Sheb Wooley – Co-Star and Drinking Buddy

Shelby F. Wooley (Sheb Wooley), actor, singer and musician: born Erick, Oklahoma 10 April 1921; married first Beverly Addison (one daughter), second Linda Dotson (one daughter); died Nashville, Tennessee 16 September 2003 Wooley was born on a farm in Erick, Oklahoma, in 1921. As an adolescent, he roped steers with his brothers and rode in rodeos; the injuries he thus… (more…)

Buster Wiles

July 26, 1990 Vernon (Buster) Wiles; Stunt Man, 79 AP PORTLAND, Ore., July 25— Vernon (Buster) Wiles, who worked as a movie stunt man in Hollywood and as a double for Errol Flynn, died Friday. He was 79 years old. Mr. Wiles spent 22 years as a stunt man and 13 years as Mr. Flynn's double, appearing in such movies… (more…)

Ida Lupino

August 5, 1995 Ida Lupino, an earthy, intelligent movie actress who created a luminous gallery of worldly wise villainesses, gangster's molls and hand-wringing neurotics, died on Thursday night at her home in Burbank, Calif. She was 77 years old. Miss Lupino had cancer and had recently suffered a stroke, Mary Ann Anderson, her former secretary, said yesterday. Ida Lupino was… (more…)

Brenda Marshall

Date of Birth 29 September 1915, Island of Negros, Philippines Date of Death 30 July 1992, Palm Springs, California, USA (throat cancer) Birth Name Ardis Ankerson Gaines Mini Biography Brenda wanted to be a film actress, all right; it's just that she didn't want to be Brenda Marshall. Throughout her years in Hollywood, she insisted that her friends and co-workers… (more…)

Patric Knowles

Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles, a name which reflects his Irish descent. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s. He made his film debut in 1933, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career. In his first American film,… (more…)

Jim Fleming

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Ann Sheridan

  Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan on Feb. 21, 1915 in Denton, TX Died Jan. 21,  1967 of cancer in Los Angeles, CA  She was the movies' sultry “Oomph Girl” of the 1940s and later Grandma Hanks on television's “Pistols 'n' Petticoats.” Her sister Kitty Kent, by dint of a practical joke, landed her shapely, titan-haired sister in Hollywood… (more…)

Alexis Smith – Errol was best man at her wedding

LOS ANGELES – Alexis Smith, the statuesque actress who co-starred with Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Errol Flynn in the 1940s and '50s and made a comeback in a Tony Award-winning performance in “Follies,” died Wednesday. She was 72. Miss Smith died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from cancer, her husband, Craig Stevens, said. She was still in college when a… (more…)

Ruth Roman – September 6, 1999

Ruth Roman, '50s film actress LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Ruth Roman, who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Errol Flynn and survived the Andrea Doria wreck at sea, died in her sleep Thursday. She was 75. In 1956, she and her 3-year-old son were returning from Italy aboard the luxury passenger liner Andrea Doria when it was struck by another ship.… (more…)

Some More Sunday Night Reading Material

www.classicimages.com…… www.nytimes.com…… Let me know what you think of these articles. Okay, now this one is quite interesting.  It is from a blog, but it has some interesting tales about the Zaca.  If you go down into the posts, there is banter back and forth about Errol.  Andrea (much like Tina!) comes to his defense.  At the very end there… (more…)

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