*CANDIDS*

[klondike]

Ahh, Jack Gilford - the face of Cracker Jacks for every Baby Boomer within sight of 50!

[mongoII]

Studio honcho Jack Warner and Bette Davis with 2nd husband Arthur Farnsworth
(who left Davis widowed from a nasty fall in 1943)

[JackFavell]

Klondike-

Did you ever see Jack Gilford do his split pea soup imitation? Pure genius.

And Mongo -

thanks also for the pic of Woody Strode.... oh my my my.

[The Ingenue]

JULY 25th. BIRTHDAYS

PHILIPPE De LACY (1917 - 1995)

Whatever became of Philippe?

And by the way, thank you, mongo, for posting these birthday photos. I'm enjoying them!

[mongoII]

Carrie, the silent screen child star lost his boyish charm by his early teens and retired from the screen in the early 1930s.
He concentrated on the production end of films as a producer, director and cinematographer.

De Lacy married his high school sweetheart and lived a productive life until his death from carcinoma of the colon, his cremated remains were scattered at sea. He was 78.

[The Ingenue]

Carrie, the silent screen child star lost his boyish charm by his early teens and retired from the screen in the early 1930s.
He concentrated on the production end of films as a producer, director and cinematographer.

De Lacy married his high school sweetheart and lived a productive life until his death from carcinoma of the colon, his cremated remains were scattered at sea. He was 78.

Thank you for this information, mongo. De Lacy had such an unforgettable face, with those crystal blue eyes--never cold, but somehow distant, fragile, touching. I'm so glad he had a happy life after leaving the silver screen.

[mongoII]

Ernie Kovacs, wife Edie Adams having dinner at home with their girls in 1957

[mongoII]

JULY 26th. BIRTHDAYS


JAMES BEST is 83 today


BLAKE EDWARDS is 87 today


MARJORIE LORD is 91 today


ADRIAN BOOTH aka LORNA GRAY is 92 today


STANLEY KUBRICK (1928 - 1999)


JASON ROBARDS (1922 - 2000)


VIRGINIA GILMORE (1919 - 1986)


VIVIAN VANCE (1909 - 1979)


CHARLES BUTTERWORTH (1896 - 1946)


GRACIE ALLEN (1895 - 1964)

[klondike]

Robards definitely had better camera appeal before losing most of his upper lip in that car collision.

[Moraldo Rubini]

GRACIE ALLEN (1895 - 1964)

Lovely shot of Viv Vance. James Best is strikingly handsome, though I don't remember ever seeing him.
Last night I flew 'cross country on one of United's "Premiere Service" flights. On the PS flights they give you a media player and you can choose from around 24 movies to watch. None of the menu items interested me (At 17 anyone?), so I pulled out my portable DVD player and watched Broadway Rhythm and Two Girls and a Sailor. A few people tapped me on the shoulder, "Which movie is that? I want to watch it too." The latter film features a thin thread of story that bastes together a dazzling revue of talented performers. Gracie was one of them. I love this effervescent gal and in this flick she performs the "Concerto for Index Finger". What fun! She makes a journey so much shorter.

[mongoII]

Klondike, it's amazing how much Robards looked like Bogart. Perhap's it's why Bacall was attracted to him.


Moraldo, you may recall James Best later in his career as Sheriff Rosco Coltrane on TVs "The Dukes of Hazzard".
No doubt that Gracie Allen was a sweetheart.

[mongoII]

Turhan Bey & Merle Oberon on the set of "A Night in Paradise"


Merle Oberon with her 4th and last husband Robert Wolders


Merle Oberon, two months before her death in 1979, with a friend

[mongoII]

Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. taking in the scenery

[jdb1]

Ernie Kovacs, wife Edie Adams having dinner at home with their girls in 1957

Joe, this lovely photo is the culmination of the emotional drama these people went through to be able to become the family we see here. Perhaps you'd like to give a little info on the Kovacs family?

[mongoII]

Judith, I'll gather up some info and post it later on today. No doubt that Kovacs eventually gave Adams a run for her money.