Oops, missed our Victor and his obit. Thanks twice, buddy. I've heard the name Bo Diddley, but never heard him perform.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgzn7VyoqEw&feature=related
I can't believe that I missed:
What about me, Raggedy?
A student of Johnny's sings...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WA_9Ic7yGA
Well, PA, Cheetah was extremely intelligent. Died last year at 75, I believe.
Speaking of animals, folks, how about this one. Incidentally there really was a house of the rising sun, and it has been said that the actual location is in the French quarters in New Orleans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRV9QCXLtHQ&feature=related
That picture looks like me!
A quick goodnight, folks. The weather is stormy.
My goodnight song is from Bob
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From Letty with love
Good evening and good night. I came home too tired to post any music or to listen to any. Be back tomorrow.
I have acted in pictures with my uncle Ronald!
Letty this is for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF-KYKKYeI
I felt the call to listen to this song and felt it worth sharing. Cherry Blossom.
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
First allow me to observe Victor's great sense of humor. I think, buddy, that when I was little that I did sleep with a panda.
edgar, that lovely Japanese song is quite haunting. Thank you, Texas. I guess today is Oriental day, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpW8Jvl9low&feature=related
Maurice Evans (actor)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Maurice Herbert Evans
3 June 1901(1901-06-03)
Dorchester, Dorset, England
Died 12 March 1989 (aged 87)
Rottingdean, East Sussex, England
Occupation actor, producer
Years active 1926 - 1983
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
1961 Macbeth
Maurice Herbert Evans (June 3, 1901 - March 12, 1989) was an English actor who became a US citizen in 1941.
Evans was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, the son of Laura (née Turner) and Alfred Herbert Evans, who was an analytical chemist.[1] He first appeared on the stage in 1926 and joined the Old Vic Company in 1934, playing Hamlet, Richard II and Iago. His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet (1938) (the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I (1939), Macbeth (1941), and Malvolio in Twelfth Night (1942) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster. When World War II arrived, he was in charge of an Army Entertainment Section in the Central Pacific and played his famous "G.I. version" of Hamlet that cut the text of the play to make Prince Hamlet more decisive and appealing to the troops, an interpretation so popular that he took it to Broadway in 1945. He then shifted his attention to the works of Shaw, notably as John Tanner in Man and Superman and as King Magnus in The Apple Cart. He was also a successful Broadway producer of productions in which he did not appear, notably Teahouse of the August Moon.
American television audiences of the 1960s will remember Evans as Samantha's father, Maurice (the character was originally named Victor when he was introduced), on the sitcom Bewitched. He also played "The Puzzler" on Batman. Many younger viewers discovering these programmes in syndication are unaware of Evans' Shakespearean pedigree. His real-life insistence that his first name was pronounced the same as the name "Morris" was ironically at odds with his Bewitched character's contrasting stance that it be pronounced "Maw-REESE".
Evans had great impact onscreen as well, memorably in two 1968 films: as the evolved orangutan, Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes and as Rosemary's friend Hutch in the thriller Rosemary's Baby.
Evans died of cancer in East Sussex, England, aged 87.
Shakespearean legacy
As of 2006, Evans had appeared in more American television productions of Shakespeare than any other actor. For the famous television anthology, Hallmark Hall of Fame, he starred in the first feature-length (i.e., longer than an hour) dramatizations of the plays to ever be presented on American television - Hamlet, Macbeth (twice - both times with Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth and winning Evans an Emmy Award for the latter), Richard II, Twelfth Night (as Malvolio), The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio, opposite Lilli Palmer as Katherine), and The Tempest (as Prospero). This last featured an all-star cast that included Lee Remick as Miranda, Roddy McDowall as Ariel, and Richard Burton as Caliban.
In bringing Shakespeare to television, he was a true pioneer. Evans also brought his Shakespeare productions to Broadway many times, playing Hamlet on the Great White Way in 4 separate productions for a grand total of 283 performances, a Broadway record that is not likely to be broken.
