In my wildest dreams, I would not have thought to pair Meatloaf with Pavorotti. But, it worked.
edgar, your choice led me
here.
Can't imagine where I've heard it before, although my dad liked comical stuff so that might explain it. Gave me a smile anyway.
Yeah, the naughty lady. Love that one.
edgar, Loved the Ames Bros. and their bird allusion. Also know Walk on By, but like Tai, I don't know why.
Yep, Tai. I know that one as well. Hey, gal, nine day old babies can be very naughty. Just ask any bedraggled mother.
Thinking of mine and Eva's ballet lessons, I decided to play this one for my goodnight song, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ZtOAoPyHo
Tomorrow, world.
From Letty with love
Lionel Richie does Ballerina Girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbHBwT_Xftc
He always has a nice way with a song.
Good early morning, WA2K radio audience.
Thanks, edgar, for the late night listening, and RH, it's nice to see you back again.
Anyone remember Mr. Newton's cradle?
Today is Paula Abdul's birthday, so let's listen to that old theme of opposites attract, shall we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbknGnZXHUk&feature=related
Good Morning Letty, I was playing a golden oldie earlier on called "Love letters in the sand" by Pat Boone. On searching a little bit more I came across a song usually attributed to Little Richard but Pat certainly does it justice too. Listen to "Tutti Frutti".
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymew1nkkvCI
Dutchy, how delightful to see our cosmic eagle back again. Amazing, buddy, because I had no idea that Pat did Tutti Frutti. Love it, Aussie.
Speaking of the past, folks, how many of you recall this song.
It also reminds me of "Build Thee More Stately Mansions, Oh, my Soul."
A sigh for Anthony and Audrey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEMe_Ei7PME
Green mansions is the place to be
Tree living is the life for me
No lines
Long vines
You are my wife
Goodbye city life
Green mansions we are there
edgar, edgar,edgar. You are getting as bad as Gus. (wonder where he is?)
Continuing with "green", here's a funny one by Verdi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDhHxIz83Ic
That was beautiful, letty.
Hmmm, Well, edgar, haven't seen the dys here in a while, but I liked your Flamingo song.
How about a little flamingo with a "c", folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAbGRTk_1OA&feature=related
Charles Coburn
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Born Charles Douville Coburn
June 19, 1877(1877-06-19)
Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Died August 30, 1961 (aged 84)
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1930s - 1950s
Spouse(s) Winifred Natzka
Ivah Wills (widowed)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1943 The More the Merrier
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 - August 30, 1961) was an Academy Award-winning American film and theater actor.
Biography
Coburn was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Scots-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman and Moses Douville Coburn. He started out doing odd jobs at the local theater, handing out programs, ushering, being the doorman. By the age of 17 or 18, he was the theater manager.[1][2] He later moved on to acting and made his debut on Broadway in 1901. Coburn formed an acting company with Ivah Wills in 1905.[1][2] They married in 1906. In addition to managing the company, the couple performed frequently on Broadway.
After his wife's death in 1937, Coburn relocated to Los Angeles, California and began acting in films. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The More the Merrier in 1943. He was also nominated for The Devil and Miss Jones in 1941 and The Green Years in 1946. Other notable film credits include Of Human Hearts (1938), The Lady Eve (1941), Kings Row (1942), The Constant Nymph (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Wilson (1944), Impact (1949), The Paradine Case (1947), Everybody Does It (1950), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and John Paul Jones (1959). He usually played comedic parts, but Kings Row and Wilson were dramatic parts, showing his versatility.
Coburn has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard.
Hollywood blacklist
In the 1940s, Coburn served as vice-president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a right-wing group opposed to Communists in Hollywood. His support for the Hollywood blacklist of anyone suspected of having any connection to Communism, supported by, among others, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, Robert Taylor, and Ginger Rogers led to many talented actors, writers and directors forced out of Hollywood and deprived of their livelihood.
Personal life
He married two times. His first wife was Ivah Wills Coburn (c. 1882-1937), an American actress and theatrical producer. In 1959, Coburn married Winifred Natzka, who was forty-one years his junior and the widow of Oscar Natzka, a famed New Zealand operatic bass baritone.
He died from a heart attack on August 30, 1961 in New York, New York, aged 84.
