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Well, Arthur. I just searched out Blazing Saddles and vaguely recall the movie. Found this song, but don't remember hearing it. Perhaps someone else can help:

Denali
French Mistake lyrics:

Done, done the last real life
beside, beside it's hard to see
see the dotted line leaves space for you
to jump on the next ride
if luck runs out

Blame, blame this interception
forget, forget that it could do harm
unless it's blown out of the water
but I know how to help this one out
so here comes your turn

Now I'm feeling something tonight
feeling tonight

What, what is the next concern
too perfect, too perfect it's a possible return
to the open wound
but I know how to help this one out
so here comes your turn

Now I'm feeling something tonight
feeling ... tonight
feeling ... tonight
feeling ... tonight
tonight

Xerxes just came about because I was searching out Handel and he wrote the opera.

The French Mistake was played near the end of the movie, when the fight in the town spills over to the rest of the movie lot.

However, these are not the lyrics to the version they sang in Blazing Saddles. I'll see if I can find them.

Here it is.

Throw out your hands
Stick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give 'em a push
You'll be surprised
You're doing the French Mistake!
Voila!

Hilarious, Arthur. Thank you so much, dear, and I just found out that Denali is a group and here is the picture of the vocalist:

She has…


Eyes Of Silver
As recorded by the Doobie Brothers

Eyes of silver, hungry and aware
Eyes of silver, your mystic love I share
'Cause I'm hungry baby for the love you give away
To kick out all that stupid pride that's standing in the way
Inside my eyes are open wide for your
Eyes of silver on which I shall rely

Diamonds are forever, and gold can make you lie
But your eyes of silver shine on, shine on.

Blades of steel have helped a man to conquer all
Rubies by the hundreds, fill the Taj Mahal
Eyes of silver you tell me what I need
To bring this cold and lonely man down to his bended knees
Inside my loving arms are open wide for your
Eyes of silver on which I shall rely.

Diamonds and gold make you lie, lie, lie
But your eyes of silver shine on, shine on
Yeah baby, yeah baby, shine on baby, with your eyes.

Blades of steel have helped a man to conquer all
Rubies by the hundreds, well they fill the Taj Mahal
But your of silver you tell me what I need
To bring this cold and lonely man down to his bended knees
Inside my loving arms are open wide for your
Eyes of silver on which I shall rely.

Diamonds and gold make you lie, lie, lie
But your eyes of silver shine on, shine on
Eyes of silver, baby shine on, shine on, yeah they're shinin'
Yeah, yeah, shinin'.

My word, Try. I thought that I had heard most of those brothers, but it appears not. Great lyrics, buddy. Thanks.

You know, listeners, it has been some time since we did any dedication songs. How about one for the planet.



Seventh Sign
Europe

(Joey Tempest, Mic Michaeli, Kee Marcello)

I've been sailin' 'cross the ocean
With the devil by my side
I've been flyin 'cross the great
Blue sky
But there's nowhere to hide
I've been standin' by the crossroads
I've been lookin' for a clue
I've been prayin' for the
Human race
There's not a lot I can do

I've been waitin' for the warnin'
As we look to the sky
Now we all seem lost
If you ask me why

It's the seventh sign
See the blood-red sky tonight
It's the seventh sign
See the blood-red sky

There's a voice out on the wasteland
It says we're runnin' out of time
I used to think the world
Could change
Lord I must have been blind
I've been cryin'out for mankind
I've been hangin' on to faith
But the comin' of a messenger
Says it's much too late

We could all come together
And gather all around
What good is war when we
All go down

Well, my workday is almost over here, and my home computer is down right now, so I don't know if I'll be on this weekend. If I don't make it, I'll put this up in honor of it being Friday, and although I don't partake in the song's message, I'm sure many will. It's a little dated, but oh well. Hoist one for me.

Chumbawamba
Tubthumping

We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down

Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:

'Oh Danny Boy
Danny Boy
Danny Boy...'

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down

Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:

'Don't cry for me
Next door neighbour...'

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down

We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing

Ah, Arthur. I am happy that your weekend is here. Have a great one, buddy.

