Every Monday night from June 1, 1936 until January 22, 1945, DeMille was the director and host of Lux Radio Theater a popular weekly show what under his aegis dramatized successful films, cast with the original stars whenever possible. The show attracted an audience of over 40,000,000 listeners
Here is a Lux radio version of “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” staring Charles Boyer
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In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. Sure enough, that very night she meets the ghost of crusty former owner Captain Gregg…and refuses to be scared off. Indeed, they become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man’s ghost haunting her bedroom. But when a charming live man comes courting, Lucy and the captain must deal with their feelings for each other.
In 1945, Twentieth Century Fox bought the film rights to the
novel, which had only been published in Britain at that time. The film
was released in May, 1947, and starred Rex Harrison as “Captain Daniel
Gregg” and Gene Tierney as “Lucy Muir.”
Here is the Ghost and Mrs. Muir FAQ. that I found on line at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/ghost-and-mrs-muir/faq/
The ghost is Captain Daniel Gregg, an irascible but charming sea
captain who died prematurely and tragically one night when he
accidentally kicked over the gas heater by his bedside in Gull
Cottage.
Mrs. Muir is Carolyn Muir, a young widow and the current tenant of
Gull Cottage. She has two children, Candace and Jonathan, and a
wire-haired terrier, Scruffy. The family also includes Martha, the
able-bodied housekeeper.
November 13, 1869, according to the episode “Surprise Party.” He was
supposedly 39 at the time, giving his birth in 1830, according to that
episode. I use the term “supposedly” because the show was rather
inconsistent in their use of dates, particularly in the second season.
This particular date, November 18, 1869, may or may not be accurate as
is the case with his date of birth.
Only of women’s hearts, I’m afraid! We can assume that the Captain was
a Naval officer as evidenced by his reference to participating in The
Battle of Vera Cruz in “Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow,” his naval dress
uniform worn in “The Medicine Ball” and “Wedding Day?????,” the quote
“I can’t argue with him. He’s an Admiral. He outranks me,” referring
to Admiral Snedaker in “Chowderhead,” and the long chain of command
required to get Martha’s brother-in-law’s posting changed in “Martha
Meets The Captain.”
The transition from here to the over there is affected by several
things including the circumstances of the person’s death and his state
of mind at the time prior to and at the time of death. Oftentimes, a
ghost will remain near the place where his death occurred if it was a
sudden or tragic passing, or near a person or place to whom he was
emotionally attached. In the Captain’s case, perhaps he still hangs
around Gull Cottage because he spent his life savings on the place and
intended it to be a home for retired seamen. He stubbornly refuses to
give up ownership of the cottage because he cannot bear to entrust its
care to his blundering nephew, Claymore! True romantics, however,
would like to believe that Carolyn and the Captain were destined to
meet and he was hanging about Gull Cottage waiting for her to show up!
Did you know??
Anya Seton’s novel was first published in Ladies Home Journal between Aug and Decorations 1943. According to a 6 Jun 1944 Hollywood Reporter news item, Gregory Peck was first considered for the “co-star role” of this picture, and a modern source reveals that studio production chief Darryl F. Zanuck intended to feature Peck as “Nicholas” and John Hodiak as “Dr. Jeff Turner.”
Numerous pre-release sources credit Ernst Lubitsch as the producer of the film. According to a modern source, Lubitsch withdrew from the project due to his poor health and conflicts with director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Dragonwyck marked Mankiewicz’ first directorial effort.
I thought Dragonwyck was really good it’s a combination of Rebecca and The ghost and Mrs. miur — actors all fine. Vincent Price and Jessica Tandy are always superb, also Walter Houston and Ann Reeves (Who always play everybody’s mother) and off course Gene
Tierney
Queer or not??
In the bathing scene from the1960 film Spartacus, the Roman senator Crassius (Laurence Olivier) is discussing with his young slave Antoninus (Tony Curtis) how to treat women, when he starts talking about food:
Crassius: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: Yes.
Snails?
No.
Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
No, master.
Of course not. It’s all a matter of taste, isn’t it?
Yes, master.
