mudskipper Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 No, I'm not Milton Berle, although I was also born in New York City...I was also in a series of movies with a group of actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 You rascal, you're Huntz Hall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Natch!... Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Trained as a Shakespearean actor but later became a character actor, writer, producer and director in movies and TV. During World War II I was a merchant seaman. Performed in New York and Dublin in the 1950's. Later I didn't just hit it big, I hit it HUGE. Before I knew it I was the biggest thing in the country. Rated #38 on TV Guide's list of 50 best television actors of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Caroll O'Conner ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 He's the one. Your thread ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Thanks, Dothery. BTW, re clues: You gave it away when you named the list he was on and his position on it. Less definite info likely would have let the question last longer. Most around her get that definite after a question has lasted for a while, and it's time to let it go. Now I'll try to adhere to that principle with my own question: I won't start with the usual question, because almost nobody knows me, and the people who claim to know something about me make wildly different assertions. I have the kind of anonymity that J. D. Salanger wishes he had achieved. The name under which I published some novels, short stories and reportage is not the name I was born with, and there are disputes about the name and the place on those two points. It's generally agreed that my birthplace is in Europe. I moved to a "New World" country, and made my base there. Where my name appears in a film context it is in a "based on a novel by" mode. Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 This reclusive writer made his home in Mexico. One of his best-known novels in set in that country. Then the movie version -- a very well-received opus -- was filmed there. 1940s. BW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 It could be B. Traven, author of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre." Is it the man himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 I guess I mentioned Mexico too soon if I wanted to stretch out the mystery. "B. Traven" is the name under which this writer published. There are disputes as to birth name and birthplace. A knowledgeable film buff whom I knew in the 1960s passed along to me a legend about the making of *Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. Supposedly there were sometimes glitches with the film company working on foreign soil. Sometimes a man seen only at a distance would approach local authorities, and consult with them, and then things would be working well again. This man never talked with director John Huston or any of the Americans on the site -- just the local people of authority. Supposedly, that was believed to be the author himself. I have never read or heard that allegation from any other source. Aside from what got run through a printing press and put on paper, little else is known about "B. Traven." Oh, yes. -- he seems to have held some very Leftist views at a time -- and in some places -- where that was not a safe thing to do. Dothery's thread. Edited by: flashback42 on May 31, 2013 5:36 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Dotherty, want this one or is the thread Open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBaron Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I was a bathing beauty at 15, a WAMPAS baby Star of 1923, and a star of silent films and made my way into talking pictures. Do you know me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Clara Bow ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBaron Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Not Clara. In 1929 I was in a William Wyler picture that was half silent and half talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Laura La Plante? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBaron Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Yes. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Three major phases of my career: Film musical star or supporting player, noir star, producer.Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emgee66 Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Dick Powell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Correct. Yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Correct. Yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emgee66 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Katharine Hepburn persuaded me to give movies a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emgee66 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Having played in several forgettable films, i succesfully returned to the stage. The play i starred in was made into a very succesful movie, but without me in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edythevanhopper Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Just a guess, Celeste Holm (Oklahoma, Ado Annie)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emgee66 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 No, it's not her. I returned to Hollywood and now much more succesfully. I even won an Oscar in a supporting role. What's my name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Ruth Gordon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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