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Betty An' Dupree

Gather 'round people let me tell you 'bout Dupree
Gather 'round people let me tell you 'bout Dupree
And his woman back in 1903
Betty was her name said she wanted a diamond ring
Betty was her name said she wanted a diamond ring
Dupree told Betty you can have most anything
Just lay down pretty Betty see what tomorrow brings
Said lay down pretty Betty see what tomorrow brings
May bring sunshine it may bring your diamond ring

Dupree went down-town a '44 in his hand
Dupree went down-town a '44 in his hand
Went for the jewelry but he shot that jewelry man
Dupree said Betty here's your diamond ring
Dupree said Betty here's your diamond ring
Just to please you pretty Betty I've done done a wicked thing

Dupree told Betty I'm bound for Tennessee
Dupree told Betty I'm bound for Tennessee
I'm sorry pretty Betty but that sheriff is a haunting me
They caught poor Dupree and put him into the jail
Caught poor Dupree put him in the jail
Atlanta prison is where Betty took Dupree his mail
Dupree said judge I ain't been here before
Dupree said judge I ain't been here before
Judge told Dupree I'm gonna see that you don't come back no more

They took him to the scaffold a black cap upon his face
Took him to the scaffold a black cap upon his face
Now the cold cold ground is for Dupree's resting place
Betty went to the graveyard singing near oh my god to thee
Betty went to the graveyard singing near oh my God to thee
Oh mister hangman look what you done done to Dupree
She told the hack-driver to drive his wagon slow
Told the hack-driver drive your dead wagon slow
When you bury my Dupree I ain't gonna see him no more

Sail on Dupree sail on, sail on Dupree sail on
Don't mind you sailing but you be gone so long
So long Dupree poor boy so long, Dupree poor boy
Don't mind you sailing you'll be gone so long, sail on
Dupree poor boy

and then, edgar, there is this version:

Jason Mraz The Beauty In Ugly (Ugly Betty Version) Lyrics

She's so big hearted
But not so remarkable
Just an ordinary humble girl
Expecting nothing as we're made to think
It's a pretty person's world

But you are beautiful
And you better go show it
So go look again
You gotta be true to your own
If you really wanna go to the top


Do you really wanna win
Don't believe in leaving normal
Just to satisfy demand

Well if you wanna get free
And if you wanna do the passionate thing
And if you wanna get smart
For the sake of your heart and all
You should own your name
And stand up tall and get real
And see the beauty in ugly

Well you are fresh

Mr. Bass Man
Johnny Cymbal

[Written by Johnny Cymbal]

Baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa
Baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba

Mr. Bass Man
You've got that certain something
Mr. Bass Man
You set that music thumping
To you, it's easy
When you go, one, two, three
Bop, bop, bop

You mean, baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa

Mr. Bass Man
You're on all the songs
With a boom, boom, boom, boom
And a di,t dit, ba, boom, boom, bom
Hey, Mr. Bass Man
You're the hidden King of rock and roll
Bop, bop, bop, bop

No, no, baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa

Oh, it don't mean a thing
When the lead is singing
Or when he goes
Hi-yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi
Hey, Mr. Bass Man
I'm asking just one thing
Will you teach me
Mm, yeah, they way you sing
'Cause Mr. Bass Man
I wanna be a bass man too
Bop, bop, bop, bop

That's it, baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa

Oh, Mr. Bass Man
I really think I'm with it
Boom, boom, boom, boom
And a dit, dit, dit, dit, dit
Oh, Mr. Bass Man
Now I'm a bass man too
Bop, bop, bop, bop.....

Bum, bum, bum, bum....now you
Bum, bum, bum, bum....with me
Bum, bum, bum, bum....

That's it, baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa

---- Interlude ----

Oh, it don't mean a thing
When the lead is singing
Or when he goes
Hi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi
Hey, Mr. Bass Man
I'm asking just one thing
Will you teach me
Mm, yeah, they way you sing
'Cause Mr. Bass Man
I wanna be a bass man too
Bop, bop, bop, bop

Try this, baa, ba-ba, baa, ba-ba, baa

Oh, Mr. Bass Man
I think I'm really with it
Dit, dit, boom, boom
And boom, boom
A dit, dit, dit, dit, dit
Come on, Mr. Bass Man
Now I'm a bass man too
Dit, bop, bop, bop

Bum, bum, bum, bum.... now you
Bum, bum, bum, bum....
Looking good
Bum, bum, bum, bum....

