HollywoodAndTheStars

🎥 🎞️ I enjoy classic films from the Golden Age of Hollywood & reading about those who made it happen 📕 📚

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Hollywood & the Stars is a 1963 NBC documentary series narrated by Joseph Cotten. Elmer Bernstein's haunting theme music has been with me since I saw my first episode in the early 70s.

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@Jarintoinen Like it more with each viewing.

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On today’s agenda.

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“The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.”
“That, that means you've got brains!”
“Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.” Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, #ThePetrifiedForest

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@DADiClementi Yep

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@EternallyJustMe

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London-born stage and film actress #VirginiaField.

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@nifty_rick @vintagegazette Yes, great story.

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@FrankMalfitano Ha!

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I like it.

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A tour is now running in Hiroshima offering views of the city's reconstruction following the U.S. atomic bombing 81 years ago — aboard a streetcar that survived the blast. 👉 https://t.co/TnMdb0v0L5

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@vintagegazette 👍

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#TokyoStory is "a picture so Japanese and at the same time so personal, and hence so universal in its appeal, that it becomes a masterpiece. " Donald Richie

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@vintagegazette And as a Yankees fan it pains me to say that, but what is, is. And a great player to boot.

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Myrna Loy (1905-1993)

I haven't done one of these in a while but want to pay tribute to my friend Myrna Loy who was born 120 years ago on August 2nd. I've told so many stories over the years that it gets boring so I'll try not to repeat myself.

I knew Myrna for the first 35 years of my life. She had been friends with my grandmother in the 20s when she visited Hollywood. She eventually became a "pal." A true pal. She'd ring up and say "hello, pal!" Myrna was a very great lady. Always a lady. Sometimes feisty but always a lady. She spoke her mind. She took me to my first "R" rated movie. She took me to see Chinatown (1974) and when I was shocked at the famous "sister/daughter" she said "oh, that's just Roman being Roman."

She had a glorious career that lasted close to 60 years and had several permutations. Everyone knows The Thin Man and The Best Years of Our Lives but her favourite role was in The Rains Came (1939). She loved playing the death scene.

She took me, twice, to see her great co-star William Powell in the 1970s. Not an easy feat as he rarely saw people because he had become almost completely deaf. One of the highlights of my life to see them together.

We had fierce arguments during the 1980s as she was a Democrat and I was a Republican. Many of her closest friends -- Joan Crawford, William Powell, Loretta Young, and Clark Gable -- were Republicans. That was easier back then. She happily accepted the Kennedy Center Honor during the last year of the Reagan presidency and was gracious and lovely that night.

She was a criminally underrated actress. So much so that she never received an Oscar nomination, yet alone a win. Army Archerd led a group that lobbied the Academy to give her an honorary one and that finally happened in 1991. She was too ill at the time and it was presented via satellite where she simply said "You've made me very happy. Thank you very much." Typical Myrna. Never verbose. Short, sweet, to the point. It was the last time she was seen in public.

Rarely does a day go by that I don't remember her laugh, her deep seriousness about so many issues, and just the fun of being with her on more occasions than I can recount. She was a true class act, one of the greatest ladies I have known both on and off the screen.

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The hideous looking #PatriciaOwens is on Perry Mason this morning.

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@JamgMarzo70 😆

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@JamgMarzo70 Haha. Yes. Very dangerous.

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“How’s the Italian food in this restaurant?”
“Good. Try the veal. It’s the best in the city.”

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@davrola Haha. Took me a second to get this.

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Happy birthday to #DoloresdelRio.