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BAGHDAD – Staff Sgt. Nicholas Pavlik (left), a public affairs noncommissioned officer with the 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, 1st Armored Division, United States Division – Center, and a Columbus, Ohio, native, asks actor Dennis Haysbert, (“24”, “The Unit”) to write a message to a friend back home Sept. 28 during a USO tour visit to Camp Liberty, Iraq. In addition to Haysbert, Soldiers had the chance to meet and have their picture taken with actor Robert Patrick (“Terminator II”, “The Unit”), and retired Major League Baseball pitcher Randy Johnson, nicknamed “The Big Unit”. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Daniel Eddy, 196th MPAD, 1st Armd. Div., USD-C)
PKT1797 - 129120
TIMOTHY DALTON
1988
Photo call - Hawks
Timothy Dalton with two of the female stars, blonde, Camille Coduri and Janet McTeer, also Julie T Wallace of She Devil fame.
Robert Hatch
actor
location character photos with a "bad guy" look to them
location headshots
location: park near RS Auto Service
Chamblee, Georgia
original file #121009AB0679.NEF
Camera: Nikon D3S
Lens: Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VRII at 180mm
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
Dutch postcard by van Leer's Fotodrukindustrie N.V., Amsterdam, no. 31. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
English-American actor Peter Lawford (1923-1984), is mainly known as a member of the Rat Pack from which he was later banned due to an argument with Frank Sinatra and as the husband of Patricia Kennedy. Although he was never considered a very important actor, he has played in many famous films. He also appeared frequently on television. He was the first one to kiss Elizabeth Taylor and, according to him, the last one to speak to Marilyn Monroe before she died.
Peter Lawford was born Peter Sydney Vaughn Aylen in London in 1923. He was the son of Lieutenant General Sir Sidney Lawford and his wife May His parents married when he was one year old, which is why his mother's surname appears on his birth certificate. He spent his childhood with his parents in France and therefore learnt French rather than English. Lawford later also became fluent in Spanish and Italian. He first appeared in front of the camera at the age of seven in the British film Poor Old Bill (Monty Banks, 1931). In 1938, he played a supporting role in the drama Lord Jeff (Sam Wood, 1938) alongside child stars Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney, his first film in America. At the beginning of the 1940s, Lawford signed his first studio contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he was only given small roles in the early years. A serious arm injury that Lawford suffered when he ran into a glass door at the age of 14 prevented him from serving in the Second World War. His breakthrough came with his roles in the Irene Dunne drama The White Cliffs of Dover (Clarence Brown, 1944) and the literary adaptation The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin, 1945) as David Stone. Lawford had his first leading role in the Lassie film Son of Lassie (S. Sylvan Simon, 1945). In 1946, he appeared in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy Cluny Brown and Henry Koster's musical Two Sisters from Boston in major roles. He played alongside Fred Astaire in the films Easter Parade (Charles Walters, 1948) and Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen, 1951).
Peter Lawford usually played young lovers at MGM, often from good families, for example as Theodore Laurence in Little Women (Mervyn LeRoy, 1949), the film version of the novel by Louisa May Alcott. He was known in particular for his light-hearted and romantic roles. As a result, Lawford became a household name, but never one of Hollywood's biggest stars. After the end of his contract with MGM, he turned to other roles and played more on television, including the leading role in the television series The Thin Man between 1957 and 1959. At the end of the 1950s, he became a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, which led to more roles. At the end of the 1950s, he became a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack. He played the playboy Jimmy Foster in Ocean's Eleven (Lewis Milestone, 1960). In his later career, he turned to character roles and appeared in several television productions, including a recurring supporting role in the television series The Doris Day Show (1971-1973) with Doris Day. His later films include The April Fools (Stuart Rosenberg, 1969) with Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve, and Rosebud (Otto Preminger, 1975), although he also made a few third-rate films. His last role was in the British comedy Where Is Parsifal? (Henry Helman, 1984) alongside Tony Curtis. Peter Lawford was known for his colourful, sometimes turbulent private life. He married Patricia Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's sister, in 1954 and thus became a member of the Kennedy family. They had four children together, including the actor Christopher Lawford (1955-2018). The marriage ended in divorce in 1966. Lawford and the Rat Pack around Frank Sinatra also supported Kennedy in his election campaigns. Lawford is said to have significantly supported the close personal relationship between the two Kennedy brothers John F. and Robert Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, whom he had known well since the early 1950s. Marilyn Monroe exchanged her last words with Lawford during a telephone call on the night of 4 August 1962, when she died. After divorcing the Kennedy daughter, Lawford married Mary Rowan, 27 years his junior and daughter of comedian Dan Rowan, in 1971. The marriage lasted until 1975, after which he went down the aisle twice more, once with Debora Gould (1977-1978, divorced) and a few months before his death with Patricia Seaton. The friendship between him and Sinatra suffered for years because he had an affair with Sinatra's wife Ava Gardner and Sinatra considered this to be the reason for his separation from Gardner. Lawford had various more or less serious affairs with stars such as June Allyson, Lana Turner and Kim Novak. Before his marriage to Patricia Kennedy, he had a relationship with the African-American actress Dorothy Dandridge. Peter Lawford was addicted to alcohol for many years, which affected both his health and his professional career from the 1970s onwards. In 1984, Peter Lawford died from kidney and liver failure in Los Angeles. He was 61. In 2018, his 63-year-old son Christopher also died of a heart attack.
