The Silver Screen Oasis

Louis Jourdan and Joan Fontaine pass the time between takes of "Letter from an Unknown Woman"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JON VOIGHT is 75 today


BOBBY HYATT (1939 - 2007)


VIVECA LINDFORS (1920 - 1995)

Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard between takes of "Gone with the Wind"

Ahhhh, Viveca Lindfors with just that suggestion of Bergman. Something about those Swedish women, indeed!

Stone, I had a bigger photo of Ms. Lindfors and when I posted it a small image printed? I had a smaller image of Bobby Hyatt and when it printed it was large? Go figure.

Charming still of Geraldine Page and Glenn Ford in "Dear Heart"

Just saw this pleasant little film. You know, Glenn Ford has to have one of the most friendly, engaging smiles (and no, it's not that I'm prejudiced because he hails from Canada). Yet I've heard he was not always the most pleasant person, either personally and professionally. Certainly he seemed to have difficulty maintaining a marital relationship.

If I may, I was under consideration to help Peter Ford pen his father's bio, but the fact that I DO live in Canada precluded the possibility of that assignment.

However, I did write a bio chapter about Ford in my book "Pioneer Canadian Actors". He himself made an interesting observation in a 1949 interview:

"We are all three people. The person we think we are. The person the world thinks we are. And the person we really are."

Simply perceptive, but says a lot.

Birthday boy Jon Voight with his children James and Angelina

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RUSS TAMBLYN is 79 today


JACK LORD (1920 - 1998)


JO VAN FLEET (1914 - 1996)


ROSINA LAWRENCE (1912 - 1997)


JEANETTE NOLAN (1911 - 1998)


JOHN LITEL (1892 - 1972)

Comedy icon Stan Laurel walks his daughter Lois through the studio

I always have a fond heart towards Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy ... that picture with her daughter Lois is such a lovely picture Joe ... and one of my favorite actor Jack Lord, who played Steve McGarrett of Hawaii Five-O ... is a winner in my book.

Grand actor H.B. Warner (Henry Byron) with his son Junior in 1927.
(Mr Warner played Mr. Gower in "It's a Wonderful Life")

(rumor has it that hey would later hook up and canoodle)

Oh, that Joanie! Shame on her.

Stone, I know of the someone who eventually did write the Ford book. Have you read it? If so, what do you think?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TIM CONSIDINE is 73 today


ANTHONY HOPKINS is 76 today


REX ALLEN (1920 - 1999)


RHYS WILLIAMS (1897 - 1969)