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Kate Hudson
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Birth name Kate Garry Hudson
Born April 19, 1979 (1979-04-19) (age 28)
Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) Chris Robinson (2000 - 2006)
Notable roles Penny Lane in
Almost Famous
Andie Anderson in
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Caroline Ellis in
The Skeleton Key
Golden Globe Awards

Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
2001 Almost Famous

Kate Garry Hudson[1] (born April 19, 1979) is an American film actress. She came to fame in 2000, after an Oscar-nominated role in the drama Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a Hollywood lead actress, starring in several successful films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key, and You, Me, and Dupree.




Biography

Early life

Hudson was born in Los Angeles to Bill Hudson (a singer, comedian and member of the Hudson Brothers) and Goldie Hawn (a well-known film actress). Her maternal grandmother is of Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish descent while her paternal grandmother was of Italian descent[2] and her paternal grandfather's ancestry traces to 15th-century England.[3] Hudson was raised in the Jewish religion,[4] though her family also practiced Buddhism.


Hudson's parents divorced eighteen months after her birth, and she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.[5] Because Hudson's biological father was absent during most of her childhood, the two are estranged from each other. Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers her mother's partner, Kurt Russell, to be her father.[6] Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to".[7] She has three half-siblings, Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams, and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with Kurt Russell. Her cousin is singer Sarah Hudson.

Hudson graduated from Crossroads, a performing school in Santa Monica, in 1997. She was accepted to New York University, but chose to pursue an acting career instead of attending.[5]


Career

Hudson's breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.[5] She had previously appeared in the lesser-known films Gossip, a teenage drama, and 200 Cigarettes, a New Year's-set comedy with a large cast of actors. Regarding her early career and succees, Hudson has noted that she is a "hard worker", and did not want to be associated with her well-known parents, wishing to avoid the perception that she "rode on somebody's coattails".[5]

Hudson turned down the part of Mary Jane Watson in the 2002 film version of Spider-Man, and instead starred in remake of the historical romance The Four Feathers, a film which was not well received by critics or audiences. Her next film, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a romantic comedy, became a big success at the box office, grossing over $100 million after its February 2003 release. Hudson subsequently appeared in several romantic comedies, including Alex and Emma and Raising Helen; the films met with varying degrees of success.

Hudson headlined a thriller called The Skeleton Key in 2005. The film, which had a production budget of $43 million, enjoyed moderate box office success, grossing over $91.9 million worldwide ($47.9 million in the US alone).[8] Her latest film, a comedy titled You, Me and Dupree and co-starring Owen Wilson and Matt Dillon, grossed $21.5 million on its opening weekend of 14 July 2006, within industry expectations.[9]


Kiehn Hudson has long expressed an interest in producing films,[7] and is currently finalizing a deal to produce and star in the film A Dream of Red Mansions, opposite Ken Watanabe, in which she will play Diana Mellors, a real-life photojournalist who moved to China and became a Communist; filming will begin in the fall of 2006.[10] Two projects in which Hudson was previously scheduled to star in, the comedy Can You Keep a Secret? and the drama Sleight of Mind, are still in development.[7]

Hudson is the image model for Kamiseta, a Filipino line of young women's clothing and apparel. She was preceded by Natalie Portman.


Personal life

In 2000, Hudson married Chris Robinson, the frontman for The Black Crowes. She gave birth to their son, Ryder Russell Robinson, on January 7, 2004. The couple lived in a house that was once owned by director James Whale and traveled together during Hudson's film shoots or Robinson's music tours.[5] On August 14, 2006, Hudson's publicist announced that Hudson and Robinson had separated.[11]. On November 18, 2006, Robinson filed divorce papers, citing irreconcilable differences. [12] She is now rumoured to be dating You, Me, and Dupree co-star Owen Wilson. However, in January 2007, she was spotted with a new beau, Jet frontman Nic Cester.[[1]]

Hudson has noted that she is "not very religious,"[13] although she still describes herself as Jewish.[14] She has also said that she does not enjoy watching herself on screen, specifying that she "gets cold... shakes and... sweats" when watching her performances for the first time.[7]

In July 2006, Hudson sued the British version of the National Enquirer after they had stated that she has an eating disorder and described her as "painfully thin." Hudson said that the tabloid's actions were "completely inappropriate" and a "blatant lie," and specified her concern relating the impressions about weight that she feels the tabloid could have on young girls.[15]

On April 9, 2007, paparazzi photos surfaced of Hudson and her ex husband, Chris Robinson, together with their son, Ryder.

