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25/07/2024

While on-location in Thailand filming "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), Roger Moore found a cave full of bats. He couldn't resist seeking out co-star Christopher Lee (known for playing Dracula in the Hammer film series), telling him what he had found and joking, "Master, they are yours to command!" Lee appreciated the joke.
The title role in this James Bond film was originally offered to Jack Palance, before it eventually went to Lee, the cousin of Ian Fleming, who was known as "The Man with the Golden Pen" (Fleming had previously offered Lee the title role in "Dr. No" (1962)).
Lee named Francisco Scaramanga as one of his favorite roles. The source of the name "Scaramanga" originates in the name of a man that Fleming knew, called Pandia Scaramanga. He had met him, and stayed at his house on the island of Hydra, in the Greek isles. Reportedly, Fleming sought permission from him to use his surname, indicating that he would be James Bond's adversary in "The Man With The Golden Gun". The real Scaramanga apparently responded: "I certainly do not mind you using my name, but please do not to kill me."
Lee wore full body make-up, to give the appearance of having a tan.
Travelling to Los Angeles for "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)" to promote this movie, Lee had his golden gun confiscated by U.S. Customs.
Lee had served with the British contingent of volunteers helping Finland fight the Soviet invaders in 1939. His commander was former British intelligence chief Sir Ormonde Winter, nicknamed 'O' and thought to be one of the inspirations for the James Bond character 'M'. (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Christopher Lee!

25/07/2024

One of the first major tasks that Cher had to tackle when she arrived on the location set for "Silkwood" (1983) was to find the right look for her character Dolly. In the beginning, according to Cher, Dolly was written as a "glamorous barrel rider." They tried a screen test of Cher with that look, but Mike Nichols didn't like it. Nichols told Cher to wash her face, then wash her hair and let it dry flat to her head without doing anything to it. Then he and costume designer Ann Roth began to dress her in dowdy clothes, working hard to strip every trace of glamour from the usually picture perfect star. "They were just merciless with me, until I had on some horrible men's bowling shirt and awful chino pants, with two pairs of jockey shorts underneath to make me look heavier," said Cher. "When I stepped out in my new costume, Kurt Russell said, 'What the f*ck are you supposed to be?' I ran in tears to the back bathroom, which had the only mirror in the house, and I cried my eyes out."
Cher was warned not to wear any make-up at all. "Mike would give me the white-glove test," said Cher. "He'd run his finger across my cheek, to make sure I hadn't snuck on a touch of something. Once I tried to cheat and curled my eyelashes, and Mike said, 'Don't do it again, my dear.' He said it sweetly, but I got the message."
Cher was nervous about meeting Meryl Streep for the first time. "I thought it was going to be like having an audience with the Pope," she said. Streep, however, immediately put her at ease. "The first day on location," Cher told People magazine, "Meryl just came up, threw her arms around me and said, 'I'm so glad you're here.' She's all communication and warmth and friendship with a great sense of humor."
According to screenwriter Nora Ephron, Streep's friendship with Cher helped create a fun mood on the set in the midst of making such a serious film. "They would do actress shtick, voices, fake fights, jokes. They were hysterically funny together." Ephron added, "I can't overestimate how that friendship made it possible for Cher not to be wildly nervous." (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Cher!

25/07/2024

When John Wayne informed Bruce Dern that Dern's character would shoot Wayne's in "The Cowboys" (1972), he told Dern that audiences would hate him for it. Dern responded by saying, "Yeah, but they'll sure love me in Berkeley." Shortly after the film's release, Dern received death threats for his character shooting Wayne in the back.
"I remember the day I shot John Wayne in 'The Cowboys'. He had never had a bullet hit put on him. Never! And he leaned into me and said, 'Is this gonna hurt?' And I said, 'Absolutely it’s gonna hurt! You should get one of those big USC Marching Band Roman shields that you put on the front of you, ’cause they’re gonna blow a hole in your chest!' And he knew that, but he’d never had it done. Mark Rydell was the director, and we decided that the only way the scene could really work for an audience is if Wayne was surprised. So unbeknownst to him, we put a bullet hit in the back of his jacket. And I shot him in the back the first shot. And he did not know that was gonna happen. He played it like a pro, went all the way through it and everything, got up, and told Mark Rydell and I we were both pr!cks."
"(Wayne) was just great to me. He did something to me that was the most welcoming, inviting thing in my career. He said to me on the first day, 'I want you to do me a favor.' I said, 'Yessir?' He said, 'I want you to pick on me all day, every day, and be absolutely careless with your attitude toward me, so that these little kids that are scared sh!tless of me, if you can treat me like that, then what might you do to them?' And it worked! And had he not given me that blessing, so to speak, I’d have backed off a lot. But I didn’t." (IMDb/AV Club)
Happy Birthday, Bruce Dern!

