Screen Quotes and Quirks

cricketer & actor Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (played 1 test match), when visiting England he went to a test match at Lords......Decades after his cricket career had ended, when he had long been a famous face in films, Smith was spotted in the pavilion on a visit to Lord's. (take from wiki)

"That man over there seems familiar", remarked one member to another. "Yes", said the second, seemingly oblivious to his Hollywood fame, "Chap called Smith. Used to play for Sussex."[11]



here is his full wiki page, interesting tit bits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Aubrey_Smith

CHARLES SMITH
In the late 1880s he ended up in South Africa
He got Pneumonia , doctors pronounced him dead !

In 1889 he played his one and only test match played in South Africa
SA 84
Smith 5/19[13.2]
EG 148
Smith 3
SA 129
Smith 2/42 [25]
EG 2/67
D.N.B

The match finished on day 2
It was played on matting
One of his team-mates in that game was George Ulyett
George played in the first ever test match at the MCG in 1877

Smith ends up taking 7/61 in his only test
A bowling average of 8.71

In his First class debut he took 1/30 + 5/17 in 1882

Certainly appeared to be a talented sportsman

Im probably not going to like MGM either
They called me for one solid year  and I found out something really valuable for show business , when you say NO , they really have to have you

By
Esther Williams
Signed with MGM in 1941

" Planet of the Apes was a BIG one for me.
We had the apeathons every summer and they would play all 5 movies straight and my mum , well maybe she wanted just a day off, she would drop me off in the morning and pick me up at 9 that night."

By
Brad Pitt

If mumbles could open his mouth next time , perhaps we'd all be able to hear what he has to say , and then I could get my line in at the right time

A yarn told about Elizabeth Taylor
In reference to her co star Marlon Brando
On set in the movie Reflections In A Golden Eye 

The part played by Brando was meant to be acted by Montgomery Clift
Clift died just before production
It has been reported that Taylor was devastated by this death



" She is the only woman that has ever turned me on."

By Montgomery Clift 
Referring to Elizabeth Taylor

speaking of Montgomery Clift

what his his connection to superman ?

Tallulah Bankhead.....clips from wiki

Bankhead was an avid baseball fan whose favorite team was the New York Giants This was evident in one of her famous quotes, through which she gave a nod to the arts: "There have been only two geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. But, darling, I think you'd better put Shakespeare first.

Sexuality and sexual exploits[edit]
An interview that Bankhead gave to Motion Picture magazine in 1932 created quite a commotion. In the interview, Bankhead ranted wildly about the state of her life and her views on love, marriage, and children:

"I'm serious about love. I'm damned serious about it now ... I haven't had an affair for six months. Six months! Too long ... If there's anything the matter with me now, it's not Hollywood or Hollywood's state of mind ... The matter with me is, I WANT A MAN! ... Six months is a long, long while. I WANT A MAN!"[36]

Time ran a story about it, and, back home, Bankhead's father and family were perturbed. Bankhead immediately telegraphed her father, vowing never to speak with a magazine reporter again. However, following the release of the Kinsey Reports, she was once quoted as stating, "I found no surprises in the Kinsey Report. The good doctor's clinical notes were old hat to me ... I've had many momentary love affairs. A lot of these impromptu romances have been climaxed in a fashion not generally condoned. I go into them impulsively. I scorn any notion of their permanence. I forget the fever associated with them when a new interest presents itself."[37]

In 1933, Bankhead nearly died following a five-hour emergency hysterectomy due to venereal disease. Only 70 pounds (32 kg) when she left the hospital, she stoically said to her doctor, "Don't think this has taught me a lesson!"[38]