Subject: Making a baby

Ø There is not one dirty word in it, and it is funny.
>
> The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, "Well, I'm off now. The man should be here soon."
>
> Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer
> happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. "Good morning, Ma'am", he said, "I've come to..."
>
> "Oh, no need to explain," Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, "I've been
> expecting you."
>
> "Have you really?" said the photographer. "Well, that's good. Did you know babies are my specialty?"
>
> "Well that's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat".
>
> After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?"
>
> "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there."
>
> "Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work out for Harry and me!"
>
> "Well, Ma'am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results."
>
> "My, that's a lot!", gasped Mrs. Smith.
>
> "Ma'am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I'd love to be In and out in five minutes, but I'm sure you'd be disappointed with that."
>
> "Don't I know it," said Mrs. Smith quietly.
>
> The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus," he said.
>
> "Oh, my God!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, grasping at her throat.
>
> "And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider their
> mother was so difficult to work with."
>
> "She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith.
>
> "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job
> done right. People were crowdi ng aro und four and five deep to get a good look"
>
> "Four and five deep?" said Mrs. Smith, her eyes wide with amazement.
>
> "Yes", the photographer replied. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached I had to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in."
>
> Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "Do you mean they actually chewed on your, uh...equipment?"
>
> "It's true, Ma'am, yes.. Well, if you're ready, I'll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away."
>
> "Tripod?"
>
> "Oh yes, Ma'am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big to be held in the hand very long."
>
> Mrs. Smith fainted!!

Welcome back, hawkman. Ah, the fun of talking at cross purposes. Love that misunderstood funny, BostonBob.

I think we know most of your celebs, but I was interested in the bit about someone in the movie "Crash" doing an imitation of Jayne's car accident. Don't recall that, myself.

Well, folks, let's hope our Raggedy puts faces to names today, because her photo's are always a memory jog.

Until that pretty pup arrives, let's hear this one from Tim Curry.

I put a spell on you,
Because you're mine,
You better stop the things that you do,
I ain't lyin'

I just can't stand it, babe,
The way you're always runnin' 'round,
I just can't stand it,
The way you're always tryin' to put me down,

I put a spell on you,
Because you're mine.

I put a spell on you,
Because you're mine,
You better stop the things that you do,
I ain't lyin' you know I ain't lyin',

I just can't stand it, babe,
The way you're always runnin' 'round,
I just can't stand it,
The way you're always tryin' to put me down,

I put a spell on you,
Because you're mine.
'Cause, 'cause you're mine!

I said, I love you, I love you, I love you, oh, baby, how,
And I don't care if you don't want me,
I'm yours right now,

I put a spell on you,
Because you're mine.
Because you're mine.
Because you're mine.

Good afternoon WA2K.

Dropping into match some faces.

Well, there's that pup. (I just exhaled)

Wonderful photo's, Raggedy.

We're looking at Hugh and Dick, Jayne and Dudley, Tim and Kate. All beautiful people, right? We never know what lies behind that beauty, however.

Another masquerade song

My blue horizon is turning gray
And my dreams are drifting away

Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine
And the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine
I'm afraid the masquerade is over
And so is love, and so is love


I guess I'll have to play Pagliacci and get myself a clown's disguise
And learn to laugh like Pagliacci with tears in my eyes

You look the same
You're a lot the same
But my heart says "No, no, you're not the same"
I'm afraid the masquerade is over
And so is love, and so is love
Your words don't mean what they used to me
They were once inspired, now they're just routine
I'm afraid the masquerade is over

And so is love; and so is love.

Stevie Wonder

And that song brought this one to mind:

Was in a Paris cafe that first I found him
He was a Frenchman, a hero of the war
But war was over
And here's how peace had crowned him
A few cheap medals to wear and nothing more
Now every night in the same cafe he shows up
And as he strolls by ladies hear him say
If you admire me, hire me
A gigolo who knew a better day

Just a gigolo, everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance
Selling each romance
Every night some heart betraying
There will come a day
Youth will pass away
Then what will they say about me
When the end comes I know
They'll say just a gigolo
As life goes on without me

Dear Raggedy. I remember that song well, and you inspired me to find a song that I have wondered about for a long time. Naturally, there are different versions of it, but all by Johnny Mercer.

