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Post by london777 on Sept 4, 2020 15:34:41 GMT
He would be the member of the conclave to indicate whether a new pope has been chosen by the color of smoke released. I did not know they were called "pope smokers". |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 4, 2020 15:37:09 GMT
OK, OK -- make that a spelchek not checked, boychick.  All fixed so that no one else can witness my shame. |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 4, 2020 16:30:24 GMT
My favorite of Ladd’s is also “This Gun For Hire” (1942), his breakthrough role after about a 10 year apprenticeship kicking around Hollywood and taking a lot of uncredited roles. This was also the first of the seven films where he co-starred with Veronica Lake. He starred in quite a few film noir, as we now call it, including some noir westerns. “The Badlanders” (1957) is a wild west caper film based loosely on “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950). “One Foot In Hell” (1960) is a modern hard-boiled revenge drama in western dress-up. You know you are a star when you get your own comic book.   |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 4, 2020 16:49:21 GMT
Ladd even had a radio series in between films in the late 1940's called BOX-13.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 4, 2020 17:51:11 GMT
  On the old boards there was a joke that Alan Ladd once wanted to play Lawrence of Arabia, and most members made jokes about it, I thought it was unfair since at what stage was a biopic though of, maybe it was at the time when he did play a dark knight in a British movie, and it might have sounded like just another action movie at that point. What eventually became David Lean's majestic movie, I think has nothing to do with an eventual action movie with Alan Ladd in the mid 1950s using the same character. I neither like or dislike an Alan Ladd movie, I don't avoid when I see him in the cast, even if I don't exactly search him out.
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 4, 2020 17:53:57 GMT
Well, Ladd was actually taller (by two inches) than T.E. Lawrence.
6 feet 2 inch Peter O'Toole would eventually portray the diminutive character.
No problem -- right?
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Post by teleadm on Sept 4, 2020 18:13:59 GMT
Well, Ladd was actually taller (by two inches) than T.E. Lawrence. 6 feet 2 inch Peter O'Toole would eventually portray the diminutive character. No problem -- right? Are you angry tonight!? I only brought up his short stature as a publicity and how those are solved in general, and used a pic as an example. Since it's a common cliché that men should always be taller. I did the same whit Sophia Loren and Charles Boyer once. If I have offended any man of short stature, I am truly sorry!
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 4, 2020 18:17:00 GMT
not offended at all, Tele -- just the opposite. As usual, I enjoyed your input.
By the way, I'm 6 feet 10 inches -- short for my age.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2020 18:17:20 GMT
Well, Ladd was actually taller (by two inches) than T.E. Lawrence. 6 feet 2 inch Peter O'Toole would eventually portray the diminutive character. No problem -- right? Peter somehow looked more like Lawrence would be expected to look than Lawrence did. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2020 21:22:56 GMT
With son David in 1958   David appeared in Shane playing "little boy"  Behind the scenes with dad. |
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Post by teleadm on Sept 4, 2020 22:20:04 GMT
I have no idea if it's actually Alan singing, but since it's a cheap soundie...and he offcourse didn't and coudn't have known that he would be a hit shortly after this.  or try this www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t2hzUVe_Jk |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2020 23:24:55 GMT
"I have no idea if it's actually Alan singing" teleadm I found this: |
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