*CANDIDS*
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Natalie was so beautiful and talented, who knows what movies she could have ended up making.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PAUL BURKE (1936 - 2009)
Tall, dark and handsome is how Hollywood liked their leading men back in the 1950s and 1960s and actor Paul Burke certainly fit the bill. While his career fell short of outright stardom, he managed to stand out in a couple of acclaimed TV cop series series in the 1960s and "enjoyed" semi-cult notice by co-starring in one of screen's most celebrated "turkeys" of all time.
he managed to scrounge up bit/uncredited parts in such 1950s films as Fearless Fagan (1952); Francis Goes to West Point (1952), Three Sailors and a Girl (1953), South Sea Woman (1953) and Spy Chasers (1955). He moved up the ladder a bit to featured status in another Francis the talking mule picture, Francis in the Navy (1955), and in Screaming Eagles (1956), then earned a starring role in the voodoo/jungle horror flick The Disembodied (1957)
Paul's best known TV role, however, was as Detective Adam Flint in the highly praised police series "Naked City" (1958), based on the gritty, groundbreaking cop movie The Naked City (1948), the series did the film more than justice with excellent story lines and Burke walked away with two Emmy nominations out of the three seasons he appeared.
Winning the co-lead role of fledgling writer Lyon Burke in the highly anticipated film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's monstrous best seller Valley of the Dolls (1967), however, could have been the break to turn things around on film. It did not...far from it. The movie was a laughable misfire -- riddled with bad acting, bad dialogue and inept directing. It earned instant cult infamy -- making many "top 10" lists for worst movie ever.
Divorced from Peggy Pryor, the mother of his three children, Paul married actress Lyn Peters in 1979. They met while she was appearing in a "12 O'Clock High" episode. The couple eventually retired to Palm Springs, where the actor died at age 83 of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in September of 2009.
ALLYN JOSLYN (1901 - 1981)
Allyn Joslyn, the son of a Pennsylvania mining engineer, made his stage debut at 17. He was soon appearing regularly in Broadway productions, and headed for Hollywood in 1936, making his debut in They Won't Forget (1937). His nervous, at times dyspeptic demeanor and somewhat aristocratic looks fit in with the pompous, wealthy snobs he specialized in playing.
Among his more notable film appearances were tough flier Les Peters in Only Angels Have Wings (1939); George in The Great McGinty (1940); the caustic director in No Time for Comedy (1940); reporter Chic Clark in My Sister Eileen (1942); Albert Van Cleve, Don Ameche's snobbish rival for the attentions of Gene Tierney in Heaven Can Wait (1943); an eccentric poet in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); and the cardshark disguised as a woman in Titanic (1953). He was also in "Broken Sabre" (1965), appearing in new footage that was incorporated into 3 episodes of Branded.
In 1935, he married Dorthy Yockel Joslyn, and they were married until her death in 1978. They had one daughter.
In 1981, Allyn Joslyn died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 79.
KEN MAYNARD (1895 - 1973)
Cowboy star was famous for the stunts he could enact with his horse Tarzan. Maynard was the first singing cowboy in the movies. During the 1930s, he dropped out of movies and went back to rodeo work. He did a few more low-budget films in the early 1940s, and then retired for good except for bit parts.
Contrary to his screen image, off-screen Maynard was thoroughly disliked by pretty much everyone he worked with. He was a foul-mouthed, bullying alcoholic who threw his weight around on the set after he achieved stardom and delighted in terrorizing the cast and crews of his pictures. He was variously described as everything from "a bad-tempered drunk" to "downright mean". This behavior, coupled with his constant and heavy drinking, eventually cost him his film career, despite having numerous opportunities to redeem himself.
The exact number of times Maynard was married is unknown. He was married at least three times but the number could be as high as five. He met his last wife Bertha, a high-wire artists, in the late 1930s while the two were employed with the Cole Brothers Circus. Maynard never had any children.
Having blown through a fortune, old age and alcohol did not treat him kindly. Married multiple times, Ken's last wife, Bertha died in 1968 and he found himself living largely off meager Social Security checks. His final years were tainted by his association with a girlfriend who encouraged him to sell phony memorabilia. He lived in a cheap trailer park, drank heavily and suffered from ill health. Ken died largely forgotten and in poverty at the Woodland Hills Motion Picture Home on March 30, 1973.
Who knew?