25/07/2024

When asked what his favorite thing about making "The Princess Bride" (1987) was, André the Giant replied, without skipping a beat, "Nobody looks at me." He felt treated as an equal, without people staring at him because of his grand height.
André called almost everybody on set (be they director, producers, co-stars or crew) "boss," a technique he employed to defer to people he liked and go some way towards counteracting the way he would tower over them.
During the filming of some scenes, the weather became markedly cold for Robin Wright. André helped her by placing one of his hands over her head; his hands were so large that one would entirely cover the top of her head, keeping her warm.
Despite his character Fezzik's almost-superhuman strength, André's back problems at the time prevented him from actually lifting anything heavy. Wright had to be attached to wires in the scene where Buttercup jumps from the castle window into Fezzik's arms because he couldn't support her himself.
Cary Elwes said that, during filming, André "let out a 16 second fart and brought production to a standstill." "It could be heard three counties away," Elwes said with a laugh. "Nobody said anything except Rob (Reiner, the director), who said 'Are you OK, André?' and André replied, 'I am now, boss.'"
According to "The Princess Bride" author William Goldman, when he was first trying to get the movie made in the 1970s, a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to play Fezzik, and he was strongly being considered because Goldman could never get his first choice, André, to read for the role. By the time the movie was made about twelve years later, Schwarzenegger was such a big star they could not afford him. Andre was cast after all, and the two big men had gone on to become friends. (IMDb/ABC News)
Happy Birthday, André the Giant!

25/07/2024

Once upon a time, Quentin Tarantino visited the set of "Casino" (1995)...
"I'd just done 'Pulp Fiction' (1994). I've only done two movies. I'm meeting one of my heroes for the very first time. I'm walking on (Martin) Scorsese's set, I'm gonna have lunch with him later. This is right up there with the gates of Oz opening up, and I'm gonna meet the wizard... And then Don Rickles goes, 'Quentin! Thank god you're here! This guy doesn't know what he's doing at all! Thank god a real director has finally shown up! This cat is out of it. Please save us. This is a disaster, it's a disaster. Please save us from this wreckage. You are a talented man, we need your talent!' Marty is laughing, the crew is laughing, (Robert) De Niro is laughing. I want to hide under the carpet!"
Rickles was not afraid to rib anyone he was on set with, whether that was the "kid" director Tarantino or a movie star like De Niro. In "Casino," Rickles mocked De Niro during one of their scenes together. The blooper shows De Niro stumbling over his lines and looking at cards. Rickles breaks character to say, "For the kind of money you're making, what do you need a card? Learn the thing. You got a pop-up trailer, sit in there and study ... with your method acting, and the breathing, and the bull***t. Read the lines and let's get out of here."
What makes his irritation even funnier is that De Niro breaks down laughing, now completely unable to read his lines, and Scorsese can be heard laughing heartily off-camera.
Scorsese: "A lot of people ask me, they say: 'Who was tougher to deal with, Bob or Don?' And obviously, it was him [Rickles]. 'Cause one of the main things is that he didn't have to speak. So you could imagine. You had to keep quiet through a lot of the scenes."
Rickles: "It was just the looks we had, remember? Just making a lot of faces. That was funny." (MSN)
Happy Birthday, Don Rickles!

25/07/2024

Don Ameche's strong religious convictions made him uncomfortable with swearing. This proved to be a problem for the scene at the end of the movie "Trading Places" (1983), where he had to shout out "F*ck him!" to a group of Wall Street executives. When he did act out the scene, it had to be done in one take, because Ameche refused to do a second one.
The scene where Mortimer Duke (Ameche) is trying to catch the money clip, and having trouble, wasn't supposed to happen that way, but both kept going with it, and not breaking character, so it was kept in the movie.
The electronic status board at Duke & Duke's (seen prominently in the Christmas scene) is the "Big Money" board from "Family Feud."
Ralph Bellamy and Ameche "cheerfully admitted" they were unfamiliar with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd's work. The two also said that Murphy and Aykroyd acknowledged that they were unfamiliar with Bellamy and Ameche. This was Bellamy's ninety-ninth film, and Ameche's forty-ninth. This was Murphy's second film, and he joked: "Between the three of us, we've made one hundred fifty movies!"
This was Ameche's first film since "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came" (1970). He had been doing television guest appearances. This movie jump started his return to theatrical films, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Cocoon" (1985).
Happy Birthday, Don Ameche!