First version, folks.


WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG (FEMALE LYRICS)

Verse 1.

They call me coquette, and mademoiselle,

And I must admit I like it quite well.

It's something to be the darling of all;

Le grande femme fatale - the belle of the ball,

There's nothing as gay as life in Paris ,

There's no other person, I'd rather be,

I love what I do - I love what I see,

But where is the schoolgirl that used to be me….



Chorus 1.

Ah, the apple trees,

Where at garden teas,

Jack-o-lanterns swung:

Fashions of the day,

Vests of applique,

Dresses of shantung,

Only yesterday.

When The World Was Young

Back later, listeners, with the other versions.

Well, Don1 is back looking for a border town song, so I decided to play this one instead of another apple tree young that has been sung.

Maybe someone can locate it for him.

One of my favorite country musicians, folks.

Hank Snow

In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico

In Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico
The other tourists they're spending their dough
But she spends her time singing love songs you see
And everytime she sang a song she thre a kiss to me
In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico

In Nuevo Laredo the blue Rio Grande
Was bright in the moonlight as I held her hand
She sang me a love song the whole lovely night
We kissed and kissed and kissed and kissed intil the the morning light
In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico

In Nuevo Laredo I found true romance
With my senorita I sang and I danced
We had a fiesta from morning till night
And then her father caught us crumble for a fight

In Nuevo Laredo I travel no more
Since her father hollered don't darken my door
But each night by moonlight I'm all happy man
You should see me swim to her across the Rio Grande
In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico

Oh Ma Ma (The Butcher Boy)
Rudy Vallee

Oh Ma Ma
Oh, catcha dat man-a for me
Oh Ma Ma
How happy I will be
Oh Ma-Ma
I'll cheery-beery be
Oh, if I'm gonna marry
It's-a da butcher boy for me

Hey, Marie
I gotta da lamb chop
Hey, Marie
I gotta da pork-a chop
Hey, Marie
Marie
'Ya wanna marry me

Oh Ma Ma
Oh, catch-a dat man-a for me
Oh, Ma Ma
How happy I will be
Oh, Ma Ma
I'll cheery-beery be
Oh, if I'm gonna marry
It's-a da baker boy for me

Hey, Marie
I gotta da fruitcake
Hey, Marie
I gotta da cheesecake
Hey, Marie
Marie
'Ya wanna marry me

My Gawd, edgar. Rudee Vallee? I know that song, Texas, but I have no idea why I know that song.

There was a period in music history that everyone was caught up in the megaphone thing, and this song from the movie My Own Little Idaho is really lovely.

"Deep night"



Deep night, stars in the sky above
Moonlight, lighting our place of love
Night winds seem to have gone to rest
Two eyes, brightly with love are gleaming

Come to my arms, my darling, my sweetheart, my own
Vow that you'll love me always, be mine alone

Deep night, whispering trees above
Kind night, bringing you nearer, dearer and dearer
Deep night, deep in the arms of love

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Come to my arms, my darling, my sweetheart, my own
Vow that you'll love me always, and be mine alone

Deep night, whispering trees above
Kind night, bringing you nearer, dearer and dearer
Deep night, deep in the arms of love

Oops. I forgot to inform our researchers what that Brit wanted.

Here we go.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94898&highlight=

good evening listeners and greetings from SUNNY AND WARM eastern ontario - reached about 12 C - 50 F today
plenty of bugs crawling around in the garden , so here is "stompin' tom" singing
..............THE BUG SONG !

With A Little Luck
Paul McCartney & Wings

[Words and Music by Paul McCartney]


With a little luck, we can help it out
We can make this whole damn thing work out
With a little love, we can lay it down
Can't you feel the town exploding

There is no end to what we can do together
There is no end
The willow turns his back on inclement weather
And if he can do it
We can do it, just me and you
And a little luck
We can clear it up
We can bring it in for a landing
With a little luck
We can turn it on
There can be no misunderstanding

There is no end to what we can do together
There is no end
The willow turns his back on inclement weather
We can do it, just me and you
With a little push
We can set it up
We can send it rocketing skywards
With a little luck
We can shake it up
Don't you feel the comet exploding

With a little luck
With a little luck
With a little luck
A little luck, a little luck
With a little luck
With a little luck
With a little luck
A little luck, a little luck

Ah, what a lovely evening, listeners.

hbg. Loved your bug song, buddy.

