I've liked that one since I was a kid, letty.
hbg, I adore Latin music, and that one was wonderful. I call it "can't sit still" music, Canada. (incidentally, that bear and bull represented Wall Street.
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edgar, I am impressed that you said my screen name. Are you talking about Ray Stevens?
Here's one that I haven't heard in ages, and I know it means The Dove. One doesn't need to know the English translation, because it is the sound of the language that penetrates the soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBHkn8_ApJw&mode=related&search=
Jole Blon, my dear. (I'm feeling expansive tonight. Don't ask why; I don't have a clue).
You know it makes my day when two of my favorite women tell me of their approbation. Kisses to you both. I can do it in front of Nair too because she knows she has my heart. Color me happy.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjei4VVBqw
One of my favorite versions of Ave Maria
yes, edgar, I have that "expansion" feeling often and I'm with you. I haven't a clue why. hbg and I and now you love cajun music.
Loved the Ave Maria, Texas. Thank you for the gentleness of it.
Bob, it is so nice to hear you talk about your Nair, and thanks on behalf of Raggedy and me for the gentle kisses. They are the truest kind, Boston.
As most of our listeners know, I love Romberg's Moonlight Serenade, and here is a very young Mario Lanza to sing if for us. It's that time of night again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAB3nXKHoV0&feature=related
a latin tune for letty - that's the kind of music i remember from the 1950's - latin music and jazz were IN in germany
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MnPyYohJpRk
That was very nice, Edgar. By way of contrast,
here is a version by the American soprano, Barbara Bonney, singing in German. Many seem to think it's the best version ever. I can't attest to that, myself; I ain't heard 'em all ... yet.
here i a german jazz band (from hamburg) on a rivercruise on the elbe river - the boat is fashioned after a mississippi river boat ,
i'll see if i can find a picture of the "riverboat"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-Wnih84EY&feature=related
the LOUSIANA STAR riverboat cruising through the port of hamburg ,
the jazzband was playing aboard the boat
The overpowering question: Which is to be preferred, the Dog Days of Summer or the Groundhog Days of February? Winter sho does seem to linger, slow-marching to it's own beat.
Coupla weeks ago, the groundhog, seeing his shadow, declared that Spring is just around the corner. What the critter failed to mention was that the corner is a few miles south of Valdosta.
But I'm all through letting it get to me. And anyway, when you look out at the snow and ice through rose colored glasses, it appears right warm and pretty. Which reminds me of a good crying-in-your-beer song:
Rose Colored Glasses.
Wow! I love the mix of music that we have here on our cyber radio.
Debacle, Schubert's Ave Marie is beautiful as were the pictures that went with it. We also dug the Rose Colored Glasses song.
hbg, that German jazz band was fantastic, and I swear I heard the Isle of Capri in there somewhere along with South America Take it away. Thanks for the River Boat picture as well.
Before I say goodnight, I did my first bit of research on Mario Lanza and found that he died at 38 years of age, and that his wife took her own life thereafter.
My goodnight song is a surprise to me because Meat Loaf sings it with Pavoratti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVEGhtMxvUQ
Thank you all for a wonderful evening
From Letty with love
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
What an interesting discovery, folks. I found that today is the birthday of one Falco. We will await BioBob's background on the man, but let's hear one from him in the dark of the early morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-L_zHuPx0
He also did Rock Me Amadeus, but we will save that for later
Good morning, edgar. Love that funny song, and it's great to hear someone being politically incorrect.
Question for the day: What do we call a boomerang that won't come back?
Answer: A stick.
Now may be the time for Rock Me Amadeus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20UzLecnHo&feature=related
Well, all, as we await the pup and the hawk, here is a birthday boy.
Seal
He is a great singer from the UK, and has overcome many obstacles to achieve stardom.
In another part of our audience, Joaquin Phoenix was asking, "What is Hell"? Emily Dickinson has a poetic answer concerning both:
"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell"
Seal sings an answer about heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w58bBBCch-M&feature=related
Cedric Hardwicke
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Birth name Cedric Webster Hardwicke
Born February 19, 1893(1893-02-19)
Lye, Worcestershire, England
Died August 6, 1964 (aged 71)
New York, New York, USA
Spouse(s) Mary Scott (1950-1961)
Helena Pickard (1928-1948)
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke, KBE (February 19, 1893 - August 6, 1964) was a notable English actor.