Hey, edgar. Wish I could have seen Chick Corea at the Peabody Auditorium. Never heard him, Texas, but here's his bass man's photo:



"Now he sings; Now he sobs" is reputed to be one of his best albums. Back later with "My One and Only Love". I think that song has also been referred to as "Music from Beyond the Moon."

Corea is held in great esteem by many music lovers. Sadly, I am unfamiliar with his work.

Oooh. Look who was born on this date.

For our PD:



and remembering:



and a Good Day to all.

On this date in 1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC.

I had no idea. What a calamity.

Ah, There's our Raggedy in the company of one of the greatest tenors in all Opera land. No one then and now could sing like Caruso, gal, and thanks for Jim in his Mr. Magoo role.

Well, dys, that little bit of history belongs in RealJonBoy's "Did you know" forum. <smile>

Hey, Steve. Welcome aboard, Brit. Which calamity is that, Jane or Charles?

Speaking of calamity, I may have thrown a spanner in my equipment, because I tried to find Chick's version of "My One and Only Heart" by listening to a sound clip. It didn't work and now there is a strange bunch of stuff buried in our files.

I think this may be the one, however. Let's give a listen, folks:

This version by Rod Stewart:


The very thought of you makes my heart sing
Like an April breeze on the wings of spring
And you appear in all your splendor
My one and only love

The shadows fall and spread their mystic charms
In the hush of night while you're in my arms
I feel your lips so warm and tender
My one and only love

The touch of your hand is like heaven
A heaven that I've never known
The blush on your cheek whenever I speak
Tells me that you are my own

You fill my eager heart with such desire
Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love

Since Armando "Chick" Corea's name came up, here's a song by him, with lyrics by one Neville Porter:

Sometime ago I had a dream
It was happy it was lasting it was free
And now in life O can't you see
How we can make that dream into reality

O the music it was playing
O the firelight it was dancing
All the children they were singing
All the people they were loving

Sometime ago I had a dream
It was happy it was lasting it was free
And now in life O can't you see
How we can make that dream into reality

O the morning sun it was soft and cool
O the evening breeze it was warm and gold
All together life had started to unfold
Sometime ago

Turtle, you really know how to pick 'em for a whale. Thanks, because the lyrics are just what the world needs to hear. Not many people are listening, I fear.

I am having no luck at all finding Armando's lyrics to Spain. Do you know them, M.D.? Perhaps our Raggedy.

Well, we try and play them all here in our wee cyber station, folks, if we can locate them.

Hope our hawkman can make an appearance today. February is a very short month.

Beans And Cornbread
Louis Jordan

Beans and Cornbread had a fight
Beans knocked Cornbread outta sight
Cornbread said "Now that's alright, meet me on the corner tomorrow night"
I'll be ready, I'll be ready tomorrow night
I'll be ready, I'll be ready tomorrow night
I'll be ready, I'll be ready tomorrow night

That's what Beans said to Cornbread "I'll be ready tomorrow night"
Beans told Cornbread you ain't straight
You better wake up or I'll gash your gate
Been in this pot since half past two
Swelling and puffing and almost due
I'll be ready tomorrow night, that's what Beans said to Cornbread
You always getting mad at me, I ain't mad at you
I'll be ready tomorrow night, I'll be ready, Mmmmmm

Beans grabbed cornbread by the toe
Beans said "Cornbread let me go"
Cornbread said "I'll lay you low, I'm gonna fight you, you so and so"
Meet me on the corner, met me on the corner tomorrow night
That's what Beans said to Cornbread , you so bad, you always wanna fight

Meet me on the corner tomorrow night and I'm gonna beat the hell out of ya
Oooohhhhh (meet) on the corner tomorrow night
Beans hit Cornbread on the head, Cornbread said I'm almost dead
Beans told Cornbread (NOW?) get up man, you know that we go hand in hand

Beans told ???
That's what Beans said to Cornbread, We should stick together hand in hand
We should get up every morning and hang out together like sister and brothers
Every Saturday night we should hang out like chitterlings and potatoes salad

Like shrawberries and shortcakes, YEAH
Like cornbeef and cabbage, YEAH
Like liver and onions, YEAH
Like red beans and rice, YEAH
Like ,YEAH
Like soft cream and v?, YEAH
Like bread and butter, YEAH
Like pot cakes and m
Beans told cornbread, it makes no difference what you think about me,
but it makes a whole lot of differences what I think about you, we
should hang out like together like pot cakes and M
That's what Beans said to Cornbread

Miss Boston Bob's funny of the day, but most of all we miss him.