And there's our edgar playing wings. This is our lucky night for insects, I guess.<smile>

Fireflies, lightning bugs, glow worms. What beautiful little things they are.



Dino's version

Glow little glow worm flier fire

Glow like an incandescent wire

Glow for the female of the specie

Turn on the AC and the DC

This night could use a little brightening

Light up your little bug of lightning

When you gotta glow you gotta glow

Glow little glow worm glow



Glow little glow worm turn the key on

You are equipped with tail light neon

You got a cute vest pocket Mazda

Which you can make both slow or faster

I don't know who you took a shine to

Or who you're out to make a sign to

I gotta gal that I love so glow little glow worm glow

Glow little glow worm glow

Glow little glow worm glow

heard this just now, from the other room

He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where

But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he, to bear
We'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on our way to there
Why not share

And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

with all this loveliness & good will, how bout somethin narsty from Sid Vicious & the Sex Pistols

And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
You ****, I'm not a queer
I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
And each and every highway
And yet, much more than this
I did it my way

Regrets I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
I saw it through without exemption
I've planned each charted course
Each careful step along the highway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way

There were times,
I'm sure you knew
When there was ****, ****
**** all else to do
But through it all,
When there was doubt
I shot it up or kicked it down
I faced 'em all and the world
And did it my way

I've loved and been a snide
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now the tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think, I killed a cat
And might I say not in the gay way
Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way

For what is a brat,
What has he got
When he wears hats and he cannot
Say the things he truly feels
But only the words
Of one who kneels
The record shows,
I've shot a bloke
And did it my way

Hey, dj. The turtle ain't your brother; he's heavy. Although I do salute Boy's Town.

M.D. "...oh, ye damned whale..." that Sid is vicious, but we do love the parody on Sinatra.

My goodnight song, all.

Angela Aki about her grandmother.

Along the river a row of
cherryblossom trees are blossoming
The two of us, living together,
walking this path together
And though this world may swallow me up
and spit me
I simply want to be by your side
Forever and ever
But alas, we were caught in the flow of time
and the loop of love, and one day you passed away
Oh my beloved, if I close my eyes
I can see the two of us, way back then
Oh the sight of you, colored by the cherryblossom
is something I will never, ever, forget
After parting with you
I started to understand myself
and my dreams got closer,
and closer within reach
Tough negative words crushed me at times
once the dust would settle, I'd continue the fight
Oh the pain! If I close my eyes
I can see how I was back then
But the image of myself, colored by the cherryblossom
is something I will never, ever, forget
Even now my home is gently
echoing throughout my heart
I can hear that song right now...
Oh my beloved, if I close my eyes
I can see the two of us, way back then
the sight of you, colored by the cherryblossom
the image of myself, colored by the cherryblossom
oh that time, of the cherryblossom color
I will never, ever, never
ever, forget

Goodnight,
From Letty with love

Good morning, WA2K folks.

Mystery news this morning.

SYDNEY, Australia - Australian rescuers were on Friday trying to solve the "Mary Celeste" style mystery of a yacht found floating off the coast with its engine running, food on its table ready to eat, but no crew.
The 36-foot catamaran was found 80 nautical miles off Townsville on the northeast coast, but there was no sign of the three crewmen who had set sail from Queensland state bound for Australia's west coast on Sunday.

And, our Friday ballad

Brigantine she was, Nova Scotia born,
Timber and tar and strong wooden beams.
Of the name, "Amazon" she'd soon be shorn,
Became Mary Celeste, hauler of dreams,
Mary Celeste, transporter of dreams.

Wild Atlantic her hist'ry she tore,
O'er the bounding seas she galloped on the breeze,
Kegs of eth'nol in'r belly she bore,
To Europe's rich ports she headed with ease,
To richest ports headed with ease.

For she had aboard this good ship and true ,
Deck hands, sail masters, seasoned aplenty,
Cap'n, wife Sara, Sophia, years two,
Live souls aboard were just about twenty,

But another ship, Dei Gratia, by name,
Would find Mary Celeste miles west of Spain,
Hatches all open, state of naval shame,
No crew tending spinnaker or main.
No crew to tend headsail or ?- or main.