C. AUBREY SMITH (1863 - 1948)
It was in 1930, with the advent of sound, that Smith found his position in the movies and that position would be distinguished roles. He played military officers, successful business men, ministers of the cloth and ministers of government. With the bushy eyebrows and stoic face, he played men who know about honour, tradition, and the correct path. He worked with big stars such as Greta Garbo,Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Vivien Leigh, Shirley Temple and countless others. His films include such classics as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) , The Four Feathers (1939), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), and And Then There Were None (1945) in which he played General Mandrake.
Around Hollywood, Sir Aubrey was perhaps best known as team captain of the Hollywood Cricket Club. He was also regarded as being the unofficial leader of the British film industry colony in Hollywood. Other film stars considered to be "members" of this select group were David Niven (whom Smith treated like a son), Ronald Colman, Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Nigel Bruce (whose daughter's wedding he had attended as best man), Leslie Howard (whom Smith had known since working with him on early films in London) and Patric Knowles.
Smith died from pneumonia in Beverly Hills in 1948, aged 85. His body was cremated and nine months later, in accordance with his wishes, his ashes were returned to England and interred in his mother's grave at St Leonard's churchyard in Hove, East Sussex.
The C in his name stood for Charles.
PAUL BURKE (1936 - 2009)
Tall, dark and handsome is how Hollywood liked their leading men back in the 1950s and 1960s and actor Paul Burke certainly fit the bill. While his career fell short of outright stardom, he managed to stand out in a couple of acclaimed TV cop series series in the 1960s and "enjoyed" semi-cult notice by co-starring in one of screen's most celebrated "turkeys" of all time.
he managed to scrounge up bit/uncredited parts in such 1950s films as Fearless Fagan (1952); Francis Goes to West Point (1952), Three Sailors and a Girl (1953), South Sea Woman (1953) and Spy Chasers (1955). He moved up the ladder a bit to featured status in another Francis the talking mule picture, Francis in the Navy (1955), and in Screaming Eagles (1956), then earned a starring role in the voodoo/jungle horror flick The Disembodied (1957)
Paul's best known TV role, however, was as Detective Adam Flint in the highly praised police series "Naked City" (1958), based on the gritty, groundbreaking cop movie The Naked City (1948), the series did the film more than justice with excellent story lines and Burke walked away with two Emmy nominations out of the three seasons he appeared.
Winning the co-lead role of fledgling writer Lyon Burke in the highly anticipated film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's monstrous best seller Valley of the Dolls (1967), however, could have been the break to turn things around on film. It did not...far from it. The movie was a laughable misfire -- riddled with bad acting, bad dialogue and inept directing. It earned instant cult infamy -- making many "top 10" lists for worst movie ever.
Divorced from Peggy Pryor, the mother of his three children, Paul married actress Lyn Peters in 1979. They met while she was appearing in a "12 O'Clock High" episode. The couple eventually retired to Palm Springs, where the actor died at age 83 of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in September of 2009.
ALLYN JOSLYN (1901 - 1981)
Allyn Joslyn, the son of a Pennsylvania mining engineer, made his stage debut at 17. He was soon appearing regularly in Broadway productions, and headed for Hollywood in 1936, making his debut in They Won't Forget (1937). His nervous, at times dyspeptic demeanor and somewhat aristocratic looks fit in with the pompous, wealthy snobs he specialized in playing.
Among his more notable film appearances were tough flier Les Peters in Only Angels Have Wings (1939); George in The Great McGinty (1940); the caustic director in No Time for Comedy (1940); reporter Chic Clark in My Sister Eileen (1942); Albert Van Cleve, Don Ameche's snobbish rival for the attentions of Gene Tierney in Heaven Can Wait (1943); an eccentric poet in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); and the cardshark disguised as a woman in Titanic (1953). He was also in "Broken Sabre" (1965), appearing in new footage that was incorporated into 3 episodes of Branded.
In 1935, he married Dorthy Yockel Joslyn, and they were married until her death in 1978. They had one daughter.
In 1981, Allyn Joslyn died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 79.
KEN MAYNARD (1895 - 1973)
Cowboy star was famous for the stunts he could enact with his horse Tarzan. Maynard was the first singing cowboy in the movies. During the 1930s, he dropped out of movies and went back to rodeo work. He did a few more low-budget films in the early 1940s, and then retired for good except for bit parts.
Contrary to his screen image, off-screen Maynard was thoroughly disliked by pretty much everyone he worked with. He was a foul-mouthed, bullying alcoholic who threw his weight around on the set after he achieved stardom and delighted in terrorizing the cast and crews of his pictures. He was variously described as everything from "a bad-tempered drunk" to "downright mean". This behavior, coupled with his constant and heavy drinking, eventually cost him his film career, despite having numerous opportunities to redeem himself.