Here's a great story that was sent to me by my Irish friend, Smokingun, and it gave me a big smile:

After having dug to a depth of 100 meters last year, Scottish

scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years and came to the

conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 1000 years ago.



Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English

scientist dug to a depth of 200 meters and shortly after headlines in the UK

newspapers read; "English archaeologists have found traces of 2000 year old

fibre-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors already had an

advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the Scots."



One week later, Irish newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 500 meters in a County Mayo bog, Irish scientists have found

absolutely nothing. They have therefore concluded that 5000 years ago

Ireland's inhabitants were already using wireless technology."

Jerry Wallace
In the misty moonlight
[Written by Cindy Walker]

In the misty moonlight, by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as I'm with you
(As long as I'm with you-ooh)

In a far-away land, on the tropic sea sand
If your hand's in my hand, I won't be blue

Way upon the mountain or way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy, anyplace, anywhere, I don't care
In the misty moonlight, by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there

SPOKEN:
I could be happy in one little room
With only a table and chair
As happy as I'd be in a kingdom by the sea
Darling, if you were there
And I could be rich or I could be poor
But if you were by my side
I could be any place in this whole wide world
And I know I'd be satisfied

Way upon the mountain or way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy, anyplace, anywhere, I don't care
In the misty moonlight, by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there
In the misty moonlight, by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there

Hey, edgar. I know that melody, Texas. I was looking for the lyrics to Santana's Flor d' Luna(Moonflower) and found it along with the melody on Windows Media Player. It was quite haunting, folks, but I choose this one by Paul Simon instead.

Song About the Moon
by Paul Simon,

If you want to write a song about the moon
Walk along the craters of the afternoon
When the shadows are deep
And the light is alien
And gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement
And you want to write a song about the moon
You want to write a spiritual tune
Then nah nah nah
Presto
Song about the moon
If you want to write a song about the heart
Think about the moon before you start
Because the heart will howl Like a dog in the moonlight
And the heart can explode
Like a pistol on a June night
So if you want to write a song about the heart
And its ever longing for a counterpart
Write a song about the moon
The laughing boy
He laughed so hard
He fell down from his place
The laughing girl
She laughed so hard
The tears rolled down her face
Hey Songwriter
If you want to write a song about
A face
Think about a photograph
That you really can't remember
But you can't erase
Wash your hands in dreams and lightning
Cut off your hair
And whatever is frightening
If you want to write a song
About a face
If you want to write a song about
The human race
Write a song about the moon
If you want to write a song about the moon
You want to write a spirituaI tune
Then do it

Buffalo Bill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 - January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the American state of Iowa, near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes.





Nickname and work life

William Frederick Cody "Buffalo Bill" got his nickname for supplying Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with bison meat. The nickname originally referred to Bill Comstock. Cody won the nickname from him in 1868 in a bison killing contest. He won 69 to 48.


In addition to his documented service as a soldier during the Civil War and as a Colonel, Chief of Scouts for the Army during the Plains Wars, Cody claimed to have worked many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and even a hotel manager, but it's unclear which claims were factual and which were fabricated for purposes of publicity. He became world famous for his Wild West show.

Early years

William Frederick Cody was born at his family's farmhouse in Scott County, Iowa, on February 26, 1846, to Isaac and Mary Cody. When Cody was 7, his older brother, Samuel, was killed by a fall from a horse. His death so affected Mary Cody's health that a change of scene was advised and the family relocated to Kansas, moving into a large log cabin on land that they had staked there.

Cody's father believed that Kansas should be a free state, but many of the other settlers in the area were pro-slavery (see Bleeding Kansas). While giving an anti-slavery speech at the local trading post, he so inflamed the supporters of slavery in the audience that they formed a mob and one of them stabbed him. Cody helped to drag his father to safety, although he never fully recovered from his injuries. The family was constantly persecuted by the supporters of slavery, forcing Isaac Cody to spend much of his time away from home. His enemies learned of a planned visit to his family and plotted to kill him on the way. Cody, despite his youth and the fact that he was ill, rode 30 miles to warn his father. Cody's father died in 1857 from complications from his stabbing.

