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German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Charlottenbrug. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Robert Wagner in The Hunters (Robert D. Webb, 1958).
American actor Robert Wagner (1930) started his career as a handsome hunk in Hollywood films like A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, 1956). In the following decades, he appeared in such box office hits as The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963), Harper (Jack Smight, 1966) starring Paul Newman, and the disaster film The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, 1974). He is best known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970) with Fred Astaire, Switch (1975–1978) opposite Eddie Albert, and Hart to Hart (1979–1984), co-starring Stefanie Powers.
Robert John 'R.J.' Wagner was born 1930 in Detroit. He is the son of Hazel Alvera (née Boe), a telephone operator, and Robert John Wagner Sr., a traveling salesman who worked for the Ford Motor Company. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was seven. Wagner attended and graduated from Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, and attended military academies and Harvard. Always wanting to be an actor, he held a variety of jobs while pursuing his goal. After making his uncredited screen debut in The Happy Years (William A. Wellman, 1950), and was signed by agent Henry Willson. He was put under contract with 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century Fox, which carefully built him up toward stardom. He played romantic leads with ease, but it was not until he essayed the two-scene role of a shell-shocked war veteran in With a Song in My Heart (Walter Lang, 1952) starring Susan Hayward, that studio executives recognised his potential as a dramatic actor. He supported James Cagney and Dan Dailey in John Ford's version of What Price Glory (1952) and supported Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck in Titanic (Jean Negulesco, 1953). Fox gave Wagner his first starring role in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (Robert D. Webb, 1953) with Terry Moore and Gilbert Roland. The screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides was inspired by Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Reviews were poor but the film was only the third ever to be shot in CinemaScope and was a big hit. Wagner went on to play the title roles in Prince Valiant (Henry Hathaway, 1954) opposite James Mason and Janet Leigh, and The True Story of Jesse James (Nicholas Ray, 1957), with Jeffrey Hunter. He portrayed a ruthless college student, who resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress (Joanne Woodward) in A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, 1956). The latter two films were box office disappointments and it seemed Wagner was unable to make the transition to top-level star.
In Europe, Robert Wagner had a small role in the epic war film The Longest Day (Len Annakin, a.o., 1962), produced by Daryl Zanuck for Fox. He had a larger part in The Condemned of Altona (1962), a commercial and critical disappointment despite being directed by Vittorio de Sica and co-starring Sophia Loren. In the mid-1960s, Robert Wagner's film career skidded to a stop after the massive hit The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963) with David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Claudia Cardinale. Blake Edwards wanted Wagner for the lead in The Great Race (1965), but Jack L. Warner overruled him. Wagner found a good supporting role in the modern-day private investigator hit, Harper (Jack Smight, 1966), starring Paul Newman. He signed with Universal Pictures in 1966, starring opposite future wife Jill St. John in the films How I Spent My Summer Vacation/Deadly Roulette (William Hale, 1967), and Banning (Ron Winston, 1967). He returned to Italy to make a caper film with Raquel Welch for MGM, The Biggest Bundle of Them All (Ken Annakin, 1968), but it was not a success. Wagner made a respectable transition to television as the star of the lighthearted espionage series It Takes a Thief (1968) with Fred Astaire. He also starred in the police series Switch (1975) with Eddie Albert and Sharon Gless.
Robert Wagner's greatest success was opposite Stefanie Powers on the internationally popular TV series Hart to Hart (1979), which ran from 1979 through 1984 and has since been sporadically revived in TV-movie form. Another series, Lime Street (1985-1986), was quickly canceled due to the tragic death of Wagner's young co-star, Samantha Smith. Considered one of Hollywood's nicest citizens, Robert Wagner has continued to successfully pursue a leading man career; he has also launched a latter-day stage career, touring with Stefanie Powers in the readers' theater presentation 'Love Letters'. He also had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold on the TV sitcom Two and a Half Men (2007-2008) and had a recurring role as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on the police procedural NCIS (2010-2014). In the cinema, Wagner played Number Two, a henchman to Dr. Evil opposite Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach, 1997) and its sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Jay Roach, 1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach, 2002). In 2008, Wagner published his autobiography 'Pieces of My Heart: A Life', written together with author Scott Eyman. Robert Wagner says in his autobiography that he had a four-year relationship with Barbara Stanwyck who was more than twenty years older than he was. He says she was his first great love and that she gave him more than any woman in his life. Robert Wagner married four times. He married Natalie Woodtwice (1957-1962) and (1972-1981 - her death). In between, he was married to Marion Marshall (1963-1971). Since 1990, he is married to actress Jill St. John. He has known her since 1959, and they've been a couple since 1982, eight years before their wedding. Robert Wagner is the father of Katie Wagner (1964) with Marion Marshall and Courtney Wagner (1974) with Natalie Wood. Though the double surname suggests otherwise, he never legally adopted his ex-stepdaughter Natasha Gregson Wagner. In 2006, he became a grandfather when his daughter Katie Wagner gave birth to her son, Riley John.