Odd song, Mr. Tin Sword, but it's nice to know that you're not pissed off. <smile>

Here's one for our Arthur:

Billy Joel

This back-breakin', bone-shakin', belly-achin', hard-workin'
Two more hours to go
Yes, it's keeping me alive doin' nine to five
And I ain't got nothin to show
Pretty soon I'll be leavin'
With the wages I'm receivin'
But I know it's gonna be all right
Come on, babe, and take me away
We got some money to spend tonight

Pick me up at the station
Meet me at the train
Have a meal and a shower and a change of clothes
I can't afford a vacation
But I can take the strain
Long as I can be with you
Find a way to burn it as quickly as I earn it

Yes, it's back-breakin', bone-shakin', belly-achin', hard-workin'
Two more hours to go
Seven long years for the same corporation
And I ain't got nothin' to show
And tonight when I'm leavin' I'll be just breakin' even
But I know it's gonna be all right
I shake off my blues when you put on your shoes
We got some money to spend tonight

Oh, I don't wanna stand here and sound accusin'
Everybody does their share of losin'
If I'm gonna lose it I might as well be doin' it right

Pick me up at the station
Meet me at the train
Have a meal and a shower and a change of clothes
I can't afford a vacation
But I can take the strain
Long as I can be with you
Find a way to burn it as quickly as I earn it

Yes, it's back-breakin', bone-shakin', belly-achin', hard-workin'
Two more hours to go
Yes, it's keepin' me alive doin' nine to five
And I ain't got nothin' to show
And tonight when I'm leavin' I'll be just breakin' even
But I know it's gonna be all right
Come on, babe, and take me away
We got some money to spend tonight
Come on, babe, take me away
We got some money to spend tonight

Don't go without your…


Handbags & Gladrags
As recorded by Rod Stewart

Ever seen a blind man cross the road
Tryin' to make the other side
Ever seen a young girl growin' old
Tryin' to make herself a bride
So what becomes of you my love
When they have finally stripped you of
The handbags and the gladrags
That your grandad had to sweat so he could buy.

Once I was a young man
And all I thought I had to do was smile
You are still a young girl
And you bought everything in style
But once you think you're in, you're out
'Cause you don't mean a single thing without
The handbags and the gladrags
That your grandad had to sweat so you could buy.

Sing a song of six pence for your sake
And take a bottle full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake
And bake them all in a pie

They told me you missed school today
So well, I suggest you just throw them all away
The handbags and the gladrags
That your poor 'ole grandad had to sweat to buy.

They told me you missed school today
So I suggest you just throw them all away
The handbags and the gladrags
That your poor 'ole grandad had to sweat to buy ya.
Bye bye.

Ah, poor grandad, Try. Well, folks, Rod and Joe are hangin' in, no?



Artist: Joe Cocker
Song: Don't let me be misunderstood
Album: Organic


Baby you understand me now

If sometimes I get a little mad

Don't you know no one alive

Can always be an angel

When things goes wrong

Your bound to see some bad


Oh but I'm just a soul who's intentions are good

Oh lord , please don't let me be misunderstood


You know sometimes, I'm so carefree

With a joy that's hard to hide

Then sometimes again it seems

All I have is worry

Then your bound to see the other side


Oh but I'm just a soul who's intentions are good

Oh lord , please don't let me be misunderstood


If I seem edgy I want you to know

I didn't mean to take it out on you

Life has it's problems and I've got my share

But thats one thing I never ment to do

Cause I love you


Now baby I'm just human

Got my faults like anyone else

But sometimes I find myself

All alone regreting

All the foolish things that I have done


Oh but I'm just a soul who's intentions are good

Oh lord , please don't let me be misunderstood

Lover Lover Lover

I asked my father,
I said, "Father change my name."
The one I'm using now it's covered up
with fear and filth and cowardice and shame.
Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me,
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

He said, "I locked you in this body,
I meant it as a kind of trial.
You can use it for a weapon,
or to make some woman smile."

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

"Then let me start again," I cried,
"please let me start again,
I want a face that's fair this time,
I want a spirit that is calm."

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

"I never never turned aside," he said,
"I never walked away.
It was you who built the temple,
it was you who covered up my face."

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

And may the spirit of this song,
may it rise up pure and free.
May it be a shield for you,
a shield against the enemy.

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

Ah, edgar, that is one awe inspiring song, Texas. Reading those sad lyrics, and feeling a bit down. You must share with us their author when you can.