25/07/2024

"I cannot tell you how many people I have met that have said 'Oh, by the way, I studied archaeology at University' or 'I became an archaeologist largely because of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981). And I still meet youngsters who are going up to read archaeology and history at University because of 'Raiders.'"
On the Bonus Features DVD for the film, John Rhys-Davies talks about how when he auditioned for the role of Sallah, he was concerned since the script originally described Sallah as a "5-foot-2, skinny, Egyptian digger" (Steven Spielberg originally wanted Danny DeVito to play Sallah and DeVito was set for the role, but he had to drop out due to conflicts with "Taxi"). Spielberg mentioned that when he first heard Rhys-Davies speak, he reminded him of the Shakespearean character Falstaff.
Rhys-Davies spent up to five hours a day putting on makeup for the role of Gimli in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. It was discovered early on that he was allergic to the prosthetics, so he could only put them on and work about every third day. The first week, it burned off the skin under his eyes. After filming was completed he was given the appliance used and told to do what he wanted with it. One of the makeup artists claimed they had never seen him move so fast as he threw it into a nearby fire.
Rhys-Davies lost the end tip of his left hand middle finger to the knuckle while changing a van engine. During filming of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (2002), he was fitted with a gel tip for the finger. Rhys-Davies and the crew played a prank on director Peter Jackson by slicing the gel tip nearly in half and inserting prop blood inside. Rhys-Davies approached Jackson to tell him he was hurt and pulled open the tip, letting the blood flow out. (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, John Rhys-Davies!

25/07/2024

The Broadway musical and 1972 film adaptation of "1776" depicts Benjamin Franklin as claiming that he is the founder of the first abolitionist organization in the New World; the real Franklin did not become an abolitionist until after the American Revolution, becoming president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1785.
In both the play and the film, John Adams sarcastically predicts that Franklin will receive from posterity too great a share of credit for the Revolution. "Franklin smote the ground and out sprang—George Washington. Fully grown, and on his horse. Franklin then electrified them with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them—Franklin, Washington, and the horse—conducted the entire Revolution all by themselves." Adams did make a similar comment about Franklin in April 1790, just after Franklin's death, although the mention of the horse was a humorous twist added by the authors of the musical.
On the laserdisc commentary, director Peter H. Hunt says that originally he had not planned to cast Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin in the film version, because of how difficult the actor had been during the Broadway run of the musical. However, he relented and let Da Silva reprise his stage role in the film when the actor promised to cooperate and begged to play Ben Franklin in the movie as a legacy to his grandchildren. Had Da Silva not been cast, it is likely his understudy, Rex Everhart, would have been cast instead. Everhart is best known for his role as the voice of Maurice in "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). However, Everhart also has a legacy in the history of this movie. While he was the understudy to Howard Da Silva on Broadway, Da Silva was ill at the time the original Broadway cast album was recorded. Therefore Everhart recorded it. Da Silva recorded his own songs for the movie. To get a flavor of how an Everhart casting might have differed from that of Da Silva, listen to the original Broadway cast album and note the differences.
The pig who appears in the street scene where Adams and Franklin go to visit Jefferson in his quarters was, according to Hunt, the same pig who played Arnold Ziffel in "Green Acres." In the commentary, Hunt mentions that the pig's contract specified that he would be the last actor to come out of his air-conditioned trailer when filming would begin. (Wikipedia/IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Benjamin Franklin!

25/07/2024

Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon, and went into the theatre (like his parents) doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays. He started appearing on television in 1974, gaining some notice in a recurring role as Archie Bunker's friend Stretch Cunningham on "All in the Family."
When Cromwell was handed the screenplay for "Babe" (1995), he thumbed through it to see how many lines he had. He saw that he didn't have that many (he had only 171 words of spoken dialogue, and 61 words that were sung), so decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than any of his previous films.
When Cromwell is looking into the camera at the end to say "That'll do pig, that'll do," he said that in the reflection, he saw his father and in his head while saying the line he heard his father say "That'll do, Jamie, that'll do." It meant a lot considering that was the first time he'd been through a movie without doubting himself.
Cromwell on his Academy Award nomination: "Andy Warhol said everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame. And if this is mine, I couldn't imagine a better 15 minutes." (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, James Cromwell!

