The Silver Screen Oasis

Lon Chaney Jr. and wife Patsy dine out... prior to a full moon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

CAROL LYNLEY is 69 today


GEORGE SEGAL is 77 today


KIM NOVAK is 78 today


OLIVER REED (1937 - 1999)


SUSAN OLIVER (1932 - 1990)


LYLE BETTGER (1915 - 2003)


JEAN MUIR (1911 - 1996)

BETTY GARRETT (1919 - 2011) R.I.P.

back in the day, my hair looked like this. (wish the rest of me did! )

Ahhh, sweet Suzie Oliver.
Starfleet Captain Christopher Pike's only true beloved, and Mr. Spock's ( & "Star Trek" 's) first damsel in distress.
See how just the right one-shot TV role can guarantee immortality?

mongoII wrote:
Director Victor Fleming, Greer Garson and Clark Gable have fun on the set of "Adventure"

Thus inspiring the slogan "Gable's back and Garson's got him!"
[A few months back someone posted on Facebook "Conan's back!" (referring to the return of the television talk show host), to which I replied, "And Garson's got him". No one had any idea what I was talking about. This one of the many reasons I return to the SSO -- to be with "my people".]

Yes, it's so nice be with people who understand.

Hedy Lamarr as Tondelayo and director Richard Thorpe on the set of "White Cargo"

Eleanor Parker and Jean-Pierre Aumont read the trades between scenes of "The Seventh Sin"

mongoII wrote: Hedy Lamarr as Tondelayo . . . on the set of "White Cargo"

Looks like another clever Hollywood race-reassignment, likely thanks to coffe grounds & cheesecloth!
(After all, East European Slavs resemble Polynesians anyway, right? )

BORN ON VALENTINE'S DAY

ANDY ROBINSON is 69 today


ANDREW PRINE is 75 today


VIC MORROW (1929 - 1982)


LOIS MAXWELL (1927 - 2007)


TRUDY MARSHALL (1922 - 2004)


EDWARD PLATT (1916 - 1974)


FLORENCE RICE (1907 - 1974)


THELMA RITTER (1905 - 1969)


STUART ERWIN (1903 - 1967)


RAY 'CRASH' CORRIGAN (1902 - 1976)


EMMETT LYNN (1897 - 1958)


JACK BENNY (1894 - 1974)

mongoII wrote:BORN ON VALENTINE'S DAY

EDWARD PLATT (1916 - 1974)

"Chief"! Hey, did anyone see the MGM short subject on poor driving that was shown on TCM yesterday? Was Platt the highway patrolman in it? It was driving me crazy. I kept thinking it was Lloyd Nolan, but no.... so familiar. Now I think it was a young Platt with dark hair. Is this possible?

Moe, Ms. MoneyPenny AND Jacks all on Valentine's Day? A trifecta of great women!!!!!!

Moraldo Rubini wrote:

mongoII wrote: EDWARD PLATT (1916 - 1974)

"Chief"! Hey, did anyone see the MGM short subject on poor driving that was shown on TCM yesterday? Was Platt the highway patrolman in it? It was driving me crazy. I kept thinking it was Lloyd Nolan, but no.... so familiar. Now I think it was a young Platt with dark hair. Is this possible?

Moraldo, if you are referring to the very dramatic footage (real and staged) in Traffic With the Devil (1946) that was shown between Coney Island and Mother Wore Tights yesterday, I saw it too. I don't think Ed Platt was in it, though I can see that Sgt. Charles Reineke (a real LA traffic cop back then) did have a resemblance to The Chief. If you'd like to see this short again, it is one of the DVD extras on The Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979]) (1933).

Reportedly, Ed Platt didn't appear on film until I Was a Male War Bride (1949), though we both know that IMDb might have missed something along the way. My personal favorite of Mr. Platt's movies was the stark realism he brought to his role as Azor, the High Priest in one of my favorite bad movies, Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1962). That's Ed with the crown!

Lovely Carole Lombard playing Cupid...shoot Gable in the arse