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Post by teleadm on Nov 10, 2018 16:12:51 GMT
I love those old MGM shorts with Tom and Jerry, where whatever you throw in a cat's mouth is visable in a cat's tail, and I felt sorry for Tom a few times. What I didn't know was that there were older Tom and Jerry animated cartons that has nothing to do with the cat and mouse Hannah-Barbera MGM animated shorts. There might be around 25 shorts with these fellows between 1931 and 1933 at RKO, and another funny thing, Joseph Barbera started his career animating these shorts. Hmmm, wonder were Barbera got the Tom and Jerry names from.. I was searching for a specific Tom and Jerry (cat and mouse) movie that I had forgotten the name of, and those black and white pics turned up, that's why I wondered just some hours ago.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Nov 10, 2018 19:48:50 GMT
Joan Caulfield became one of Paramount Studio's brightest stars in the mid-1940s.
Joan's aunt Genevieve Caulfield was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy in recognition for her work with the blind in south-east Asia. Genevieve had lost her sight in infancy when a doctor spilled acid into her eyes. The award was given to her by President Lyndon B. Johnson, in Kennedy's honour.
How does a doctor spill acid into a baby's eyes, I wonder.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Nov 10, 2018 20:58:45 GMT
Viveca Lindfors starred with Ronald Reagan in Night Unto Night (1949), directed by Don Siegel (left) (who would become her third husband, of four). She later shared two recollections about Reagan with People magazine, in a piece they ran in the summer of Reagan's first term as US president. She said that Reagan had said sex is best in the afternoon, after coming out of the shower. She also said that her agent had warned her against taking the role with Reagan in Night Unto Night because, the agent said, "He's not good enough." Lindfors added, "Ronnie was not a big star. He didn't carry enough weight. To think that the guy became Preisdent is really kind of funny." people.com/archive/five-former-co-stars-rate-reagan-as-a-leading-and-sometimes-misleading-man-vol-16-no-6/Incidentally, in the same People article, Virginia Mayo recalled having worked with Reagan in She's Working Her Way Through College (1952). The film was about a burlesque performer trying to get a college education. Reagan played a professor who defended her honor in a speech insisting that every man, woman, and child has a right to an education. According to People: After beginning her film career in Sweden, Lindfors had followed her idols Garbo and Bergman to Hollywood. Lindfors described her life in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1975: articles.latimes.com/1995-10-26/news/mn-61274_1_viveca-lindforsIn 1990, a hooligan slashed Lindfors' face and ear in New York's Greenwich Village, but she still managed to make a matinee performance, reading poetry with her theater troupe, just hours after being released from the hospital. articles.latimes.com/1990-01-14/news/mn-283_1_actress-viveca-lindforsOne of her last films was Stargate (1994). She died the following year from complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 10, 2018 21:54:38 GMT
If you post a description of what you remember over on the I NEED TO KNOW board, someone may know. Cya there
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 22, 2018 0:29:14 GMT
Two-time Oscar nominated English actress, Sally Hawkins, made her big screen debut as a villager extra in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Nov 24, 2018 16:42:28 GMT
Alexander Ludwig, who played Cato in the Hunger Games and Bjorn on the TV series Vikings is the real life oldest son of Sharlene Martin, who played Tamara Mason in Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan movie from 1989
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 25, 2018 0:50:26 GMT
DanaShelbyChanceyAfter reading your post, I looked up Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) on IMDB and discovered that Ken Kirzinger had a small part in it as "New York Cook." He would go on to play Jason Voorhees himself in Freddy vs. Jason (2003).
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 27, 2018 1:07:55 GMT
Brooke Shields is Glenn Close's second cousin once removed.
Henry Winkler and Richard Belzer are cousins.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is distantly related to Ava Gardner.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 28, 2018 5:08:08 GMT
Here is some Oscar trivia I just ran across. The first instance of the first and second movies of a series both being nominated for Best Picture would be “The Broadway Melody” (1929) (which also won) and “The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935). This is not a case of a sequel. The two films were separate stories. The first instance of a movie and its actual sequel being nominated for Best Picture would be “Going My Way (1944) (which also won) and “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945). Bing Crosby played Father O’Malley in both. Der Bingle also became the first actor to be nominated twice for playing the same character.