Mildred Natwick
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Born June 19, 1905(1905-06-19)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died 25 October 1994 (aged 89)
New York, New York, USA
Years active 1940-1988
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
1974 The Snoop Sisters
Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 - October 25, 1994) was an American stage and film actress.
Biography
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, after graduating from Bennett College with a degree in theater arts, Mildred Natwick toured with a number of stage productions before her first Broadway production, Carrie Nation.
Throughout the 1930s she starred in a number of plays, frequently collaborating with friend and actor-director-playwright Joshua Logan. Natwick made her film debut in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home as a cockney prostitute, and she movingly portrayed the landlady, an important character in 1945s "The Enchanted Cottage." However, she did not pursue a Hollywood career in earnest until the mid-1940s. Even after establishing her film career, Natwick could still frequently be seen in stage productions. She was twice nominated for Tony Awards: in 1957 for The Waltz of the Toreadors, and, in 1972 for the musical, 70 Girls 70.
Natwick made her name in small but memorable roles in several of John Ford classics, including 3 Godfathers (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1948), and The Quiet Man (1952), as the sheltered widow Mrs. Tillane. The character actress was often given one-scene parts or shallow roles which she transcended with her personality and talent, such as her role as a birth control advocate in the comedy Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), the "well-preserved woman" in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, and a sorceress in The Court Jester.
After leaving film in favor of stage and television in the mid-1950s, she returned with Barefoot in the Park as Jane Fonda's mother. The role earned Natwick her first and only Academy Award nomination. For much of the following decade, Natwick appeared exclusively in television, winning an Emmy Award for her role in the limited series The Snoop Sisters, a mystery which paired her with fellow film veteran Helen Hayes, and is fondly remembered as the rather British "Nanny" in Eloise. Her final role was in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons. Natwick died of cancer at age 89 in New York City.
Mildred was the first cousin of Myron 'Grim' Natwick, the creator of Betty Boop for the Fliescher Studios, and the primary animator of Snow White for Walt Disney Studios.
Louis Jourdan
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Born June 19, 1919 (1919-06-19) (age 89)
Marseille, France
Spouse(s) Berthe Frederique (1944 - present)
Louis Jourdan (born June 19, 1919) is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including Gigi (1958) and Octopussy (1983).
Biography
Early life
Jourdan was born as Louis Gendre in Marseille, France, the son of Yvonne (née Jourdan) and Henry Gendre, a hotel owner.[1] He was educated in France, Turkey and England, and trained as an actor at the École Dramatique, making his film debut in 1939.
Following the German occupation of France during World War II, he continued to make films but after refusing to participate in Nazi propaganda films, he joined the French Resistance; his father was arrested by the Gestapo.[2] After the 1944 liberation of France by the Allies, Jourdan married Berthe Frederique, with whom he had a son.
Career
In 1947 Jourdan accepted an offer from a Hollywood studio to appear in The Paradine Case, an Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Gregory Peck. There he became friends with several stars who shared his love of croquet. After a number of American films, most notably the 1954 romantic drama Three Coins in the Fountain, he made his Broadway debut in the lead role in Billy Rose' drama, The Immoralist. He returned to Broadway for a short run in 1955 and that year made his U.S. television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the series Paris Precinct.
During the 1950s Jourdan made several international films, including playing the male lead in The Bride is Too Beautiful opposite Brigitte Bardot. However, he may be best remembered as the romantic lead opposite Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier in the 1958 film version of the Colette novel, Gigi. The film earned nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
In later years Jourdan also appeared on television, such as 1977's Count Dracula for the BBC, and the 1978 Columbo episode, Murder Under Glass, where he played a killer caught by the eponymous, unorthodox, rumpled American detective, Lieutenant Columbo (played by Peter Falk).
In 1983, he was cast as the villainous Kamal Khan in the James Bond film, Octopussy. In 1984 he played the role of Pierre de Coubertin in The First Olympics: Athens 1896, a TV series about the 1896 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
Jourdan's only child, his son, Louis Henry Jourdan, died of a drug overdose in 1981 and was buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Jourdan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6153 and 6445 Hollywood Blvd.
He is retired and lives in California with his wife of over 60 years, Berthe Frederique "Quique" Jourdan.
