*CANDIDS*

[mongoII]

Child star Dean Stockwell just can't miss

[mongoII]

Members of the Paramount young set line up for a shoeshine: Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, Louise Brooks, Doris Hill , Thelma Todd and THE man

[mongoII]

Phillip Terry & wife Joan Crawford add to their donation of books to
servicemen during the Victory Book Drive at M-G-M

[The Ingenue]

I wonder what Phillip Terry was like? He's someone I've always been glad to meet in a movie.

[mongoII]

I imagine Philip Terry as a likeable, laid back, kind of guy.

[Western Guy]

My very good friend Coleen Gray (who acted with Terry in "The Leech Woman") said he was a very nice working companion - dependable and professional but kind of like Jeff Morrow, with whom she also appeared in a Western (the name which now eludes me), who took his work very seriously and was not particularly known for off-set socializing. She also said "The Leech Woman" was a blast to make.

[mongoII]

DALE ROBERTSON (1923 - 2013) R.I.P.

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MIMSY FARMER is 68 today


STANLEY BAKER (1928 - 1976)


CHARLES DURNING (1923 - 2012)


BILLIE BIRD (1908 - 2002)

[charliechaplinfan]

Members of the Paramount young set line up for a shoeshine: Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, Louise Brooks, Doris Hill , Thelma Todd and THE man

What a picture, you really dig out some surprising pictures, Joe, it's always a pleasure to look at this thread, it's like opening a present everyday.

[mongoII]

Thank you, Alison.

[mongoII]

Grouped on the south lawn of the White House with their hostess, Eleanor Roosevelt, are film celebrities who were in Washington for the first performance of a show for the benefit of army and navy relief funds. Seated: Oliver Hardy, Joan Blondell, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Boyer, Risë Stevens, Desi Arnaz, Frank McHugh, Matt Brooks, James Cagney, Pat O´Brien, Juanita Stark, Alma Carroll. Standing: Merle Oberon, Eleanor Powell, Arleen Whelan, Marie McDonald, Fay McKenzie, Karin Booth, Mrs. Roosevelt, Frances Gifford, Frances Langford, Elyse Knox, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Bob Hope, Joan Bennett, Bert Lahr, Jack Rose, Stan Laurel, Jerry Colonna, Groucho Marx. April, 1942

[Western Guy]

What a magnificent shot, Joe! Was that not part of the Hollywood Victory Tour?

Now anyone argue with me that those were not the days of the true celebrities.

I've become so disenchanted with contemporary Hollywood that for the first time in all the years I've watched the Oscars telecast I actually fell asleep before the major awards were announced.

I hope it was my boredom . . . and not my advancing age!!

[mongoII]

Stone, I don't believe that all the stars pictured were part of the Victory Tour.
I also watched the Oscars and although the show had it's moments, it didn't compare to the shows of the 1960's, '70s and 80's when we saw many of the STARS of the Golden Age.
I did manage to stay up to the bitter end, and i believe I'm older than you.

[Western Guy]

Thanks Joe. Recognize many of them from that famous tour but I don't seem to recall, for instance, Desi Arnaz being part of it.

Glad to think maybe my falling off during the Oscars was due to boredom and not my advancing age. I really found it a yawner. Even the Tribute section seemed to be lacking. TCM did it much better, IMO.

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RONNY HOWARD is 59 today


HARRY BELAFONTE is 86 today





DAVID NIVEN (1910 - 1983)


NITA NALDI (1895 - 1961)


LIONEL ATWILL (1885 - 1946)