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Last major male star (or even non-major male star) from the 1930s to check out. I think the last living female star from the 1930s is Olivia de Havilland.

Didn't find a thread here for him.

A GREAT addition to many musicals of the 1940s. Sadly, he checked out at age 54 in 1970 from a heart attack.

Here he is in Easter Parade
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I was a very young kid in 1967, but I do remember that wigs were actually very popular. Lots of the younger moms in the nabe had two or three, plus wiglets. It was kind of a fun thing, not that...

Sooo attractive. RIP.

WHAT a waste! This guy had more talent in his little finger than half of the guys Hollywood insists are 'stars' have in their entire bodies.

GREAT pic of father and son. Father was great in The Strawberry Blonde, which is one of my very favorite 1940s movies. James Cagney, Olivia de Haviland, Hale Sr., and a very young Rita Hayworth.

Here's a great piece from one of his obituaries:

In the television film Samson and Delilah (1984), he played Samson's father. Asked how he felt about the role, he replied, "I'd have played...

Her story would be a great subject for an opera.

I never knew her name but I vividly remember -- and still think about at least once a month -- a scene where she was giving Lucy a hard time about something related to little Ricky. Like she didn't...

When I was about 10 or so (this would have been in the early 70s) I was at my grandmother's house, and my uncle, who was close to age 60 at the time, was trying to get the kids together to watch this...

Oh, do I adore her in GWTW. She is so real and so letter perfect as Mammy.

About 20 years ago, she was doing a weekly radio show from a bar/restaurant near Medford, NJ called the Flying W. A friend of mine worked there, and got me an invite to her birthday party, which...

He was soooooo cute when he was young. I was floored to find out a) that he had died, and b) that he was SEVENTY.

So far I've seen Genevieve, Les Girls, and The Reluctant Debutante. She sort of reminds me of Carole Lombard -- gorgeous, funny, up for anything.

If I had been in her place, I wouldn't have...

who remembers him from The Duchess of Duke Street?

He was, naturally, the leading lady's love interest.

I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure the night it opened. When Large Marge showed up, I just about fell out of my seat!

He was soooooo romantic in Ship of Fools, where his character had an affair with Simone Signoret. All their scenes are on YouTube, starting with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTPeraGHHLc

I just saw Bonjour, Tristesse a few weeks ago.

Oh, was he cute!

This is NUTS -- for some crazy reason, I was thinking about him today.

I have a 1947 copy of Photoplay, and in it is a piece by Sheilah Graham called "I Can't Forget" - "great moments out of stars' pasts -- too vivid not to remember, too exciting not to report" One of...

Couldn't stand him. Could. Not. Stand. Him.

I worked with a guy who reminded me of him -- he wasn't the least bit funny, or even likeable, but he sorta had this "hipper than thou" vibe that...

My old landlady was named Frances Propper prior to marrying my old landlord (I think they married in the early 80's or maybe late '70s. When I moved in it was the early '90s and she was around 80. ...

I didn't realize how tall he was! In the Addams Family he didn't look any more than 5'9" or so.

I thought she'd always be the beautiful sharp-tongued young shopgirl she was in AYBS. I couldn't believe she was 65, let alone that she's gone.

Lovely that so many people remember her so fondly.

From what I've read, nobody but nobody liked Beery. He was extremely violent, and just an overall creep. He was also supposed to have to murdered somebody, but the studios somehow managed to keep a...

Marie McDonald had six miscarriages, and at least one stillbirth when married to him. Debbie Reynolds suffered two stillbirths when she was married to him.

Coincidence or not?

Back in 1982 I had a job in a health food store in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia. This is a very upscale historic area, which also includes the movie theatre that had run Eating Raoul. ...

1. I remember my mother saying she had a huge crush on him as a teenager -- used to write his name all over her note books.

2. My younger brother was scared to death by the commercials for...

OMG, was he or was he not the yummiest thing EVER? It's not that he was all that good-looking (he wasn't) but those eyes... And he oozed charisma out of his pores.

I remember when he died -- I...

He's one of my favorites. He's effin' brilliant in The Lady from Shanghai, which is my all-time, hands-down favorite movie. He's really, really, REALLY creepy in the Humphrey Bogart movie, The...

OMG, I LOVED Stripes -- I think I saw it three times at least.

Everything I've read about John Candy suggests that he was a lovely guy, very sweet-natured, but with something of an inferiority...

She was FANTASTIC in The Third Man. Just fantastic.

I used to work in a video store, and we had one of his movies -- I'm pretty sure it was one of his European films that had been subtitled. Anyway, the U.S. title was Violent Bloodbath.

As if...

I had the biggest crush on him when I was a kid, still do.

He died on July 3, 1981 from a heart attack sustained during a tennis game. At the time, there was this unbelievable heat wave in...

I've seen The Killing of Sister George -- it's really, uh, ick. Just really creepy and disturbing -- but then I'm a straight female; maybe a lesbian would have another take on it.

Some time read Harpo Speaks, Harpo Marx's autobiography. She's mentioned numerous times in the book. One anecdote I remember was her asking him to read the comics to her, since she was illiterate.

if you ever have the opportunity, check out the ep of Night Gallery she was in, called "Certain Shadows on the Wall" -- she plays a dying woman. I have witnessed people days away from their deaths...

for a few years, my older brother was married to a woman who was distantly related to Lee J. Cobb. When he died, we knew about it even before it was reported in the papers.

The "shoot Bobby Lembeck" scene in the original Manchurian Candidate.

Check out "I Live My Life" -- in that film he looks like he could be Jude Law's twin.

If you're ever in Philadelphia, and you have nothing better to do, take a trip to the Tacony post office in Northeast Philadelphia. The clerk who works the far right register looks exactly like him. ...

He also appeard on The Wild Wild West a few times as Count Manzeppi. Almost impossible to believe he was in his late 20s at the time -- he had the appearance and authority of someone much older.

Cary Grant circa 1945 -- an example of God's best work, for sure.

She was WAY too beautiful to just be on the small screen. With those looks alone, she should have been a major movie star.

In that photo, he looks like he could be 80. So sad and so needless.

Yours truly on the right in the plaid shirt.
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"Daddy, daddy, buy me THAT!":)

Quagmire, the horndog character on Family Guy is based on Bob Hope. What does that tell you?

Who is the "I" in the story - is it you, Danny or someone else?

Oh, yeah -- that was creepy. She was dancing -- or trying to -- and was beginning to stumble. She was SO beautiful -- it's a shame she was always done up in those ridiculous costumes.

Van was a GREAT actor and if you see him in something like "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," you'll note that his style has a very contemporary feel.