Where does the sweet love of God go,
When men to spirit ship tether their lives,
And set out to sea on high swell and blow,
Yet fair or foul, they may widow their wives?
Fair or foul, they could widow their wives?

Conspiracy of murder and greed?
What of Cap'n Briggs, his family's fate?
They left New York, deliberate speed,
Loaded with spirits to make acetate.

Dei Gratia's story be good and true ,
What list would monstrous deeds be among?
Did fiendish pirates slay cap'n and crew,
Cargo intact, clothes on pegs still hung?
On pegs clothes still hung.

As Triangle legends all tend to go,
For some unforgiven apostasy,
Rise from a seabed lair far below,
Did sea monsters gorge in vile ecstasy?
Sea monsters gorge in vile ecstasy?

Prompted launching lifeboat out to sea?
No provisions, and no wet-gear taken,
Only a peak rope shredded to the lee,
Hanging in water, tether forsaken.

Did leaking alcohol render them sick,
Forced to abandon the good ship mid-meal,
Take to the lifeboat, no thought but be quick,
And open the hatches so wind could heal?
Opened hatches, the wind would heal.

"Fast now, laddies, let's put peak rope to tow,
Draw away from the fumes, to tall rope's end,
We'll stay ?'by ?'til the squall ends its blow,
Those broken keg racks we'll surely mend,
Surely mend."

Oh, where does the sweet love of God go,
When men tether lives to a spirit ship?
Did the cap'n and crew just not have to know,
Peak ropes will rot and sea gales whip?

Cap'n Briggs', Sara's, and Sophia's souls,
With deck hands, rope haulers, the very best,
Were victims of spirits with no controls,
Blown far away from good Mary Celeste,
So far away from Mary Celeste.

Where does the sweet love of God go,
When men tether lives to a spirit ship,
Set out to sea on high swell and blow,
Be fair or foul, where would their luck tip?
Was foul, not fair ?- their poor luck did tip.

Harold Lloyd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born April 20, 1893
Burchard, Nebraska,
United States
Died March 8, 1971 at age 77
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Parents James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elisabeth Fraser

Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and director, most famous for his silent comedies.

Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.

His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. The image of Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! (1923) is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous stunts himself, despite having injured himself during the filming of Haunted Spooks (1920) when an accident with a prop bomb resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on film with the use of a special prosthetic glove).

Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Charlie Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific (releasing twelve feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just three), and they made more money overall ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million).



Early life and entry into films

Lloyd was born in Burchard, Nebraska to James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elisabeth Fraser; his paternal great-grandparents were from Wales.[1] Lloyd had moved west with his family after his father failed in numerous business ventures.

He had acted in theater since boyhood, and started acting in one-reel film comedies shortly after moving to California in 1912 in San Diego, California. Lloyd soon began working with Thomas Edison's motion picture company, and eventually formed a partnership with fellow struggling actor and director Hal Roach, who had formed his own studio in 1913. The hard-working Lloyd became the most successful of Roach's comic actors between 1915 and 1919.

He hired Bebe Daniels as a supporting actress in 1914; the two of them were involved romantically and were known as "The Boy" and "The Girl". In 1919, she left Lloyd because of greater dramatic aspirations.

Lloyd's early film character "Lonesome Luke" was by his own admission a frenetic imitation of Chaplin. By 1918, Lloyd and Roach had developed the "Glasses Character" (always named "Harold" in the films), a much more mature comedy character with greater potential for sympathy and emotional depth. Beginning in 1921, they moved from shorts to feature length comedies. These included the acclaimed Grandma's Boy (1922), which (along with Chaplin's The Kid) pioneered the combination of complex character development and film comedy, the sensational Safety Last! (1923), which cemented Lloyd's stardom, and Why Worry? (1923).

Lloyd and Roach parted ways in 1924, and Lloyd became the independent producer of his own films. These included his most accomplished mature features Girl Shy (1924), The Freshman (1925), The Kid Brother (1927), and Speedy (1928). Welcome Danger (1929) was originally a silent film but Lloyd decided late in the production to remake it with a soundtrack. All of these films were enormously successful and profitable[citation needed]. They were also highly influential and still find many fans among modern audiences, a testament to the originality and film-making skill of Lloyd and his talented collaborators. Like the other great silent comics, Lloyd was the driving creative force in his films, particularly the feature-length films[citation needed]. From this success he became one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in early Hollywood.