Well, speaking of lovers, listeners. This will be my goodnight song, and and it's a bit more romantic:

The sky was blue and high above
The moon was new, so was love
This eager heart of mine was singing
Lover, where can you be
It came at last love had its day
The day is past, you've gone away
This eager heart of mine is singing
Lover, come to me
I remember every little thing we used to to
I'm lonely
Every road I walked alone,
I walked along with you
No wonder I am lonely
The sky is blue, the night is cold
The moon is new, but love is old
And while I'm waiting here
This heart of mine is singing
Lover,, come to me
When I remember every little thing we used to do
Oh...I'm lonely
Every road I walked alone I walked along with you
No wonder I am lonely
The sky is blue, the night is cold
The moon is new, but love is old
And while I'm standing here
This heart of mine is singing
Lover, lover, get here to me...
Now!!!

From Letty with love

My wee offering was penned by mister Leonard Cohen.

He wasn't here at the time. He was at a summer camp thingy. I had to take him early, then came home and thought...Why not have dessert for breakfast? It was delicious. Mint chocolate chip, in case you were wondering. I may do it again when nobody's watching. :wink:

Good morning, WA2K listeners and fans.

The sun is coming up over the horizon and the day is bright. Hope all is well with our contributors.

Well, I see that edgar has announced the author of that remarkable song as Leonard. Thanks, Texas.

And here is our Eva rationalizing her ice cream fetish. I don't blame you one bit, girl. <smile>

Why it is summer camp time. How about a funny one for this morning.


Camp Grenada

Hello muddah, hello faddah
Here I am at Camp Granada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

How I don't want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They're about to organize a searching party.

Take me home, oh muddah, faddah
Take me home, I hate Granada
Don't leave me out in the forest where
I might get eaten by a bear.
Take me home I promise I will not make noise
Or mess the house with other boys.
Oh please don't make me stay
I've been here one whole day.

Dearest faddah, darling muddah,
How's my precious little bruddah
Let me come home, if you miss me
I would even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me.

Wait a minute, it's stopped hailing.
Guys are swimming, guys are sailing
Playing baseball, gee that's better
Muddah, faddah kindly disregard this letter.

Maurice Evans (actor)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maurice Evans (born June 3, 1901 in Dorset; died March 12, 1989 in East Sussex) was a British-born actor who became a US citizen in 1941.

He first appeared on the stage in 1926 and joined the Old Vic Company in 1934. His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet in 1936. He was in plays by Shaw, and also Shakespeare's King Richard II (1937), Hamlet (1938), and Macbeth (1941).

In World War II, he was in charge of an Army Entertainment Section in the Central Pacific.

American television audiences of the 1960s will remember Evans as Samantha's father, Maurice, on the sitcom Bewitched.

He made a great impact as the evolved orangutan Dr. Zaius, in the 1968 cinema classic Planet of the Apes.

He died of cancer in England, aged 87.

Shakespearean pedigree

As of 2006, Evans appeared in more American television productions of Shakespeare than any other actor. For the famous television anthology, Hallmark Hall of Fame , he starred in the first feature-length (i.e., more than an hour) dramatizations of the plays to ever be televised - "Hamlet", "Macbeth" (twice - both times with Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth), "Richard II", "Twelfth Night", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "The Tempest". This last featured an all-star cast that included Lee Remick, Roddy McDowall, and Richard Burton.

In bringing Shakespeare to television, he was a true pioneer, although Evans's performances in Shakespeare are not as highly regarded today as they once were, especially after Laurence Olivier became the twentieth century's pre-eminent Shakesperean actor. Evans also brought his Shakespeare productions to Broadway many times.

Trivia:

Ironically, he was/is most famous for portraying a warlock in "Bewitched", and for his role as Dr. Zaius in the original "Planet of the Apes". Younger audiences are totally unfamiliar with his appearances in Shakespeare's plays.

In the thriller Rosemary's Baby (1968) he plays a friend of Rosemary (Mia Farrow), Hutch, who warns her against the witches in her apartment building, and is killed by them for his troubles.

Josephine Baker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Josephine Baker, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an American dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus". She was of mixed Apalachee Native American and African-American descent. She became a French citizen in 1937.

Early Life

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald.[1], she entered vaudeville as a teen, gradually heading toward New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, performing at the Plantation Club and in the chorus of the popular Broadway revues Shufflin' Along and The Chocolate Dandies.