25/07/2024

"I look in the mirror and I say, 'Forget it: what else is new?' But I know how to do a line, do a take. Let me do the basics. Let other people care about being pretty."
Forrest Tucker, best known to the Baby Boom generation as Sergeant O'Rourke on the classic TV sitcom "F Troop," began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair, pushing big wicker tourists' chairs by day and singing at night. His family moved to Arlington, Virginia, where he attended Washington-Lee High School in 1938. Big for his age, as a youth Tucker was hired by the Old Gayety Burlesque Theater in Washington, DC, to serve as a Master of Ceremonies for the burly-cue after consecutively winning Saturday night amateur contests. He was fired when it was found out that he was underage. When he turned 18, he was rehired by the Old Gayety.
After graduating from high school in 1938, the 6'4", 200-lb. Tucker played semi-pro football in the Washington, DC, area. He also enlisted in the National Guard and was assigned to a cavalry unit in Ft. Myers, Virginia. He started at the top when he entered the movies, in a supporting role in William Wyler's "The Westerner" (1940) opposite Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan, who won his third Oscar for portraying Judge Roy Bean in the picture. He got the role during his 1939 vacation from the Old Gayety, which shut down due to the District of Columbia's horrible summers in the days before air conditioning was common. He was signed to the part in the Wyler picture, which required a big fellow with enough presence for a fight scene with the 6'3" superstar Cooper.
Tucker served as an enlisted man in the Army duringWorld War II, being discharged as a second lieutenant in 1945. He resumed his acting career with an appearance in the classic film "The Yearling" (1946). He signed with Republic Pictures in 1948, which brought him one of his greatest roles, that of the Marine corporal bearing a grudge against gung-ho sergeant John Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). At Republic, Tucker was top-billed in many of the "B' pictures in the action and western genres the studio was famous for, such as "Rock Island Trail" (1950), "California Passage" (1950) and "Ride the Man Down" (1952), among many others. In 1958, he broke out of action/western pictures and played Beauregard Burnside to Rosalind Russell's "Auntie Mame" (below), the highest grossing US film of the year. It showed that Tucker was capable of performing in light comedy, and no doubt was considered when casting "F-Troop."
The 1970 "Chisum" film reunited several actors from "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) - Tucker, John Wayne, John Agar, and Richard Jaeckel. During filming, co-star John Mitchum, brother of Robert, introduced Wayne to his patriotic poetry. Seeing that Wayne was greatly moved by Mitchum's words, Tucker suggested Mitchum and Wayne should collaborate to record some of the poetry, which eventually resulted in the 1973 Grammy-nominated spoken-word album, "America, Why I Love Her." (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Forrest Tucker!

25/07/2024

Shelley Fabares was one of the female leads in the surf film "Ride the Wild Surf" (1964). She was Elvis Presley's leading lady in "Girl Happy" (1965, below) for MGM and played the love interest of Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits in "Hold On!" at the same studio. She was reunited with Elvis for "Spinout" (1966) at MGM and "Clambake" (1967), at United Artists.
Fabares began acting at age three and, at age 14, landed the role of Mary Stone in the long-running family sitcom "The Donna Reed Show.". This ran until 1966, though Fabares left the show in 1963 returning periodically until its end) to pursue other acting opportunities. Fabares' national popularity led to a recording contract and two "Top 40" hits, including "Johnny Angel," which went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1962, and peaked at number 41 in the UK. It sold over one million copies and was certified gold. She released an album, "Shelley!. "I was stunned about that, to put it mildly," she later said. "After all, I never could sing."
Fabares said she went through a period where she struggled to find work. "I went to bed on Tuesday having worked since I was 3. I got up Wednesday morning and didn't work for four years, went to bed Wednesday night after four years, got up and interviewed for a 'Mannix' episode and started working again. I think this business is very cyclical. You go through busy times and you go through dead times." (Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Shelley Fabares!

