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I love that song, edgar. I don't know why I know it, but I do.

Well, it's time for me to say goodnight, and this one is for all of us. Nat Cole did it as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdS6vifOE0M&feature=related

Goodnight

From Letty with love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK--mn-3azo
Good night, letty.

Good morning, edgar.

Lovely goodnight song, Texas, and to begin the day, here is one by Bob that I like, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XujoLHNSbGs&feature=related

Leo Carrillo
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Born Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo
August 6, 1880(1880-08-06)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died September 10, 1961 (aged 81) (age 81)
Santa Monica, California, United States
Years active 1915-1957
Spouse(s) Edith Haeselbarth (1940-1953)

Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (August 6, 1880 - September 10, 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.








Biography

Family roots

Although he played stereotypical Latinos, Leo Carrillo was part of an old and respected Californio family who could trace their roots back to the conquistadores. His great-great grandfather, José Raimundo Carrillo (1749-1809) was an early Spanish settler of San Diego, California. His great-grandfather Carlos Antonio Carrillo (1783-1852) was Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1838, his great-uncle, José Antonio Carrillo, was a Californio defender and three-time mayor of Los Angeles, and his grandfather Pedro Carrillo, educated in Boston, was a writer.


Early history

The family moved from San Diego to Los Angeles then to Santa Monica, where Carrillo's father Juan José Carrillo (1842-1916), served as the city's police chief and later the first mayor. His cousin was Broadway star William Gaxton (real name Arturo Antonio Gaxiola). Proud of his heritage, Leo Carrillo wrote a book, The California I Love, published shortly before his death in 1961.


Career

A university graduate, Leo Carrillo worked as a newspaper cartoonist for the San Francisco Examiner before turning to acting on Broadway . In Hollywood, he appeared in more than 90 films, in which he played supporting or character roles. However, he is best remembered from the television show The Cisco Kid, on which he portrayed Pancho, a role he had previously played in several films. Duncan Renaldo starred as the Cisco Kid. The popular TV series ran from 1950 until 1956.


Civic contributions

A preservationist and conservationist, Carrillo served on the California Beach and Parks commission for eighteen years, and played a key role in the state's acquisition of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, the Los Angeles Arboretum, and the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. He was eventually made a goodwill ambassador by the State Governor.

As a result of his service to the State, the Leo Carrillo State Park, west of Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, was named in his honor, and the city of Westminster, California named an elementary school for him. The Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park originally Rancho de los Qiotes, in Carlsbad, California is a registered California Historical Site.


Death

Leo Carrillo died of cancer in 1961 and was interred in the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica.


Legacy

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Leo Carrillo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1635 Vine Street.

Hoot Gibson
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Born Edmund Richard Gibson
August 6, 1892
Tekamah, Nebraska USA
Died August 23, 1962
Los Angeles, California USA
Occupation Actor
Years active 1910 - 1960

Hoot Gibson (August 6, 1892 - August 23, 1962) was a rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, film director and producer.





Early life and career rise

Born Edmund Richard Gibson in Tekamah, Nebraska, he learned to ride a horse while still a very young boy. His family moved to California when he was seven years old. As a teenager he worked with horses on a ranch, which led to competition on bucking broncos at area rodeos. Given the nickname "Hoot Owl" by co-workers, the name evolved to just "Hoot".

In 1910, film director Francis Boggs was looking for experienced cowboys to appear in his silent film short, Pride of the Range. Gibson and another future star of Western films, Tom Mix, were hired. Gibson made a second film for Boggs in 1911. After the director was killed by a deranged employee, Gibson was hired by director Jack Conway to appear in his 1912 Western, His Only Son.

Acting for Gibson was then a minor sideline and he continued competing in rodeos to make a living. In 1912 he won the all-around championship at the famous Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon and the steer roping World Championship at the Calgary Stampede.