After his father's death, the Cody family suffered financial difficulties, and Cody, aged only 11, took a job with freight carrier as a "boy extra," riding up and down the length of a wagon train, delivering messages. From here, he joined Johnston's Army as an unofficial member of the scouts assigned to guide the Army to Utah to put down a falsely-reported rebellion by the Mormon population of Salt Lake City.

At the age of 14, Cody was struck by gold fever, but on his way to the gold fields, he met an agent for the Pony Express. He signed with them and after building several way stations and corrals was given a job as rider, which he kept until he was called home to his sick mother's bedside.

His mother recovered, and Cody, who wished to enlist as a soldier, but was refused for his age, began working with a United States freight caravan which delivered supplies to Fort Laramie.


Civil War Soldier and Marriage

Shortly after the death of his mother in 1863, Cody enlisted in the 7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment and fought with them on the Union side for the rest of the Civil War.

While stationed at military camp in St. Louis, Bill met Louisa Frederici (1843-1921). He returned after his discharge and they married on March 6, 1866. Their marriage was not a happy one, and Bill unsuccessfully attempted to divorce Louisa. They had four children, two of whom died young: his beloved son, Kit died of scarlet fever in April, 1876 and his daughter Orra died in 1880.

His early experience as an Army scout led him again to scouting, this time officially appointed.

From 1868 until 1872 Cody was employed as a scout by the United States Army. Part of this time he spent scouting for Indians, and the remainder was spent gathering and killing bison for them and the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for "gallantry in action" while serving as a civilian scout for the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. This medal was revoked on February 5, 1917, 24 days after his death, because he was a civilian and therefore was ineligible for the award under new guidelines for the award in 1917. The medal was restored to him by the army in 1989.

After being a frontiersman, Buffalo Bill entered show business. He formed a touring company called the Buffalo Bill Combination which put on plays (e.g. "Scouts of the Prairie", "Scouts of the Plain") based loosely on his Western adventures, initially with Texas Jack Omohundro, and for one season (1873) with Wild Bill Hickok. The troupe toured for ten years and his part typically included an 1876 incident at the Warbonnet Creek where he claimed to have scalped a Cheyenne warrior, purportedly in revenge for the death of George Armstrong Custer. [1] [2]


Buffalo Bill's Wild West

It was the age of great showmen and traveling entertainers, like the Barnum and Bailey Circus and the Vaudeville circuits. Cody took the lead from fellow showman 'Pawnee Bill' and put together a new traveling show based on both of those forms of entertainment. In 1883 in the area of North Omaha, Nebraska he founded "Buffalo Bill's Wild West," (despite popular misconception the word "show" was not a part of the title) a circus-like attraction that toured annually.


As the Wild West toured North America over the next twenty years, it became a moving extravaganza, including as many as 1200 performers. The show began with a parade on horseback, with participants from horse-culture groups that included US and other military, American Indians, and performers from all over the world in their best attire. There were Turks, Gauchos, Arabs, Mongols and Cossacks, among others, each showing their own distinctive horses and colorful costumes. Visitors to this spectacle could see main events, feats of skill, staged races, and sideshows. Many authentic western personalities were part of the show. For example Sitting Bull and a band of twenty braves appeared. Cody's headline performers were well known in their own right. People like Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler put on shooting exhibitions along with the likes of Gabriel Dumont. Other well-known contemporaries such as 'Calamity Jane' (Martha Jane Cannary-Burke) toured frequently. Buffalo Bill and his performers would re-enact the riding of the Pony Express, Indian attacks on wagon trains, and stagecoach robberies. The show typically ended with a melodramatic re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand in which Cody himself portrayed General Custer.

In 1887 he performed in London in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria, and toured Europe in 1889. In 1890 he met pope Leo XIII. He set up an exhibition near the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, which greatly contributed to his popularity, and also vexed the promoters of the fair. As noted in The Devil in the White City, he had been rebuffed in his request to be part of the fair, so he set up shop just to the west of the fairgrounds, drawing many patrons away from the fair. Since his show was not part of the fair, he was not obligated to pay the fair any royalties, which they could have used to temper the financial struggles of the fair.

