The Silver Screen Oasis

Wow! I could have sworn that was an early Joan Crawford.... Lupe usually looks so soft. I would never have known it was Lupe if you hadn't said so.

Is that Ruth Chatterton on the left? Or maybe Edna Best? Probably not Edna, since I don't know if she made any American movies this early.

Wendy, the caption under the original image stated it was Lupe Velez. This of course was years prior to her Mexican Spitfire films.

Director Raoul Walsh discussing a scene with Ann Sheridan on
the film "They Drive by Night"

Mongo -

As soon as I read it was Lupe, I knew that was right. It just surprised me, and my comment was not in any way meant as a challenge - just an exclamation of shock that she looked so much like a 1920's Crawford. I never thought they looked similar before. I hope I didn't offend, I certainly didn't mean to.

Not at all, Wendy. Sometimes the info given with an image is not correct, as happened in the past. I always welcome all comments regarding the images. Thanks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ROBERT EASTON is 80 today


ELLEN DREW (1915 - 2003)


JOHN DEHNER (1915 - 1992)


GEORGE O'HANLON (1912 - 1989)


VICTOR JORY (1902 - 1982)


HARPO MARX (1888 - 1964)


BORIS KARLOFF (1887 - 1969)

A few words about today's birthday boy, Robert Easton, who played country bumpkins in countless movies.
He is known as the "Henry Higgins of Hollywood". Is a master of dialects, and frequently coaches other actors.
He coached actor Forest Whitaker to an Oscar and Golden Globe with his Ugandan dialect as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006).

Proud papa Claude Rains with daughter Jessica and wife Frances in 1939

Handsome Rock Hudson banters with legends Gloria Swanson and Tallulah Bankhead

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HOWARD DUFF (1913 - 1990)


GERALDINE FITZGERALD (1913 - 2005)


KIRBY GRANT (1911 - 1985)

Dennis Morgan and son Stanley playing a game of pool in 1947

Phillip Terry, wife Joan Crawford and sweet little Christina at home in 1943

I remember coming across the odd little factoid, back in the early 80's, that Howard Duff had grown up in Bremerton, Washington; later on, in about '88 or '89, I found myself living in Bremerton, and remembering that bit of minutia, made a point of working it into social conversations I'd have with various other residents of that often drab & jaded little Navy town.
Know what I discovered?
Nobody, evidently, had ever heard that piece of info before, nobody was particularly interested (beyond feigning mild acknowledgement), and about 80% of my listeners had never heard of Howard Duff (and all of them were over 30).
That's pretty sad!

Hi Klondike,

I remember Lana Turner telling several of us that she had gone back to Wallace, Idaho (her birthplace) at the invitation from that mining town and that 3/4 of the people there didn't know who she was....
That was in 1950 or the early fifties, and LT was then one of the biggest movie stars in the world!!

Some people are just not interested in anything past their town or block even...

Larry