25/07/2024

Hungarian-born S.Z. Sakall was a veteran of German, Hungarian and British films when he left Europe because of the rise of Adolf Hi**er and the N**i movement. In Hollywood from shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Sakall began appearing in comedies and musicals, often playing a lovable if somewhat excitable and/or befuddled uncle, businessman or neighborhood eccentric. Born Gerö Jenö, the initials preceding his name are from the Hungarian for "Szoke Szakall," meaning "blonde beard," so called because he wore one as a young actor to look older.
His rotund cuteness caused studio head Jack Warner to bestow on Sakall the nickname "Cuddles." Warner asked that he be billed as S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall in his later films, though he was never happy with the name.
At the age of 59, he portrayed one of his best remembered characters, Carl the head waiter, in "Casablanca" (1942). Producer Hal B. Wallis signed Sakall for the role three weeks after filming had begun. When he was first offered the part, Sakall hated it and turned it down. Sakall finally agreed to take the role provided they gave him four weeks of work. The two sides eventually agreed on three weeks. He received $1,750 per week for a total of $5,250. He actually had more screen time than either Peter Lorre or Sydney Greenstreet.
Sakall did not like "American" food, so when he was working on a movie, he had his wife cook food from the old country and bring him lunch or dinner. (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, S.Z. Sakall!

25/07/2024

For the famous split catch in "A League of Their Own" (1992), Geena Davis had to have a (male) stunt double slide into the split. Although Davis could do the splits, as shown, she couldn't slide into it.
Davis really does catch a pop up behind her back. It was supposed to be done by a stunt double, but the double was having trouble. So Davis gave it a go and, well, you've seen the result.
Davis joined the production as a late replacement for Debra Winger, a few days before filming was due to start. Davis' character was supposed to be one of the greatest female baseball players in America, and the cast had been doing baseball training for months. Within weeks, Davis had mastered the game, and was regularly surpassing all her co-stars.
Lori Petty was cast in the role of Kit with her resemblance to Winger in mind. When Davis took over the part of Dottie, Petty's hair was dyed to match Davis' to make them look like sisters.
The film portrays the league as initially unpopular and unprofitable, until demeaning gimmicks are used to attract male audiences. In reality, the league was popular and profitable from the start, largely because it played in towns in the upper Midwest that had no way of watching a live baseball game. Eventually, the league grew into a ten-team two-division league. The advent of televised baseball games in the early fifties, however, would lead to the demise in the popularity of the league. (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Geena Davis!

25/07/2024

Bandleader and drummer Gene Krupa appeared in the 1941 film "Ball of Fire" (below) in which he and his band perform an extended version of the hit "Drum Boogie," sung by Barbara Stanwyck (whose singing was dubbed by Martha Tilton), which he had composed with trumpeter Roy Eldridge. As an encore to this piece, he plays a tamer version of the same song using matchsticks as drumsticks and a matchbox as a drum, while Stanwyck and the audience sing along.
The Gene Krupa Orchestra became one of the most popular swing bands in the U.S., but it folded in 1943 after Krupa was arrested and jailed on a ma*****na possession charge. Eventually rehabilitated after the charge was dropped (the chief witness recanted!), he was again voted the most outstanding drummer in the U.S. in January 1944 and soon started up another big band.
The "Gene Krupa Story" (also known as "Drum Crazy") is a 1959 biopic of Krupa starring Sal Mineo. The conflict in the film centers on Krupa's rise to success and his corresponding use of ma*****na. Krupa himself played the drums on the soundtrack for the film, and for the sequences in which Mineo, as Krupa, plays the drums. (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Gene Krupa!

25/07/2024

Samile Diane Friesen got her stage name from producer Jerry Wald who said he kept seeing something explosive in her. Hence, we know her now as Dyan Cannon.
Cannon made her screen debut with a small part in the critically acclaimed crime drama "The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond" (1960). A short-lived television series called "This Rebel Breed" followed that same year. It was during this time that she caught the eye of one of Hollywood's favorite leading men, Cary Grant, who was 35 years her senior. The couple, a hotbed of Hollywood gossip, experienced an on-again, off-again relationship until marrying in 1965. Cannon left her acting career behind during her short-lived marriage to Grant and bore his daughter, Jennifer Grant, in 1966.
After divorcing Grant in 1968, Cannon appeared in 1969's "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (below) which earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Cannon was extremely nervous about doing the famous bedroom scene in that film. She claimed all four participants were a wreck. Elliott Gould busily stuffed food in his mouth; Robert Culp talked a mile a minute and Natalie Wood would not even come out of her trailer at first.
She became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for "Number One" (1976), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited.
In 1978, Cannon co-starred in "Revenge of the Pink Panther." That same year, she appeared in "Heaven Can Wait," for which she received another Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Dyan Cannon!