Many historians claim that, at the turn of the 20th century, Buffalo Bill Cody was the most recognizable celebrity on earth and yet, despite all of the recognition and appreciation Cody's show brought for the Western and American Indian cultures, Buffalo Bill saw the American West change dramatically during his tumultuous life. Bison herds, which had once numbered in the millions, were now threatened with extinction. Railroads crossed the plains, barbed wire and other types of fences divided the land for farmers and ranchers, and the once-threatening Indian tribes were now almost completely confined to reservations. Wyoming's resources of coal, oil and natural gas were beginning to be exploited towards the end of his life. Even the Shoshone River was dammed for hydroelectric power as well as for irrigation. Builders called it the Buffalo Bill Dam.


Life in Cody, Wyoming

In 1895, William Cody was instrumental in helping found Cody, Wyoming. Later he built the Irma Hotel downtown. He also had lodging along the route to the east entry of Yellowstone National Park that included the Wapiti Inn and Pahaska Teepee. Up the Southfork was his TE Ranch getaway with family.


Death

Cody died of kidney failure on January 10, 1917 surrounded by family and friends at his sister's house in Denver. Contrary to popular belief he was not destitute but his once great fortune had dwindled to under $100,000. Despite his request to be buried at Cody, Wyoming in an early will, it was superseded by a later will which left his burial arrangements up to his wife Louisa. According to Louisa and other immediate family members, he had asked to buried on Lookout Mountain before his death. To this day there is controversy as to where Cody really wanted to be buried. In accordance with the family's wishes, on June 3, 1917 he was buried on Colorado's Lookout Mountain, at Golden, Colorado, west of the city of Denver, located on the edge of the Rocky Mountains and overlooking the Great Plains. While there is evidence that Cody had already been baptised as a baby, he asked to be baptised as a Catholic around two weeks before his death.


Legacy

In contrast to his image and stereotype as a rough-hewn outdoorsman, Buffalo Bill pushed for the rights of American Indians and women. In addition, despite his history of killing bison, he supported their conservation by speaking out against hide-hunting and pushing for a hunting season.

Buffalo Bill became so well known and his exploits such a part of American culture that his persona has appeared in many literary works as well as television shows and movies. Westerns were very popular in the 1950's and 60's. Buffalo Bill would make an appearance in most of them. As a character, he is in the very popular Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun which was very successful both with Ethel Merman and most recently with Reba McEntire in the lead role. On television his persona has appeared on shows such as Bat Masterson and even Bonanza. His persona has been portrayed everywhere from an elder statesman to a flamboyant, selfserving exhibitionist.

Having been a frontier scout who respected the natives, he was a staunch supporter of their rights. He employed many more natives than just Sitting Bull, feeling his show offered them a better life, calling them "the former foe, present friend, the American", and once said,

"Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government."

While in his shows the Indians were usually the "bad guys", attacking stagecoaches and wagon trains in order to be driven off by "heroic" cowboys and soldiers, Bill also had the wives and children of his Indian performers set up camp as they would in the homelands as part of the show, so that the paying public could see the human side of the "fierce warriors", that they were families like any other, just part of a different culture.

The city of Cody, Wyoming was founded in 1896 by Cody and some investors, and is named for him. It is the home of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Fifty miles from Yellowstone National Park, it became a tourist magnet with many dignitaries and political leaders coming to hunt. Bill did indeed spend a great amount of time in Wyoming at his home in Cody. However, he also had a house in the town of North Platte, Nebraska and later built the Scout's Rest Ranch there where he came to be with his family between shows. This western Nebraska town is still home to "Nebraskaland Days," an annual festival including concerts and a large rodeo. The Scout's Rest Ranch in North Platte is both a museum, and a tourist destination for thousands of people every year.

Buffalo Bill became a hero of the Bills, a Congolese youth subculture of the late 1950s who idolized Western movies.





"Buffalo Bill's / defunct"

A famous free verse poem on mortality by E. E. Cummings uses Buffalo Bill as an image of life and vibrancy. The poem is generally untitled, and commonly known by its first two lines: "Buffalo Bill's / defunct", however some books such as "Poetry" edited by J. Hunter uses the name "portrait". The poem uses expressive phrases to describe Buffalo Bill's showmanship, referring to his "watersmooth-silver / stallion", and using a staccato beat to describe his rapid shooting of a series of clay pigeons.

