Make that two votes. I like Betty Hutton too. Glo ... From: Jenny McClintock Date: 02/03/06 12:26:16 To: astaire@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [astaire] Re:...
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Travis Thompson
travis1776
Feb 4, 2006 4:42 am
I also like Betty Hutton. I just happen to think that she is more suitably partnered with, say, Eddie Bracken, and not Fred Astaire. Regards, Travis _____ ...
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fuzylilcreature
Feb 4, 2006 7:02 am
Chris, I like Kay Kyser too, I'm surprised more people don't know of him. I have a question for the board; I was watching Follow the Fleet again the other day,...
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markwpetty at yahoo d...
markwpetty
Feb 4, 2006 4:24 pm
There's a new book about "Commissar Brankov" from SILK STOCKINGS... The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin ...
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les hoofers
leshoofers
Feb 5, 2006 1:28 am
Anyone from Portland OR? Dan in PDX "Ruth A. Stevens" <rstevens@...> wrote: Subject: [astaire] Review of OR Symphony Tribute to Fred & Ging ...
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samiskee@...
samiskee2001
Feb 5, 2006 2:15 am
We're Not Dressing is a superb film. Very funny and great songs, a very young handsome Bing whose ears are glued back in the film's beginning, but in some...
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belldick@...
belldick30
Feb 5, 2006 6:43 am
In a message dated 2/4/2006 2:48:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, astaire@yahoogroups.com writes: So, make it one vote FOR Betty Hutton! Make it two. She was...
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debster13@...
Feb 5, 2006 11:39 am
I saw a movie years ago that I loved and would like to track down. I just don't know it's title or recall who stared in it. It wasn't an Astaire...
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dirtypeach08@...
vintagedreamsx
Feb 5, 2006 11:46 am
In a message dated 2/1/2006 5:52:50 A.M. Central Standard Time, mealvern@... writes: I had the honour of meeting Ginger Rogers in the 60s in...
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chrisbamberger
Feb 5, 2006 4:59 pm
Here is what the AFI catalogue displays in a search for post-1945 movies that thematically include the bomb... First Yank into Tokyo (1945) God Is My Co-Pilot...
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Gloria Parker
parkit17
Feb 5, 2006 5:11 pm
I think the one she's thinking of was "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" Glo ... From: chrisbamberger Date: 02/05/06 08:59:03 To: astaire@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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Amanda
tbear6000
Feb 5, 2006 8:06 pm
I don't think "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" is the film you're looking for. It has nothing to do with the Atomic bomb, and was made before that event happened....
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Vernon Mealor
mealvern@...
Feb 5, 2006 9:12 pm
More memories-------I seem to remember that the impressario who was putting on the show chartered a special train to bring Ginger to London. It was specially...
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Jay Hopkins
twin_cities_...
Feb 5, 2006 11:01 pm
I wrote something to his list last evening. Something about women presented as objects. I awoken upon CBS Sunday Morning, greeted by a topsy-turvy lamp....
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Rita Marlowe Schmidlap
ritaschmidlap
Feb 6, 2006 3:44 am
... Yes, but does Yahoo! Mail help protect me from Jayitis? just wondering. Even your best friend won't tell you....
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Jay Hopkins
twin_cities_...
Feb 6, 2006 8:01 am
The always polite (and well-versed Kurt) prefaced his announcement of the pending Busby Berkeley DVD package with an acknowledgement that Berkeley's work was...
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chrisbamberger
Feb 6, 2006 10:15 am
A few of us Washington, DC-area Astaire nuts got together last evening and hoped to analyze this (along with watching a few other gems, of course), but my DVD...
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fritz_1899
Feb 6, 2006 11:51 am
Well, Fred also had the habit of talk with the partners while dancing. So it would be interesting to know what he said to Ginger, Rita, Cyd etc... Ale ... ...
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chrisbamberger
Feb 6, 2006 1:26 pm
Didn't Buzz also make ladies (sans clothing) into harps in Roman Scandals? I think Lucille Ball may have been one of them!...
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chrisbamberger
Feb 6, 2006 1:27 pm
We know what he said to Marjorie Reynolds, because she described it in an interview: "...Fred Astaire, I adored. A lot of his partners called him a ...
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Rita Marlowe Schmidlap
ritaschmidlap
Feb 6, 2006 4:10 pm
**sigh**...
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Susan Zawalich
j8gab8in
Feb 6, 2006 4:41 pm
The Movie about the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima is Above and Beyond (1952) starring Robert Taylor as the pilot of the plane. I...
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samiskee@...
samiskee2001
Feb 6, 2006 4:55 pm
Ditto! I want to be.....a minstrel man! To be that was All the World to Fred.... M [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Patty Barnhill
moose18588
Feb 6, 2006 4:59 pm
Should that be "jay-ed enough"? I agree with you in that if the movies are considered sexist, it was just another sign of the times, of how things were then. ...
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Kurt Schroeder
krtschroeder
Feb 6, 2006 5:20 pm
... From: astaire@yahoogroups.com [mailto:astaire@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of chrisbamberger Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 8:24 AM To:...
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chrisbamberger
Feb 6, 2006 5:52 pm
I know. At that point I would have ruined the dance, because my knees would have weakened and gone out from under me....
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grace_remembers
Feb 6, 2006 5:57 pm
Took me a while to realize that when you said "at that point" you weren't talking about the point when Dick Powell approached with the can opener. Oh dear,...
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Patty Barnhill
moose18588
Feb 6, 2006 6:04 pm
Or, the point of the can opener. Hey, either one would have ruined the dance for me. Patty ... __________________________________________________ Do You...
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Kurt Schroeder
krtschroeder
Feb 6, 2006 6:15 pm
... From: astaire@yahoogroups.com [mailto:astaire@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of grace_remembers Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:18 PM To:...
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RussellMA@...
Feb 6, 2006 7:02 pm
Barrie Chase told me that Fred used to encourage her by saying: "Now you're DANCIN'!" Mike...
