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Bing...Birthday!
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on May 2, 2009
Welcome to the annual "Bing Crosby's Birthday" blog. I know I've only been blogging since last year, but this is what you have to expect, folks. To celebrate this year we rejoice in the grand news that the 1960 album Bing and Satchmo has been released on CD. We will now pause for general rejoicin read more
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Discovering Murray Kinnell
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on May 1, 2009
Murray KinnellJuly 24, 1889 - August 14, 1954London-born Kinnell was a versatile actor who appeared on the British stage, Broadway and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s. A member of the George Arliss stock company he appeared in the 1928 Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice as Bassanio. read more
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Hoppy's Pals
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Apr 29, 2009
When a classic movie fan hears the name "Topper" they can go in one of two directions. Either they instantly think of Roland Young beset by the ghostly George and Marion Kirby or they have the image of Hopalong Cassidy's white horse of that name and bad guys being chased through Lone Pine, Califor read more
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An 1858 Birthday Remembered
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Apr 19, 2009
May RobsonApril 19, 1858 - October 20, 1942Mary Jeanette Robison was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her father, Capt. Henry Robison of the Royal Navy, died when May was six, and her mother decided to take the children to Europe. After attending schools in Paris and Brussels, May eloped to Texas in read more
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Her Easter Bonnet
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Apr 11, 2009
Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb, Helen BroderickA successful 1933 - 1934 Broadway seasonBroadway was in the dumps in 1933, as was a good portion of the world dealing with the Great Depression. Irving Berlin wasn't having the best of times either with the failure of Face the Music the previous season. read more
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Happy 92nd Birthday!
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Apr 7, 2009
R.G. ArmstrongBorn in Alabama in 1917 and the possesser of a Masters in English from the University of Northern Carolina (Chapel Hill), Robert Golden Armstrong left behind his early writing ambitions when he studied at The Actors Studio. Broadway claimed his talent in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Orph read more
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Guiding Light (1937 - 2009)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Apr 2, 2009
Irna Phillip's The Guiding Light premiered on radio in 1937. My mother listened to the program with her grandmother. I remember watching the program on television in its 15-minute format in the early 60s. I remember when the show went to a half hour format and then an hour. I remember the Bauer read more
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Crazy about Marsha Hunt!
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Mar 26, 2009
Marsha Hunt at a cinema conventionThere is so much to discover and rediscover about the movies from Hollywood's classic studio era. Sometimes it's those performers who are so good that it is easy to take them for granted. Marsha Hunt is such an actress. A beautiful woman with talent, she is like read more
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More Broadway to Hollywood Trivia
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Mar 11, 2009
Victor Moore1876 - 1962Victor Moore was a stage and screen star with a lengthy and successful Broadway career. Movie fans recall him best as Fred Astaire's pal in Swing Time. Among his original characterizations was the role of Moonface in Cole Porter's Anything Goes which ran on Broadway for 420 read more
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John Tory
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Mar 8, 2009
John Tory has resigned as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party after losing a by-election in Lindsay. If I lived in Lindsay he would have had one more vote. I vote for Tory every chance I get. In all my years of observation and participation (voting), Tory is the only politician who read more
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What's say let's be buddies?
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Mar 5, 2009
George Chandler1898 - 1985William Wellman1896 - 1975In the annals of great Hollywood director/actor teams a few names spring immediately to mind - John Ford/John Wayne, John Huston/Humphrey Bogart, Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon. Perhaps George Cukor/Katharine Hepburn. Some of us may even bring up Henry read more
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Favourite movies: Battleground (1949)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Feb 27, 2009
Wild Bill Wellman1896 - 1975William Wellman is a director I have long admired. He was a rogue, a character and a man who made many, many fine films. I'm sentimental about the man and his work dating back to Tuesday, July 9, 1974. On that date The Ontario Film Insitute hosted An Evening With Willi read more
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A Lakeshore Phenomenon?
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Feb 18, 2009
I am somewhat of a habitue of the Lakeshore Boulevard West neighbourhood in Toronto. A few blocks from hearth (computer) and TCM, it houses my laundromat, my bank, a variety of grocery and dollar stores, coffee shops, a 7-11 and my Avon lady. While going about my routine of laundry, coffee and che read more
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Fond Farewells
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Feb 10, 2009
Beverly GarlandOctober 17, 1926 - December 5, 2008Beverly Garland was an actress of great vibrancy. Her winning personality was an asset to every role she tackled. The perfect tv wife to Bing Crosby in a short-lived series and Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons. The perfect tv mom on Remington Steel read more
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Favourite tv shows: Ironside (1967 - 1975)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Feb 5, 2009
Above: Season 5 cast, Don Galloway (Ed),
Raymond Burr (the Chief)
Elizabeth Baur (Fran), Don Mitchell (Mark)
To the right: Original cast, Don Mitchell, Don Galloway
Raymond Burr, Barbara Anderson (Eve)
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Pet Peeves
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jan 26, 2009
Caftan Woman is grumpy.It's not Etta James' classic At Last. It is Harry Warren and Mack Gordon's classic ballad At Last. If you like Ms. James' version of the song - fine.It is not Crazy by Patsy Cline. It is by Willie Nelson, who would probably be the first to tell you that Patsy made a wonderf read more
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More Broadway to Hollywood trivia
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jan 13, 2009
Horace "Stephen" McNally1913 - 1994Former attorney Horace McNally decided to become an actor in the late 30s and toiled in Hollywood under his given name in a number of small roles in B pictures roles and the Broadway stage. A Broadway hit was Elmer Harris' Johnny Belinda in which he played the rol read more
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The Emily Webb Connection
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jan 8, 2009
Martha Scott
1912 - 2003
Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town can rightly be considered a timeless American classic. An examination of life through the life of a small town and of a small town girl, the role of Emily Webb proved a career beakthrough for actresses beloved b read more
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Caftan Woman, chorister
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jan 6, 2009
What do you think of my David Tennant glasses? I think they make me look clever.Janet: How was rehearsal tonight?Me: Well, I wasn't kicked out this week.In my former life I studied music and theatre. My free time was devoted to community theatre. Life, kids and illness...mainly illness, has kep read more