lavenderblue19 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 It's about time! Barton MacLane an actor where we all know his face and most his name, but isn't mentioned that often. I Dream of Jeanie of course was the tv show. *Maltese Falcon* was the noir. so many western outlaws and gangsters.the Marx Bros. film was *Coconuts* He was a very accomplished man. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I knew I knew it. When you mentioned the kids talking about him, that definitely sounded familiar. Will have one soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 {font:Times New Roman}“I was a supporting actress of my time in films. Born in Mexico in 1923, I still consider myself lucky. While others loved him from afar and some even had affairs with him, I was one of the few who married him and could say he was mine, for seven glorious years. My movie career didn’t find me fame. But being his wife did. I made a movie in 1947 with an actress who had it bad for him. Two years later he was mine, and though we divorced and he remarried, he once was mine. A son carries on the name. Do you know me?”{font} {font:Times New Roman} {font} {font:Times New Roman} {font} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Are you Linda Christian who was married to my #1 hearthrob, Tyrone Power? I was just thinking how it must have been impossible to resist that man. Just watched *The Eddy Duchin Story*, another film I've seen countless times and never tire of.To me the handsomest man ever on the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I did that just for you, lavender, hoping you'd get to answer it. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Thanks, lana. You remembered that Ty is my guy! LOL. next: She's had a very long, successful career. She's been a singer, a TV actress, film actress and has appeared on Broadway. She's an Emmy winner. She had her own TV show and was a regular on a long running tv show in the '50's. She was in thriller films, dramas,westerns and comedies. She appeared in a couple of highly rated tv mini-series and appeared in very successful TV shows in the late 1990's and in the 2000's. She's written books and has been successful in business. If all that wasn't enough, she's also beautiful. Who is she? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 She was born in the south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Tall, beautiful figure and dark hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 She's alive and in her 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 One of the films she was in, is a famous '60's thriller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdestry Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Must be Polly Bergen who was in Cape Fear, The Winds Of War, and a few Martin & Lewis films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Yes, Polly Bergen. She started on the radio when she was 14. She's been in show business for over 60 years. She has recorded many hit albums and was Tony nominated for her performance in Follies on Broadway. She won an Emmy for her performance as Helen Morgan, in the Playhouse 90 production of The Helen Morgan Story .She was Gregory Peck's wife in *Cape Fear* she was in *The Caretakers,* *Move Over Darling and* *Escape To Fort Bravo* . She was in the mini-series War and Remberance besides Winds of War . She appeared in The Sopranos and had a recurring role on Desperate Housewives . She had her own TV show in the '50's and was a regular panelist on To Tell the Truth for 6 years. She's written 3 books, has been a business woman for over 40 years running her own cosmetics , jewelery and shoe line. She will be one of the Legendary stars appearing at this years TCM Film Festival. I'd say she's accomplished a great deal in her 83 years, and she still looks great. Thanks Tom, good work. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdestry Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I was born to an Italian family in central Pennsylvania. I accompanied my brother for an audition in Hollywood, but I got hired instead. My first role was as a football player. My second role was as the husband of an actress who later became an Oscar winner. The director of that film later told me that I should take ballet lessons because I walk too much like a football player. Who am I ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Are you Aldo Ray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdestry Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Yes, of course. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Thanks. Thread Open Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 {font:Times New Roman}Do you know this actress? {font}{font:Times New Roman} One day in 1954, this young actress’ family's maid asked to take the actress’ Oscar and two other awards home with her to polish, as she had done in the past. After three days, the maid failed to return to work, prompting the mother to discharge her, and asking for her daughter’s awards. Shortly thereafter, the mother, who had been sick with a heart condition, suffered a relapse and died. In mourning, the actress forgot about the maid and the Oscar until several months later when she tried to contact her, only to find that the maid had moved and had left no forwarding address. {font}{font:Times New Roman} Several years later, upon learning that the original had been stolen, the Academy promptly supplied her with a replacement Oscar, but she still held onto hope that she might one day recover her original Award. In the years that followed, she attended memorabilia shows and searched antique shops, hoping she might find the original statuette, until one day in 1995 when an executive of the Academy was alerted that a miniature statuette bearing her name had surfaced in a catalogue for an upcoming memorabilia auction. He contacted a mutual friend of his and hers, who in turn phoned to tell her the long-lost Oscar had been found. T{font}{font:Times New Roman}wo memorabilia collectors were attending a flea market in 1995 when one of them spotted a small Oscar with the actress’ name inscribed upon it. The two men decided to split the $500 asking price hoping to resell it at a profit and lent it to a photographer to shoot for an upcoming auction catalogue. This led to the Academy’s discovery that the statuette had resurfaced and, upon learning of the award's history, the two collectors agreed to return the Oscar to her. On February 7, 1995, almost fifty years after she'd first received it, the Academy held a special ceremony in Beverly Hills to return the stolen award to her. Upon being reunited with her Oscar, she told the attending journalists: {font} {font:Times New Roman}“For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you’ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me.”{font} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Margaret O'Brien (special Oscar)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Absolutely correct. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I was a famous film director who also did a little bit of songwriting. Edited by: finance on Mar 28, 2013 5:49 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Hint: Drew Barrymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hint: Drew's ancestors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hint: Think of a movie featuring Drew's ancestors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 More directly: Think of a movie starring Tyrone Power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Enough. The answer is Edmund Goulding. THread is open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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