On October 2, 1925, she opened in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where she became an instant success for her erotic dancing and appearing practically naked on stage. After a successful tour of Europe, she returned to France, where she starred at the Folies Bergère, setting the standard for her future acts. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of bananas, often accompanied by her pet leopard, Chiquita, who was adorned with a diamond collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.

Rise To Fame

After a short while she was the most successful American entertainer working in France?-whereas in the U.S., she would have suffered from the racial prejudices common to the era. Ernest Hemingway called her "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them Zouzou (1934) and Princesse Tamtam (1935).

Upon marrying her manager Giuseppe Pepito Abatino?-a Sicilian stonemason who passed himself off successfully as a Sicilian count?-Baker transformed her stage and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally binding).

At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "J'ai deux amours" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary authors, painters, and sculptors including Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso.

She was so well-known and popular that even the Nazis, who occupied France during World War II were hesitant to cause her harm. In turn, this allowed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the Underground. In one apocryphal story, Hermann Göring himself invited her to dinner one evening, already suspecting her of involvement in the Resistance. Realizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the Croix de Guerre for her underground activity.

Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same reputation at home. Upon a visit to the United States in 1936, she starred in a failed version of the Ziegfeld Follies (being replaced by Gypsy Rose Lee later in the run); her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not. During this time, when Baker returned to the United States, she was allegedly at a dinner party and began to speak in French as well as English with a French accent. An African-American maid was reputed to tell her, "Honey, you is full of ****. Speak the way yo' mouth was born". She had the woman fired. In 1973, Josephine Baker opened at Carnegie hall to a standing ovation. She wept openly onstage in response to the warm welcome.


Civil Rights Involvement

Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe." She also integrated several places in the United States, worked with the NAACP, and spoke at the March on Washington in 1963. For some time she lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy).

On tours of the United States, she refused to perform in segregated nightclubs, and her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevertheless, her career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, Princess Grace of Monaco, another expatriate American living in Europe.

During her life, she was also a great figure of the French freemasonry, fighting for freedom, civil rights, equality and against racism in France and other countries.

End of life

On April 8, 1975, her fortunes seemed to be turning to the better when she was the star of a retrospective show at Club Bobino in Paris, Joséphine, celebrating her fifty years in the theater. The show opened to rave reviews. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage less than a week later at the age of 68.

She is the first American woman to have received French military honors at her funeral. Paris came to a standstill on the day of her funeral and 20,000 filled the street to watch her procession. Her body lies in the Monaco cemetery.

Marriages and Relationships

Josephine Baker went through six marriages:

Foundry worker Willie Wells (1919, divorced)
Pullman porter William Howard Baker (1921, divorced)
Giuseppe Pepito Abatino (1926, publicity stunt, not legally binding)
French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced)
French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (1947, separated 1957, eventually divorced)
American artist Robert Brady (1928-1986, married 1973, also not legally binding, separated 1974).
There is also some speculation that Josephine Baker was bisexual [1]. Some believe that one of the lesbian lovers of the lead character in the movie Frida is a portrayal of Baker.

Later Life

Baker wrote several autobiographies, each containing a different story about her family and career.

She became the first American-born woman to receive French military honors at her funeral, which was held at L'Église de la Madeleine. She was interred at the Cimetière de Monaco. "Place Josephine Baker" in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris was named in her honor. She has also been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

Quotes

"Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in my daily life."
"You've got to fight every single day. When I see a roach, I step on it."

Pop Culture

In the French film Les Uns et les Autres an African-American vaudeville performer appears who is clearly based on Josephine Baker.
"Josephine Baker ranked in at #8 on "Wayne's Top Ten Babes of All Time" in a Wayne's World skit on Saturday Night Live. "See, Josephine Baker was a babe from the 20's, while though she was a victim of the prevailing racial mores of her native United States, became the toast of Paris known primarily for her exotic banana dance, ok." - Wayne "It's so obvious!" - Garth
The animated film The Triplets of Belleville featured a half-nude caricature of Baker. Director Sylvain Chomet states in one of the commentary segments that this scene was the reason the film got a PG-13 rating in America.

Ellen Corby
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 - April 14, 1999) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Walton" on the television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. Even after suffering a crippling stroke, Corby returned to filming "The Waltons", and her disabilities were written into her character, adding even more depth to her role.