World War I and increased interest in 'Cowboy Films'

Gibson's career was temporarily interrupted with service in the United States Army during World War I. When the war ended, he returned to the rodeo business and became good friends with Art Acord, a fellow cowboy and movie actor. The two participated in summer rodeo then went back to Hollywood for the winter to do stunt work. For several years, Gibson had secondary film roles (primarily in Westerns) with stars such as Harry Carey. By 1921 the demand for cowboy pictures was so great that Gibson began receiving offers for leading roles. Some of these offers came from up-and-coming film director John Ford, with whom Gibson developed a lasting friendship and working relationship.


Marriage, divorce, financial difficulties and later life

Hoot Gibson apparently (but unconfirmedly) married Rose August Wenger, a rodeo performer he had met at the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon sometime between 1911 and 1913. Under the name Helen Gibson, she would become a major film star in her own right for a time, notably in the lead role of The Hazards of Helen adventure film serial. Census records for 1920 indicate that they were living separately, Hoot Gibson listing himself as married, Helen listing herself as widowed.[1]

Following their separation/divorce, Hoot met a young woman named Helen Johnson, whom he did marry in either 1920 or 1922 and with whom he had one child, Lois Charlotte Gibson. They divorced in 1930. The fact that Hoot Gibson was married to two consecutive women who used the name Helen Gibson in some fashion has led to a good deal of confusion.

From the 1920s through the 1940s, Hoot Gibson was a major film attraction, ranking second only to Tom Mix as a western film box office draw. He successfully made the transition to talkies and as a result became a highly paid performer. He appeared in his own comic books and was wildly popular until singing cowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers displaced him.

In 1933, Hoot injured himself when he crashed his plane while racing cowboy star Ken Maynard in the National Air Races. Later, the two friends teamed up to make a series of low budget movies in the twilight of their careers. After his divorce from Helen Johnson Gibson, Hoot had a brief marriage to film actress Sally Eilers. That marriage ended in 1933.

Hoot married a final time, to Dorothy Dunstan, on July 3, 1942. His wife would survive him.

Gibson's years of substantial earnings did not see him through his retirement. He had squandered much of his income on high living and poor investments.

By the 1950s, Gibson faced financial ruin, aided in part by costly medical bills from serious health problems. To get by and pay his bills, he earned money as a greeter at a Las Vegas casino. For a time, he worked in a carnival and took virtually any job his dwindling name value could obtain.

Hoot Gibson died of cancer in 1962 in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Hoot Gibson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street. In 1979, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Barbara Bates
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Born August 6, 1925
Denver, Colorado, USA
Died March 18, 1969 (aged 43)
Denver, Colorado, USA
Occupation Film, television actress

Barbara Bates (August 6, 1925 - March 18, 1969) was an American actress best known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama, All About Eve.





Early life

The eldest of three daughters, Bates was born in Denver, Colorado. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates met Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, who would ultimately change the course of her life.[1]


Career

In September 1944, Bates signed a contract with Universal Pictures after Cecil Coan introduced her to producer Walter Wanger. Soon after, she was cast as one of the "Seven Salome Girls" in the 1945 drama, Salome Where She Danced starring Yvonne De Carlo. Around this time, she fell in love with Coan, who was married with three sons. In March 1945, Coan divorced his wife and secretly married Bates days later. Bates spent the next few years as a stock actress, landing bit parts in movies and doing cheesecake layouts for magazines like Yank, the Army Weekly and Life. It was one of those photo sessions that caught the eye of executives at Warner Bros. who signed her in 1947. Warner Bros. highlighted her "girl-next-door" image and her acting career took off. She appeared with some of the biggest stars of the day including Bette Davis in June Bride and Danny Kaye in The Inspector General.[1]

After her appearance in All About Eve, Bates co-starred in Cheaper by the Dozen, and its sequel Belles on Their Toes, with Jeanne Crain and Myrna Loy.[2] In 1951, she landed a role opposite MacDonald Carey and Claudette Colbert in the comedy, Let's Make It Legal.


