Marilyn Monroe gabs with Montgomery Clift between scenes of "The Misfits"
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JUNE LOCKHART is 89 today
ANNE REVERE (1903 - 1990)
CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD (1890 - 1977)
JUNE LOCKHART is 89 today
ANNE REVERE (1903 - 1990)
CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD (1890 - 1977)
Joseph Goodheart
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VIRGINIA PATTON is 88 today
"It’s a Wonderful Life" is a perennial favorite film at Christmastime. Certainly it’s one of the best and most memorable movies ever made.
Virginia Patton Moss knows how special that film is — right from the time it was being made in 1946. She had the great privilege and blessing to be an important part of the cast.
Virginia Patton Moss played the role of Ruth Dakin Bailey, George Bailey’s sister-in-law. Of course, everyone knows Stewart was George Bailey.
Moss shared many fond memories of Capra.
After World War II, with a company called Liberty Films that he newly co-founded, he was handed a short story called The Greatest Gift and immediately wanted to film it.
“He went to Jimmy [Stewart] who said, ‘I’m in,’” Moss well remembers. “He started casting it with all his old friends. … Except for me!”
She was new to Capra. She was recommended to audition for him, which she did.
“I read for him, and he signed me,” she said. Not only did she win the role, but she said, “I was the only girl he ever signed in his whole career.”
Right then she was the only member of the film cast personally signed by Capra; all the others were on loan from other studios.
Moss vividly described the town of Bedford Falls Capra built in Encino, Calif., and how he was meticulous with details, even down to the snow. He didn’t want the usual Hollywood untoasted cornflakes that were painted white to simulate snow. He wanted real ice shaved and blown in by fans to look like real snow and be cold during the July shooting schedule.
The Pasadena train station was the site of filming the scene where Moss alighted from the train that was bringing her and George’s brother home to Bedford Falls. She shared details of how she was in a quandary about how to handle the scene, where she was talking to her new brother-in-law George.
“Frank [Capra] always had some kind of a message,” Moss explained. “Because it was right after the war, he thought the whole world was in shambles … and he wanted to bring the world a message of peace and courage and to lift their spirits.”
Indeed, Capra, who was Catholic, once explained that one major goal in this film was “to show ... that each man’s life touches so many other lives.”
That also happened to be his intention in making movies.
He wrote: “I will show … the courageous renewal of faith, and I will remind the little man that his mission on earth is to advance spiritually. ... My films must let every man, woman and child know that God loves them … and that peace and salvation become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.”
There was nothing phony about his casting either. Or about him.
“He believed in people projecting who they really were in the film,” Moss said. “It was a friendly place to work, and everybody loved working with Capra because of that.”
She said Jimmy Stewart “was just marvelous. He was a very kind man, and he and Capra worked very well together. They were both down-to-earth men, and they were earnest.”
She reflected more on the message of the movie. “A lot of pictures even today are not giving much of a message of hope. But that’s the whole idea of It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Even today, she hears from many people telling her how the film “changed their life in a positive way — I have read it in my letters,” she said happily. People tell her: “It has given me hope. It’s something that really did help me while going through what I just had to go through, and I’m grateful to you for it.’”
She still gets mail regularly, and not just from the United States. Many letters come from countries abroad, since satellite technology can beam the film to several areas around the world at once.
In fact, because of that, Moss has observed humorously, “I’ve probably been in more homes than even Santa Claus.”
After It’s a Wonderful Life, she went on to star in four additional films. Then, in 1949, she resolved to walk away from Hollywood and be a wife and mother. She married Cruse Moss, and they raised a family in Michigan — where they still live and are happily married for more than 60 years now.
At first, Capra didn’t understand her decision, but then approved it, and they always kept in touch.
Before we wished each other a Merry Christmas, Moss shared with me one more reflection about It’s a Wonderful Life in a sparking voice filled with much enthusiasm and love.
“In the end, Clarence did get his wings,” she reflected. “I really do think Frank ended up getting his wings, too!”
VIRGINIA PATTON is 88 today
"It’s a Wonderful Life" is a perennial favorite film at Christmastime. Certainly it’s one of the best and most memorable movies ever made.
Virginia Patton Moss knows how special that film is — right from the time it was being made in 1946. She had the great privilege and blessing to be an important part of the cast.
Virginia Patton Moss played the role of Ruth Dakin Bailey, George Bailey’s sister-in-law. Of course, everyone knows Stewart was George Bailey.