Early life

Corby was born Ellen Hansen to Danish parents in Racine, Wisconsin; she grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An interest in amateur theater while in high school led her to Atlantic City in 1932 where she briefly worked as a chorus girl. She moved to Hollywood that same year and got a job as a script girl at RKO Studios and Hal Roach Studios, where she frequently worked on the Our Gang Comedies, next to her husband, cinematographer Francis Corby. She held that position for the next twelve years and took acting lessons on the side.

Career

In 1941, she co-wrote a now obscure Paramount Western called "Twilight on the Trail" and provided the story for another oater, "Hoppy's Holiday" in 1947. In 1945, Corby convinced RKO she could be in front of the cameras, playing maids in her first three films, beginning with "Cornered" (1945). For three decades, she appeared in more than 75 films, often as a gossipy neighbour or a dour spinster, rarely walking lightly, yet she had virtually no periods without work. In 1948 she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress playing a lovelorn aunt in I Remember Mama (1948). Over the next four decades, she worked steadily in both film and television, often playing maids, secretaries, waitresses or gossips. She was a favorite in western films and had a recurring role as "Henrietta Porter" in the western television series Trackdown (1957 - 1959). Other television appearances included Wagon Train, The Rifleman, I Love Lucy, The Virginian, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and The Andy Griffith Show.

Her most famous role came in 1971 when she was cast as "Grandma Esther Walton" on the made-for-TV film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which served as the pilot for The Waltons, Corby would go on to resume the role on The Waltons, which became a weekly series from 1972-1980 and resulted in several sequel films. For her work in "The Waltons", she won her three Emmy Awards and three more nominations as Best Supporting Actress.

Private life

Corby was married to Francis Corby from 1934 to 1944.

She suffered a serious stroke in 1977 but recovered and went on to appear in several television films based on The Waltons. Her last appearance was in A Walton Easter (1997).

She died at the age of 87 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

In March of 2000, she was left out of the yearly In Memoriam segment of the The 72nd Annual Academy Awards. Ellen, who was of course an Oscar nominee, had really only played small bit parts in motion pictures for twenty years, before she became noticed in a major way on television's "The Waltons". The Academy chose instead to memorialize another small bit part actor in films, Henry Jones.

Paulette Goddard
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Paulette GoddardPaulette Goddard (June 3, 1910[1] - April 23, 1990) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. A former child model and Ziegfield Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. Her exceptional beauty and fame led to several marriages to notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque, although she never had any children.

Early life and career

Goddard's birth name is believed to have been Pauline Marion Levy; she was an only child, born in Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York to a Jewish father and an Episcopalian mother.

She became a fashion model as a teenager, and a member of the Ziegfeld Follies at the age of 13 or 14 in 1924.

Her stage debut was in the Ziegfeld revue production No Foolin in 1926. The next year she made her stage acting debut in The Unconquerable Male. She married the Broadway writer Edgar James in 1926 or 1927, but divorced him in 1930.

In 1929 she went to Hollywood after signing a contract with Roach Studios, and appeared in small parts of several films over the next few years, including roles as an uncredited extra in Chaplin's City Lights and Eddie Cantor's Kid Millions.

She also joined other such notables as Betty Grable, Jeanne Gray, and Jane Wyman as Goldwyn Girls with Cantor in The Kid from Spain.

In 1932, she met Charlie Chaplin in person, and began an eight year personal and cinematic relationship with him. Chaplin bought Goddard's contract from Roach Studios and cast her as a street urchin opposite his Tramp character in the 1936 film Modern Times, which made Goddard a star. During this time she lived with Chaplin in his Beverly Hills home.

Their marital status was and has remained a source of controversy and speculation; Chaplin stated in his 1964 autobiography that they were married in China in 1936, but in private he claimed that they were never legally married, except in common law. Regardless, they dissolved the union amicably in 1942, and Chaplin agreed to a generous divorce settlement.

Goddard began gaining star status after appearing in The Young In Heart (1938), Dramatic School (1938), and a strong supporting role in The Women (1939) which starred Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Rosalind Russell.

During filming of The Women Goddard was considered as a finalist for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, but after several auditions, and a Technicolor screen test, lost the part to Vivien Leigh. It is believed that questions regarding her marital status with Chaplin, in that era of morals clauses, may have cost her the role.

