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Farewell, Mickey Rooney (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 7, 2014
Mr. Mickey Rooney (Joseph Yule, Jr.) September 20, 1920 - April 6, 2014 I'm Going to Miss the Little Guy There will be much written about Mickey Rooney over the next few days, and I won't have anything spectacular to add. I was never a huge fan of the madcap, singing, dancing Mickey read more
Birthday of the Week: James Garner (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 7, 2014
James Scott Bumgarner, April 7, 1928 Memoir The Garner Files: A MemoirBy James Garner and Jon Winokur, Simon & Schuster, 2011 A Pretty, Funny Guy When you looked up "strapping" in Webster's dictionary cerca 1960, was it James Garner's picture you saw? If not it read more
Happy 90th Birthday, Doris Day (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 3, 2014
A Beautiful Person Many Happy Returns to a Fine Human Being [Repeat of last year's greeting, but...] Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff 90 years ago today. Hard to believe, isn't it? I don't know what more I could add to the great body of information there is out read more
Happy 90th Birthday, Doris Day (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 3, 2014
A Beautiful Person Many Happy Returns to a Fine Human Being [Repeat of last year's greeting, but...] Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff 90 years ago today. Hard to believe, isn't it? I don't know what more I could add to the great body of information there is out read more
Wednesday's Child: Gloria Jean (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 2, 2014
Gloria Jean, Born April 14, 1926 Authorized Biography Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of HeavenBy Scott and Jan MacGillivray,iUniverse, Inc., 2005. A Coloratura I Can Get Behind Charmed as I've always been by the late Deanna Durbin, I came late to the singing child star p read more
Wednesday's Child: Gloria Jean (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 2, 2014
Gloria Jean, Born April 14, 1926 Authorized Biography Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of HeavenBy Scott and Jan MacGillivray,iUniverse, Inc., 2005. A Coloratura I Can Get Behind Charmed as I've always been by the late Deanna Durbin, I came late to the singing child star p read more
Birthday of the Week: Jane Powell (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Apr 1, 2014
Suzanne Lorraine Burce, April 1, 1929 The Jane Powell Story: The Girl Next Door and How She Grew By Jane Powell, Penguin, 1990 A Most Unusual Day Born Suzanne Burce in Portland, Oregon, Jane Powell was a talented dancer and performer from the age of two. She bec read more
Don't Mess With a Civil War Vet (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 31, 2014
He totally deserved the ticket.
Speedy (1928) One of the great things about living in the Washington, DC, metro area, is the abundance of niche film festivals that pop up. Not enough of the classic variety for my taste, but occasionally the themes intersect, as happened for the read more
Don't Mess With a Civil War Vet (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 31, 2014
He totally deserved the ticket.
Speedy (1928) One of the great things about living in the Washington, DC, metro area, is the abundance of niche film festivals that pop up. Not enough of the classic variety for my taste, but occasionally the themes intersect, as happened for the read more
Birthday of the Week: Akira Kurosawa (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 25, 2014
Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan March 23, 1910 - Sept. 6, 1998
Autobiography Something Like an Auto-biography, By Akira Kurosawa, Vintage, 1983 The Only Reason I Appreciate Westerns at All The eighth and youngest child of an army physical education instruct read more
All About Evil (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 21, 2014
Baxter rocks the fuschia pantsuit "I throw my head back and laugh! HA HA!" (Look: here's my leg.) Anne Baxter Acts Natural on Columbo One of the many great things about Columbo is that there is no such thing as a Big Spoiler: the guest star is the who what done it. In read more
All About Evil (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 21, 2014
Baxter rocks the fuschia pantsuit "I throw my head back and laugh! HA HA!" (Look: here's my leg.) Anne Baxter Acts Natural on Columbo One of the many great things about Columbo is that there is no such thing as a Big Spoiler: the guest star is the who what done it. In read more
Wednesday's Child: Virginia Weidler (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 19, 2014
Photo copped from ginnyfan at http://virginiaweidler.net/ Virginia Anna Adelaide WeidlerMarch, 21, 1927 - July 1, 1968Such a face! Happy Birthday to an Old Friend One of the first Birthdays of the Week that ever occurred to me to post was in honor of Virginia Weidler, perhaps t read more
Wednesday's Child: Virginia Weidler (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 19, 2014
Photo copped from ginnyfan at http://virginiaweidler.net/ Virginia Anna Adelaide WeidlerMarch, 21, 1927 - July 1, 1968Such a face! Happy Birthday to an Old Friend One of the first Birthdays of the Week that ever occurred to me to post was in honor of Virginia Weidler, perhaps t read more
Birthday of the Week: W.S. Van Dyke (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 18, 2014
Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II, March 21, 1889 - February 5, 1943 Memoir, Sort of W.S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928)By Rudy BehlmerScarecrow Press, 1996 Breadth, Depth, and Economy Years ago, my friends and I used to play Hearts (er, read more
Birthday of the Week: W.S. Van Dyke (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 18, 2014
Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II, March 21, 1889 - February 5, 1943 Memoir, Sort of W.S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928)By Rudy BehlmerScarecrow Press, 1996 Breadth, Depth, and Economy Years ago, my friends and I used to play Hearts (er, read more
The Uneven Adventures of Torchy Blane (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 17, 2014
Glenda Farrell and Her Right Thumb
How to Not Get Married in an Entire Series In the Warner Bros. series The Adventures of Torchy Blane, the heroine is a fast-talking, fearless, ambitious, often unethical ace reporter for the New York Star. Her boyfriend is detective read more
The Uneven Adventures of Torchy Blane (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 17, 2014
Glenda Farrell and Her Right Thumb How to Not Get Married in an Entire Series In the Warner Bros. series The Adventures of Torchy Blane, the heroine is a fast-talking, fearless, ambitious, often unethical ace reporter for the New York Star. Her boyfriend is detective Steven McBride, read more
Ball of Fire Meets Bale of Hay (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 15, 2014
Torch singers are surprisingly adaptable.
The Purchase Price (1932) It's easy to picture Barbara Stanwyck as a torch-singing gangster's girl; not so a farmer's wife. And she feels exactly the same way in The Purchase Price, a pre-Code weirdie in which she plays Joan Gordon, nigh read more
Ball of Fire Meets Bale of Hay (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Mar 15, 2014
Torch singers are surprisingly adaptable.
The Purchase Price (1932) It's easy to picture Barbara Stanwyck as a torch-singing gangster's girl; not so a farmer's wife. And she feels exactly the same way in The Purchase Price, a pre-Code weirdie in which she plays Joan Gordon, nigh read more