Talkies' and semi-successful transition

In 1924 he formed his own independent film production company, the Harold Lloyd Film Corporation, with his films distributed by Pathe and later Paramount. Lloyd was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Lloyd made the transition to sound in 1929 with Welcome Danger (the original unreleased silent version of this film was screened in various cities on the 2005 rerelease of Lloyd's films). Released a few weeks before the start of the Great Depression, it was a huge financial success, with audiences eager to hear Lloyd's voice on film. Lloyd's rate of film releases, which had been one or two a year in the 1920s, slowed to about one every two years until 1938, after which he temporarily retired from filmmaking.

The films released during this period were: Feet First (1930), with a similar scenario to Safety Last which found him clinging to a skyscraper at the climax; Movie Crazy (1932) with Constance Cummings; The Cat's-Paw (1934) which was a dark political comedy and a big departure for Lloyd; The Milky Way (1936), which was Lloyd's only attempt at screwball comedy, at that point hugely fashionable; and Professor Beware (1938).

Unfortunately, his character was now out of tune with movie audiences of the Great Depression. As the length of time between his film releases increased to years, his popularity in the early 1930s declined. On March 23, 1937, Lloyd sold the land of his studio Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The location is now the site of the Los Angeles California Temple.[1] Lloyd chose to retire from the screen in 1938, but he returned for an additional starring appearance in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), an ill-fated homage to Lloyd's career directed by Preston Sturges and financed by Howard Hughes. Lloyd and Sturges fought during the shoot, and the finished film was shelved by producer Hughes, only to be recut by him and issued several years later under the title Mad Wednesday. It was a sad end to a brilliant film career.


Marriage and home

Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis, in February 1923. Together, they had two children: Gloria (born 1923), and Harold Lloyd, Jr., (1931-1971). They also adopted Peggy (1924-1986) in 1930. Lloyd, for a time, discouraged Davis from continuing her acting career. He later relented, but by that time her career momentum was lost. Mildred died in 1969, two years before Lloyd's death.


Lloyd's Beverly Hills home, "Greenacres" was built in 1926-1929, with 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens, and a nine hole golf course. The estate left the possession of the Lloyd family in 1975, after a failed attempt to maintain it as a public museum.

The grounds were subsequently subdivided, but the main house remains and is frequently used as a filming location, appearing in films like Westworld and The Loved One (film). It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


Radio and retirement

After leaving acting in 1938, Lloyd produced a few Hollywood films but by the 1940s he had left the film industry completely ?- almost. In October 1944, he emerged as the director and host of The Old Gold Comedy Theater, an NBC radio anthology series, when Preston Sturges turned the job down but recommended him for it. The show presented half-hour radio adaptations of recently successful film comedies, launching with a version of Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young.

Some saw The Old Gold Comedy Theater as being a lighter version of Lux Radio Theater, and it featured some of the best-known film and radio personalities of the day, including Fred Allen, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Herbert Marshall, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, and Alan Young, among others. But the show's half-hour format ?- which meant the material might have been truncated too severely ?- and Lloyd's sounding somewhat ill at ease on the air for much of the season (though he spent weeks training himself to speak on radio prior to the show's premiere, and seemed more relaxed toward the end of the series run) may have worked against it.

The Old Gold Comedy Theater ended in June 1945 with an adaptation of Tom, Dick, and Harry, featuring June Allyson and Reginald Gardiner and wasn't renewed for the following season. Many years later, acetate discs of 29 of the shows were discovered in Lloyd's home, and they now circulate among old-time radio collectors.

Lloyd remained involved in a number of other interests, including civic and charity work. Inspired by having overcome his own serious injuries and burns, he was very active with the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, and eventually rose to that organization's highest office, Imperial Potentate.

He appeared as himself on several television shows during his retirement, first on Ed Sullivan's variety show Toast of the Town June 5, 1949 and again in July 6, 1958. He appeared as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line? in April 26, 1953, and twice on This Is Your Life: on March 10, 1954 for Mack Sennett, and again on December 14, 1955 on his own episode.[2]

Lloyd studied colors, microscopy, and was very involved with photography, including 3D photography and color film experiments. Some of the earliest 2-color Technicolor tests were shot at his Beverly Hills home. He became known for his nude photographs of models, such as Bettie Page and stripper Dixie Evans, for a number of men's magazines. He also took photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging at his pool in a bathing suit which were published after their deaths. In 2004, his granddaughter Suzanne produced a book of selections from his photographs, Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! (ISBN 1-57912-394-5).