Ellen Corby
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Born Ellen Hansen
June 3, 1911(1911-06-03)
Racine, Wisconsin
Died April 14, 1999 (aged 87)
Woodland Hills, California
Spouse(s) Francis Corby (1934-1944)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series
1973 The Waltons
1975 The Waltons
1976 The Waltons
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1948 I Remember Mama
Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
1974 The Waltons
Other Awards
Golden Boot
1989
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 - April 14, 1999) was an American Academy Award-nominated actor. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Walton" on the television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards.
Biography
Early life
Corby was born Ellen Hansen in Racine, Wisconsin, the daughter of Danish parents. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An interest in amateur theater while in high school led her to Atlantic City in 1932 where she briefly worked as a chorus girl. She moved to Hollywood that same year and got a job as a script girl at RKO Studios and Hal Roach Studios, where she frequently worked on the Our Gang Comedies, next to her husband, cinematographer Francis Corby. She held that position for the next twelve years and took acting lessons on the side.
Career
Corby began her career as a writer, working on the Paramount Western Twilight on the Trail and 1947's Hoppy's Holiday. She landed her first acting job in 1945, playing a maid in RKO's Cornered.
In 1948 she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress playing a lovelorn aunt in I Remember Mama (1948). Over the next four decades, she worked steadily in both film and television, often playing maids, secretaries, waitresses or gossips. She was a favorite in western films (including Shane, 1953) and had a recurring role as "Henrietta Porter" in the western television series Trackdown (1957 - 1959). Other television appearances included Wagon Train, The Rifleman, I Love Lucy, The Virginian, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Get Smart, " Beverly Hillbillies" and The Andy Griffith Show.
Her most famous role came on CBS in 1971 when she was cast as "Grandma Esther Walton" on the made-for-TV film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which served as the pilot for The Waltons. Corby would go on to resume the role on The Waltons, which became a weekly series from 1972-1981, and resulted in several sequel films. For her work in The Waltons, she won her three Emmy Awards and three more nominations as Best Supporting Actress. She left the show early in 1977, due to a massive stroke she suffered, which impaired her speech. She did come back at the beginning of the 1978 season, and had limited roles, but was forced out of the show for good in 1979.
Private life
Corby was married to Francis Corby from 1934 until his death in 1944; they had no children. She was an early practitioner and advocate of the Transcendental Meditation Program, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and appeared with the Maharishi on The Merv Griffin Show in the mid '70s.
She suffered a serious stroke in 1977 but recovered and went on to appear in several television films based on The Waltons. Her stroke was written into the show, with Grandma Walton also suffering a stroke, and struggling to regain her speech. Her last appearance was in A Walton Easter (1997).
She died at the age of 87 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Paulette Goddard
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Born Marion Pauline Levy
June 3, 1910(1910-06-03)
Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York, U.S.
Died April 23, 1990 (aged 79)
Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Years active 1929 - 1972
Spouse(s) Erich Maria Remarque (1958-1970)
Burgess Meredith
(1944-1950)
Charles Chaplin
(1936-1942)
Edgar James
(1927-1931)
Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 - April 23, 1990)[1] was an Oscar-nominated American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque, although she never had any children.
Early life
Paulette Goddard was born Marion Pauline Levy. She was an only child, born in Whitestone Landing, Queens, Long Island. Her father, Joseph Russell Levy, was Jewish, and her mother, Alta Mae Goddard, was Episcopalian.[2] Her parents divorced while she was young, and she was raised by her mother. Her father virtually vanished from her life, only later to resurface in the 1940s after she became a star. At first, their relationship seemed genial, as she used to take him to her film premieres, but then he sued her over a magazine article that claimed he abandoned her when she was young. They were never to reconcile and upon his death, he left her just one dollar in his will. Goddard offered to pay for his funeral expenses. She and her mother struggled those early years, with her uncle, Charles Goddard (her mother's brother) lending a hand.
Charles Goddard helped his niece find jobs as a fashion model, and with the Ziegfeld Follies as one of the heavily-decorated Ziegfeld Girls from 1924 to 1928. She attended Washington Irving High School in Manhattan at the same time as Claire Trevor.
