The Silver Screen Oasis

Vecchiolarry wrote:Wow Judith,

In all my years in LA, I never heard that one!!!! - - Vic Damone contracting to have Pier Angeli 'rubbed out' by the Mafia......
Vic Damone has always come across as a "polite young gentleman" (my governess, Laura's words) and has not really had any controversy associated with him. But, then again, often it's those quiet ones who are the real bastards in life - - "Still waters often run deep!!"..

Also, I never heard of her being engaged to Kirk Douglas. Wasn't he hitched up to Anne by then??? Pier was associated with James Dean; but then, so were Natalie Wood, Ursula Andress and Julie Harris... I've heard that Mama Angeli objected to him because he stunk, literally (the man never bathed)....
All of this is just rumours, of course, since I never knew any of them.....

Larry

I never gave much credence to Damone, Jr.'s accusations. Vic Damone has virtually no public association with the Mob, which in itself is unusual for an Italian-American nightclub performer of his generation. The rumors I heard when I was a girl were based, in part, on hearsay from Damones' friends and family (I lived in the same neighborhood, but years apart from Damone. We attended the same high school). My impression at the time was that Pier Angeli was a little nutsy and had an impossible mother, but that was based only what I heard from others, most of whom, I now assume, were on Damone's side of the argument at the couple's breakup. It's hard to imagine that he hated her so much he had her done away with --it's not Our Thing, you know, to rub out your own wife. At least, it wasn't back then.

No matter what the truth may be, he's still my very favorite male singer.

I almost don't care what happened between them.... man, they just look so good together.

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JOAN CRAWFORD

YES! I love those cartoons!!

Audrey Hepburn as photographed by Cecil Beaton

Audrey Hepburn What a class act!

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SUE LYON is 63 today


CARLETON CARPENTER is 83 today


NICK ADAMS (1931 - 1968)


FRED GWYNNE (1926 - 1993)


JEFF DONNELL (1921 - 1988)


SLIM SUMMERVILLE (1892 - 1946)

mongoII wrote:
JEFF DONNELL (1921 - 1988)

Didn't she play the neighbor on a regular television series in the early 1960's? A situation comedy... She had a merry smile...

She was George Gobel's wife, "Alice". I loved her voice, and her name...

In real life Miss Donnell was married to Aldo Ray.

Greer Garson, tot, and Walter Pidgeon on the
set of "Blossoms in the Dust"


Marlon Brando takes the reins on "One-Eyed Jacks"

I love that pic of Marlon, at his best, he was very handsome.

Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope & David Niven prepping for the 1958 Academy Awards

Joe, I think this is the absolute best picture you've posted! To see these greats laughing naturally (probably at a dirty joke, from the looks on their faces) is just terrific! Thank you!!!!!

Thanks, Nancy. It is indeed a happy image of the four legends of Hollywood.