25/07/2024

Charles "Buddy" Rogers reported that Clark Gable "once told Mary [Mary Pickford] when we got married, that it wouldn't last six months" because he was 11 years younger than her. They were married for 42 years until her death in 1979.
In contrast to his "Wings" (1927) co-star co-star Richard Arlen (who had actually been a pilot with the Royal Canadian Flying Corps in World War I, though he never saw combat), Rogers did not know how to fly a plane when production began, but learned how to by the end of it. During filming, Rogers' flight instructor and sometime backup pilot was Lt. Hoyt Vandenberg (aka "Van"), an Army Air Corps pilot at California's March Field (Vandenberg later became a four-star general, commanding the 9th Air Force in World War II, and served as the US Air Force's first official chief of staff after the war, when the Air Force was made a separate branch of the military). For close-up scenes where Rogers and Arlen (and other characters) are flying, the actors are actually working the planes themselves. To shoot these scenes, a camera was strapped to the engine cowling. The actors had to get the plane up in the air, keep it up, fly it so that clouds or German fighter planes could be seen in the background, operate the (motorized) camera and land the plane-and act at the same time. During Rogers' early flights, Vandenberg would hide in the back seat of the plane and operate the controls while Rogers gave his performance. Rogers would go on to serve in the U.S. Navy as a flight training instructor during World War II.
During the early 1930s Rogers led his own orchestra which featured, among others, an exciting young drummer named Gene Krupa. Rogers himself played the trombone. The band debuted on Broadway in 1932 (in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s "Hot-Cha!"). Rogers himself also enjoyed a reasonably successful solo career in vaudeville, theatre and on radio. (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Charles "Buddy" Rogers (with Clara Bow, below)!

25/07/2024

Heather O'Rourke entered American cinematic pop culture before first grade. She was sitting alone in the MGM Commissary waiting for her mother when a stranger approached her asking her name. "My name is Heather O'Rourke," she said. "But you're a stranger, and I can't talk to you." When her mother returned, the stranger introduced himself as Steven Spielberg. She failed her first audition when she laughed at a stuffed animal Spielberg presented her with. He thought she was just too young (she had just turned five), and he was actually looking for a girl at least 6 years old, but he saw something in her and asked her to come in a second time with a scary story book. He asked her to scream a lot. She screamed until she broke down in tears. The next day at the commissary, Spielberg told her and her family, "I don't know what it is about her, but she's got the job."
During all the horrors that proceeded while filming "Poltergeist" (1982), only one scene really scared her: that in which she had to hold onto the headboard, while a wind machine blew toys into the closet behind her. She fell apart; Steven Spielberg stopped everything, put her in his arms, and said that she would not have to do that scene again.
Fellow cast members described Heather as having a calming influence on the set. They also described cast meetings with her: everyone would be quickly leafing through the script, while Heather was sitting calmly. Being able to memorize 60 pages of script an hour, she would have already memorized the entire script.
"The first one I saw 12 times. The second one I only saw twice because I didn't think it was too great. I just thought it was too boring. You could fall asleep. It didn't excite me, it didn't even scare me. I don't think it would scare anyone. The first one really kept you going. It was exciting. Well, after you see it a lot of times, it isn't so much. But the first time you see it, it really jumps you."
O'Rourke cause of death in 1988 was ruled congenital stenosis of the intestine complicated by septic shock. At the time of her death, Heather was a 7th grade student at Tierra del Sol Middle School in Lakeside. Heather's middle school put up a tree in her memory after she passed away, however, this was later removed due to renovations, the school does still have "Heather O'Rourke Love of Reading Week". (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Heather O'Rourke!

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1:09-17 might be my favorite score recap joke I’ve ever made😱👀🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #football #sports

This game was CRAZY😨🔥🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #football #sports

Didn’t mean to take a week long break but I’M BACK FOR WEEK 18🤩😳🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #football #sports

AFC Playoff Bracket is officially set!😱✅🔥🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #football #sports

Bring on Super Wild Card Weekend!😱🔥🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #football #sports

Monday at 8PM ET

PLAYOFF FOOTBALL IS OFF TO A COLD START🥶❄️😱🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #NFLPlayoffs #football #sports

THIS GAME WAS SHOCKING😳😱🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #NFLPlayoffs #football #sports

THE DROUGHT IS OVER😱🦁🔥🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #NFLPlayoffs #football #sports

Who makes it past the Divisional Round this weekend?😳🔥😬🏈 #fyp #foryou #fypシ #foryoupage #NFL #nfl2023 #nflfootball #NFLPlayoffs #football #sports

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