Franklin Pangborn the Still Clollecttoer from Canada and I were talking
about different actors and a wheeler and Woosley
Glenn is the only one who ever talks about Wheeler an Woosley
I started thinking about all the actors people ask me for material on
over the years and I know Bruce surgeon Sim has quite a memory of the
old stars as well as many of you on mopo
Zazu Pitts is another one as well as many of the others my favorite
thing about Hollywood in the early years was character actors when I
think of all the great films they had tremendous character actors that
brought the films to life in contemporary movies many of these people
are model types even though they are good actors there was something
about flood people that really made a film come together especially in
comedies
So I would love to hear your stories about what characters impressed you
in the movie business what comes to mind are people like Jimmy Durante
Humphrey Bogart and people like Jack Benny who gave Mel Blanc his big
breaks mel was probably one of the best known characters in the history
of animation but yet he also transferred well over onto film if you look
at the cast of it's a Mad Mad Mad world basically the film was about
every character actor that was out there Ethel Merman Terry Thomas
Milton Berle Sid Caesar Phil Silvers just all great comedians with
cameos by some of the best including the three stooges no doubt that is
why it's one of my favorite films end it turns out that Stanley Kramer
did many films with topics that were social topics like his Sidney
Poitier films
would love to hear your thoughts the canada film critic is going to New
york city
Yes he and his wife love Broadway shows and musicals and he mentioned
some old timers like Jerry Olinger so it tickled my memory of thinking
of all the old stars over 46 years that my customers would ask me to
find material on I mentioned to him that nobody is asking me for theca
bara in years when I first started I just saw a big a slave poster of
Theda on the fainting couch I think she was Cleopatra character
ironically she was from Cincinnati Ohio are you still love all the
fascinating back stories and I remember all the books that were done
about character actors I think I still have some the problem with
getting older is that our memories of people start to fade Alzheimer's
or dementia whatever it might be it's kind of like a computer and he has
too much storage unit and it locks up by discussing old film memories it
does help cultivate the brain to stay active always laugh and say
everything I've learned over the last 4650 years and $.10 might get me a
cup of coffee except today it would take five dollars and everything I
know to get a cuppa coffee :-) I'm starting to see why hanging out at a
senior center with people in their 70s 80s and 90s is not a bad idea
I'll be 67 in August
For me it was just fun experiencing all the stuff and I'm so thankful
for the memories when my son brought back my scrapbooks the other day
and some of the memorabilia I had on Adam west it was the trip seeing my
baby pictures and pictures of my grandmother and my mother and uncles
brought back so many memories of when we used to have family gatherings
and picnics when I was a small boy I miss family unity and simple things
like picnics being in the park family gatherings and simple friendship
the movie is the alloweed to peer into lives in situation of drama,
fantasy, and perfect situations also into sci-fi that we can only
imagine even Walt Disney allowed us to see things that we could not even
imagine in real life now with artificial intelligence it's surpassed
anything we could've imagined in the beginning of motion pictures.
Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977
ps one of my fond memories was getting a job from the Mary Pickford
Institute Andi Hicks was the director she was a former June Taylor
dancer for Gleason
I took her and the actress for the Sparrow to wild african safari and we
looked at animals// Fun trip they played the show in Detroit,,so i met
them there..the institute bought my replica hand crank movie cameras i
made when i first got sick to keep me active and eat
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