*CANDIDS*

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ROBERT WAGNER is 81 today


HAZEL COURT (1926 - 2008)


WALTER REED (1916 - 2001)


LON CHANEY JR. (1906 - 1973)


JOHN DIERKES (1905 - 1975)


JUDITH ANDERSON (1897 - 1992)


JIMMY DURANTE (1893 - 1980)


ALAN HALE (1892 - 1950)


ROBERT KEITH (1890 - 1966)


OLIN HOWARD (1886 - 1959)

[ChiO]

Dear Klondike,

I was unwittingly off by a day. Today is Larry Talbot's birthday.

ChiO

[klondike]

Talk about being locked in a typecasting niche!
Enter John Dierkes, the bit-player to cast as the lurking, frontier brute, whenever Jack Elam wasn't deeply disturbing enough!

And ChiO, somewhere the shade of Maria Ouspenskaya is muttering hoodoo invectives at your sense of irony!

[pvitari]

Robert Keith, father of Brian Keith. ;)

Like father, like... son? :)

[klondike]

Hey, Paula, let's close that circle of legacy: that pic of Brian Keith would appear to be from The Mountain Men, which co-starred Charlton Heston, and was directed by his son, Fraser.

[pvitari]

Well, Klonny, I wish I could say it's from The Mountain Men, but it's not... it's from Ten Who Dared. :) I can state that for certain since I made that screencap myself. ;)

Speaking of the Hestons father and son, I absolutely LOVED their TNT version of Treasure Island.

[klondike]

I'm not sorry, PV -- I always dig learning about a movie that's new to me!

[mongoII]

Birthday boy Lon Chaney Jr as the Wolf Man aka Lawrence Talbot, and his pal Moose

[klondike]

Ahhhh, the Talbot clan is now complete!
Thanks, Joe!

(Even under lyncanthropy-makeup, Chaney's handsomer than Benicio Del Toro!)

[mongoII]

Actually, we are not done yet, Klondike. There is another Talbot coming up in August.

[mongoII]

Director John Cromwell and Claudette Colbert on the set of "Since You Went Away"

[mongoII]

The king of cool in his living room in 1963

[Moraldo Rubini]

Director John Cromwell and Claudette Colbert on the set of "Since You Went Away"

Another dapper director. Looks like he hopes to be C. Aubrey Smith one day. Who do you suppose is behind the camera?

[feaito]

Wow! The resemblance between director John Cromwell and his son, the renowned character actor James Cromwell, is amazing...

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

BURT REYNOLDS is 75 today


TINA LOUISE is 77 today


CONRAD JANIS is 83 today


LESLIE NIELSEN (1926 - 2010)


KIM STANLEY (1925 - 2001)


BILLY HALOP (1920 - 1976)


EVA GABOR (1919 - 1995)