The exact number of times Maynard was married is unknown. He was married at least three times but the number could be as high as five. He met his last wife Bertha, a high-wire artists, in the late 1930s while the two were employed with the Cole Brothers Circus. Maynard never had any children.
Having blown through a fortune, old age and alcohol did not treat him kindly. Married multiple times, Ken's last wife, Bertha died in 1968 and he found himself living largely off meager Social Security checks. His final years were tainted by his association with a girlfriend who encouraged him to sell phony memorabilia. He lived in a cheap trailer park, drank heavily and suffered from ill health. Ken died largely forgotten and in poverty at the Woodland Hills Motion Picture Home on March 30, 1973.
Who knew?
C. AUBREY SMITH (1863 - 1948)
It was in 1930, with the advent of sound, that Smith found his position in the movies and that position would be distinguished roles. He played military officers, successful business men, ministers of the cloth and ministers of government. With the bushy eyebrows and stoic face, he played men who know about honour, tradition, and the correct path. He worked with big stars such as Greta Garbo,Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Vivien Leigh, Shirley Temple and countless others. His films include such classics as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) , The Four Feathers (1939), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), and And Then There Were None (1945) in which he played General Mandrake.
Around Hollywood, Sir Aubrey was perhaps best known as team captain of the Hollywood Cricket Club. He was also regarded as being the unofficial leader of the British film industry colony in Hollywood. Other film stars considered to be "members" of this select group were David Niven (whom Smith treated like a son), Ronald Colman, Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Nigel Bruce (whose daughter's wedding he had attended as best man), Leslie Howard (whom Smith had known since working with him on early films in London) and Patric Knowles.
Smith died from pneumonia in Beverly Hills in 1948, aged 85. His body was cremated and nine months later, in accordance with his wishes, his ashes were returned to England and interred in his mother's grave at St Leonard's churchyard in Hove, East Sussex.
The C in his name stood for Charles.
Joseph Goodheart
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Charicature of Hollywood actors: Birthday boy C. Aubrey Smith is seated at the table,
who are the other guys?
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Joseph Goodheart
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William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Gilbert Roland, Errol Flynn. (not sure about Errol????) and Wallace Beery seated next to C.Aubrey.
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I'm not sure about Errol either but I agree with the others.
I had no idea C Aubrey Smith was born in 1863, he's in so many movies and is such a picture stalwart and even though he plays the head of the family in most movies it still hadn't struck me that he was that old.
I had no idea C Aubrey Smith was born in 1863, he's in so many movies and is such a picture stalwart and even though he plays the head of the family in most movies it still hadn't struck me that he was that old.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin
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Instead of Errol I think that might be Ronald Colman. Gilbert Roland had me stumped but I had the others (with Colman).
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Instead of Errol I think that might be Ronald Colman. Gilbert Roland had me stumped but I had the others (with Colman).
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Anne
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Nancy, you hit the jackpot. Congratulations!
Anne, I too thought it was Ronald Colman.
Anne, I too thought it was Ronald Colman.
Joseph Goodheart
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Happy winners Claire Trevor (supporting actress, Key Largo) and Jane Wyman (actress, Johnny Belinda). March, 1949
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TERENCE STAMP is 74 today
An icon of the 1960s, he dated the likes of Julie Christie, Brigitte Bardot, and Jean Shrimpton. After an extremely successful early career, starring in Billy Budd (Oscar nominee best supporting actor), Modesty Blaise (1966), Poor Cow (1967), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Stamp withdrew from mainstream films after his girlfriend, supermodel Jean Shrimpton, left him, and he and went on a 10-year sabbatical in India. He returned home in the late 1970s to star as the evil General Zod in Superman II (1980) and in 1984, delivered what many consider his finest performance as the supergrass in Stephen Frears' The Hit (1984). A few minor but colourful roles, topped by his performance as the transsexual, Bernadette, in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), have put Stamp back in the British conscious. His role of a vengeful gangster in The Limey (1999) was created especially for him by its director.
quote: My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge (1946). Surprising.
MARCIA HENDERSON (1929 - 1987)
Brunette (sometimes blonde) Marcia Henderson played Wendy to Boris Karloff's Captain Hook and Jean Arthur's Peter Pan on Broadway from 1950 to 1951. Before that she had been Kathleen on television's The Aldrich Family (1949) and she would replace Peggy Ann Garner in the 1951 daytime sitcom Two Girls Named Smith.