And taste is not the same as appetite and therefore not a question of morals, is it?
It could be argured so, master.
Um, that’ll do. My robe, Antoninus. Ah, my taste … includes both oysters and snails.
Charlie McCarthy was born at the age of 11. More specifically, he was carved from a block of pine by an Illinois carpenter named Theodore Mack, then sold to aspiring teenage ventriloquist Edgar Bergen for 35 dollars. Created in the image of a Chicago newsboy named — what else? — Charlie, the little wooden head joined Bergen for a series of private parties, touring shows, and one-night stands, finally finding steady work on vaudeville.
In 1930, Charlie made his screen debut in a Vitaphone one-reeler, and within a few years was receiving billing over his mentor Bergen. Officially discovered for radio by Rudy Vallee in 1936, Bergen and McCarthy went on to star on the top-rated The Charlie McCarthy Show.
After co-starring in the Disney feature Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Charlie and his fellow dummies Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker (together with Bergen, of course) moved into TV, where in the mid-’50s they co-hosted the comedy quiz program Do You Trust Your Wife?
In the 1960s, Charlie continued to live in lavish splendor with the Bergen family, occupying a bedroom that was even larger than that of his “sister” Candice Bergen. Not long after making a cameo appearance in The Muppet Movie, Bergen and McCarthy made a spectacularly successful comeback appearance in Las Vegas — a comeback cut short by Bergen’s fatal heart attack at the age of 75. (story complied from) Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
O’Toole, Streep in record books with acting nods
By PHIL GALLO
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Old Acquaintance (1943) Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins were schoolgirl chums. With former leaving home town to carve literary career, while latter settles to happy marriage .Davis returns for lecture and, as guest of former pal, finds her with child and writer of hot sexy novels which she agrees to read and submit to publishers.
To their surprise, Millie’s book becomes a bestseller, and a decade later she’s one of the most successful authors in America, easily eclipsing Kitty’s more highbrow work.
At Goulding’s urging, Davis had agreed to cast screen newcomer Gig Young as the naval officer Kit loses to her rival’s adult daughter. Although both were married, and Young was five years younger, he and Davis carried their on-screen relationship into their private lives with a series of late-night trysts in her dressing room.
Did You Know??
Bette Davis personally requested the casting of Norma Shearer in the role of Mildred Drake. Shearer refused the role and the part went to Miriam Hopkins.
Later remade as Rich and Famous (1981) with Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset.
On the eve of Halloween in 1938, what could best be described as mass hysteria swept across the nation after millions of Americans tuned in to CBS radio about a quarter past 8 p.m.
October 30, 1938, The Mercury Theatre, under the direction of Orson Welles, performed a radio play called “War of the Worlds” on WABC, New York, and over the Columbia Broadcasting System network, coast-to-coast.
It was based on a science fiction story by H.G. Wells (no relation) which entailed Martians landing in New Jersey to take over the world. The broadcasted imagery produced through sound effects and acting was so powerful, it caused mass hysteria. Thousands of listeners panicked nationwide, not realizing it was just a radio play, even though disclaimers were announced before and during the production.
How bad was it? The next day, “The New York Times” ran this headline:
Radio Listeners in Panic,Taking War Drama as Fact
Many Flee Homes to Escape `Gas Raid From Mars’–Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy
In Brooklyn, one man refused to believe a policeman’s denial by telling him, “What do you mean it’s just a play? We can hear the firing all the way here and I want a gas mask
In Indianapolis, a church service was interrupted when a woman dashed in screaming, “New York is destroyed! Go home to die with your loved ones.
the most terrified listeners were in the town of Concrete, located in Skagit County, 60 miles northeast of Seattle. By coincidence, during the midpoint of the broadcast a power failure plunged almost the entire town of 1,000 into darkness. Some listeners fainted while others grabbed their families to head up into the mountains
Some of the men grabbed their guns, planning to blow away any bug-eyed monster or spaceship that got in their way.