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Post by sostie on Nov 28, 2018 12:49:36 GMT
The computer graphics in Escape From New York were made by filming a cardboard mock up of NY outlined with luminous Scotch tape
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 20, 2019 18:45:28 GMT
Kate Mara has been married to her Fantastic Four (2015) costar, Jamie Bell, since 2017, which means, in Marvel terms, Sue Storm is now shacked up with The Thing! I am only now learning of this. Bell was previously married to actress, Evan Rachel Wood from HBO's Westworld and they have a child together.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 20, 2019 19:05:50 GMT
Carolyn Mitchell (a.k.a. Barbara Ann Thomason), the fifth wife of Mickey Rooney, was murdered by her lover, Milos Milosevics, who then killed himself. The Rooneys were introduced to Milosevics by French actor, Alain Delon. He's credited as Milos Milos on IMDB, he had a small role in The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966).
I'm just learning of this now because I saw Carolyn Mitchell in The Cry Baby Killer (1958) last week, where she played Jack Nicholson's love interest, the movie was his first ever, and her last.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 20, 2019 23:49:19 GMT
I just learned that they make LUMINOUS SCOTCH TAPE …. look out world !
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 21, 2019 3:38:59 GMT
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Trivia
I was stunned.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 21, 2019 3:47:35 GMT
Most sources give the place of birth of Master noir director Robert Siodmak as Dresden, Germany but a few (including the IMDb “Full biography” page) claim that he was born in Memphis, Tennessee but his parents immediately returned to Dresden. Siodmak himself may have originally made this claim in order to get a visa to come to America in 1940, fleeing the rising Nazi threat. German sources record his birth in Dresden. Robert Siodmak
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 21, 2019 4:08:11 GMT
Joan Caulfield became one of Paramount Studio's brightest stars in the mid-1940s.
How does a doctor spill acid into a baby's eyes, I wonder. Beginning in the late 19th century doctors began using a diluted solution of silver nitrate in newborn babies’ eyes to prevent blindness from any venereal disease the mother may have. This custom continued long after screening for VD in the mother became a requirement in most jurisdictions. Ironically, the silver nitrate was also a risk for blindness. Silver nitrate was generally dropped as part of the birthing process in 1975 or thereabouts. Where eyedrops are still an option, modern antibiotics are substituted. My children were born in 1975 and 1977. I was present at both births but don’t remember any eyedrops being administered. An accident with the silver nitrate may have been the cause of blindness in Genevieve Caulfield. This is just a guess, though.
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Post by Sulla on Feb 21, 2019 6:27:43 GMT
Some of you may remember 80s teen star, Robyn Lively (Teen Witch - 1989). I've always thought Kate Mara looks a bit like Robyn.
Robyn is the half-sister of Blake Lively.
They're 16 years apart. Both have the same mother.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 21, 2019 12:10:01 GMT
Sulla Robyn and Blake have two actor brothers as well: Jason Lively, most famous for playing Rusty Griswold in National Lampoon's European Vacation and actor, Eric Lively.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Feb 21, 2019 14:49:50 GMT
How does a doctor spill acid into a baby's eyes, I wonder. Beginning in the late 19th century doctors began using a diluted solution of silver nitrate in newborn babies’ eyes to prevent blindness from any venereal disease the mother may have. This custom continued long after screening for VD in the mother became a requirement in most jurisdictions. Ironically, the silver nitrate was also a risk for blindness. Silver nitrate was generally dropped as part of the birthing process in 1975 or thereabouts. Where eyedrops are still an option, modern antibiotics are substituted. My children were born in 1975 and 1977. I was present at both births but don’t remember any eyedrops being administered. An accident with the silver nitrate may have been the cause of blindness in Genevieve Caulfield. This is just a guess, though. (Yeah, I was aware of newborns' eyes being treated prophylactically, but I don't think silver nitrate is usually referred to as an "acid," even if some formulations of silver nitrate solution are technically acidic.)
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 21, 2019 16:33:29 GMT
Scott Brady and Lawrence Tierney were brothers in real life...
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