The Silver Screen Oasis

Birthday boy Laurence Harvey, Richard Widmark & John Wayne are in stitches on the set of
"The Alamo"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

GEORGE 'SPANKY' McFARLAND (1928 - 1993)


BUD ABBOTT (1895 - 1974)


GROUCHO MARX (1890 - 1977)

Crazy about Groucho and Bud Abbott was a fine fellow. Not an astute business mind but a friendly, down-to-earth guy.

BTW Joe: That photo from the set of THE ALAMO. Kinda weird to see such jolly faces on those three main players, considering the dissention that went on between Duke and Widmark . . . and the even stranger relationship between Duke and Harvey.

Stone, I've heard that Abbott was a friendly guy and it's too bad he got a lot of guff from Costello.
It was surprising that Wayne took Harvey under his wing.

Virginia Gilmore, winner of the annual cup of the Physical Culture Foundation of Hollywood for having the most perfect legs. November, 1939. She would marry Yul Brynner in 1944.

Actually Joe, from what I've heard, Harvey wanted to take Duke under his wing. But we'll leave it at that on this family-friendly site.

Butch visits its mistress, Gene Tierney, on the set of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"

What a joy to see such delighted, unguarded affection on Gene Tierney's face in that picture with her dog from the lovely The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joe. Thanks....if anyone needed some uncritical love from another who didn't care about her looks, her money or her private life, I think it may have been her.

Birthday boy Groucho Marx chats with Jack Nicholson (picking up girls?)

Boy Joe, I would love to have been privy to that conversation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MADLYN RHUE (1935 - 2003)


HENRY HULL (1890 - 1977)

Oh man, great photo of Henry Hull.

Love the Groucho picture. Bet they were talking politics.

Newlyweds Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck. May, 1939
(Once one of Hollywood's happiest couples)

While filming "Dead Reckoning", Humphrey Bogart is visited by Josephine, a 38-year old monkey which appeared with him in "Casablanca". Josephine is accompanied by her trainer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SCOTTY BECKETT (1929 - 1968)


CHARLTON HESTON (1923 - 2008)


BUSTER KEATON (1895 - 1966)