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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 31, 2022 9:36:03 GMT
A favorite name for us with an interest in classic film fashion is one that always excites when seen in the credit roll, Orry-Kelly.
Australian born, American Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly was the winner of three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design. Kelly left our shores in the 1920s, shacking up with Archie Leach in Greenwich Village, he moved to Hollywood in 1932. Hired by Warner Bros Orry-Kelly became their chief costume designer, he remained there until 1944. The unusual name Orry was a name of an ancient king of the Isle of Man. With Kay Francis...
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 31, 2022 17:53:17 GMT
Dolph Sweet Birth Name Adolphus Jean Sweet imo, pretty interesting biography at the name link above !
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Post by teleadm on Sept 1, 2022 18:11:38 GMT
Man Mountain Dean (1891–1953). A pro-wrestler who acted in a few movies, and was Charles Laughton's double in a few wrestling scenes in The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933. His name was second to Brown's on this poster from a 1938 movie, so he must have been famous once.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 1, 2022 21:53:47 GMT
Honeysuckle Weeks was co-star of the BBC series "Foyle's War" appearing in every episode for the entire 8 season run.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 1, 2022 22:21:17 GMT
His name was second to Brown's on this poster from a 1938 movie, so he must have been famous once. Lucien Littlefield's not a bad one He had a really good role in the Silent The Cat and The CanaryFWIW the silent C&tC and the Bob Hope remake have two entirely different solutions and murderers -- is that true of any other mystery film/remake pair?
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 1, 2022 23:32:27 GMT
Distinguished British cinematographer, an artist with a film camera... Oswald Morris. (1915 –2014). Morris collaborated with John Huston on eight films... Notably he also worked with... Carol Reed (THE KEY, OUR MAN IN HAVANA, OLIVER!--AA Nomination), Stanley Kubrick (LOLITA), Martin Ritt (THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD--BAFTA & BSC Winner), Franco Zeffirelli (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--BSC Winner), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (SLEUTH--BAFTA Nominee), Herbert Ross (GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS,THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION), Tony Richardson (LOOK BACK IN ANGER, THE ENTERTAINER) and Norman Jewison (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF--Oscar Winner). An outstanding work of art, with Jack Clayton, The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 1, 2022 23:47:21 GMT
Chips Rafferty (1909-1971) Tough, laconic, thin as a dingo and weathered from his love of the outdoors, Rafferty was Australia’s favourite screen star. Internationally he became known as "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Chips the name under which he worked professionally was a nickname given to him in his school days...
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Post by Penn Guinn on Sept 1, 2022 23:56:00 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 0:27:44 GMT
Screenwriter Rip Van Ronkel
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 0:30:41 GMT
Screenwriter Marion Parsonnet ( Gilda); "I'd like to have met Miss Parsonnet" -- Leslie Halliwell
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Post by Penn Guinn on Sept 2, 2022 0:35:40 GMT
another cool writer's name Dashiell Hammett cooler than his birth name" Samuel Dashiell Hammett Sam Hammett somehow does not have the same ring to it.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 0:36:49 GMT
Leigh Brackett, hard-boiled writer of noir scripts ( The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye) and science fiction novelist With Howard Hawks
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 0:37:44 GMT
another cool writer's name Dashiell Hammett cooler than his birth name" Samuel Dashiell Hammett Sam Hammett somehow does not have the same ring to it. sam hammett dammit
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 1:01:39 GMT
Screenwriter Marion Parsonnet ( Gilda); "I'd like to have met Miss Parsonnet" -- Leslie Halliwell Two very nice ladies
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 2, 2022 2:21:26 GMT
Hedda Hopper (1885-1966) Character actress and Hollywood gossip columnist. Conservative Hoppa was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Hollywood blacklist, she considered herself to be a guardian of moral standards in Hollywood. Using her 35 million strong readership Hoppa set out to destroy the careers of those in the entertainment industry whom she suspected of being a Communist, having Communist sympathies, being homosexual, or leading dissolute lives. A fashion queen Hoppa began her career as an actress in 1916. "I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece..."
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 2, 2022 8:35:55 GMT
Veda Ann Borg Virginia Van Upp I'd say Ingrid Garbo was optimistically named but its her real one
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Post by marshamae on Sept 2, 2022 14:57:42 GMT
Good to know the BBC Is still a treasure trove of odd , Dickens - like names.
Lola Falana is pretty good
Zena Bethune - fine actress, ok name but it sounds like a sneeze.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 22:52:21 GMT
Almost posted her, along w/Vera Vague She was mentioned in Halliwell's mini-essay on Gilda, where the quote about Marion Parsonnet comes from
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 22:54:35 GMT
Murdock MacQuarrie is pretty good. Some of the old time names were very memorable, before the Brad Hunter/Jane Belmont school took over
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2022 23:00:25 GMT
"Bradford Dillman sounded like such a distinguished, theatrical, phony name -- so I kept it."
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