Decline

Despite a seemingly successful career, Bates' life, both on and off screen, started unraveling. She became a victim of extreme mood swings, insecurity, ill health, and chronic depression. In 1954, she landed the role of Cathy on the NBC sitcom, It's a Great Life. After only 7 episodes, she was written out of the show due to her erratic behavior and depression. Bates tried to salvage her career and traveled to England to find work. She was signed on as a contract player with the Rank Organisation, only to drop out of two leading roles in one month. Bates continued to be too emotionally unstable to work and in 1957, her contract with the Rank Organisation was canceled.[1] Her last onscreen appearance would come in an episode of The Saint that aired in November 1962.[3]

In 1960, Bates and her husband moved back to the United States and got an apartment in Beverly Hills. Later that year, Coan was diagnosed with cancer. Bates remained devoted to her husband and rarely left his bedside, but the strain was too much for her. She attempted suicide by slashing her wrists and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital where she soon recovered.[1]


Death

In January 1967, Bates' husband, Cecil Coan, died of cancer. She was devastated by his death and fell apart. Her depression worsened and she again became suicidal. Later that year, she retreated back to Denver and fell out of public view. For a time, Bates worked as a secretary, a dental assistant, and as a hospital aide. In December 1968, she married for the second time to a childhood friend, sportscaster William Reed.[1] Despite her new marriage and location, she remained increasingly despondent and depressed.

On March 18, 1969, just months after her marriage to Reed, Barbara Bates committed suicide in her mother's garage by carbon monoxide poisoning. She was 43 years old.[1]

Frank Finlay
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Francis Finlay
6 August 1926 (1926-08-06) (age 82)
Farnworth, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation actor
Spouse(s) Doreen Shepherd

Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE (born 6 August 1926) is a British stage, film and television actor.





Biography

Personal life

Finlay was born in Farnworth, England, the son of Margaret and Josiah Finlay[1], a butcher. A devout Catholic,[citation needed] he belongs to the British Catholic Stage Guild. He was educated at St. Gregory the Great School and then trained as a butcher himself, gaining a City and Guilds Diploma in the trade. He met his future wife, Doreen Shepherd, when they were both members of the Farnworth Little Theatre. They lived in Weybridge, Surrey and were married until her death in 2005.[2]


Stage career

Finlay began his stage career in rep before graduating from RADA. There followed several appearances at the Royal Court Theatre, notably in the Arnold Wesker trilogy. He is particularly associated with the National Theatre, especially during the Olivier years and its predecessor, the Chichester Festival Theatre, where he played a wide variety of roles ranging from the First Gravedigger in Hamlet to Saint Joan, Hobson's Choice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Dutch Courtesan, The Crucible, Mother Courage, Juno and the Paycock and culminating in his controversial Iago to Laurence Olivier's title character in the 1965 film adaptation of Othello.

Finlay's original stage performance of Iago as an NCO left critics unmoved, but later received high praise when the play was filmed and earned him an Academy Award nomination. He was also seen on Broadway in Epitaph for George Dillon (1958-59), and, also, in the National Theatre and Broadway productions of Filumena (opposite Olivier's wife, Joan Plowright) in 1980.


Television and film

His first major success on television was in the title role of Casanova in Dennis Potter's BBC2 series of the same name. Following which in 1972, he won perhaps the greatest praise of his career for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in The Death Of Adolf Hitler.

He portrayed Richard Roundtree's nemesis Amafi in the third Shaft film Shaft in Africa (1973) before playing Porthos for director Richard Lester in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). He has also appeared several other films, including The Wild Geese (1978).

He went on to star as the father in the controversial Bouquet of Barbed Wire and he was reunited with his Bouquet of Barbed Wire co-star, Susan Penhaligon, when he played Van Helsing in the BBC Count Dracula with Louis Jourdan (1977).

He appeared in two Sherlock Holmes films as Inspector Lestrade, solving the Jack the Ripper murders (A Study in Terror and Murder by Decree). In 1984, Finlay appeared on American television in A Christmas Carol. He played Marley's Ghost opposite George C. Scott's Ebenezer Scrooge.