Nonetheless, in 1939 Goddard signed a contract with Paramount pictures and her next film The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope, was a decisive turning point in the careers of both actors.

Paramount Pictures

Charlie Chaplin and Goddard in "Modern Times" (1936)She starred with Chaplin again in his 1940 film The Great Dictator. She also made three comedies with Bob Hope: The Cat And The Canary, The Ghost Breakers, and Nothing But The Truth. She also starred in Hold Back the Dawn, three Cecil B. DeMille epics, North West Mounted Police, Reap the Wild Wind and Unconquered, and The Diary of a Chambermaid with Burgess Meredith, whom she eventually married and divorced. One of her best-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm in which she sang a comic number "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with her contemporary sex symbols, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake. She was often paired with leading men at Paramount such as Ray Milland (in Reap the Wild Wind, Kitty, The Lady Has Plans and The Crystal Ball) and Fred MacMurray (in Standing Room Only, Suddenly It's Spring, and The Forest Rangers.)

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1944 for So Proudly We Hail!, and had some successful roles after that, but her career faded in the late 1940s. In 1949 she formed Monterey pictures with John Steinbeck. Her last starring roles were the English production A Stranger Came Home (known as The Unholy Four in the USA), and Charge of the Lancers in 1954. In 1964 she made a comeback attempt in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Time of Indifference.

Later life

Goddard was married to actor Burgess Meredith from 1944 to 1949. In 1958 she married All Quiet on the Western Front author Erich Maria Remarque. They remained married until his death in 1970.

Goddard was treated for breast cancer, apparently successfully, although the surgery was very invasive and the doctor had to remove several ribs. She later settled in Ronco, Switzerland, where she died a few months before her 80th birthday following a short battle with emphysema.

In her will, she left $20,000,000 (USD) to New York University (NYU), due to her friendship with Indiana-born politician and former NYU President John Brademas. Goddard Hall, an NYU freshman residence hall on Washington Square, is named for her.

She is buried in Ronco cemetery in Switzerland, where her late husband, Erich Maria Remarque, is also buried.

Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis (born June 3, 1925) is an American film actor.

Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the son of Jewish Hungarian (from the city of Mátészalka) immigrants Emanuel and Helen Schwartz, in the Bronx. Famous for his dark good looks, flashing long eyelashes and trademark New York accent, popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the actor's most enduring role has been in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1949.

Originally seen as just another pretty boy, but he proved he had great acting talent as well as impossible good looks with many great performances in outstanding films like as the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in The Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and in his oscar nominated performance as a bigoted escaped convict chained to Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.

Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders!. He later starred in McCoy and Vega$. He made his screen debut uncredited in Criss Cross playing a rhumba dancer. He also did the voice of "Stony Curtis" as a guest star on The Flintstones.

Since at least the early 1980s, Curtis has had a second career as a painter.

Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received France's honor, the Order of Arts and Letters, in 1995.

Tony Curtis has been married six times. His first (and most famous) wife was the actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004), to whom he was married for 11 years, and with whom he fathered actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis.

He has also been married to:

Jill Vandenberg Curtis (November 6, 1998?-)
Lisa Deutsch (February 28, 1993-1994); divorced
Andrea Savio (1984-1992); divorced
Leslie Allen (April 20, 1968-1982); divorced, two children
Christine Kaufmann (February 8, 1963-1967); divorced, two children

Trivia

Curtis is 5'9".
Tony Curtis currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas is also the setting of the cop drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which Curtis once guest starred in alongside the late Frank Gorshin.
He is Hungarian-Jewish.
Audie Murphy suggested Curtis portray him in his biopic To Hell and Back.
Served in the U.S. Navy 1942-1945, as a submariner.
Good friends with Roger Moore.
Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met in Washington, DC in support of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act in May 2004.
In March 2006 Curtis received the Sony Ericsson Empire Lifetime Achievement Award.
Has appeared in tourism advertisements for his ancestral homeland Hungary.
Has stated that his favorite movie star and co-star was Cary Grant.
Made "Top 10 stars of the year", 1961 and 1962.
In late 2005, Curtis voiced criticism of the film Brokeback Mountain, stating that he had no intention of seeing it. Many found this ironic, considering Curtis' participation in the documentary The Celluloid Closet, as well as admitting to his own gay dalliances in a 2004 interview with Attitude Magazine.