The Silver Screen Oasis

Ann Harding, I thank you for the answers to the list of stars that are pictured. I didn't know a few of them myself.

Klondike, it was a special one time presentation presented on all 3 major networks which drew big ratings.

APRIL 8th. BIRTHDAYS


JAMES DARREN is 74 today


DON RICKLES is 84 today


RICKY NELSON (1940 - 1985)


MIYOSHI UMEKI (1929 - 2007)


LEX BARKER (1919 - 1973)


JOHN ARCHER (1915 - 1999)


CARMEN MATHEWS (1914 - 1995)


AUTURO de CORDOVA (1907 - 1973)

I try to still enjoy Lex Barker in matinee-style flicks, like when he portrays Tarzan, or Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo, but remembering his purported involvement in the abuse of Lana Turner's pubescent daughter does make me cringe. As I recall, it even led to him being referenced in the Stompanato murder trial.

Moon Doggie is SEVENTY FOUR????? Zowie, where does the time go??????

James Darren had a recurring role on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", which ran 'til 1999.

A segment of Karloff as the Frankenstein monster was cut from
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in 1947.

klondike wrote:James Darren had a recurring role on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", which ran 'til 1999.

Hey, Pally, James Darren was holodeck nighclub singer/owner Vic Fontaine on DS9. His persona was a melding of Dino and Frank. Darren had the inside track on a role like that, since he was a friend of the Sinatra family, and is godfather to Nancy Sinatra's eldest daughter. Darren's son was a newsreader on CNN for many years -- I don't watch CNN much, but I think the son uses the name Jim Moret. He's may be on one of the entertainment "news" shows now.

I don't know where to place my girlish infatuation today -- Jimmy Darren or Ricky Nelson. Sighs for both.

Now, tell me, does anyone know whose idea it was to send Joan Weldon into the desert in a tight tweed suit buttoned up to the neck with that cute little bow brooch?

There it goes -- I knew it would happen -- there's a song playing in my head. Let's see -- yes -- it's Darren: "Goodbye cruel world, I'm off to join the circus. Gonna be a broken-hearted clown" and so on. It will probably run all night, unless I can overlay "I'm a Travelin' Man" or maybe "Garden Party."

MAY 9th. BIRTHDAYS


ALBERT FINNEY is 74 today


GLENDA JACKSON is 74 today


PEDRO ARMENDARIZ (1912 - 1963)


FUZZY KNIGHT (1901 - 1976)


RICHARD BARTHELMESS (1895 - 1963)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY


Greer Garson with mom Nina


Audrey Hepburn with mom Ella


Rita Hayworth with mom Volga


Jeanette MacDonald with mom Annamay

Oh yeah, I remember that smoochie pic of Audrey & her mom; we figured out a couple years ago (here, or over @ TCM boards) that there really was a coat-n-hat rack in the corner behind Mom, so she wasn't really wearing some bizarro Statue of Liberty cap!

George Raft backstage chatting with a showgirl in 1948.

Hey, Friends & Neighbors, don't mean to track so far back up the page, but does anybody else see a resemblence between Evelyn Karloff, and England's current Princess Anne?

Princess Anne

Ya got something there, Klondike.