She got lost in the crowd while under contract to Universal-International from 1953 to 1954 but later essayed leading roles in a series of B-movies that included Thunder Bay, The Glass Web, All I Desire (with Stanwyck), The Wayward Girl (1957), a potboiler in the truest sense of the word and one of Republic Pictures' final in-house productions, and The Hypnotic Eye, a cult "classic" from the fertile brain of William Castle. There were a couple of aborted television series and Henderson guest starred on such programs as Bat Masterson and Wanted: Dead or Alive, before retiring to marry actor Robert Ivers in 1961. She passed away in 1987 at age 58.
LUANA WALTERS (1912 - 1963)
Shapely film brunette Luana Walters was one of film western's more sensual prairie flowers during the late 30s and early 40s. She was certainly one of the more decorative distractions in between all those cowboy heroics displayed by her co-stars: Gene Autry, Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Charles Starrett and Bill Elliott.
She also played a high school teen lured down the road to "reefer madness" in Assassin of Youth (1937), and then headed up the cast that warned of syphilis among WWII soldiers in No Greater Sin (1941). She also co-starred in The Corpse Vanishes (1942) as an intended victim of 'Bela Lugosi.
By 1942, Luana's career had all but dissipated and the abrupt death of her actor/husband Max Hoffman Jr. in 1945 at age 42 proved too much for her. She subsequently turned to drink and despair. A "comeback" in the "B" film noir Shoot to Kill (1947) plus a minor part as "Lara", Kirk Alyn's intergalactic mother, in the Superman (1948) serial failed to encourage other work. Other than a few obscure parts here and there in the 50s, she was little seen although she remained in the Los Angeles area for the remainder of her life. On May 19, 1963, at the age of 50, she became another tragic, barely-reported Hollywood statistic when she died from the effects of her alcoholism.
PHILLIPS HOLMES (1907 - 1942)
The role of his career was in Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1931) the ill-fated story of a wanderlust young man who falls hard for a beautiful socialite (Frances Dee) while trying to find a way to extricate himself from the clutches of a drab, maudlin girl from the wrong side of the tracks he had met earlier and impregnated (Sylvia Sidney). In the same part that would later establish Montgomery Clift as a archetypal tortured romantic in A Place in the Sun (1951), Holmes equipped himself admirably in a difficult role and was seemingly on his way to Hollywood stardom.
Firmly on the Paramount roster list, the handsome blue-eyed blond co-starred as both vulnerable, weak-willed gents and feistier men in comedy and melodrama, including Broken Lullaby (1932) and Two Kinds of Women (1932). He then signed with MGM and appeared in more of the same standard filming -- Night Court (1932), The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933) and Men Must Fight (1933). A huge chance for major attention turned bleak after being heavily promoted in the film Nana (1934) opposite beauteous Russian import Anna Sten. Touted as the "next Garbo", the movie tanked badly with his performance cited as bland and wooden, and the equally stiff Ms. Sten lost all hope for stardom. Phillips provided a bit more dash and élan in Caravan (1934) opposite Loretta Young but it was not enough to turn his career around.
A fractured romance with chanteuse Libby Holman led to her marrying his brother Ralph on the rebound. That 1939 marriage fell apart within a few years.
With WWII now a harsh reality, both brothers enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force toward the end of 1941. While Ralph became a pilot officer, Phillips attended the Air Ground School at Winnipeg. Following graduation, he and six of his aircraftsmen classmates were transferred but the plane carrying the men en route to their new destination (Ottawa) collided with another in Ontario killing all aboard. His brother Ralph would subsequently commit suicide in his NY apartment from a barbiturate overdose in 1945, three years after Phillips' death.
TERENCE STAMP is 74 today
An icon of the 1960s, he dated the likes of Julie Christie, Brigitte Bardot, and Jean Shrimpton. After an extremely successful early career, starring in Billy Budd (Oscar nominee best supporting actor), Modesty Blaise (1966), Poor Cow (1967), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Stamp withdrew from mainstream films after his girlfriend, supermodel Jean Shrimpton, left him, and he and went on a 10-year sabbatical in India. He returned home in the late 1970s to star as the evil General Zod in Superman II (1980) and in 1984, delivered what many consider his finest performance as the supergrass in Stephen Frears' The Hit (1984). A few minor but colourful roles, topped by his performance as the transsexual, Bernadette, in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), have put Stamp back in the British conscious. His role of a vengeful gangster in The Limey (1999) was created especially for him by its director.
quote: My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge (1946). Surprising.
