visualfeast Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Gunter von Fritsch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 No, not Von Fritsch. Better known director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Hint: The same film of this director which marked the screen debut of a future big star also marked the breakthrough film for another future big star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Could you be referring to Robert Siodmak? If so, there is some dispute about his birthplace. Some sources say he was born in Germany, but claimed to have been born in Memphis in order to obtain a visa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I definitely could be referring to him.You mean the story about his parents' business trip to the US could have been fabricated? Your thread, Miles. Edited by: finance on Nov 25, 2009 1:21 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 deleted Edited by: finance on Nov 25, 2009 1:23 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Thanks, finance. Do you know me? I was born in Canada, but I moved to California with my family at an early age. When I was in college, I took singing and dancing classes and joined the drama club. I was spotted by a talent scout and offered a contract at a major studio. Well, it wasn't quite as glamorous as it sounds. I was given a few small parts for a while, then I got my big break working with Errol Flynn. All of a sudden, my career seemed to take off. I was cast in several more movies with Flynn. I was also the leading lady for people like Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. I got to sing in one movie with Errol Flynn, but when I was cast in a movie with Bing Crosby, I was the second female lead and did not get to sing. During World War II, I married a handsome actor who later had a very big television career in the fifties. Errol Flynn was our best man. Unlike other Hollywood couples, we stayed married until my death, nearly fifty years later. I was rather tall, 5'9", in fact, too tall for some of the leading men of the day. In one movie recently shown on TCM, I remarked that I always thought of myself as too tall. My movie career went well all through the forties and fifties. In the sixties, I decided to give Broadway a chance. Now, I had a whole new career. In the seventies, I received a Tony award for the leading actress in a musical. After all those years in movies, people finally realized that I could sing and dance! I did some TV work in the eighties and early nineties. My final film was released after my death. Do you know me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Ah Miles it is hard to stump this Flynn expert; You are non other than: Alexis Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Correct, Robinshood. Alexis Smith won the 1972 Tony for "Follies". She was married to Craig Stevens. It's your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Thank you Miles I: I was born in 1928 - Joined the Navy while still in high School and got kicked out after only a year, as they found out I was under aged. After finishing HS I rejoined the Navy. After leaving the Navy I went and studied at Pasadena Playhouse, and later graduated from UCLA. I first appeared in films in 1953, three years later won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. I played with the biggest stars: Spencer Tracy - Burt Lancaster - John Wayne - Elizabeth Taylor -William Holden - Kirk Douglas, and many, many more. I did a lot of TV series work in the in the 60's - 70's - 80's and some in the early 90's. In the mid 70's I had a very big TV series hit which most people would remember me more form than of my other works, in fact it made me a household name. I have my own star on the Hollywood walk of fame. I owned a playhouse in Texas until the late 80's of which had some big actors acted in. I am also known for my Animal rights Activism. I?m still alive as I write these clues for you today... So now, do you know me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Are you Earl Holliman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Sorry theladeve you know turkey day... But yes you got it; What was it that gave it away, I figured this one would take a little longer.. Ahhh well.. your up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Eve doesn't NEED anything to give it away. She gets it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 very well put finance.. i forget sometimes how good we all are at this...lol Maybe we should all quit our day jobs and start our own web-boad... we have the best minds in the biz, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Thank you both...here's one... Though my very earliest film roles may give the impression that I?m from the South, I?m a New Englander, born and bred. I made my Broadway debut before I turned 20 and appeared in my first film during my early 20?s. Oscar, Emmy and Tony nominated, I starred in several films under an array of directors as diverse as Carol Reed and Merchant/Ivory. My co-stars over the years included both big stars and great acting talent?James Stewart, Joanne Woodward, Steve McQueen, Patricia Neal, Richard Burton?and those are just a few examples? Though I appeared on TV in my early years, I also had great success on TV in my later career and was nominated for six Emmy Awards during those years? I won my Tony nomination for a play in which I starred that was later adapted to film?but I wasn?t cast in the film version. I was offered a leading role in a film that the star fired from, but that deal fell through. I was married twice, both times to people in the business, but I was the star in the family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Are you Lee Remick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 'Tis I, the beautiful Lee Remick...your turn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 ?I was one of eight children and my first attempt into enterprise at the age of 18 was to be a tea planter, but drought saw to it to leave me penniless. l found myself a manager of a brewery, when fate stepped in and I took an interest in acting on the stage. I would be 62, when I made my first film, where Oscar noticed me with a nomination I?m sorry to say I did not win. From 1941 to 1949, I appeared in 24 films. Then I retired due to the fact my insatiable appetite and my health were at odds with each other. Despite the fact of my short career, I am one of the most recognizeable actors of my time, having usually played corrupt or unscrupulous characters, and sometimes just a jolly good fellow, but a harsh critic just the same.? ?Do you know me?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 You are none other than Sydney Greenstreet my dear Lana.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allaboutlana Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Correct! Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Thank you lana; I was born 1907 in New York; After graduating from Cornel University I tried my hand in the business of advertisement, but soon found my way back into a passion of mine when I was in back in High School, Acting, due to health issues. After a couple years on Broadway, I was brought out to Hollywood when Sam Goldwyn bought the rights to a Broadway play I was in, of which I played the same role in the movies version, I never looked back. I was known for my slime-ball movie villain characters, although in real life I was the complete opposite. I was real popular in the 40's and 50's but did end up doing well in TV, especially in the late 50's and early 60's. In a 1967 TV mini-movie, I played a different role to that of a very popular1950 big screen version I had made with Jimmy Stewart. I was married in 1932 all the way up into her until her death in 1967, the year before mine. I was real family man, enjoyed being a scoutmaster. My wife and I raised two wonderful children; one became an actor for a few years and the other a talent agent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Are you Dan Duryea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinsHood Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Very well done Miles.. I am he.. Your go mate.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Thanks, RobinsHood. When you said slime-ball villain, I thought of him. Now: I was originally from Arkansas and I started singing with bands in the midwest. It was while working in Pittsburgh that I was "discovered" and brought to Hollywood. After a couple of small roles, I landed a pretty big part in a very popular musical, although I did not play the lead. The movie was so successful that the studio quickly cast me in several more musicals. I did an occasional supporting role, but I generally played the lead from then on. Most of my films were quite popular, despite some rather shallow and predictable boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl plots. In the middle of this very busy stretch, I was in a non-musical with an all star cast. I was mis-cast and I knew it, so I went back to musicals for a few more years. As time went on, I knew that I couldn't keep playing those same roles for much longer. I was in my thirties and still playing college students. I changed studios and insisted in my contract that if I did one musical then they would let me star in a very serious dramatic film. It worked, and now my career started to take off in the way that I had hoped for. In the next ten years, I did a variety of roles, including serious dramas and light comedies. I got into television as a producer and I did a little acting. I formed my own production company with some show biz friends, and again my career had taken a successful turn. I also did some directing. I directed a movie with location filming in Utah, not far from where the government had done some atomic testing. Within twenty five years, almost half of the cast and crew had developed cancer, and half of those folks, including the star, had died from it. I, myself, was one of them. I died seven years after the movie was made. In my career, I worked with the greats and the near greats. I worked with James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Abbott and Costello, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Claire Trevor, Alice Faye, and many more. I was married for a while to a versatile star of both dramas and musicals. After we divorced, I married another versatile star. Do you know me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Deleted - Server problems and duplicate posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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