William Frawley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born February 26, 1887
Burlington, Iowa
Died March 3, 1966
Los Angeles, California

William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 - March 3, 1966) was an American stage and screen actor with well over a hundred films to his credit. But he gained greater fame in television as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy and as Grandfather Bub O'Casey on My Three Sons.

He began in vaudeville and possessed of a fine singing voice in his younger days. It was supposedly Frawley, not Al Jolson, who introduced the song "My Mammy" to vaudeville audiences.[citation needed] He was also an early and persistent exponent of the hit song "Carolina in the Morning". His film credits include Rose of Washington Square (1939), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), in which he portrayed "Charlie", the judge's campaign manager, and B movies like Treat 'Em Rough (1942) with Eddie Albert and Peggy Moran.

On I Love Lucy (beginning in 1951) and on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (beginning in 1957), Frawley played Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's friend and landlord, Fred Mertz. He and Vivian Vance, who played his wife Ethel in the series, had great chemistry on screen, but in real life had a dislike for each other.[citation needed] This was attributed to her vocal resentment of having to play wife to a man 22 years her senior, which she took as an insult.[citation needed] When he got wind of it, it offended him so much, he never forgave her.[citation needed]

The two co-stars were given the opportunity to move into their own "Fred and Ethel" spin-off once I Love Lucy had run its course in 1960. Despite his animosity towards her, Frawley saw a lucrative opportunity and was game, but Ms. Vance nixed the idea, having no interest in ever working with Frawley again. He never forgave her for this, since the series could have made him extremely wealthy.

Frawley next hit it big on "My Three Sons" (beginning in 1960), in his role as Grandfather Bub O'Casey, a role he played from 1960 to 1965. The original premise for the series was for Frawley to be the show's star, overseeing three nieces,[citation needed] but CBS decided to switch the kids to boys, then snapped up Disney's top movie star, Fred MacMurray, as the lead when he indicated interest after they offered him a preposterously shortened work schedule, relegating Frawley to another supporting role, after all. Frawley reportedly never felt comfortable with the out-of-sequence filming method used on My Three Sons after doing I Love Lucy in sequence for years. Most television series are filmed out of sequence, but My Three Sons was unusually so, to an almost surreal degree: each season's episodes were arranged so that series star MacMurray could shoot all of his scenes during a single intensive two-week period; Frawley and the other actors worked around the absent MacMurray the rest of the year. It was a very different experience from the sequential filming schedule of ' 'I Love Lucy' '.

By almost all accounts, Frawley's off-screen personality was not much different from his on-screen demeanor. A notorious misanthrope, with one brief failed marriage behind him and a fondness for the bottle,[citation needed] he lived in the same bachelor apartment most of his years in Hollywood.[citation needed]

According to Desi Arnaz's memoir, A Book, Frawley eventually lost his driver's license due to drunk driving and befriended a cab driver who drove him around regularly.[citation needed]

While deciding whether to hire Frawley for the role of Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy, Arnaz made it clear to him that if he showed up drunk for work, he would "work around it" twice, but after that, Frawley would not only be fired from the program but blacklisted throughout the entertainment industry.[citation needed] Frawley, whom no one would hire at that point, readily agreed.

He never showed up drunk to work, and, in fact, Arnaz became one of his few close friends.

Poor health forced Frawley's retirement. He was dropped from My Three Sons after the studio could no longer obtain insurance on him. He was angry about being let go and developed a dislike of actor William Demarest, who replaced him, accusing him of stealing his job. One of his final performances was an October 1965 guest appearance in Lucy's subsequent series The Lucy Show.

He collapsed of a heart attack on March 3, 1966, and died, aged 79. He had been walking along Hollywood Boulevard to his suite at the Knickerbocker Hotel after seeing a movie.

