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MikeBSG wrote:Sorry to hear about Turhan Bey. I am one of the few people who like "The Climax" (1944).

Sorry also to hear about Alex Karras. He was wonderful in "Victor/Victoria." The less said about "Against All Odds" the better.
I love both Turhan Bey and Alex Karras ... speaking of Alex ... I love both as a NFL player and Actor ... he was good in both profession. A professional. Bey was good in the "The Climax" ... I would love to see that film again. MikeBSG ... Thanks for reminding me.
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RedRiver, Johhny Carson's answer/question routine was "borrowed" from Steve Allen's The Question Man bit.
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I didn't know that. I'd love to see some footage of Allen on THE TONIGHT SHOW. It's said he pioneered most of the features standard to the TV talk show.
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RedRiver wrote:I didn't know that. I'd love to see some footage of Allen on THE TONIGHT SHOW. It's said he pioneered most of the features standard the TV talk show.
Here's Steve Allen talking about the question man. While each had (has) their own style, Carson, Letterman, O'Brien and everyone who followed Allen tried to use his template for their programs. He was a really brilliant guy and his improvs were often much better than his scripted material.
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This isn't about the question man, but gives a nice feel for how Allen conducted his talk shows beginning with The Tonight Show. He eventually came back in a syndicated talk show that I recall vaguely from the '60s or early '70s.
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Ernie Kovacs also did a version of the question man on radio (around the same time as Allen)
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Gary Collins, star of the tv show The Sixth Sense and husband of Mary Ann Mobley, has died.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Gary Collins, an actor-turned-TV host who was a familiar face throughout the 1970s and 1980s, has died early Saturday in Biloxi, Miss. He was 74.

The reason was "natural causes," according to the Harrison County Coroner, the Associated Press reports.

Born in Venice, Ca., to a waitress mother, Collins enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Europe, where he got his showbiz start as a performer for the Armed Forces Network.

He came back to Hollywood and got TV acting work in shows like 1965's The Wackiest Ship in the Army and 1972's The Sixth Sense, in which he starred as parapsychologist Dr. Michael Roberts. He also starred in Born Free, the 1974 TV series based on the film of the same name about wildlife conservationist George Adamson.

Collins built a busy career as a TV and film actor -- he even appeared in 1970's disaster classic Airport -- but audiences put the name to the face once he started hosting a series of light-news programs -- shows like Hour Magazine, which ran from 1980 to 1988, and the ABC talker The Home Show, which he hosted from 1989 to 1994. He was also the host of the Miss America Pageant from 1982 to 1990.

Collins moved to Mississippi, the home of wife Mary Ann Mobley in 2011, and in recent years had gotten into several scuffles with the law. In 2011, he was arrested and fined for leaving a Biloxi restaurant without paying his bill, and he was convicted on separate DUI cases in California in 2007 and 2009.

Collins is survived by his wife and their daughter, Marcy Clancy Collins, as well as by his two children Guy William and Melissa with first wife Susan Peterson
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I like Gary Collins in Born Free - that's was one of my favorites in the early 70's in terms of television series.
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This personable all American boy was a likeable TV personality, as was his wife. My best wishes to all.
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The legendary star of "Emmanuelle" (1974) and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (1980), European actress Sylvia Kristel (1952-2012) has died.

BBC Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, has died aged 60.

"She died during the night during her sleep," her agent, Marieke Verharen, told the AFP news agency.

The actress, who had cancer, was admitted to hospital in July after suffering a stroke.

Emmanuelle, which told the story of a sexually promiscuous housewife, spawned numerous sequels and played in a cinema on the Champs-Elysees for 11 years.

Released in 1974, the soft-focus French film was one of the first erotic movies to be shown in mainstream cinemas.

Kristel herself attributed its success to the changing censorship laws of the era.

"In a lot of countries the light went on, and that contributed very much to the success," she said.

In the UK, however, the film was eventually given the restricted X-rating, having suffered heavy cuts. The unedited version did not appear in the country until 2007.

Kristel went on to star in several Emmanuelle sequels, as well as more mainstream films - many of which, like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Mata Hari, played on her reputation as an erotic film star.


The actress caused a sensation at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival
Born in Utrecht, Holland, in 1952, Kristel grew up with her younger sister Marianne in Room 21 of The Commerce Hotel, which her parents owned.

Convent-educated, she fled her strict Calvinist upbringing for Amsterdam as a teenager, where she worked as a secretary and a waitress before becoming a model.

Aged 21, she won two beauty competitions - Miss TV Holland and Miss TV Europe - and, shortly afterwards, was encouraged to pursue acting by her boyfriend, Belgian author Hugo Claus.