Rumors about Bankhead's sex life have lingered for years, and she was linked romantically with many notable female personalities of the day, including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Eva Le Gallienne, Hattie McDaniel, and Alla Nazimova, as well as writer Mercedes de Acosta and singer Billie Holiday.[22] Actress Patsy Kelly claimed she had a sexual relationship with Bankhead when she worked for her as a personal assistant.[39] John Gruen's Menotti: A Biography notes an incident in which Jane Bowles chased Bankhead around Capricorn, Gian Carlo Menotti's and Samuel Barber's Mount Kisco estate, insisting that Bankhead needed to play the lesbian character Inès in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit (which Paul Bowles had recently translated), but Bankhead locked herself in the bathroom and kept insisting "That lesbian! I wouldn't know a thing about it."[40]

Bankhead never publicly described herself as being bisexual. She did, however, describe herself as "ambisextrous".

MI5 investigation of Eton school scandal[edit]
In 2000, declassified papers posthumously thrust Bankhead into the limelight of public scandal. She had been investigated by MI5 during the 1920s amid rumors she was corrupting pupils at Eton. The documents alleged that she seduced up to half a dozen private schoolboys into taking part in "indecent and unnatural" acts. This rumor had sent shockwaves through the 1920s British establishment.[45]

The documents compiled by the British Aliens and Immigration Department allege that the investigation was scuttled by a determined cover-up by Eton's headmaster, Dr. Cyril Argentine Alington. The allegations were based purely on gossip and word of mouth, and lacked credible evidence. It appears that they were assembled by MI5 at the urgings of a Home Office minister.[45]

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there is a beauty about when she met Chico Marx, i'll find it & post later, Chico's line is similar to lines used by The Emperor & scrappy over the years

here it is

Tallulah Bankhead and Chico Marx


Tallulah Bankhead had met Chico Marx at a party. Chico's friends had all advised him not to be the womanizing, brash, loudmouth personality that usually got him in with the ladies. He promised he wouldn't. And when he met her, all his friends were tense in how he would act with her. He said, good evening to her. And she said good evening to him. All his friends sighed in relief. Until... Chico turned to her abruptly and said, "I want to **** you!"

Without missing a beat, she replies, "And so you shall, you old-fashioned boy."

" Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls dont have time."

By 
Tallulah Bankhead


Mentioned is that Hattie Mcdaniel was one of Bankheads gals
McDaniel got a gig in the movie Gone With The Wind as a slave servant
Bankhead almost got the role of Scarlett Ohara in Gone With The Wind

Did anyone see the sequel of Gone With The Wind when Richmond played Port in that Adelaide Oval 2014 final?

5/7/1943 Trumpet sensation Harry James married the gal with the great legs, Betty Grable
5/7/1983 Harry James died , on the 40th anniverary

a Stan Laurel line in a Laurel & Hardy film titled ''Brats'' was

''You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be led''

" He was in the loudest shirt Ive ever seen , he had 17 chains around his neck , I did not realise at the time that I found out later that those chains had been from different women."

By 
Sally Dingo
Wife of Ernie Dingo

" He was trying to control who I saw , when I , you know all of those kind of things.
That became very very difficult time for me
I think he became obsessed with this character named Tippy Hendren he felt that he had created Tippy Hendren.
He would not take his eyes off of me
He maybe talking to somebody over here but he was watching me all the time , it became, it became very difficult
Mrs Hitchcock came up to me on a number of times and said , Im so sorry [Carole Bayer Sager like] Im so sorry you have to through this or that your going through this  so she , you now it was apparent to her."

By
Tippy Hendren [a nice looking 'bird']
On Alfred Hitchcocks in fatuation with her 

Interesting birthdates on the 3 above mentioned
Alfred Hitchcock 13/8/1899
Alma Reville 14/8/1899 [Alfreds wife born one day he was]
Tippy Hendren 19/1/1930 [ Sir John Nash day in Adelaide 46 year later]

Alfred and Alma had one child
A girl Pat , who became an actress and director

Alfred loved the blondes, whether that be Tippi, Grace Kelly etc etc

" My first ambition in life was to become a financial tycoon
I was really serious about Wall Street
So serious that when I left high school I got myself a job as a runner for a Wall Street firm at 16 and a half dollars a week
I was always mad keen on fishing and when I'd saved up enough to buy a fishing rod I went on a trip
That trip cost me my job, because of it I broke my hand
So I thought about acting
I guess thats how it all started."

