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I looked at my tablet this morning and saw a headline that said Sean Connery had died. To people of my generation, he was James Bond, but he did a lot more in his career. He worked with Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston and Brian De Palma. I think The Man Who Would Be King is my favorite.
He was a proud Scotsman.
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Beautiful and funny actress Carole Lombard poses for a Halloween photo. As far as I know, she appeared in only one horror film, 1933's Supernatural. Great poster.
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| Edison Kinetogram, 15-April-1919 |
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Magician, escape artist and investigator James Randi has died, unless he is pulling our legs. I loved his book Conjuring.
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| Omaha Sunday Bee, 10-October-1920 |
Elmo Lincoln, who had played Tarzan in two movies, was no longer interested, so the Weiss Brothers hired fireman Gene Pollar to play the part. Because of the change, the movie which was based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' book The Return of Tarzan, was renamed to The Revenge of Tarzan. This was Pollar's only movie. He went back to being a fireman.
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Beautiful actress Jaclyn Smith was born 75 years ago today, on 26-October-1945. I remember when Charlie's Angels premiered in 1976. Jaclyn Smith was my favorite. The Mad Magazine version was excellent. I don't remember seeing her in other movies or television shows.
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| Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 14-October-1920 |
The Chorus Girl's Romance, starring Viola Dara was based on F Scott Fitzgerald's' short story "Head and Shoulders."
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| Omaha Sunday Bee, 10-October-1920 |
Eileen Percy played Myra in The Husband Hunter, based on Fitzgerald's story "Myra Meets His Family."
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Actress Edna Purviance played Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in most of his films for Essanay, Mutual and First National, including the first feature that Chaplin directed, The Kid. She also played the lead in A Woman of Paris, which Chaplin directed but did not star in. When I was young, I didn't appreciate how pretty she was, perhaps because of the costumes, makeup and hair styles that she wore. At some point, the lightbulb went on and I understood.
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| Moving Picture World, 23-June-1917 |
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Actress Evelyn Brent was born 125 years ago today, on 20-October-1895. She had a long career in movies, silent and sound. She made three silent movies directed by Josef Von Sternberg. She could be scary. One of my favorite movie serials is the talkie Holt of the Secret Service, where she played a Secret Service agent posing as a gangster's moll. She doesn't take crap from anyone.
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Actor and raconteur John Lithgow was born 75 years ago today, on 19-October-1945. I have always enjoyed his work. I think the first movie where I really noticed him was my old favorite, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. I liked Harry and the Hendersons. We often watched Third Rock From the Sun.
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Actress and politician Melina Mercouri was born 100 years ago today, on 18-October-1920. I have not seen many of her movies, but I remember when she was the Greek Minister of Culture. She tried to get the Elgin Marbles returned to Greece. During the military junta, she was a resistor, and had to go into exile. She married director Jules Dassin, who directed her in Topkapi.
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Actor Montgomery Clift was born 100 years ago today, on 17-October-1920. During World War Two, he was classified as 4-F because of chronic illness. He appeared in three movies with his friend, Elizabeth Taylor. Howard Hawks cast him in Red River. After an auto accident in 1956, he became dependent on pills and alcohol. He died of a heart attack in 1966.
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Author Mario Puzo was born 100 years ago today, on 15-October-1920. I never read any of his books, except for one famous page from The Godfather, but I have seen the movies that Francis Ford Coppola made from The Godfather many times. Puzo was a veteran of World War Two.
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Actress Laraine Day was born 100 years ago today, on 13-October-1920. She appeared in most of the Doctor Kildaire movies with Lew Ayers. She spent most of her film career at M-G-M. Alfred Hitchcock and United Artists borrowed her for Foreign Correspondent.
She married Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants, and studied baseball so she could understand what he was doing. She hosted a pregame television show called Day With the Giants.
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| Motion Picture News, 09-October-1920 |
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I like Harry Carey. I like this ad for Sundown Slim.
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| Motion Picture News, 02-October-1920 |
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| Motion Picture News, 02-October-1920 |
100 years ago this month, Roscoe Arbuckle was appearing in The Round Up, a feature produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount.
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| Memphis News-Scimitar, 23-October-1920 |
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| Memphis News-Scimitar, 26-October-1920 |