Listen The 1938 original broadcast of the mercury theatre ” war of the worlds” here
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My Favorite Husband was a radio program on CBS Radio. The show starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper (Liz and George Cugat in early episodes). The couple live at 321 Bundy Drive, and are billed as “two people who live together and like it.” The main sponsor was Jell-O, and an average of 3 “plugs” for Jello were made in each episode. The program ran from 1948 through 1951, throughout which 124 episodes were aired.
Many episodes inspired I Love Lucy episodes. The 1948 episode entitled “Giveaway Program” inspired the I Love Lucy episode called “Redecorating,” some lines being exactly the same.
When Lucille was asked to do a television show, CBS insisted Richard Denning continued to be her costar. However, she said that she would not do a husband-and-wife sitcom without her real-life husband Desi Arnaz being the husband. The network reluctantly agreed.
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Ethel Merman
Mary Astor and Ethel Walters
Mary Pickford And Ethel Barrymore
“FRANK Sinatra , ALBERT Schweitzer, INGRID Bergman, NOEL Coward,GENE Kelly,OSCAR Levant lalalala…”
BRIGITTE Bardot and JEAN Cocteau , MARILYN Monroe, VINCENTE Minnelli
FRED Astaire,RENE” Clair,JOSE” Ferrer, The former GRACE Kelly
LYNN Fontanne and DANNY MAnn and DEBORAH Kerr…..IRVING Berlin and RIN TIN TIN
DANNY Kaye and DORIS Day and PASTERNAK (Vivien Leigh*)
HEMMINGWAY and Prince RAINIER , MORAN and MACK (TALLULAH B.*)
IRWIN shaw and EVERLYN Waugh and CARY Grant RORY Calhoun And Rin tin toon..
BERNIE Baruch and King FAROUK ,ALISTAIR Cooke LIZZIE and EDDIE
LUCILLE BAlle And LAUREN Bacall ,VIVIEN Leigh , ROS RUSSELL and FREDDIE
ARTHUR Freed and SAMMY Snead and IRVIN Lazar,
ANNA MAY WONG (Leslie Carron*)and Wrong TONG TONG
“Flew down to Cannes to get a tan then simply ran to dear portofino”
“Sain Tropez just turned me grey Because just night and day I lived on just vino”
“Stayed With Fritz at Biarritz the palyground of kings Glamorous sights”
“LiKe Brooklyn Heights..!!”
“My Christian DIORI wore then tore Got fitted for a new BALENCIAGA”
” I like CHANEL , She wears so well. As time will tell her clothes are a saga”
“VALENTINO”Swhere I’ve been I love all her things…Things with good line.”
” Like things from KLEIN’s” I do all my shopping there with Mary and Ethel”
“Mary and Ethel WHO??”
“Mary Schwartz and Ethel Hotchkiss”
KEENAN Wynn -Rin tin tin
SOPHIA Loren – Ren ten ten
ALY Khan -RahnTahn Tahn
RAYMOND Massey -Lassie
That’s the way you play the game Drop that name…
Mel Ferrer!!
(* alternate version)
Known to be difficult on the set, Hopkins flitted from studio to studio. After her early tenure at Paramount, she was under contract to independent producer Samuel Goldwyn during the mid-30s and by the end of the decade had moved to Warner Brothers, where a rivalry with Bette Davis manifested itself in both the plotline and the actual filming of the touching soaper, “The Old Maid” (1939). Her stardom began to decline toward the end of the decade after several films (“The Woman I Love” 1937, “Lady with Red Hair” 1940) fizzled at the box office. For a time Hopkins had been a critics’ darling; as her films became more routine and she became increasingly disenchanted with her opportunities in Hollywood, some of her performances became more mannered. After another competitive reteaming with Davis in the enjoyably catty “Old Acquaintance” (1943), which put her fidgety qualities to good use, Hopkins returned to Broadway and stage tours and bid farewell to Hollywood for six years.Miriam made her final big screen showing in SAVAGE INTRUDER. Nine days before her birthday, on October 9, 1972, Miriam died of a heart attack in New York City. She was 69.
October 2005 I wrote about living famous “Death or alive -famous people who turn 85 or more this year”
a little more than a year later, so many of the people mentioned above have passed away.
Thankskentdoa from Death or alive website for a reminder