Biography
Hardwicke was born in the village of Lye, in Worcestershire, England, the son of Edwin Webster Hardwicke by his spouse Jessie (née Masterson). He attended Bridgnorth School in Shropshire and then trained at the RADA. He made his first appearance on stage at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1912 during the run of Frederick Melville's melodrama The Monk and the Woman, when he took up the part of Brother John. During that year he was at Her Majesty's Theatre understudying, and subsequently appeared at the Garrick Theatre in Charles Klein's play Find the Woman, and Trust the People. In 1913 he joined Benson's Company and toured in the provinces, South Africa, and Rhodesia. During 1914 he toured with Miss Darragh (Letitia Marion Dallas, d.1917) in Laurence Irving's play The Unwritten Law, and he appeared at the Old Vic in 1914 as Malcolm in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, gravedigger in Hamlet, etc.
From 1914 to 1921 he served with the British Army in France. In January 1922 he joined the Birmingham Repertory Company. He played many classical roles on stage, appearing at London's top theatres, making his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, who said that Hardwicke was his fifth favorite actor after the four Marx Brothers. Hardwicke starred in such Shavian works as Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, The Apple Cart, Candida, Too True to Be Good, and Don Juan in Hell, making such an impression that he became one of the youngest actors to be knighted in 1934 at the age of 41. Other stage successes included The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Antigone and A Majority of One, winning a Tony Award nomination for his performance as a Japanese diplomat.
His first appearance in an English film was in 1931, and in 1939 Hardwicke went to Hollywood to begin a film career there but where he continued in stage performances including New York.
In 1944 he returned to England, again touring, and reappeared on the London stage, at the Westminster Theatre, on March 29, 1945, as Richard Varwell in a revival of Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts comedy Yellow Sands, and subsequently toured in this on the Continent. He returned to America late in 1945 an appeared with Ethel Barrymore in December in a revival of Shaw's Pygmalion, and continued on the New York the following year. in 1951-1952, he appeared on Broadway in Shaw's Don Juan in Hell with Agnes Moorehead, Charles Boyer, and Charles Laughton.
Despite having played in such film classics as Les Misérables (1935), King Solomon's Mines (1937), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Winslow Boy (1948) and Olivier's Richard III (1955), Hardwicke is now remembered chiefly for his role as King Arthur in the comedy/musical, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), singing We're Busy Doing Nothing in a trio with Bing Crosby and William Bendix and for his portrayal of the Pharaoh Seti I in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film The Ten Commandments. He also played Dr. David Livingstone opposite Spencer Tracy's Henry M. Stanley in the 1939 film classic, Stanley and Livingstone. And he was memorable as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Charles Laughton as Quasimodo.
Hardwicke's son is the actor Edward Hardwicke, who became well-known for playing Dr. Watson on British television in the 1980s and 1990s.
In December 1935, Cedric Hardwicke was elected Rede Lecturer to Cambridge University for 1936, and was knighted in the 1934 New Year's Honours. He died at the age of 71 in New York City.
Memorial
Hardwicke is remembered by a sculpture by Tim Tolkien at Lye, commissioned by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. The memorial takes the form of a giant filmstrip, the illuminated cut metal panels illustrating scenes from some of Sir Cedric's best-known roles, which include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Things to Come, and The Ghost of Frankenstein. It was unveiled in November 2005.
Louis Calhern
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Birth name Carl Henry Vogt
Born February 19, 1895(1895-02-19)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died May 12, 1956 (aged 61)
Tokyo, Japan
Spouse(s) Ilka Chase (1926 - 1927)
Julia Hoyt (1927 - 1932)
Natalie Schafer (1933 - 1942)
Marianne Stewart (1946 - 1955)
Louis Calhern (February 19, 1895 - May 12, 1956) was an American stage and screen actor.
Early life
Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt. His family left New York City while he was still a child and moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he grew up. While playing high school football, a stage manager from a touring theatrical stock company spotted him, and hired him as an extra. Just prior to World War I, Calhern decided to move back to New York to pursue an acting career. He began as a prop boy and bit player with touring companies and burlesque companies. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the war and he served overseas in the military during World War I.
Career
He became a matinee idol by virtue of a play titled The Cobra, and soon began to act in films. In the early 30s he was primarily cast as a character actor in Hollywood, while he continued to play leading roles on stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as an MGM contract player. Among his most memorable roles were three that he played in 1950: a singing one as Buffalo Bill in the film version of Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated role as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his stage role), as well as his portrayal of the title role in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film of Julius Caesar in 1953. In addition to The Magnificent Yankee, he had Broadway successes in Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944) and in the title role of King Lear (1951). He also played the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), a film adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum.
