#Dick Wessels

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Books On Books Collection - Kees Baart, Dick Berendes, Henk Francino and Gerard Post van der Molen

Books On Books Collection – Kees Baart, Dick Berendes, Henk Francino and Gerard Post van der Molen

Van Hornbook tot ABC-Prentenboek (2003) Van Hornbook tot ABC-Prentenboek (2003)Kees Baart, Dick Berendes, Henk Francino and Gerard Post van der MolenDouble-sided leporello between two pamphlet-sewn booklets and bound between two oversized wooden hornbooks, held in an open cardboard box. H295 x W150 x D 30 mm. First booklet, 18 unnumbered pages; second booklet 8 pages; 52 panels. Edition of 135.…

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Character Actor

Richard Michael Wessel (April 20, 1913 – April 20, 1965)  film actor who appeared in more than 270 films and had over 70 television credits  between 1935 and 1966.

Wessel also appeared on television. From 1959 to 1961, Wessel co-starred as Carney Kohler in all forty-two episodes of the NBC western television series Riverboat. In 1959, he appeared as police captain Bob Rattigan in the episode "Rattigan and the Cat" of the syndicated Border Patrol series. He also appeared in the syndicated crime drama Sheriff of Cochise. He was cast as Charlie in the episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. He also guest starred in the CBS sitcom/drama Hennesey and on the ABC sitcom, Our Man Higgins. In 1961 he guest-starred in the series finale of The Investigators. (Wikipedia)

IMDb Listing

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Dick Wessel, Anne Jeffreys and Paula Corday in Dick Tracy vs Cueball

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X Marks The Spot (1942) | Damian O'Flynn, Helen Parrish, Dick Purcell |...

X Marks the Spot is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by George Sherman and Damian O'Flynn, Helen Parrish, and Dick Purcell. It is a remake of the 1931 film of the same name. Plot In 1942, during the Second World War, rubber is a valuable commodity. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the army, but also a private detective. Eddy swings into action, when his father, police-sergeant Timothy J. Delaney, is gunned down by rubber racketeers. Cast Damian O'Flynn as Eddie Delaney Helen Parrish as Linda Ward Dick Purcell as Lieutenant William 'Bill' Decker Jack La Rue as Marty Clark Neil Hamilton as John J. Underwood Robert Homans as Police Sergeant Timothy J. Delaney Anne Jeffreys as Lulu Dick Wessel as Henchman Dizzy Esther Muir as Bonnie Bascomb Joe Kirk as Henchman Jerry Edna Mae Harris as Billie (as Edna Harris) Fred Kelsey as Police Officer Martin Vince Barnett as George You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) / Action, Crime film / Morgan Conway, Dick Wessel, Esther Howard

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Character actor Dick Wessel as the Cabbie

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Noirvember Day 18 - The Long Night (1947)

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On September 8, 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression, the world was introduced to Blondie Boopadoop, a dizzy blonde flapper created by Murat Bernard ‘Chic’ Young. Blondie debuted in newspapers across the country on that day. She was Chic Young’s fourth strip featuring a young woman, but this was the one to catch fire and eventually become iconic in the world of comics and media at large. It is hard to believe that the blonde hero of blissful domesticity turns 90 and that her stories remain tops with audiences the world over.

Blondie’s early days featured the star popular in dating circles. Her courtships made for several storylines. Blondie’s main squeeze, however, was bumbling playboy Dagwood Bumstead, son of millionaire industrialist, J. Bolling Bumstead. Dagwood introduced Blondie to his ill-natured father in the very first strip announcing their plans to marry. The elder Bumstead was aghast that his son would be interested in a woman of Blondie’s lowly social status.

