Do You Know Me?

[DownGoesFrazier]

Yes, I am Barbara Nichols. Maybe filmdom's quintessential floozie. Your thread, vf.

[visualfeast]

I was born in Texas. I migrated west and found work in Hollywood (I was good looking). I played a few roles in B grade pictures, then I was under consideration for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. It went to someone else and I fell in love with a director. We married and after the birth of my second child, I gave up pictures, but not after making a B that turned out to be a minor classic. I remained married to the same man until his death. We had four children. The director is considered one of the best.

[cujas]

You are Margaret Tallichet. Your husband is the great director William Wyler, who directed the great Barbra Streisand in *Funny Girl*.

 

Visualfeast--that was hard, but fair!

 

 

Next up--

 

I was the Movie Ingenue of the 1950's. My husband was one of the most famous pop singers of that decade or anyother. We had one son. We got divorced. He acted in some movies and I made some records. Who am I?

 

Edited by: cujas on Mar 1, 2010 4:48 PM

[DownGoesFrazier]

Are you Sandra Dee?

[DownGoesFrazier]

Is Sandra Dee correct, cujas? I have a new one ready to go.

[DownGoesFrazier]

OK, here goes, under the assumption that Sandra Dee is correct:

 

I began acting on stage in the early '40s, and after replacing the original star of one of Broadway's landmark plays, I was signed to a film contract. I later achieved my biggest stage success as the star of a play which became a very well-known film without me. In films, my best-known role is perhaps my portrayal of a character made well-known in contemporary fiction.

[DownGoesFrazier]

Another clue: I was in the cast of a well-known '60s Frank Sinatra movie.

[visualfeast]

*Are you Shirley MacLaine*?

[DownGoesFrazier]

No. You've got the wrong sex.

 

Edited by: finance on Mar 3, 2010 10:55 AM

 

Edited by: finance on Mar 3, 2010 3:22 PM

[DownGoesFrazier]

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Edited by: finance on Mar 4, 2010 10:57 AM

[DownGoesFrazier]

Still another clue: I was in the cast of a well-known fifties film starring Kirk Douglas

[DownGoesFrazier]

I didn't think this one would be this hard.......... The '60s Sinatra movie that I was in was a late-'60s movie, and it also included one of the "12 Angry Men" as a cast member.

[DownGoesFrazier]

I didn't think this one would be this hard.......... The '60s Sinatra movie that I was in was a late-'60s movie, and it also included one of the "12 Angry Men" as a cast member.

[DownGoesFrazier]

I didn't think this one would be this hard.......... The '60s Sinatra movie that I was in was a late-'60s movie, and it also included one of the "12 Angry Men" as a cast member.

 

Edited by: finance on Mar 4, 2010 4:24 PM

 

Edited by: finance on Mar 4, 2010 5:02 PM

[cujas]

Finance, I was thinking of Debbie Reynolds--but I think it could go either way. Great work, as usual.

[lavenderblue19]

Are you Lee J Cobb?

 

Edited by: lavenderblue19 on Mar 4, 2010 8:43 PM

[DownGoesFrazier]

Not Lee J. Cobb .In the film mentioned that I was most known for starring in, I played a private investigator with a name very well-known in fiction.

[DownGoesFrazier]

Not Lee J. Cobb .In the film mentioned that I was most known for starring in, I played a private investigator with a name very well-known in fiction.

 

Edited by: finance on Mar 5, 2010 10:55 AM

[MilesArcher]

Are you Ralph Meeker?

[metz44]

[DownGoesFrazier]

Yes, I am Ralph Meeker. Your turn, Miles.

[metz44]

testing

[MilesArcher]

Thanks, finance. Here's one some of you may know. I was never a top star, but I was well known. I was a supporting player for my entire career. In fact, some might consider me the ultimate supporting player. One of my first movies was an "A" list film where I worked with a young Olivia DeHavilland. Shortly after that, I moved to another studio where I became closely associated with an actor whose career in westerns was just about to take off, and I was a big part of his success. Over the years, we made dozens and dozens of westerns. I didn't just get by on my looks, although some think that I could have. I did most of my own stunts. By the early fifties, age and infirmities forced me to retire from the series, but my cowboy star continued on in both theatrical features and then television. I was replaced in the series by my own son, who bore a close resemblance to me. I have been dead for many years, but I am still fondly remembered by western fans of that era. I prefer to think that, although I am dead, I'm not really gone. Oh, and one more thing. In my entire movie career, I never uttered a word of dialogue. Do you know me?

[DownGoesFrazier]

Are you Trigger?

[MilesArcher]

Yes, it's Trigger. I guess I made it too easy with those last clues. If you have followed some of my old posts, you may have known that Olivia DeHavilland rode through Sherwood Forest on Trigger In 'The Adventures Of Robin Hood". My clue about being dead, but not really gone, was a reference to the fact that Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed and put on display in his museum on California. I left out some clues like Trigger having natural blonde hair and being a vegetarian, or doing a scene in a movie where he shared a bed with Bob Hope, as he did in "Son Of Paleface". Oh well, I'll save those for another time. Now, finance, it's your turn.