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Apr 1, 2020 · Walter Brennan was a decent character actor (though hardly deserving of three Oscars--that's what led the Academy to remove extras from the rolls of voters--Brennan started as one and his cronies voted for him), but he was a virulent, outspoken, and unspent ant racist--reportedly, when the death of MLK was announced, he did a happy song and dance on set. Vile.
Sep 8, 2023 · Emmett Kelly is still celebrated in his hometown of Houston, Texas County, Missouri. Family has been there since the 1860s. We played in his eponymous park many times when growing up. And there's an annual Emmett Kelly Clown Festival, and since 2004 the park has a nine-hole golf course, too!
Mar 29, 2021 · Leonard Penn, an actor who had a featured role in Jeanette MacDonald's 1937 hit, "The Firefly" (with Allan Jones) was another of Eddy's conquests. Penn was "married" (in name only) to actress Gladys George. They would divorce in the 1940's. George was an alcoholic and Penn was bisexual.
Apr 27, 2022 · [quote] What a great actor. --- No he wasn't; he played EXACTLY the same character from the late 30s and the late 60s. His range of "acting" was as limited as John Wayne, Audie Murphy and Walter Brennan. But within that range Sanders perfected that character. He even titled his autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad". He was great.
Dec 26, 2014 · R6, Horseshit. As commander of the 445th and 453rd Bombardment Groups during WW2, Jimmy Stewart flew several missions into Germany, bombing U-boat facilities in Kiel, and continuing with air raids on Bremen, Ludwigshafen, and Berlin. He was also on several uncredited missions deep in the heart of occupied Europe, eventually receiving the Croix ...
Sep 28, 2024 · Walter Brennan. by Anonymous: reply 9: September 28, 2024 1:41 AM: Edward G. Robinson was a ...
Dec 17, 2022 · He told the story more than once about how when he was a kid he witnessed a lynching. [quote]Nebraska-born actor Henry Fonda was 14 years old when the lynching happened. His father owned a printing plant across the street from the courthouse. He watched the riot from the second floor window of his father’s shop.
Aug 15, 2015 · r155, I usually can't stand Walter Brennan, but I recently saw the 1943 Fritz Lang movie "Hangmen Also Die!" where he is quite effective -- and cast completely against type -- as a calm, intellectual history professor. I couldn't believe it was the same actor I'd seen ruin so many other movies.
May 21, 2020 · Stanwyck shared conservative Republican affiliation with such contemporaries as: Mary Pickford, Walt Disney, Hedda Hopper, Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Ward Bond, William Holden, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, George Murphy, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, Adolphe Menjou, Helen Hayes, director ...
Aug 1, 2023 · Kate McKinnon is the most overrated SNL cast member of all time and she sucks in most of the movies she has done. R56, for me that distinction belongs to Gilda Radner. No longer, but Lens Dunham in the early days of Girls. You would have thought she was performing at the same level as Shakespeare.
