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Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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Re: Actress.

Weight comparison would be more useful.
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Note that I had a PowerPoint slide with the actresses' height that I used to demonstrate a percentile distribution. When the company's legal department reviewed the presentation, they required me to remove the slide for copyright reasons. Some of the images (e.g. Audrey in that black dress), can only be used by-permission. Dang! That slide would have brightened up what are typically boring technical meetings to statistician and actuaries.
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jamesjazzguitar wrote: March 10th, 2023, 2:44 pm Note that I had a PowerPoint slide with the actresses' height that I used to demonstrate a percentile distribution. When the company's legal department reviewed the presentation, they required me to remove the slide for copyright reasons. Some of the images (e.g. Audrey in that black dress), can only be used by-permission. Dang! That slide would have brightened up what are typically boring technical meetings to statistician and actuaries.
Lawyers.
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Intrepid37 wrote: March 10th, 2023, 2:51 pm
jamesjazzguitar wrote: March 10th, 2023, 2:44 pm Note that I had a PowerPoint slide with the actresses' height that I used to demonstrate a percentile distribution. When the company's legal department reviewed the presentation, they required me to remove the slide for copyright reasons. Some of the images (e.g. Audrey in that black dress), can only be used by-permission. Dang! That slide would have brightened up what are typically boring technical meetings to statistician and actuaries.
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Did you notice Woody Strode as one of the actors? Not John Wayne. Not James Steward. Not Lee Marvin. But Woody Strode.

Of course, this is Woody from Sergeant Rutledge and not The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (both John Ford films). I just found that kind of interesting since in that 3-actors thread, Woody was not "qualified" to be one of the 3 actors from Liberty Valance.
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jamesjazzguitar wrote: March 10th, 2023, 3:27 pmDid you notice Woody Strode as one of the actors?
No. With the hat on, I had no idea who it was.
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In the actress video, the image used for Shirley Jones (at 6:02) is actually Shirley MacLaine.
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Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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Academy Awards were first televised– March 19, 1953

Bob Hope was one of the richest men in Hollywood -- if not the richest.

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3/28/1977
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Wins Best Picture: 1976 Oscars March 29, 1976.
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04/04/1960 Academy Awards
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April 7, 1970

THE IMMORTAL JOHN WAYNE
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Most undeserved Oscar ever.
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GaryCooper wrote: March 10th, 2023, 8:41 am
Well I have SEEN Rita Hayworth's Gilda dress and MM's gold lamé pleated dress in person and it's very obvious Rita was far smaller if not a tad shorter than MM. It was also shocking to see how tiny Liz Taylor was from viewing one of her costumes, I'd concur she was just slightly taller than Veronica Lake.

Amazingly they didn't include Mae West in the comparison, who was also in the Taylor/Lake end of the spectrum.
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