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Contemporary review of Emmanuelle

There have been movies influenced by other movies, and directors influenced by other directors, but Emmanuelle may be the first movie influenced by magazine centerfolds.

What makes the film work is the performance of Sylvia Kristel... [who] projects a certain vulnerability that makes several of the scenes work.

The performers in most skin flicks seem so impervious to ordinary mortal failings, so blase in the face of the most outrageous sexual invention, that finally they just become cartoon characters. Kristel actually seems to be present in the film, and as absorbed in its revelations as we are.

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She had already appeared nude in the film Because of the Cats, when she stumbled into the audition for Emmanuelle, having been sent to a casting call for a soap powder commercial next door.

Speaking to The Evening Standard in 1994, she said she had no problem convincing director Just Jaeckin of her suitability for the part.

"He asked me to take my dress off," she said. "Luckily it was an easy dress to take off.

"It had spaghetti straps which I just slipped over my shoulders and it just fell off. I carried on talking and smoking in the nude. I was not inhibited at all. I'd done nude modelling and he thought I was very graceful."

Set in Thailand, the film was based on the erotic novel by Emmanuelle Arsan. It told the story of a bored wife, who had followed her diplomat husband to Asia, and filled her time with romantic trysts.

On release, Emmanuelle inevitably caused controversy. It was banned in Paris, where it was supposed to have its premiere, for six months. But it also made Kristel a star.

She spent seven years in Hollywood, appearing in such films as The Concorde: Airport '79, and Private Lessons.

But the actress, whose parents were both alcoholics, soon found herself addicted to drink and drugs.


The actress had no regrets about being associated with Emmanuelle. "It's hard to find a better character," she said in 2001
"I sometimes needed a shot before doing certain scenes," she said. "It definitely comforted me and gave me courage. But then it turned out that I almost couldn't start a day without a drink."

By this time she had left Claus, with whom she had a son, for British actor Ian McShane. Their relationship was volatile. In her autobiography, she described it as "awful - he was witty and charming but we were too much alike".

Further relationships followed. She wed American millionaire Alan Turner, who ended their marriage after five months, telling Kristel he had made a terrible mistake.

Her second husband, would-be director Philippe Blot, persuaded her to bankroll his films. They were disastrously received.

Kristel said she left the marriage with $400 (£247) to her name.

"If I'd known then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have gone ahead with any of the relationships I was involved in, with the exception of Hugo," she told the Daily Mail in 1993.

She stopped appearing nude on screen in the 1980s because her son, Arthur, was being "teased at school", but returned to the Emmanuelle series in 1994, in a direct-to-video sequel where she appeared, fully-clothed, reminiscing about the exploits of her younger alter-ego.

After leaving America, she retreated to the South of France to paint, specialising in female portraits and pictures of roses. She was diagnosed with both throat and lung cancer in the early 2000s and fought the disease over the last decade.

Her agent declined to say whether Kristel died at home or at hospital, but said her funeral would be private.
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What sad news to read Feaito. I saw "Emmanuelle" when it was released and thought Kristel was really good. Wow. Unexpected.
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Very unexpected, she was quite young still.
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Hi,

Olympe Bradna has died at her Southern California home. She was 92.
Born in France, she was a child entertainer, who could sing and dance from the age of 3....
Brought to Paramount by Adolph Zukor in 1936, she only had a 5 year career there; retiring to marry and raise a family. Unfortunately, she is now largely forgotten.
She is renoun for her extensive charity work around the US....

R.I.P. Olympe.

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How sad Larry, I saw her a couple of months ago when I watched "Souls at Sea" (1937).
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CineMaven wrote:What sad news to read Feaito. I saw "Emmanuelle" when it was released and thought Kristel was really good. Wow. Unexpected.
I was stunned when she played Agent 34 in the Get Smart Movie "The Nude Bomb" back in 1980 and one of my favorite role when she played Mata Hari back in 1985 of which I felt she did a great job in that movie.

I agree with both of you CineMaven and Feaito.
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Vecchiolarry wrote:Hi,

Olympe Bradna has died at her Southern California home. She was 92.
Born in France, she was a child entertainer, who could sing and dance from the age of 3....
Brought to Paramount by Adolph Zukor in 1936, she only had a 5 year career there; retiring to marry and raise a family. Unfortunately, she is now largely forgotten.
She is renoun for her extensive charity work around the US....

R.I.P. Olympe.