For the next couple of years, the Blondie comics centered on the couple’s struggles to get the Bumsteads to agree to the pairing. Blondie does everything imaginable to no avail. In the meantime, she also entertains several other admirers – although Dagwood was never far away. With readership dwindling, Chic Young and the comic’s distributer, King Features Syndicate, decided Blondie and Dagwood should finally get married and in February 1933 they did much to the chagrin of the Bumsteads who disowned their son and heir. Mr. and Mrs. Bumstead only grudgingly acknowledged the union because Dagwood went on a hunger strike that lasted over 28 days spotlighted by daily coverage and countdowns that helped circulation. Every day people tuned in to see how Dagwood was doing on the hunger strike. After all, one of his favorite pasttimes has always been eating. One of my favorite Blondie scenes is of Dagwood emerging from his bed after the hunger strike to reveal loads of dishes under the covers.

It was after the marriage of the disinherited blissfully happy Dagwood and the carefree vivacious Blondie took place that audiences truly warmed to their humorous domestic escapades. Blondie and Dagwood became a happy family whose troubles reflected those of the readers’ in many ways. The couple started their married life penniless, as were most during the Depression, which lent itself to many enjoyable scenes. First Dagwood’s need to find work made great stories and eventually so did his relationship with his boss Mister Dithers. However, the charms of Blondie the strip relied on the couple’s home life and its place in the pantheon of all things domestic comedy, which was a revolutionary one at that as Chic Young insisted that the young Bumsteads share a double bed, not the twin beds audiences saw on all other domestic stories in media. (loc.gov) In fact, the Bumsteads did not share a bed in their movie incarnations.

As the strip continued its run, Blondie and Dagwood changed as did their family. Blondie, who started as an airhead of sorts, became the Bumstead voice of reason and Dagwood became the flake to whom all things happen. Part of Dagwood’s charm is he remains a child of sorts, an innocent whose zany antics we cannot get enough of and all because he can’t seem to get things quite right. Except his sandwich, which is a masterpiece every single time.

On April 15, 1934, the couple welcomed their first child, Baby Dumpling (later Alexander) who received almost as much media attention as baby Ricardo on “I Love Lucy” two decades later. Except without the power of television.

In 1941, Blondie and Dagwood welcomed a daughter, Cookie, whose name was chosen by hundreds of thousands of submissions in a contest run by Chic Young. Blondie’s popularity soared when the Bumsteads became a family in earnest in their home in Joplin, Missouri, including Daisy (family dog and Dagwood’s best friend) and the pups. At the height of its popularity, Blondie rivaled Peanuts. No doubt, this creation by Chic Young is one of the all-time greats in the pantheon of comic strips. I would say a masterpiece people have enjoyed for its love conquers all stories and wonderful drawings. It has been one of my favorites for years.

Aside from daily strips and Sunday editions, the Bumsteads have enjoyed comic book popularity as well with seven versions spanning from 1947 to 1976.

  As you probably know Blondie’s popularity jumped to screens and the airwaves as well. As far as the movies go, the story is that as the strip’s popularity grew, Columbia Pictures’ boss Harry Cohn decided that the characters had potential for a B-picture or two so he signed a deal with Chic Young. The result was a 28-picture, 12-year run between 1938 and 1950. All twenty-eight movies star Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake as Dagwood. The first and best is Frank Strayer’s Blondie. Strayer directed more than a dozen of the Blondie pictures.

Some of the signature gags from the strip made it into the movies such as Dagwood running into the mailman every morning as he is late for work causing the mail to fly all over the place. That happened early in all of the movies welcoming devoted fans to the hijinks of their favorite family. Following Dagwood’s signature,” Blondieeeeee.” Dagwood’s legendary sandwich also made its way into every single one of the movies and into Webster’s New World Dictionary.

The first movie in the series sees the Bumsteads about to celebrate their fifth anniversary, but money troubles ensue. They have money troubles often in their history. In fact, the Bumstead budget, as Blondie mentions in one of the movies, is the pulse of the family. Dagwood asks for a raise from Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale), owner of the J. C. Dithers Construction Company, with whom Dagwood is always at odds just like in the strip. Blondie, on the other hand, orders new furniture (from an uncredited Charles Lane) since they just finished paying off other furniture. Her logic is impeccable, a logic inherited by an almost-too-cute Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms). Dagwood loses his job after getting into a jam at work, but makes up for it by wooing a wealthy businessman (Gene Lockhart) into investing with the Dithers Company.