MARCIA HENDERSON (1929 - 1987)
Brunette (sometimes blonde) Marcia Henderson played Wendy to Boris Karloff's Captain Hook and Jean Arthur's Peter Pan on Broadway from 1950 to 1951. Before that she had been Kathleen on television's The Aldrich Family (1949) and she would replace Peggy Ann Garner in the 1951 daytime sitcom Two Girls Named Smith.
She got lost in the crowd while under contract to Universal-International from 1953 to 1954 but later essayed leading roles in a series of B-movies that included Thunder Bay, The Glass Web, All I Desire (with Stanwyck), The Wayward Girl (1957), a potboiler in the truest sense of the word and one of Republic Pictures' final in-house productions, and The Hypnotic Eye, a cult "classic" from the fertile brain of William Castle. There were a couple of aborted television series and Henderson guest starred on such programs as Bat Masterson and Wanted: Dead or Alive, before retiring to marry actor Robert Ivers in 1961. She passed away in 1987 at age 58.
LUANA WALTERS (1912 - 1963)
Shapely film brunette Luana Walters was one of film western's more sensual prairie flowers during the late 30s and early 40s. She was certainly one of the more decorative distractions in between all those cowboy heroics displayed by her co-stars: Gene Autry, Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Charles Starrett and Bill Elliott.
She also played a high school teen lured down the road to "reefer madness" in Assassin of Youth (1937), and then headed up the cast that warned of syphilis among WWII soldiers in No Greater Sin (1941). She also co-starred in The Corpse Vanishes (1942) as an intended victim of 'Bela Lugosi.
By 1942, Luana's career had all but dissipated and the abrupt death of her actor/husband Max Hoffman Jr. in 1945 at age 42 proved too much for her. She subsequently turned to drink and despair. A "comeback" in the "B" film noir Shoot to Kill (1947) plus a minor part as "Lara", Kirk Alyn's intergalactic mother, in the Superman (1948) serial failed to encourage other work. Other than a few obscure parts here and there in the 50s, she was little seen although she remained in the Los Angeles area for the remainder of her life. On May 19, 1963, at the age of 50, she became another tragic, barely-reported Hollywood statistic when she died from the effects of her alcoholism.
PHILLIPS HOLMES (1907 - 1942)
The role of his career was in Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1931) the ill-fated story of a wanderlust young man who falls hard for a beautiful socialite (Frances Dee) while trying to find a way to extricate himself from the clutches of a drab, maudlin girl from the wrong side of the tracks he had met earlier and impregnated (Sylvia Sidney). In the same part that would later establish Montgomery Clift as a archetypal tortured romantic in A Place in the Sun (1951), Holmes equipped himself admirably in a difficult role and was seemingly on his way to Hollywood stardom.
Firmly on the Paramount roster list, the handsome blue-eyed blond co-starred as both vulnerable, weak-willed gents and feistier men in comedy and melodrama, including Broken Lullaby (1932) and Two Kinds of Women (1932). He then signed with MGM and appeared in more of the same standard filming -- Night Court (1932), The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933) and Men Must Fight (1933). A huge chance for major attention turned bleak after being heavily promoted in the film Nana (1934) opposite beauteous Russian import Anna Sten. Touted as the "next Garbo", the movie tanked badly with his performance cited as bland and wooden, and the equally stiff Ms. Sten lost all hope for stardom. Phillips provided a bit more dash and élan in Caravan (1934) opposite Loretta Young but it was not enough to turn his career around.
A fractured romance with chanteuse Libby Holman led to her marrying his brother Ralph on the rebound. That 1939 marriage fell apart within a few years.
With WWII now a harsh reality, both brothers enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force toward the end of 1941. While Ralph became a pilot officer, Phillips attended the Air Ground School at Winnipeg. Following graduation, he and six of his aircraftsmen classmates were transferred but the plane carrying the men en route to their new destination (Ottawa) collided with another in Ontario killing all aboard. His brother Ralph would subsequently commit suicide in his NY apartment from a barbiturate overdose in 1945, three years after Phillips' death.
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Mongo, again thanks for supplying not only these birthday acknowledgments and photos, but also the capsule biographies. Always fascinating and so much stuff I never knew, such as Phillips Holmes attending Air Ground School in my hometown of Winnipeg. Certainly know of many Manitobans who went on to Hollywood fame: Deanna Durbin, Jack Carson, but this was news to me. Great work, guy!
BTW: My own trivia. The mother of Mickey Rooney's current wife, Jan, came from Miami, Manitoba.
BTW: My own trivia. The mother of Mickey Rooney's current wife, Jan, came from Miami, Manitoba.