Marriages
Calhern was married four times, to Ilka Chase from 1926 to 1927, to Julia Hoyt from 1927 to 1932, to Natalie Schafer from 1933 to 1942, and Marianne Stewart from 1946 to 1955. All four marriages ended in divorce.
Death
Calhern died of a sudden heart attack in Tokyo, while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon. He was replaced in the film by Paul Ford, who had played Calhern's role in the original stage version. By an odd coincidence, when playing Buffalo Bill in Annie Get Your Gun, Calhern had replaced Frank Morgan, who had died of a sudden heart attack during the making of that film. Calhern is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Merle Oberon
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Birth name Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
Born 19 February 1911(1911-02-19)
Bombay (now Mumbai), British India
Died November 23, 1979 (aged 68)
Malibu, California
Spouse(s) Alexander Korda (1939-1945)
Lucien Ballard (1945-1949)
Bruno Pagliai (1957-1973)
Robert Wolders (1975-1979)
Merle Oberon (19 February 1911 - 23 November 1979), born Estelle Merle Oberon, was an Academy Award-nominated British film actress.
Early life
Oberon was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), British India. Her mother, Charlotte, was an Anglo-Sinhalese nurse; her father, Arthur, was a British railway engineer. Merle was her mother's second child. Charlotte had abandoned her first daughter, Constance, and refused to take care of another child born out of wedlock. She insisted that Arthur marry her, although there is no evidence that he actually did.
In 1914, when she was 3, Merle's father died of pneumonia on the Western Front in the early months of World War I. Mother and daughter led an impoverished existence in shabby Bombay apartments for a few years. Then, in 1917, they moved to better circumstances in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Merle received a foundation scholarship to attend La Martiniere College for Girls, a well known Calcutta private school. There, she was constantly taunted for her unconventional parentage and eventually quit school and had her lessons at home.
Merle first performed with the Calcutta Amateur Dramatic Society. She was also completely enamored of the movies and enjoyed going out to nightclubs. As she entered her teen years, she dated increasingly older, urbane men.
In 1929, she met a former actor who claimed he could introduce her to Rex Ingram of Victorine Studios. Merle jumped at the offer and decided to follow the man to the studios in France. However, when he saw Merle's dark mother one night at her apartment and realized Merle was mixed-race, he secretly decided to end the relationship. After packing all their belongings and moving to France, Merle and her mother found that their supposed benefactor had dodged them. However, he had left a good word for Merle with Rex Ingram at the studios in Nice. Ingram liked Merle's exotic appearance. She was quickly hired to be an extra in a party scene.
Film career
Merle arrived in England for the first time in 1928. Initially she worked as a club hostess under the name Queenie O'Brien and played in minor and unbilled roles in various films. Her film career received a major boost when the director Alexander Korda took an interest and gave her a small but prominent role, under the name Merle Oberon, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) opposite Charles Laughton. The film became a major success and she was then given leading roles, such as Lady Blakeney in the The Scarlet Pimpernel with Leslie Howard, who became her lover for a while. During her time as a film star, Oberon went to great lengths to disguise her mixed-race background and when her dark-skinned mother moved in with her, she masqueraded as Oberon's maid.
Oberon's career went on to greater heights, partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to Alexander Korda, who had persuaded her to take the name under which she became famous. He sold "shares" of her contract to producer Samuel Goldwyn, who gave her good vehicles in Hollywood. Her mother stayed behind in England. Oberon received her only Oscar nomination as Best Actress for The Dark Angel (1935) produced by Goldwyn. Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to his authorized biography, even wanted to marry him, but he wasn't faithful to her. She was selected to star in Korda's film I, Claudius (1937) as Messalina, but a serious car accident resulted in filming being abandoned. Merle Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians were able to hide her injuries from cinema audiences.
She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film Wuthering Heights (1939), as George Sand in A Song to Remember (1945), and as Empress Josephine in Désirée (1954).
According to Princess Merle, the biography written by Charles Higham with Roy Moseley, Merle suffered even further damage to her complexion in 1940 from a combination of cosmetic poisoning and an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs. Alexander Korda sent her to a skin specialist in New York City, where she underwent several dermabrasion procedures. The results, however, were only partially successful; without makeup, one could see noticeable pitting and indentation of her skin.
Her mother died in 1937, and in 1949 Oberon commissioned paintings of her mother from an old photograph, instructing the artist to lighten her mother's complexion. The paintings would hang in all her homes until her death in 1979. Also, Oberon supposedly had a minor obsession with facial injuries after her own accident, and had an affair with Richard Hillary who had been burned after his Supermarine Spitfire was shot down in 1940.