Lloyd also provided encouragement and support for a number of younger actors, including Jack Lemmon, Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner.


Renewed interest

Lloyd kept copyright control of most of his films and re-released them infrequently after his retirement. As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more available.

Also, Lloyd's film character was so intimately associated with the 1920s era that attempts at revivals in 1940s and 1950s were poorly received, when audiences viewed the 1920s (and silent film in particular) as old-fashioned. In the early 1960s, Lloyd produced two compilation films, featuring scenes from his old comedies, Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy (1962) and The Funny Side of Life (1963).

These films were positively received and renewed interest in Lloyd, and helped restore Lloyd's status among film historians. Throughout his later years he screened his films for audiences at special charity and educational events, to great acclaim.

Following his death, most of his feature films were marketed by Time-Life Films, but these were poorly presented, with insensitive musical scores. Through the efforts of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill and the support of granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd, the British Thames Silents series re-released some of the feature films in the early 1990s on video (with new orchestral scores by Carl Davis).

More recently, the remainder of Lloyd's great silent features and many shorts were restored and scored by Robert Israel. These are now frequently shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM). An acclaimed 1990 documentary by Brownlow and Gill also created a renewed interest in Lloyd's work in the early 1990s. A DVD Collection of restored versions of most of his feature films (and his more important shorts) was released by New Line Cinema in partnership with the Harold Lloyd Trust in November 2005, along with limited theatrical screenings in New York and other cities in the US, Canada and Europe. Annette Lloyd has also said that if there is a large-enough show of support by fans, a second collection may be released in the future[3].


Tributes and references to Lloyd

The 2001 Futurama episode That's Lobstertainment!, was a tribute to Harold Lloyd, featuring an alien version of him, named Harold Zoid.


Academy Award

In 1952, Lloyd received a special Academy Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen." The second citation was a snub to Chaplin, who at that point had fallen foul of McCarthyism and who had had his entry visa to the United States revoked. Regardless of political aspects, Lloyd accepted the award in good part.


Death

Lloyd died at age 77 from prostate cancer on March 8, 1971, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He was interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.


"The Third Genius"

Lloyd was the subject of a television documentary series in 1990, Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, which followed similar acclaimed documentaries about the other great silent film clowns Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. [2] The film was shown in America on the PBS program American Masters. Through the participation of Lloyd's granddaughter and estate trustee, Suzanne Lloyd, the filmakers had full access to Lloyd's films and his personal archive.

A highlight of this program was an interview with Lloyd's friend and partner Hal Roach, then 98 years old. Other Lloyd associates, friends, and family members also participated in the film.

The two hour documentary revealed the methods behind Lloyd's celebrated high-altitude stunts, which he rarely discussed in public during his lifetime. They were staged on prop facades built above the entrance to the Hill Street Tunnel, or on the rooftops of other buildings in downtown Los Angeles. Lloyd was usually about 20 feet above a hidden platform, but the camera was positioned such that Lloyd appeared to be high above the streets below. The documentary noted, however, that if Lloyd had fallen, he might well have plummeted to the street despite these precautions.


Walk of Fame

Harold Lloyd has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His was only the fourth ceremony preserving his handprints, footprints, autograph, and outline of his famed glasses, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in 1927. In 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Bruce Cabot
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Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 - May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. He is best known as Jack Driscoll in 'King Kong.

Born Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico to French Colonel Etienne de Bujac and Julia Armandine Graves, who died shortly after giving birth to him. Cabot made his film debut in 1931 and during the course of his career appeared in almost one hundred features, including The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) with Wallace Beery. He met John Wayne on the set of Angel and the Badman (1947) and the two hit it off and became drinking buddies and later in his career Cabot became first choice for supporting roles in John Wayne movies. The eleven later Wayne films in which they appeared together include The Comancheros (1961), Hatari! (1962), McLintock! (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), The War Wagon (1967), The Green Berets (1968), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Big Jake (1971).

Cabot's final film appearance was in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

He was married twice, to the actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa. He died in Woodland Hills, California from lung cancer and throat cancer.


Trivia

The character of "Bruce Baxter" in the 2005 remake of King Kong was based on Cabot.
The 2005 remake includes a dedication to the other two lead actors in the 1933 original, but not to Cabot.