Larry
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Thanks for the notice about Olympe Bradna's passing, Larry. She was very lovely, with a Pier Angeli-like air of delicate strength. While she never seemed to break through in American pictures, I particularly liked Bradna in Knockout (1940) as boxer Arthur Kennedy's Italian immigrant beloved. She and Kennedy were a believably tender pair. I also liked her in Last Train From Madrid (1937), a disjointed film, but she and Lew Ayres were credible characters trying to survive during The Spanish Civil War.
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I found this lovely obituary for her on legacy.com (the original can be seen here). I have included a picture below of her with Douglass Whilhoit, her husband of many years, who only died in Feb. of this year.
Antoinette Olympe Bradna Wilhoit

August 12, 1920 - November 5, 2012

Antoinette Olympe Bradna Wilhoit went peacefully home to be with her Savior surrounded by the LOVE of her family on November 5, 2012.
Oly, Mom, Nana & GG, as she was known by various members of her family and friends, possessed great beauty, not only on the outside, but even more from the inside. She was a woman of great humility, grace, dignity & faith. She always lit up the room when she entered and her genuine charm captivated those who were near her.
She is survived by her loving family: Her children: Douglass Woods Wilhoit, Jr. and wife Joan of Stockton, Antoinette Wilhoit Giggey and husband William of
Rancho Murieta & Jeannette Wilhoit of Folsom. Her grandchildren: Matthew Woods Wilhoit of Sacramento, Gretchen Guptil and husband Chad of Elk Grove, Carolyn McLaren and husband Douglas of Tennessee, Amy Lineras and husband Patrick of San Jacinto, Chris Morgan and wife Jamie of El Dorado Hills. Her great grandchildren: Justin & Nick Guptil, Alex, Taylor & Luke Mclaren, Kate Anne McAfee, Mackenzie & Dylan Morgan. She was preceded in death by her husband of 70 years, Douglass Woods Wilhoit, Sr. who passed away February, 2012 and her parents, Jeanne & Joseph Bradna.

Olympe was born in Paris France into a theatrical family. Her uncle, Fred Bradna was Ring Master for many years with the Ringling Bros. organization. She was named after the Olympia Theatre in Paris where she was "born in a trunk." At the age of 13 months, she began performing in her parent's act. Olympe would sing, dance and perform acrobatics. She performed across Europe before royalty and on every stage where she performed the audiences loved her talent and charm※"a star was born."
In 1936, Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract with them. At 16 years of age, Olympe and her family came to the United States. Olympe starred in many films including: "Say It In French" with Ray Milland, "International Squardron" with the future President, Ronald Reagan, "Souls At Sea" with Gary Cooper & George Raft and many more to numerous to mention.

In 1940 on an appearance tour promoting a film, she stopped in Los Gatos with her Mother to visit a friend of theirs, George Baker. George had brought along his life long friend, Douglass Wilhoit, Sr. and the minute Olympe stepped off the train, as Douglass tells it, "he fell in love with her at first sight."
They were married on May 14, 1941 in Sherman Oaks, California.
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They began their married life in Southern California and Olympe said good-bye to her Hollywood career and began her new life as a wife and mother. In 1942, Olympe and Douglass moved to Stockton, California, the home to which Douglass was a 4th generation Stocktonion. Olympe became involved in many charitable organizations such as The Children's Home of Stockton and Stockton Junior League. She was chair-person many times for the Junior League's Camellia Ball and brought her European flair to each event.

In 1968, Olympe & Douglass moved to the family home in the Carmel Highlands, where they lived until 1995 when they returned to San
Joaquin County and Lodi to be closer to their family. They always said, "they had come Full Circle."
The family would like to thank Dr. Kenneth Mullen for his gentle care. Iliana, Angelica & Nubia of Visiting Angels who always provided loving care for "Miss Oly." Monsignor Lawrence McGovern and Hospice Chaplain, Tony Berry for their Spiritual support. Hospice of San Joaquin for helping her to be so comfortable during her final days. Casa Bonita Funeral Home and San Joaquin Rural Cemetery for their guidance and kindness to her family.
The family would also like to thank the scores of friends who have reached out to them at this time for their loss with so many wonderful and kind comments of a woman who touched so many lives and will be remembered for her grace, love and beauty.

At her request, when she is laid to rest along side her Dougie, it is to be a private and family only at the Wilhoit Family Plot at the San
Joaquin Rural Cemetery. She has also requested no visitation. Also at her request, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent in her memory to The Children's Home of Stockton, 403 N. Pilgrim, Stockton, California 95205 and Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, California 95204.
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I'm crushed. I always liked her as an actress, particularly her performance as the alcoholic sister on "Seventh Heaven". Seems like a person as beautiful on the inside as on the outside.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/21 ... n-20121122
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