Merle Oberon became Lady Korda upon her husband's knighthood. She divorced Sir Alexander Korda in 1945, to marry cinematographer Lucien Ballard. Ballard devised a special camera light for her to eliminate her facial scars on film. The light became known as the "Obie".
She married twice more, to Italian-born industrialist, Bruno Pagliai (with whom she adopted two children) and Dutch actor Robert Wolders - who would later become Audrey Hepburn's companion - before her retirement in Malibu, California, where she died after suffering a stroke at the age of 68.
She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard.
Disputed birthplace
Throughout her professional life, in order to deny her mixed-race Indian background, Oberon maintained the fiction that she had been born and raised in St. Helens, a beachside resort on the East coast of Tasmania, Australia. That there were no birth or school records that could prove this, was explained by another fabrication, that they had all been burnt in a fire. The story of her alleged Tasmanian connections was comprehensively debunked after her death.
She is only known to have been to Australia once, when she agreed to visit Hobart for a homecoming reception in 1978, the year before her death. However, shortly after arriving at the reception she excused herself, claiming illness. Many people who might have been in a position to confirm or disprove her Tasmanian connection were denied the opportunity to meet her and question her. She was not seen elsewhere in public during her Tasmanian visit.
Yet there are still many people in Tasmania who claim to have known Oberon as a child. Unconvinced, however, was the Hobart-born actor Errol Flynn, who publicly chided Oberon.
After her death, Michael Korda, nephew of Alexander Korda wrote a roman à clef about Oberon entitled Queenie. This was also turned into a television miniseries starring Mia Sara.
In 2002, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced a documentary entitled The Trouble with Merle, directed by Maree Delofski, investigating the conflicting versions of her origin.
Lee Marvin
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Born February 19, 1924(1924-02-19)
New York, New York
Died August 29, 1987 (aged 63)
Tucson, Arizona
Years active 1950 - 1986
Spouse(s) Betty Ebeling (1951-1967)
Pamela Feeley (1970-1987)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Best Actor:
1965 Cat Ballou
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor
1966 Cat Ballou ; The Killers
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1966 Cat Ballou
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924, New York City - August 29, 1987, Tucson, Arizona) was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hard-boiled characters, but after winning a Best Actor Oscar for his part in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.
Biography
Early life and World War II
Lee Marvin (his birth name, contrary to some sources) was the son of Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute, and Courtenay Washington (née Davidge), a fashion writer and beauty consultant.[1] His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who immigrated from England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut. By his mother, Lee descended from Augustine Washington, brother to President George Washington.[citation needed]
Marvin attended St. Leo Preparatory College in St. Leo, Florida (now known as St. Leo University) after being expelled from several schools for bad behavior. He left school to join the U.S. 4th Marine Division, serving as a sniper. He was wounded in action during the WWII Battle of Saipan, eight months prior to the Battle of Iwo Jima. Most of his platoon were killed during the battle. This had a significant effect on Marvin for the rest of his life.[2] He was awarded the Purple Heart medal and was given a medical discharge with the rank of PFC.[3]
Acting career
While working as a plumber's assistant, repairing a toilet at a local community theater in upstate New York, Marvin was asked to replace an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals. He then began an amateur off-Broadway acting career in New York City and served as an understudy in Broadway productions.
In 1950, Marvin moved to Hollywood. He quickly found work in supporting roles, and from the beginning was cast in various Western films and WWII or Korean War films. As a decorated combat veteran, Marvin was a natural in war dramas, where he frequently assisted the director and other actors in realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and even adjusting war surplus military prop firearms. His debut was in You're in the Navy Now (1951), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men. He played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953). Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One (1953) opposite Marlon Brando (Marvin's gang in the film was called "The Beetles"), followed by Seminole (1953) and Gun Fury (1953). He was again praised for his role as Hector the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy (1955).
During the mid-1950s, Marvin gradually began playing more substantial roles. He starred in Attack! (1956), and The Missouri Traveler (1958) but it took over one hundred episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957-1960 television series M Squad to actually give him name recognition. One critic described the show as "a hyped-up, violent Dragnet... with a tough-as-nails Marvin" playing a police lieutenant.