Career
Her stage debut was in the Ziegfeld revue No Foolin in 1926. The next year she made her stage acting debut in The Unconquerable Male. She also changed her first name to Paulette and took her mother's maiden name (which also happened to be her favorite uncle Charles' last name) as her own last name. She married an older, wealthy businessman, lumber tycoon Edgar James, in 1926 or 1927 and moved to North Carolina to be a socialite, but divorced him in 1930 and received a huge divorce settlement.
Goddard in Dramatic School (1938)In 1929 she came to Hollywood with her mother after signing a contract with Hal Roach Studios, and appeared in small parts of several films over the next few years, starting with Laurel & Hardy shorts.
At Samuel Goldwyn Productions, she also joined other such future notables as Betty Grable, Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, and Jane Wyman as "Goldwyn Girls" with Eddie Cantor in films such as The Kid from Spain, Roman Scandals and Kid Millions.
In 1932, she met Charlie Chaplin and began an eight-year personal and cinematic relationship with him. Chaplin bought Goddard's contract from Roach Studios and cast her as a street urchin opposite his Tramp character in the 1936 film Modern Times, which made Goddard a star. During this time she lived with Chaplin in his Beverly Hills home.[3]
Their actual marital status was and has remained a source of controversy and speculation. During most of their time together, both refused to comment on the matter. At the premier of The Great Dictator in 1940, Chaplin first introduced Goddard as his wife. The couple split amicably soon afterward, and Goddard allegedly obtained a divorce in Mexico in 1942, with Chaplin agreeing to a generous settlement.[3] For years afterward, Chaplin stated that they were married in China in 1936, but to private associates and family, he claimed they were never legally married, except in common law.
Goddard began gaining star status after appearing in The Young in Heart (1938), Dramatic School (1938), and a supporting role in The Women (1939) which starred Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell.
During filming of The Women, Goddard was considered as a finalist for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, but after many auditions and a Technicolor screen test, lost the part to Vivien Leigh. It has been suggested that questions regarding her marital status with Chaplin, in that era of morals clauses, may have cost her the role.[3]
Nonetheless, in 1939, Goddard signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and her next film The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope, was a turning point in the careers of both actors.
Goddard starred with Chaplin again in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, and then was Fred Astaire's leading lady in the musical Second Chorus (1940), where she met Burgess Meredith. One of her best-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm (1943) in which she sang a comic number "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with contemporary sex symbols Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake.
She received her only Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, in 1944 for So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Her most successful film was Kitty (1945), where she played the title role. In The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), she starred opposite Meredith, by then her husband.
Her career faded in the late 1940s. In 1947 she made An Ideal Husband in Britain for Alexander Korda films, being accompanied on a publicity trip to Brussels by Clarissa Churchill, niece of Sir Winston and future wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck. Her last starring roles were the English production A Stranger Came Home (known as The Unholy Four in the USA), and Charge of the Lancers in 1954. She also acted in summer stock and on television, including in the 1955 television remake of The Women, playing a different character than she played in the 1939 feature film. In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Time of Indifference, but that turned out to be her last feature film. Her last acting role was in The Snoop Sisters (1972) for television.
Later life
Goddard was married to actor Burgess Meredith from 1944 to 1949. She suffered a miscarriage while married to him. She had no children. In 1958 she married the author Erich Maria Remarque. They remained married until his death in 1970.
Goddard was treated for breast cancer, apparently successfully, although the surgery was very invasive and the doctor had to remove several ribs. She later settled in Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland, where she died a few months before her 80th birthday, following a short battle with emphysema. She is buried in Ronco cemetery, next to Remarque and her mother.
In her will, she left US$20 million to New York University (NYU), in recognition of her friendship with the Indiana-born politician and former NYU President John Brademas. Goddard Hall, an NYU freshman residence hall on Washington Square, is named in her honor.
There is much inconsistency among published sources regarding Goddard's birth year, largely due the documents recording her death incorrectly reporting a birth year of 1905. However, U.S. Census documents dated April 15, 1910, show her parents living in Manhattan and childless. January 1, 1920 Census documents show Pauline G. Levy, age 9, living with her parents in Kansas City, Missouri.[citation needed]
Fictional portrayals
She was portrayed by Diane Lane in the 1992 film Chaplin.
A lecture about English
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
Right? Right.
Maurice Evans: ".....all of them witches..."
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