After he died, Arnaz took out a full-page ad in the trade papers, consisting of Frawley's picture, framed in black, and three words: "Buenas noches, amigo!" Vance's reaction was the polar opposite.[citation needed] She and her second husband were dining out when they heard the news, and reportedly, Vance shamelessly shouted, "Champagne for everybody!"[citation needed]

Frawley is buried in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Madeleine Carroll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Edith Madeleine Carroll
Born February 26, 1906
West Bromwich, England
Died October 2, 1987
Marbella, Spain

Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, who was renowned for her great beauty and immense popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

She was born as Edith Madeleine Carroll at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) West Bromwich, England, and she graduated from the University of Birmingham, England.

Widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women in films, Carroll's aristocratic blonde allure and sophisticated style were first glimpsed by British movie audiences in The Guns of Loos in 1928. Rapidly rising to stardom in England, she graced such popular films of the early '30s as Young Woodley, The School for Scandal and I Was A Spy. Abruptly, she announced plans to retire from films to devote herself to a private life with her husband, the first of four.

She attracted the attention of Alfred Hitchcock and, in 1935, starred as one of the director's earliest prototypical cool, glib, intelligent blondes in The 39 Steps based on the seminal espionage novel by John Buchan. The film became a sensation and with it, so did Carroll. Handcuffed to her handsome, debonair costar Robert Donat, with whom she traded wicked double entendres, Carroll's fire was brought out for the first time on screen. Cited by the New York Times for a performance that was "charming and skillful," [citation needed] Carroll became very much in demand thanks, in part, to director Hitchcock, who later admitted that he worked very hard with her to bring out the vivacious and sexy qualities she possessed offscreen but which sometimes vanished when cameras rolled. Carroll and Donat's chemistry added much to the film that became a template for later Hitchcock spy thrillers including Saboteur, Foreign Correspondent and North by Northwest. Of Hitchcock's heroines such as the one played by Carroll and her successors, film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that they "reflected the same qualities over and over again: They were blonde. They were icy and remote. They were imprisoned in costumes that subtly combined fashion with fetishism. They mesmerized the men, who often had physical or psychological handicaps." [citation needed]

Hoping to re-team Carroll with Donat the following year in Secret Agent, a spy thriller based on a work by W. Somerset Maugham, the director was thwarted. Donat's recurring health problems prevented him from accepting the role and, instead, Hitchcock paired Carroll with John Gielgud.

Poised for international stardom, Carroll was the first British beauty to be offered a major American film contract and she accepted a lucrative deal with Paramount Pictures. She starred opposite Gary Cooper in the adventure The General Died At Dawn and with Ronald Colman in the 1937 box-office hit and classic adventure in The Prisoner of Zenda. Considered to be the finest screen version of the much-filmed swashbuckling novel by Anthony Hope, it won two Oscar nominations and in 1991 was placed by the National Film Preservation Board on the National Film Registry. She tried a big musical On The Avenue, but others of her films, including One Night in Lisbon, and My Favourite Blonde (with Bob Hope) became less prestigious.

She appeared on the enormously popular NBC Radio program, "Chase and Sanborn Hour" October 30, 1938, with Nelson Eddy and Dorothy Lamour (vocalists), Robert Armbruster and his orchestra, starring Edgar Bergen (Charlie McCarthy), Don Ameche (host) Judy Zeke and Anne Canova. She performed with Nelson Eddy, Ameche and Edgar Bergen. After her only sister Marguerite was killed in a London bombing raid, she radically shifted her priorities from acting to instead working in field hospitals as a Red Cross nurse. She was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for bravery in France.

She made her final film for director Otto Preminger, The Fan, from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, in 1949.


Awards and achievements beyond film

She became an American citizen in 1943.

During World War II, Madeleine Carroll was an American Red Cross voluntary worker. Her only sister was killed during the Blitz.

She served in the 61st Field Hospital, Bari, Italy in 1944, where many wounded American airmen flying out of air bases around Foggia were hospitalized.

For her remarkable and selfless work during the war, she was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for bravery in France.

Madeleine Carroll was married four times:

1) Captain Philip Astley (1931-1940)
2) Sterling Hayden (1942-1946)
3) Andrew Heiskell (1950-1965)
4) Henri Lavorel

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Madeleine Carroll has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6707 Hollywood Blvd.

Madeleine Carroll died from pancreatic cancer in Marbella, Spain aged 81. She is interred in the Cementeri de Sant Antoni de Calonge in Catalunya, Spain.

A commemorative monument and plaques were unveiled in her birthplace, West Bromwich to mark the centenary of her birth.