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no, 463.
American actor Jack Oakie (1903-1978) was one of the best wisecracking comedians during the golden age of Hollywood. The beefy, plump-faced comedian could steal a scene simply by looking at a girl’s legs.
Jack Oakie was born Lewis Delaney Offield in 1903, in Sedalia, Missouri. His father was a grain dealer, and his mother was a psychology teacher. When he was 5, the Offield family moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, the source of his "Oakie" nickname. Oakie spent part of his boyhood in Kansas City with his grandmother and attended Woodland School. He sold papers for the Kansas City Star: He later recalled that he made good money selling “extras” on the night Woodrow Wilson was reelected as president in 1916. Oakie worked as a runner on Wall Street and narrowly escaped being killed in the Wall Street bombing of 16 September 1920. While in New York, he also started appearing as a mimic and comedian in amateur theatre. In 1923 Oakie landed a job as a chorus boy in George M. Cohan’s 'Little Nelly Kelly' on Broadway. He went from Broadway to vaudeville, with Lulu McConnell as his partner. From there he found employment in several comedies, as well as musicals throughout the mid to late 1920s These included 'Sharlee' (1923), the revues 'Innocent Eyes' (1924) and 'Artists and Models' (1925), and the musical 'Peggy-Ann' (1926). In 1927 Oakie went to Hollywood, and he was cast as a comedian in his first silent film, Finders Keepers (Wesley Ruggles, 1927) starring Laura La Plante. He also appeared in the silent films The Fleet's In (Malcolm St. Clair, 1928) starring Clara Bow and the Western Sin Town (J. Gordon Cooper, William K. Howard, 1929).
With the advent of sound, Jack Oakie signed a contract with Paramount. His first talkie was The Dummy (Robert Milton, Louis J. Gasnier, 1929) starring Ruth Chatterton and Fredric March. Jack went on to support Wallace Beery in Chinatown Nights (William A. Wellman, 1929), Dorothy Mackaill in Hard to Get (William Beaudine, 1929) and Betty Compson in Street Girl (Wesley Ruggles, 1929). Settling in, he never returned to the Broadway stage. With Nancy Carroll, he played in the musical Sweetie (Frank Tuttle, 1929). He appeared in many of the big musicals of the day with Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Alice Faye. He was a brush salesman turned Olympic scout in the hilarious screwball farce Million Dollar Legs (Edward F. Cline, 1932) and an unwilling gangster in Dancers in the Dark (David Burton, 1932) opposite Miriam Hopkins. He played Tweedledum to Roscoe Karns' Tweedledee in the all-star version of Alice in Wonderland (Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, 1933). In Too Much Harmony (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933), the part of Oakie's on-screen mother was played by his real mother, Mary Evelyn Offield. During the 1930s, he was known as "The World's Oldest Freshman", as a result of appearing in such collegiate films as The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner, 1929), Sweetie (Frank Tuttle, 1929), Touchdown! (Norman Z. McLeod, 1931), College Humor (Wesley Ruggles, 1933), College Rhythm (Norman Taurog, 1934) and Collegiate (Ralph Murphy, 1935). Oakie's contract with Paramount ended in 1934 and he continued as a freelancing agent. Not limited by a film studio contract, Oakie branched into radio and had his radio show between 1936 and 1938.
Jack Oakie's role as Napolini, Il Duce of Bacteria in Chaplin's The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940), was a brilliant and thinly disguised slam at Mussolini. It earned Oakie his only Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. It was the highlight of his career. He followed it with supporting parts in bright, silly and feather-light films such as Tin Pan Alley (Walter Lang, 1940), Hello, Frisco, Hello (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1943), and Sweet and Low-Down (Archie Mayo, 1944), with Linda Darnell and Benny Goodman. Jack's last high-profile films were the Betty Grable musical When My Baby Smiles at Me (Walter Lang, 1948) and the fast-moving gangster film Thieves Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949). In his later years, Oakie made some television appearances in episodes of such television shows as The Real McCoys (1963), Daniel Boone (1966), and Bonanza (1966). He also turned up in films from time to time, including a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson, John Farrow, 1956) and roles in The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1958), Debbie Reynolds' The Rat Race (Robert Mulligan, 1960) and the comedy Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, 1961) with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. It was his final film. Jack Oakie lived in baronial style on a ten-acre estate in Northridge, at the northern end of the San Fernando Valley. His first marriage (1936-1945) was to Venita Varden, who perished in the 1948 air crash of United Airlines Flight 624 at Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. Oakie's second marriage was to actress Victoria Horne in 1950. They moved to an estate in Northridge and lived there until his death. He died in 1978, at the age of seventy-four. Jack Oakie married twice. His remains were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the Los Angeles area.
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