Finlay also played a rather slim Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison's Don Quixote, in the 1973 British made-for-television film The Adventures of Don Quixote, for which he won a BAFTA award. He won another BAFTA award that year for his performance as Voltaire in a non-musical BBC TV production of Candide.

He also guest-starred as "The Witchsmeller Pursuivant" in an episode of the popular 1983 British sitcom Blackadder.

In 1988 Finlay played the role of Justice Peter Mahon in the award-winning New Zealand television miniseries Erebus: The Aftermath.

In 2002 Finlay portrayed Adrien Brody's character's father in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist (2002). His most recent appearances have been in the TV series Life Begins and as Jane Tennison's father in the last two stories of Prime Suspect (2006 and 2007). In 2007 he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure 100.

Abbey Lincoln
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Background information

Birth name Anna Marie Wooldridge
Born August 6, 1930 (1930-08-06) (age 78)
Origin Chicago, Illinois
Genre(s) Jazz
Occupation(s) Singer
Instrument(s) Vocals
Label(s) Riverside, Verve
Associated acts Max Roach

Abbey Lincoln (born Anna Marie Wooldridge on August 6, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who is widely respected for her writing skills. She is one of many singers influenced by Billie Holiday. She has had a very long and productive career. She continues to perform and can often be found at the Blue Note in New York City. [1]

With Ivan Dixon, she co-starred in Nothing But a Man (1964), an independent film written and directed by Michael Roemer. She also co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Beau Bridges in 1968's For Love of Ivy.[2] She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for For the Love of Ivy in 1969.

She sang on the famous We Insist! - Freedom Now Suite (1960) by jazz musician Max Roach and was married to him from 1962 to 1970. [3]

Abbey Lincoln also appears in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It. [2]

Energizer Bunny arrested; charged with battery.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.
My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time.
Dijon vu: the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating: always use condiments.
I fired my masseuse today. She just rubbed me the wrong way.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.
If electricity comes from electrons, does that mean that morality comes from morons?
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Banning the bra was a big flop.
Sea captains don't like crew cuts.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
Without geometry, life is pointless.
When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading whilst sunbathing makes you well-red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.

Welcome back, hawkman. Thanks for the info on the celeb's. We always learn something valuable from them. Loved the play on words, especially the reminder that "kiln" has a silent "n".

Well, folks, here's a tribute to Robert Mitchum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLtWMMBW808&feature=related

Thoughts for today:

The ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

Wally Simpson: One cannot be too thin or too rich

Good morning WA2K.

Today's BD photo gallery:







Wishing a great day to all.

Hey, welcome back, puppy. I can tell that this is going to be a great day on WA2K.

Thanks for the montage of notables, and I would like to salute two.

First, my mom loved The Cisco Kid. She was forever saying:

Ah, Pancho; Ah, Cisco.

Had no idea that the show was based on a story by O Henry. What a surprise.

Here's an episode from the duo which is cut off abruptly, so you will have to tune in next week for episode 2.

This will be followed by a very short but powerful poem by Tennyson.

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=vICEpONv-bg

We'll dedicate this poem to Dutchy.

THE EAGLE
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.


1851

Hi, all.

Here's a birthday tribute for the very talented Lucille Ball. Was there anyone who did not love Lucy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLbmShxwuG8

Fabulous, firefly, and welcome back. I know that my godson would rehash every episode of I Love Lucy to me should I happen to drop by his house at the proper time. Thanks, gal. Lucy was quite an entertainer.

I think Desi did this one, but I couldn't find it by him so we shall have to settle for Jim Carey. This is funny, however.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJej6kCgxVM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Ky-p7DUoM
Well, Roger Miller did a lot of whimsey in his time. This is called Where Did All the Average People Go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D08cYFYr4E
I was not familiar with Abbey Lincoln. Here is First Song by her.

How about a little Shubert Serenade for trumpet

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd8O7xXcs0w&feature=related