By a descendant of George Washington
Lee Marvin 

His great love of fishing had Lee visiting Australia on a regular basis to fish for Marlin and Greg Normans

Lee Marvin sired 4 children to Bette Eberle
Christopher
Courtenay
Cynthia
Claudia

All 4 have names starting with C
Some irony in kid number 2
Caught any fish ....

Lucille LeSueur was a rising star in the silent movie era
MGM had thought her surname was too much like a sewer
So they wanted to give her a new screen name
There were headlines in the press

NAME HER AND WIN $1,000
'Introducing Lucille LeSueur who needs another name for her screen career.'

MGM invited the readers of Movie Weekly to select a new screen name
They named her Joan Crawford

" It was a scene we she was supposed to hit me , she gave me a backhander that nearly brought me to my knees , it certainly brought tears to my eyes and also broke her wrist but she never complained and took a half day off , pretty classy , pretty classy lady."

By
Charlton Heston
On the vivacious Jennifer Jones

Discussing the scene where they fought , at the beach, in the movie Ruby Gentry [1952]

From the movie The Opposite sex [1956]
Joan Collins is trying to get her claws on June Allysons husband
They have a showdown in a dressing room
Joan is putting on  a slinky black dress
June Allyson starts off

" Just a bit of advice , if your dressing for Steven , not that one , he dosent like anything so obvious."

" Thank you, but when Steven dosent like what I wear, I take it off."

Classic comeback
One of the very best I have seen , and who better than Joan Collins


Allyson becomes infuriated then slaps Collins
Collins was meant to avoid contact by swaying back
But Allyson accidentally hit her flush in the face
Oops
The slap scene  was kept for the movie
Collins thought that the contact was for real and would not talk to Allyson for daze after
Slapstick ?

From the movie All Through The Night [1941]
Humphrey Bogart and his sidekick stumble upon a German underground operation in America
On seeing a portrait of Adolf Hitler , Bogey had this to say :

" Theres more here than meets the FBI."

although not a comedy team at the time, Laurel & Hardy first appeared in a film titled 'The Lucky Dog'' in 1921


you can see the film from this & most likely on YouTube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Laurel

the quote early in the film when Stan gets kicked out of home by his landlady was paraphrasing ''if you paid your rent i'd have enough to pay for the war effort''

ps, the main dog in the film must have been a very smart & friendly dog

worth watching in your spare time, interesting 'eye make up' by the actors & Stan in particular

The average lifespan of a cockroach , depending on what breed , can be anything from months to about 2 years

Hal Roach , no relation , lived to a 100
Hal Roach produced many Laurel and Hardy films

Scrappy wrote:The average lifespan of a cockroach , depending on what breed , can be anything from months to about 2 years

Hal Roach , no relation , lived to a 100
Hal Roach produced many Laurel and Hardy films

Hal Roach senior outlived Hal Roach junior by many many years

" I stopped at Mcdonalds and I saw this newspaper , when I got to Burbank , I was staying in Burbank, and it said extra work you can be an extra and you had to pay $25 and they take a picture and they send you out."

By 
Brad Pitt
How he got a start in acting
That $25 ends up being a pittance compared to what he is worth now

At about that time one of Brads odd jobs was driving around strippers to functions
These days he's a jolie good fellow

Matlock
Episode : The Black Widow
Ben Matlock defended Ken Wilson and LOST the case

Scrappy wrote:Matlock
Episode : The Black Widow
Ben Matlock defended Ken Wilson and LOST the case

well even Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) lost a case to Hamilton Burger (William Talman) ONCE !!!



Perhaps it is to show that they are ''human'' & humans aren't flawless