rosemary neeb

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

The original cast of "All Creatures Great and Small," 1978: Robert Hardy, Christopher Timothy, Carol Drinkwater and Peter Davison. Memorable series.

[zaza @zazaxbtt]

Dolly Parton revealed she turned down Elvis cried all night and made $10,000,000 from Whitney Houston

‘I was so excited and there was this producer at the time he called he said Elvis wants to meet you and he’s gonna record just me thinking about Elvis on my song’

‘Before the section the next day I was told they don’t record anything with Elvis unless they have the publishing and I said that’s not possible that is my most important copyright and I said I can’t do that I cried all night’

‘But it was only after Whitney was recorded I was so thankful that I had made that choice cause I made a lot of money of it, I was coming home from my office I was driving and I heard it on the radio’

[rosemary neeb @larkmooranch]

@gaugler_j Try " Three Comrades"

[CineAura @duygarena9]

Judy Garland - I Want To Go Back to Michigan #judygarland #oldhollywood #easterparade

[Ed McCray @Real_Ed_McCray]

@RealDeanCain This is the only known writing of Walt Disney where he talks about his personal faith in Jesus Christ & the interesting story behind how this letter even came to be written.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Beautiful stuff as longtime friends & colleagues JAMES CAGNEY & PAT O’BRIEN talk gangsters of the real and celluloid variety on Parkinson in 1981.

[Ed McCray @Real_Ed_McCray]

@scrowder This is the only known writing of Walt Disney where he talks about his personal faith in Jesus Christ & the interesting story behind how this letter even came to be written.

[rosemary neeb @larkmooranch]

@ronsterd89 Judy.

[Shawn Brunel @BrunelShawn]

Looks like the monsoon flow is about to kick into high gear. With a trough of low pressure setting up shop off the california coast and high pressure setting up near the 4 corners around colorado. Things are could get quite interesting soon.

[CineAura @duygarena9]

Judy Garland & Gene Kelly - Ballin' the Jack

[Jessica Hallett @JHallettPhoto]

Good evening, please enjoy the reality tv show that is my barn

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Johnny Weissmuller in 1974 on how he got the gig as Tarzan.

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[NTRA @NTRA]

Today in Thoroughbred Racing History, July 3, 1937: The Del Mar Turf Club, with crooner Bing Crosby as president and actor Pat O'Brien as one of the club officers, opened for racing.

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Major Frank Prentice was 18 years old when he dropped over a hundred feet off the stern of the Titanic into a sea full of ice.

He survived. This is what he saw.

Prentice worked in the Purser's office.

He was in his cabin at midships when the collision happened. He describes no chaos, no impact, nothing dramatic:

"It was just like jamming your brakes on my car. There was no great impact you couldn't feel. Just a bit of a shudder and she stopped."

That quiet did not last.

As the ship began to sink, Prentice moved through it.

He helped stewardesses into lifeboats who did not know where to go. He helped a woman named Mrs. Clark with her lifejacket. She did not want to leave her husband. He told her the husband would follow on later.

He would not.

On his way back from the lifeboats, Prentice heard the band. They were playing "Nearer My God to Thee" and singing.

He kept walking.

When the end came, he made his way to the stern. He describes it as quiet up there.

By the time he let go, the ship was nearly vertical. He had been hanging onto a board that read "Keep Clear of Propeller Blades."

At the very last moment, he let go and fell.

"I just missed the propellers on the way down."

The drop was over a hundred feet. The water was packed with ice and chunks of berg.

His watch stopped at 2:20 am.

He was not alone in the water at first. Then he was.

"I gave it a long thought when I was on my own and everybody else seemed to be dead round me."

He had two life jackets and a cushion.

He paddled toward a light he could still see from the rockets the bridge had fired. He reached a lifeboat and climbed in.

Mrs. Clark was already there. She wrapped a blanket around him and tried to keep him warm.

Her husband had drowned.

When asked who was responsible for the disaster, Prentice did not hesitate.

He blamed the bridge. He blamed Bruce Ismay, chairman of the shipping line, for pushing Captain Smith to maintain speed through waters they had been warned were full of ice.

"We had warnings that there was ice. We had it from ships and shore, and we went straight ahead as if there was nothing there in our way."

His verdict was simple:

That ship was thrown away.

Prentice was interviewed decades later.

Asked if the memory still haunted him, he said:

"When I'm alone tonight, I still think a lot about it. Can't help it, can you?"

—

Source: @BBCArchive – The Great Liners (1979)

[Cherie DeVaux @reredevaux]

Big boy was happy to get back out on track.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

The great Charles Laughton was born this date 7/1/1899.. Magnificent actor, director of "Night of the Hunter"..and....
Proving here, the year before he died, that even his reading of an income tax form is legendary ( Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, 1961)..

[DrPopCulture @DrPopCultureUSA]

Gertrude Lawrence meeting Anna Leonowens Grandson, Backstage during the original Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King & I. 1951.

[Hy Bender @hybender]

Coolest use of a drone

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

Thank you! 🙌🏻