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Gerd Maersk departs Felixstowe. Note Port side gangplank and monkey ladder made ready for the pilot to dis-embark.
Sloppy Joe's - Famous Restaurant & Bar
Duval Street - Key West, Florida U.S.A.
The Florida Keys - Autumn / Fall - 11/30/24
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Ernest Hemingway's favorite bar and daily local hangout back in the day. We have enjoyed many great nights here with friends and food and drink during our annual pilgrimage over the last 50+ years.
Sloppy Joe's Bar is a historic American bar in Key West, Florida.
The bar went through two name changes before settling on Sloppy Joe's with the encouragement of Hemingway. The name was taken from the original Sloppy Joe's bar in Old Havana, that sold both liquor and iced seafood. In the high Cuban heat, the ice melted
and patrons taunted the owner José (Joe) García Río that he ran
a "sloppy" place. It's the favorite fun bar of both locals and tourists.
(It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 11/1/06)
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"A Pirate Looks At Forty" - Jimmy Buffett
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0W7gXEEbqo
"Margaritaville" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
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"It's Five-Oclock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
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RIP Jimmy Buffett - Passed 9/1/23
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A little bit of Hallowe'en in June...
Small wannabe vampire girl in Nellyke helmet and wings.
Irma Gerd (# 691)
(Not sure of her origins, from CharmedBlythe Dolls.)
Gerda Muller - Père Castor
Coloriage, le guignol du Luxembourg.
Années 50
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German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin, no. 7477.
Gerd Grieg (maiden name Gerd Egede-Nissen; born 21 April 1895 in Bergen, died 9 August 1988) was a Norwegian actress and director who also became a recognised resistance fighter during the Second World War.
Gerd was the daughter of NKP leader Adam Egede-Nissen and Goggi Egede-Nissen. She was the sister of actors Aud Richter (née Aud Egede-Nissen), Ada Kramm (née Ada Egede-Nissen), Oscar Egede-Nissen, Stig Egede-Nissen, Lill Egede-Nissen, and Gøril Havrevold (née Gøril Egede-Nissen). Gerd made her debut at the National Theatre at the age of 15 in 1910, as Lersol in the fairytale play The King's Heart. She made an immediate breakthrough and played a number of major roles on the main stage until 1917. In 1912-13 she appeared in four short silent films made by the Danish August Blom, while in 1916 she acted in Holger-Madsen's crime film Den hvide Djævel. In 1917 she started a five-year career in Berlin to make films for her sister Aud Egede-Nissen's film company, in which Aud's husband Georg Alexander was involved. She was presented as Gerd Nissen. Yet, only a few films were made such as Die Rachegöttin (Alexander, 1918), while it is unclear if another film Die Jugendsünde (Alexander, 1918) she or her sister Aud had the lead. She also acted in the Danish film En Fare for Samfundet (1918), with Valdemar Psilander, released after his death in 1917. Gerd returned to Norway in 1922, did only one last film there (Pan, Harald Schwenzen, 1922), and married. She had guest appearances at various theatres before returning to the National Theatre in 1928. Gerd Grieg had several guest appearances abroad, most notably at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in 1933 and 1946.
Gerd Grieg was one of the most important Ibsen actors of her generation, playing leading roles such as Hedda, Hilde Wangel, Irene, Svanhild, Ella Rentheim and Rebekka West. She was also a great Bjørnson interpreter, portraying characters such as Birgit Rømer and Tora Parsberg. In 1937 she gave a strong interpretation of Lucretia in Holberg's The Recalcitrant. Grieg also played Schiller's Maria Stuart, Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the title roles in Kjeld Abell's Anna Sophie Hedvig and Amalie Skram's Agnete, as well as taking on demanding operetta roles such as Rosalinde in The Bat and Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow. Gerd Grieg also staged plays, including five plays at the Icelandic National Theatre Þjóðleikhúsið, which was inaugurated in 1950.
From 1922 to 1940 Gerd Egede-Nissen was married to the surgeon Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen (1882-1975), who was a good deal older. She gained a reputation as the femme fatale of Norwegian theatre, and her name was linked to several more or less piquant "society scandals" in the interwar period. Her relationship with her colleague Odd Frogg (1901-34) culminated in his suicide by jumping off a roof and leaving behind a piece of paper labelled "G.E.N.I.", which may have stood for "Gerd Egede-Nissen Ingebrigtsen". From New Year 1935, Gerd had been dating the writer and later resistance fighter Nordahl Grieg (1902-43), whom she had known since 1931. After divorcing the surgeon, the two married in 1940, but Grieg died in 1943 when the bomber he was travelling in was shot down over Berlin. Gerd and Nordahl had previously met Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States. Gerd remained active in the Norwegian resistance movement in London and Iceland during World War II Wartime nerves and the loss of her husband meant that after the war she only performed sporadically as an actress and director. She retired from the stage in 1955 and in 1957 published a book about her and her husband's life together: Nordahl Grieg as I Knew Him.
Sources: Norwegian Wikipedia, IMDb, Filmportal.