For Eleanor Powell's birthday, I recorded Broadway Melody of 1936, her
first huge movie at MGM, which got her from Fox. Not only was she the
world's most talented and graceful tap dancer, she negotiated a top
salary for herself. She was offered a non-dancing supporting part, which
she didn't want to do, so she demanded a top salary and the female lead (thinking she'd be rejected) and got it. She's featured in two huge production numbers.
I got this from her unsourced trivia note for the movie at IMDb. Is any
of it true? Jack Benny is the star, playing a Broadway columnist
spoofing Walter Winchell, who creates a ficticious French star no one's
ever heard of to force Robert Taylor (world's youngest Broadway
producer) to hire her. No one watches for the plot. Music by Music by
Nacio Herb Brown and Lyrics by Arthur Freed.
I glanced at the biography for Jack Benny. Here's what it says about his wife.
He met his future wife Mary Livingstone while he was appearing
at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, and he regularly ate
across the street at the lunch counter of the May Company
department store, where Mary worked as a lingerie salesgirl.
Jack Benny actually first met his wife Mary Livingstone in
Vancouver British Columbia when he was appearing there, possibly
at the Orpheum there as well.
This paragraph is all mixed up.
Married Sadie Morse.
How do you get one of show business's best known love stories
wrong? On the radio program, Jack met Mary whem she worked at the
lunch counter at the May Company... in St. Louis. "Mary" was the name
of the character. Eventually, Sadie would change her name legally. But
her name was never Morse, but Marks. Her family knew the Marx brothers
(no relation) who all knew Jack from the Vaudeville circuit. Her brother Hilliard would becoome a writer for Jack, and later, producer. Jack was introduced to Mary on several occassions before they started dating,
once by Zeppo who brought Jack to their home in Vancouver for Passover
seder; Mary was a teenager. They weren't being set up on a date. Later,
Jack met her again when the two of them were paired up on a double date
by her recently-married sister's husband who knew Jack.
Yes, she worked at the May Company in Los Angeles selling lingerie;
Jack ate at the lunch counter to see her.
Is anything in IMDb true?
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> posted:
For Eleanor Powell's birthday, I recorded Broadway Melody of 1936, her
first huge movie at MGM, which got her from Fox. Not only was she the
world's most talented and graceful tap dancer, she negotiated a top
salary for herself. She was offered a non-dancing supporting part,
which she didn't want to do, so she demanded a top salary and the
female lead (thinking she'd be rejected) and got it. She's featured in
two huge production numbers.
I got this from her unsourced trivia note for the movie at IMDb. Is any
of it true? Jack Benny is the star, playing a Broadway columnist
spoofing Walter Winchell, who creates a ficticious French star no one's
ever heard of to force Robert Taylor (world's youngest Broadway
producer) to hire her. No one watches for the plot. Music by Music by
Nacio Herb Brown and Lyrics by Arthur Freed.
I glanced at the biography for Jack Benny. Here's what it says about his wife.
He met his future wife Mary Livingstone while he was appearing at the >> Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, and he regularly ate across the street
at the lunch counter of the May Company department store, where Mary >> worked as a lingerie salesgirl. Jack Benny actually first met his wife >> Mary Livingstone in Vancouver British Columbia when he was appearing
there, possibly at the Orpheum there as well.
This paragraph is all mixed up.
Married Sadie Morse.
How do you get one of show business's best known love stories wrong? On
the radio program, Jack met Mary whem she worked at the lunch counter
at the May Company... in St. Louis. "Mary" was the name of the
character. Eventually, Sadie would change her name legally. But her
name was never Morse, but Marks. Her family knew the Marx brothers (no
relation) who all knew Jack from the Vaudeville circuit. Her brother
Hilliard would becoome a writer for Jack, and later, producer. Jack was
introduced to Mary on several occassions before they started dating,
once by Zeppo who brought Jack to their home in Vancouver for Passover
seder; Mary was a teenager. They weren't being set up on a date. Later,
Jack met her again when the two of them were paired up on a double date
by her recently-married sister's husband who knew Jack.
Yes, she worked at the May Company in Los Angeles selling lingerie;
Jack ate at the lunch counter to see her.
Is anything in IMDb true?
I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes. I still remember the claim that
Ira Levin, the author of Boys from Brazil and various other movies, was missing a finger that had been shot off during the Franco-Prussian War
of 1870-71, decades before he was born. I explained the absurdity of
this to the folks at IMDB and they deleted that claim. Anyone with a
bit of history knowledge would have known this was preposterous. By the
way, I posted about that here a few years back and someone actually dug
up a photo showing his hands with all fingers intact so it wasn't a
case of getting the occasion of the shooting wrong; the shooting simply never happened.
I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes. I still remember the claim that Ira Levin,have known this was preposterous. By the way, I posted about that here a few years back and someone actually dug up a photo showing his hands with all fingers intact so it wasn't a case of getting the occasion of the shooting wrong; the shooting simply never happened.
the author of Boys from Brazil and various other movies, was missing a finger that had been shot off during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, decades before he was born. I explained the absurdity of this to the folks at IMDB and they deleted that claim. Anyone with a bit of history knowledge would
The problem is that IMDB is user-edited, just like Wikipedia, and
nobody official actually checks anything posted on such websites.
In article <10glj57$1tlah$1@dont-email.me>,
YourName@YourISP.com says...
The problem is that IMDB is user-edited, just like Wikipedia, and
nobody official actually checks anything posted on such websites.
I don't know about IMDB, but that's not true in the case of Wikipedia. Everything's fact-checked by dedicated editors, and there's a whole
process. It's not a free-for-all.
Melissa
In article <1764630675-3015@newsgrouper.org>, user3015 @newsgrouper.org.invalid says...
I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes. I still remember the claim that Ira Levin,have known this was preposterous. By the way, I posted about that here a few years back and someone actually dug up a photo showing his hands with all fingers intact so it wasn't a case of getting the occasion of the shooting wrong; the shooting simply never happened.
the author of Boys from Brazil and various other movies, was missing a finger that had been shot off during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, decades before he was born. I explained the absurdity of this to the folks at IMDB and they deleted that claim. Anyone with a bit of history knowledge would
Oh, man, I love me some Ira Levin. My favorite is This
Perfect Day, but Rosemary's Baby is probably is best-
known... or maybe The Boys From Brazil. Both are pretty
famous at this point.
Melissa
In article <10glj57$1tlah$1@dont-email.me>,
YourName@YourISP.com says...
The problem is that IMDB is user-edited, just like Wikipedia, and
nobody official actually checks anything posted on such websites.
I don't know about IMDB, but that's not true in the case
of Wikipedia. Everything's fact-checked by dedicated
editors, and there's a whole process. It's not a free-
for-all.
YourName@YourISP.com says...
The problem is that IMDB is user-edited, just like Wikipedia, and
nobody official actually checks anything posted on such websites.
I don't know about IMDB, but that's not true in the case of Wikipedia. >Everything's fact-checked by dedicated editors, and there's a whole
process. It's not a free-for-all.
thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
YourName@YourISP.com says...
The problem is that IMDB is user-edited, just like Wikipedia, and
nobody official actually checks anything posted on such websites.
I don't know about IMDB, but that's not true in the case of Wikipedia.
Everything's fact-checked by dedicated editors, and there's a whole
process. It's not a free-for-all.
Don't make me Troll-O-Meter you, bro!
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