Ah, child stars... leave us not forget Deanna Durbin! What about Anne Shirley (formerly Dawn O'Day until she starred in "Anne of Green Gables" and adopted the...
The Fred film I find the funniest is The Gay Divorcee. Some of those one liners still crack me up and Erik Rhodes is very funny. (Oh, scuzee, scuzee). My...
This is odd: Wouldn't Richard Chamberlain have met Fred Astaire while filming the Dr. Kildare series? "While speaking about making The Towering Inferno,...
Was burns and allan a comedy team? Last night on the CBS anniversary special they showed a clip from their show. Were they a team back in the 30s? ... ...
Well, I'm pretty sure that he probably did it once for the final shoot and then they repeated it again and again for the background, and then he of course...
A while ago someone said something about the major studios from Fred's time and they said what each one was basically good at and what their 'thing' was ...
Offhand, I would guess that Columbia was known for its screwball comedies (along with RKO) and perhaps notorious for The Three Stooges. Paramount, in the...
Paramount, in the thirties certainly, was also known for its comedies, employing the likes of W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Mae West, and also the comedy...
... Brothers, ... Allen. ... "Hope and Crosby"? Were they a comedy team? I thought that one of them was an army recruiter and the other one sold orange juice....
I seriously hope you are joking about Bing Crosby and Bob Hope not knowing they were a comedy team. Orange Juice? I dont know where you got this from. Im only...
Save your tears, Mark, I was teasing. Bing used to be featured in TV commercials for Minute Maid orange juice in the 1970s and some Crosby fans at the time...
Im so glad your joking, I was really starting to get worried. As for Orange Juice, like I mentioned before, Im 15 and live in England so didnt know much of it....
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Nov 4, 2003 12:01 am
May - The Astaires stayed at The Peninsula Hong Kong when they visited Hong Kong in 1957. Mike...
Christmas is coming which means that Bing songs will be played more!! (dont feel bad im your age and didnt know about the orange juice either) ... HIGHSOCIETY ...
Whats a potboiler? ... HIGHSOCIETY _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* ...
Nevermind. I found out the answer. I read about columbia on www.reelclassics.com It was a potboiler, but did produce some classics like It happened one night,...
Dear saucyman Mike, Burns and Allen were a team in Vaudeville. Originally, both Gracie Allen and George Burns were dancers with other partners. They got...
In the upcoming CBS film about Ronald Reagan, the president makes a comment about Fred and Gene to his son amidst a dressing room of male dancers. RON, JR. (re...
Now, don't go discouraging him, Mark. The more Hope-Crosby or Marx Brother movies you watch, the more easily you will enjoy Jay's humor. Honestly, he writes...
The more I learn about him, the more interesting Bing Crosby becomes. Behind that easy-going persona was apparently a very bright and hardworking guy (as well ...
Does anyone on this group know if they will ever be likely to release 'Astairable Fred' again on CD? And after reading what the people have been saying about...
I don't know anything about "Astairable Fred" being reissued on CD, but you can download the audio files via the following link. (Perhaps this site is what...
What modern movies do u guys think will be considered classics in 50 years? I'm thinking the big oscar winners because they have so much fame already. Ones...
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Gloria Campbell
swell108@...
Nov 4, 2003 11:25 pm
... I have a a small (1 pint) ice cream carton of Valley Farm's Bing Crosby Ice Cream, Hollywood, CA "The cream of the stars" There is a photo of Bing and a...
