Portland the Other Jamaica

www.portlandtheotherjamaica.com…… — Kathleen

Interesting Site

I found some pictures I had not seen before on EF and other interesting reading.  www.doctormacro.com…… — Kathleen

Hugh “Bud” Ernst – Best Friend to Errol Flynn

7 June 35 loses her heart as well as her appendix when hospitalized recently. Hugh B.”Bud” Ernst, radio announcer and entertainer and former movie cameraman, is in the same hospital convalescing from injuries received in an auto accident. The two meet and have “dates” riding around the corridors together in wheelchairs. 12 June 35 columnist Robert Coons reports: “.and here's… (more…)

Crane Eden

Hello all.  I just finished this book by Earl Conrad.  I get that Crane Eden is Errol Flynn and Tishey is Woodsie.  A lot of what is in this book was mentioned in Conrad's Memoirs and MWWW (booze, sex, drugs, parties, ex-wife and lovers, the hotel, the island setting, raw hamburger, diving, producers, debt, etc.).  What I didn't quite get was… (more…)

Una O'Connor

  Great Character Actor – No Kidding Una O'Connor(1880 – 1959) She most often played Cockney and English roles but she was pure Irish. This delightful, diminutive, at 5' 2″, actress was a joy to watch. With a sharp featured face, cackling voice and birdlike mannerisms she was often cast as shrews, maids, spinsters, nagging wives and gossips. She was… (more…)

Donald, Basil, Ralph, Arthur, Van and Ronnie

May 25, 1974 Donald Crisp, actor and director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol, Sea Hawk), dies at 91   Basil Rathbone:  Born: Johannesburg, South Africa, of British parents, 13 June 1892. Education: Attended Repton School, England. Family: Married 1) Ethel Marian Forman (divorced), one son; 2) the writer Ouida Bergere, late 1920s, daughter: Cynthia.  Died: 21 July 1967.  Captain Blood, Dawn Patrol… (more…)

Greer Garson

April 7, 1996 Greer Garson, the actress who epitomized a noble, wise and courageous wife in some of the sleekest and most sentimental American movies of the 1940's, died yesterday morning at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. She was 92. Miss Garson, who had a history of heart problems, had lived at the long-term-care hospital for the last three years, according… (more…)

Alan Hale

Date of Birth February 10, 1892, Washington, District of Columbia Date of Death January 22, 1950, Hollywood, California, USA (liver ailment and viral infection)  Age 57 Birth Name  Rufus Alan MacKahan Alan Hale decided on a film career after his attempt at becoming an opera singer didn't pan out. He quickly became much in demand as a supporting actor, starred in… (more…)

Guinn “Big Boy” Williams

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams  Date of Birth 26 April 1899, Decatur, Texas, USA Date of Death 6 June 1962, Burbank, California, USA (uremic poisoning) Birth Name Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. Height 6' 2″ (1.88 m) Mini Biography The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname “Big Boy” (and he was, too – 6' 2″ of mostly solid… (more…)

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