In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent co-starring roles such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Marvin played Liberty Valance) and Donovan's Reef (1963), all with John Wayne. Marvin also guest-starred in Combat! "The Bridge at Chalons" (Episode 34, Season 2, Mission 1), and The Twilight Zone episodes #72 The Grave (1961), in which he played a fearless gunman investigating the haunted grave of a man who swore to get revenge on him, and #122 Steel (1963), in which he played a former boxer who gets into the ring with a boxing robot.
Thanks to director Don Siegel, Marvin appeared in the groundbreaking The Killers (1964) playing an organized, no-nonsense, efficient, businesslike professional assassin whose character was copied to a great degree by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. This film was also the first time Marvin received top billing in a movie and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain.
Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda. Following roles in The Professionals (1966) and the hugely successful The Dirty Dozen (1967), Marvin was given complete control over his next film. In Point Blank, an influential film with director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. In that film Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging. In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Hell in the Pacific, co-starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune. He had a hit song with "Wand'rin' Star" from the western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969).
Marvin had a much greater variety of roles in the 1970s and 1980s, with fewer 'bad-guy' roles than in earlier years. His 1970s films included Monte Walsh (1970), Prime Cut (1972), Pocket Money (1972), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), The Iceman Cometh (1973) as Hickey, The Spikes Gang (1974), The Klansman (1974), Shout at the Devil (1976), The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (1976), and Avalanche Express (1978). Marvin was offered the role of Quint in Jaws (1975) but declined. He later expressed considerable regret at not accepting this role.[citation needed]
Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980). His remaining films were Death Hunt (1981), Gorky Park (1983), Dog Day (1984), The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (1985), with his final appearance being in The Delta Force (1986).
Personal life
A father of four, Marvin was twice married:
Betty Ebeling (February 1951 - January 5, 1967) (divorced).
Pamela Feeley (October 18, 1970 - Marvin's death).
In 1971, Marvin was sued by long-time girlfriend Michelle Triola (who called herself Michelle Marvin at the time). Though the couple never married, she sought financial compensation similar to that available to spouses under California's alimony and community property laws. The result was the landmark "palimony" case, Marvin v. Marvin 18 Cal. 3d 660 (1976).[4]
On April 18, 1979, Judge Arthur K. Marshall ordered Marvin to pay $104,000 to Triola for "rehabilitation purposes" but denied her community property claim for one-half of the $3.6 million which Marvin had earned during their six years of cohabitation. In August 1981, however, the California Court of Appeal reversed this decision, declaring that Triola was entitled to no money whatsoever, in that the co-habitant in an unmarried cohabitative relationship has no community property claim, but merely a contract claim. Without evidence of any contract between Marvin and Triola requiring that Marvin support her should their relationship end, Triola could not recover any money.[5][6]
During the 1970s, Marvin resided off and on in Woodstock, NY. He died of a coma induced heart attack and is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Lore
When visiting co-star Vivien Leigh at her home in London, England, with Michelle Triola, he tore up a deck of antique playing cards that they were playing with. Much to Triola's surprise, Leigh was not at all disturbed by Marvin's boorish behavior but seemed enchanted by him.
When filming a movie in Las Vegas in 1966, he and others complained that Vegas Vic's "howdy partner" was too loud. The voice box was removed.[7]
Marvin, who originally was a student of the late Bruce Lee, once again began training in martial arts in 1981 with SeishinDo Kenpo instructor Frank Landers. (Inside Kung-Fu Magazine, August 1981).
A rumor circulated via the internet in recent years alleges that during an appearance on "The Tonight Show," Marvin told host Johnny Carson that he had served in the Marine Corps fighting alongside Bob Keeshan (later known as Captain Kangaroo) at the Battle of Iwo Jima. There is no truth whatsoever to this tale. Marvin never told the story, did not fight at Iwo Jima as he had been invalided out months before, and Keeshan enlisted too late to have seen combat in any form.
Jim Jarmusch relates the following anecdote:
"A secret organization exists called The Sons of Lee Marvin - it includes myself, Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Richard Bose... Six months ago, Tom Waits was in a bar somewhere like Sonoma County in Northern California, and the bartender said:
'You're Tom Waits, right? A guy over there wants to talk to you.'
Tom went over to this dark corner booth and the guy sitting there said,
'Sit down, I want to talk to you.'
'What do you want to talk to me about? I don't know you.'
'What is this bullshit about the Sons of Lee Marvin?'
'Well, it's a secret organization and I'm not supposed to talk about it.'
'I don't like it.'
'What's it to you?'
'I'm Lee Marvin's son', and he really was.
He thought it was insulting, although its intention is to be completely out of respect for Lee Marvin."[8]