Moss shared many fond memories of Capra.
After World War II, with a company called Liberty Films that he newly co-founded, he was handed a short story called The Greatest Gift and immediately wanted to film it.
“He went to Jimmy [Stewart] who said, ‘I’m in,’” Moss well remembers. “He started casting it with all his old friends. … Except for me!”
She was new to Capra. She was recommended to audition for him, which she did.
“I read for him, and he signed me,” she said. Not only did she win the role, but she said, “I was the only girl he ever signed in his whole career.”
Right then she was the only member of the film cast personally signed by Capra; all the others were on loan from other studios.
Moss vividly described the town of Bedford Falls Capra built in Encino, Calif., and how he was meticulous with details, even down to the snow. He didn’t want the usual Hollywood untoasted cornflakes that were painted white to simulate snow. He wanted real ice shaved and blown in by fans to look like real snow and be cold during the July shooting schedule.
The Pasadena train station was the site of filming the scene where Moss alighted from the train that was bringing her and George’s brother home to Bedford Falls. She shared details of how she was in a quandary about how to handle the scene, where she was talking to her new brother-in-law George.
“Frank [Capra] always had some kind of a message,” Moss explained. “Because it was right after the war, he thought the whole world was in shambles … and he wanted to bring the world a message of peace and courage and to lift their spirits.”
Indeed, Capra, who was Catholic, once explained that one major goal in this film was “to show ... that each man’s life touches so many other lives.”
That also happened to be his intention in making movies.
He wrote: “I will show … the courageous renewal of faith, and I will remind the little man that his mission on earth is to advance spiritually. ... My films must let every man, woman and child know that God loves them … and that peace and salvation become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.”
There was nothing phony about his casting either. Or about him.
“He believed in people projecting who they really were in the film,” Moss said. “It was a friendly place to work, and everybody loved working with Capra because of that.”
She said Jimmy Stewart “was just marvelous. He was a very kind man, and he and Capra worked very well together. They were both down-to-earth men, and they were earnest.”
She reflected more on the message of the movie. “A lot of pictures even today are not giving much of a message of hope. But that’s the whole idea of It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Even today, she hears from many people telling her how the film “changed their life in a positive way — I have read it in my letters,” she said happily. People tell her: “It has given me hope. It’s something that really did help me while going through what I just had to go through, and I’m grateful to you for it.’”
She still gets mail regularly, and not just from the United States. Many letters come from countries abroad, since satellite technology can beam the film to several areas around the world at once.
In fact, because of that, Moss has observed humorously, “I’ve probably been in more homes than even Santa Claus.”
After It’s a Wonderful Life, she went on to star in four additional films. Then, in 1949, she resolved to walk away from Hollywood and be a wife and mother. She married Cruse Moss, and they raised a family in Michigan — where they still live and are happily married for more than 60 years now.
At first, Capra didn’t understand her decision, but then approved it, and they always kept in touch.
Before we wished each other a Merry Christmas, Moss shared with me one more reflection about It’s a Wonderful Life in a sparking voice filled with much enthusiasm and love.
“In the end, Clarence did get his wings,” she reflected. “I really do think Frank ended up getting his wings, too!”
Joseph Goodheart
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Birthday gal Charlotte Greenwood gets a kick out of Oliver Hardy during the Caravan of Stars tour during WWII
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ELEANOR PARKER (1922 - 2013)
PETER LORRE (1904 - 1964)
ELEANOR PARKER (1922 - 2013)
PETER LORRE (1904 - 1964)
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JACQUES BERGERAC (1927 - 2014) R.I.P.
Once married to Ginger Rogers & Dorothy Malone
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The cast of "The Misfits": Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter,
and the late Eli Wallach (bless them all)
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Yes, bless them all!! what a great picture! Eli was a longlasting survivor to the other 4, nearly 50 years..
RIP Eli Wallach,
and a thought for his wife over 66 years, Anne Jackson, born 1926, stage,TV and motion picures actress
RIP Eli Wallach,
and a thought for his wife over 66 years, Anne Jackson, born 1926, stage,TV and motion picures actress
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SKELTON KNAGGS (1911 - 1955)
JOHN McINTIRE (1907 - 1991)
SKELTON KNAGGS (1911 - 1955)
JOHN McINTIRE (1907 - 1991)
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