western actor's horse? Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 As a guess, I'd say Rex Allen. Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
Gerb Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 That is correct. Link to post Share on other sites
stooge Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 While we're between questions, I'm guessing the star who received a diplomatic appointment that jdb1 was fishing for was John Gavin, who starred in Imitation of Life (the Laaaana one), Psycho and Spartacus in a two-year period, was appointed US Ambassador to Mexico by RR and later went on to a remarkably successful business career. Link to post Share on other sites
jdb1 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 > While we're between questions, I'm guessing the star > who received a diplomatic appointment that jdb1 was > fishing for was John Gavin, who starred in Imitation > of Life (the Laaaana one), Psycho and Spartacus in a > two-year period, was appointed US Ambassador to > Mexico by RR and later went on to a remarkably > successful business career. Uh-uh. I was thinking "CLASSIC" star. I failed to take into account how freely those diplomatic plums are meted out. I was thinking of IRENE DUNNE. She was appointed a "Special Delegate" to the UN by Eisenhower, very likely as a thank-you for the huge amounts of money she forked over to the Republican party. Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 This is one you drinkers are sure to know: What major star -- an Oscar winner -- spent time in jail for drunk driving while his FIRST FILM was in production? Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
bradtexasranger Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 James Dean? Link to post Share on other sites
aftermath Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Wallace Berry? Link to post Share on other sites
CineSage_jr Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Beery. Link to post Share on other sites
bradtexasranger Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 How nice that you get up that early just to correct our spelling. What would we do without you? Link to post Share on other sites
Gerb Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Thanks for the good laugh this morning, Brad! Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Nope, not Wallace Beery, nor Berry either. The Oscar-winning star I asked about, who spent time in jail for drunk driving during the production of his first film, is: BING CROSBY. The film was THE KING OF JAZZ (1930). Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
aftermath Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 > Beery. I'm sorry I didn't spell Mr.Beery's name right. I'll try to be more careful in the future. Thank you for the correction. Link to post Share on other sites
bradtexasranger Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 > > Beery. > > I'm sorry I didn't spell Mr.Beery's name right. I'll > try to be more careful in the future. Thank you for > the correction. Please don't apologize to that jerk. He has no business setting himself up as Mr. Allmighty Perfect Speller. Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 It's been four (4) days since anyone has stepped in... so, may I drop in a new quiz? What two brothers, both well established actors, appeared together in a film more than 50 years ago, and were reunited in another flick as mature adults, 38 years later? In the first movie, one was a little boy; the other was a babe in arms, wrapped in a blanket. As fate and Hollywood would have it, the infant grew up to star in a film with the very lady who held him in her arms in that first movie. Who are the brothers, and what are the names of the three (3) movies? Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 No answers? Okay, this question is right up your alley. Dickie Moore is often considered to be the actor who gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss. The film was "Miss Annie Rooney" (1942). But Moore was not REALLY the first boy to kiss Shirley on screen. Who was? Hint: It was YEARS before "Miss Annie Rooney." Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
stooge Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 "Please don't apologize to that jerk. He has no business setting himself up as Mr. Allmighty Perfect Speller." Almighty. (CineSage is on his break and I'm covering for him.) Link to post Share on other sites
stooge Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Okay, I've got the brothers one. Tough one, but I?ve got it. Jeff Bridges played an infant at a train station, and Beau Bridges a little boy in the train station, in The Company She Keeps (1951). Jeff was held by Jane Greer (a companion of Howard Hughes and wife of Rudy Vallee), who also was in Against All Odds (1984). Jeff and Beau were reunited on the screen in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Link to post Share on other sites
stooge Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 On the Shirley Temple question, I'm going to guess that Eugene Butler maybe kissed her in Glad Rags to Riches (1932), which was one of those diaper movies she was in. I'm not a big ST fan and have never seen anything she did before Little Miss Marker, but she was kind of cute in that one. Link to post Share on other sites
daneldorado Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 You are RIGHT, on both questions! Jeff Bridges was a baby, held in Jane Greer's arms in "The Company She Keeps" (1951), and as an adult he starred in "Against All Odds" (1984), in which Jane Greer had a small part. And of course, his brother Beau was in the first movie, and also starred with Jeff in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" (1989). You are also right about Shirley Temple's "first kiss." It wasn't Dickie Moore who first planted lips on ST, it was Eugene Butler. Your guess about the movie, "Glad Rags to Riches" (1932), isn't the one I had in mind, but maybe E.B. did this more than once. I saw him kiss Shirley (they were both about 5 years old) in "Polly Tix in Washington" (1933). Take a bow, Stooge... in fact, take two. Dan N. http://www.silentfilmguide.com Link to post Share on other sites
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