The most valuable lesson Lon Chaney Jr learned from Maria Ouspenskaya was: a. how to perform the perfect brow furrow. b. the proper wrist action when casting while fly fishing. c. how to work the punchline of a dirty joke. d. when and how to use her sure fire patented wrestling move. e. how to […]
In 1956, while barhopping with Ingmar Bergman in Shanghai, Charles Lane struck up a conversation in a particularly shabby establishment with a defrocked Peruvian shaman. Instantly taking a liking to Lane’s sunny disposition, the shaman asked his age. The puzzled Lane replied, “51.” Thereupon, the shaman produced four twigs from his poncho and arranged them […]
Charles Lane lived to the age of 102 because: a. of his size. (That’s a life-size photo. In all of his movie and television appearances, trickery was used to make him appear to be properly sized.) b. on his 21st birthday and every day following for the rest of his life, he started the day […]
Cliff Edwards, aka Ukelele Ike, but even more aka Jiminy Cricket, when informing you that wishing on a star just might lead to dreams coming true, reveals his jawdroppingly beautiful singing voice.
When the play, Peter Pan, debuted in 1904 London, the actor playing the dual roles of Mr. Darling/Captain Hook was Gerald du Maurier. His daughter Daphne would be born in 1907. Bonus speculation: Alfred Hitchcock, who later built a movie, ‘The Birds’, on Daphne’s Cornwall blueprint, was a 5 year old Londoner in 1904. Was […]
‘a’ and ‘b’ are both correct. Laird was the one who sat on her while they waited for the men in white coats to come and cart her off. Her cries of “I’m sane, I tell you. Sane!” made no impression at all on the gathering. In fact, they resumed dining. Owing to his awkward […]
Laird offered the reaction above when asked by his hostess at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1942 to carve: a. his initials into her forehead. b. his initials into her nephew’s gullet. c. his way through a barrier of ham to get to his dessert. d. the “turkey”. e. for her a wooden spaceship so that […]
The correct answers are b,c,d,e,f. Yes, slightly tricky. You should have seen how Joan and Bette battled to outdo each other in the production of exotic and monumental sandwiches for Victor’s lunch. On a side note, Victor certainly was a very fine and entertaining talk show guest, particularly on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
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