FranklinPangborn Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Carole Landis? 4 JILLS IN A JEEP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 You got it, Franklin. Kay Francis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair were the other three. The marraige between Carole Landis and the soldier did not last. Your turn now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranklinPangborn Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I wrote (with a partner) a string of Broadway hits winning a Pulitzer along the way. I moved on to Hollywood, writing screenplays that brought me an Oscar nomination. I went back to Broadway as a director. Had a few hits including a mega-hit that brought me a Tony award. I died right after my last show opened on Broadway. It was another hit and sort of became a symbol of the era. Despite being less than heterosexual, I married and had a couple of kids, My wife was famous on stage, made a few movies and had long running success on TV. She performed until about a year before she died in her 90s. Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 It's a guess....Moss Hart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranklinPangborn Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Correct, Edythe...it's Moss. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Born in the Bronx, worked around Wall Street until I got a break into Broadway in the '30s. You can hear me on classic radio playing in detective shows. I costarred in movies in the '40s and '50s, mostly detective and war movies. I starred in a 4 star playhouse episode that launched my own series & kept me on TV until my untimely death. Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Just saw "In A Lonely Place" or never would have thought of this TV Noir--but on TV Mickey Spillane was more my style-- Frank Lovejoy--"Meet McGraw" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 You have it, cujas. Meet McGraw was the original and then spun off to the Adventures of McGraw. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 This beautiful actress started as a model. She had her share of "A" movies and Movie star leading men in the 40's, eventhough she never became a big star herself. When TV came, she was offered a nice sitcom that had minor success. After that, she did notable guest shots on TV from the late 50's through the 1980's. Hint #1: She wasn't primarily known as a musical-comedy performer, but she co-starred in a landmark musical of the 40's that featured superb tap dancing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Hint #2--Before Hollywood beckoned, this beautiful actress was in a Broadway musical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Eleanor Powell ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Muddy--she was a beautiful model who had a brief Broadway career, co-starred with the biggies in the 40's, had a brief TV sitcom in the '50's and went on to guest star on TV to Murder She Wrote. No professional tap dancer here--but HINt--she did dance with Fred Astaire in a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Marjorie Reynolds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Fi--you're so hot, you're burning. Hint--Like Marjorie, this co-star danced with Astaire and enjoyed an off-screen romance with der bingle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Maybe Joan Caulfield who was in "Blue Skies"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Maybe Muddy you're Right! Boy that seemed to be a hard one. I remember her on "Sally!" on NBC around 1958. She was a real intelligent beauty. She did a lot of TV, but she's noted for 2 movies--Dear Ruth and The Unsuspected. Muddy, it's all yours-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 He was a successful accountant who got into the movies because constant gazing at numbers and accounting ledgers strained his eye, endangering his eyesight...His name ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Peter Falk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Not Peter Falk, but probably as well-known...A character actor .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Jack Elam was an accountant that went into show biz?? Him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Bob Newhart also had been an accountant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Him Jack Elam, who acquired his trademark eye after being stabbed as a young boy during a fight with another Boy scout....Your thread, Edythe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 He came from a family of directors. Began directing in TV in the '50s, went on to direct a series of well-known films in the '60s, and followed with a string of hits that included one in which he directed his wife to a Oscar nominated performance. Who Am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I'm guessing Blake Edwards--Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, The Pink Panther, The Days of Wine & Roses, Breakfast at Tiffanys--I love Mancini--and he was married to Julie Andrews--Darling Lilli----- I didn't know he came from a family of directors--I doubt if any of them had as much talent or success as he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Bravo, cujas. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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