Staying true to the comic strip, Blondie (1938) features several of the same characters throughout the series played by the same actors. Aside from Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake, Larry Simms plays Baby Dumpling in all of the movies. He was so popular in the role that he was credited as “Baby Dumpling” in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) where he plays the Hopper Boy. Marjorie Ann Mutchie (as Marjorie Kent) makes her debut as Cookie Bumstead in Frank Strayer’s It’s a Great Life (1943), the thirteenth movie in the series and one of the few without “Blondie” in the title. More on that later.

Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as Blondie and Dagwood in the first movie in the Blondie series

Rounding out the regulars that make up the Bumstead family is Daisy, the cocker Spaniel/Poodle/Terrier mix whose real name was Spooks and plays the Bumstead’s trusted pooch with flair. Spooks appeared in a good number of movies in character parts, but is best remembered as Daisy. The prolific Willie Best appears as a porter in the first movie and does what he can with the stereotypical part he is given. Best plays varied roles throughout the series and remains mostly uncredited. Fay Helm appears in several Blondie movies as Mrs. Fuddle, neighbor to the Bumsteads and Blondie’s best friend. Danny Mummert plays her son Alvin, Baby Dumpling’s nemesis.

The Blondie movies are typical B-fare. They are fun, perfect for Saturday mornings, but substance is hard to come by. There are a few hearty laughs like the one in Blondie with the talking scale in the hotel men’s bathroom. It advertises your favorite radio voice will talk to you and when it does, it tells Dagwood he’s a loser.

Probably the best part of the series, however, are the actors that appear throughout. If you are a fan of the great character players you’ll get to see the likes of Donald Meek, John Qualen, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley, and Mary Wickes to name a few. Many future major Columbia stars also make appearances. I was quite surprised to see Rita Hayworth, for instance, play prominently in Blondie on a Budget (1940). She is an old friend of Dagwood’s who plays right into Blondie’s jealous hands. When Blondie was not trying to finagle the family budget in order to buy something, she spent her time worrying that Dagwood would leave her for another woman.

  Larry Simms, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth in BLONDIE ON A BUDGET

The Blondie movie series ended with Edward Bernds’ Beware of Blondie (1950) where we see Dagwood in charge of the Dithers Construction Company while the boss is on vacation. You can just imagine how well that goes. Adele Jergens plays Miss Clifton, a con woman who takes advantage of Dagwood’s innocence to get to Dithers’ money. Of course, all turns out fine in the end with one important resolution to the series to close out a continuous loop. The mailman (Dick Wessel) decides to end Dagwood running into him finally by delivering the Bumstead mail on his own time at night. No more dirty uniforms. No more bruises. No more scattered mail. Unfortunately, the day he decides to do his first night delivery is tax day and guess who runs out of the house to mail his taxes at the last minute.

By the time Beware of Blondie was made the stories were stretched thin. The familiar Bumstead elements held the movies together as the family survived all sorts of domestic misadventures. According to AFI, Columbia had lost interest in the series after the first fourteen installments. They released two movies without Blondie’s name in the title and stopped producing the series in 1943. However, audiences wanted more and production resumed for another fourteen movies making this series the longest in terms of pictures to date. When the Blondie pictures ceased altogether in 1950, Columbia intended to replace it with another comic strip series, but that fell way short at the box office forcing the studio to reissue all 28 Blondie pictures.

Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Marjorie Kent in the final picture in the series

America’s love affair with Blondie, Dagwood and the gang was not limited to movies, as we well know. The comic strip continued to strong readership and between 1939 and 1950, Blondie was also heard on radio. Arthur Lake played Dagwood in this version as well with Penny Singleton replaced by Alice White, Patricia Van Cleve and Ann Rutherford at various times. Blondie originally aired on CBS with Camel Cigarettes as its sponsor and later moved to NBC and Super Suds. Lake and Singleton made an appearance as Blondie and Dagwood on The Bob Hope Show following the 1938 release of the first movie, which led to their own show as a summer replacement for The Eddie Cantor Show. They originally aired on Monday evenings at 7:30 and just as the strip helped Depression-era audiences forget their troubles, the radio show helped them through World War II. Enjoy the following episodes of Blondie out of the funnies and into your homes…

From October 1939, “Dagwood Buys a New Suit”

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1939-10-30018DagwoodBuysANewSuit.mp3

  From April 1940, “The Gypsy Queen”

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1940-04-22043TheGypsyQueen.mp3

  From March 1944, “Abbott and Costello with Blondie and Dagwood”

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1944-03-02AbbottCostelloWBlondieDagwood.mp3

  From July 1944, “Plumbin Problems”

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1944-07-21PlumbingProblems.mp3

  From May 1945, “Socialite Blondie”

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1945-05-27SocialiteBlondiesocialAspirations.mp3

  From July 1947, “Three Week’s Vacation”

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1947-07-27ThreeWeeksVacation.mp3

  Unlike radio and the movies, attempts to bring Blondie to television proved unsuccessful. Its power were in the mediums already discussed, but it’s at least worth a mention that those in charge thought enough of the characters and their stories to give them several attempts at TV productions. The first such attempt, Blondie, premiered on January 4, 1957 on NBC and ran for one season. Pamela Britton starred as Blondie with Arthur Lake reprising his famous role once again. Stuffy Singer, Florenz Ames, Ann Barnes, and Harold Peary were also in the cast. In 1968, CBS gave Blondie a turn with The New Blondie, which also ran for one season. Patricia Harty and Will Hutchins star as Blondie and Dagwood in this version with real-life married couple Jim and Henny Backus as Mr. and Mrs. Dithers with Pamelyn Ferdin and Peter Robbins playing the Bumstead kids. As you can tell from the short run of both series, neither managed to capture the charm of the Bumsteads the other versions of their stories did.

Chicago native Chic Young drew Blondie seven days a week from 1930 until his death in 1973 producing more than 15,000 strips. His legacy, continued by his son Dean Young, is one of warmth and humor and home. No matter the decades that have passed, people still visit with the Bumsteads – 90 years after meeting them. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude for the laughter during difficult times.

Chic Young’s BLONDIE turns 90! On September 8, 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression, the world was introduced to Blondie Boopadoop, a dizzy blonde flapper created by Murat Bernard 'Chic' Young.

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Series Premiere

Riverboat - Payment in Full - NBC - September 13, 1959

Western (Pre Civil War)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Written by Douglas Heyes

Produced by Jules Bricken

Directed by Douglas Heyes

Stars:

Darren McGavin as Captain Grey Holden

Burt Reynolds(1) as Ben Frazer, Pilot

Aldo Ray as Hunk Farber

Barbara Bel Geddes as Missy

Louis Hayward as Ashley Cowan

William Bishop as Monte Loman

Nancy Gates as Sister Angela

John Larch as Touhy

William D. Gordon as Joe Travis, First Mate

Barry Kelley as Police Inspector

Charles Gray as Cal

Will Wright as J. C. Sikel

Dick Wessel, as Chief Stoker Carney Kohler

The name of the Riverboat was "Enterprise".

(1) This series was the TV debut of Burt Reynolds. He appeared in only 20 episodes.

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🌟 - Who was your very first rp muse?

ah, storytime. i have quite a lot to say about this, please pull up a chair. 

when I first started rping (age ~10/11; early 2000s) i was more drawn to plot than fandom. so if the forum thread sounded at all interesting, i was game. my first ever rp was from the Alien™️ franchise, and i played the xenomorph. (otherwise it’d have just been a bunch of engineers sitting around on a ship with nothing to do.) writing a semi-sentient monster was a lot of fun and also formative/experientially relevant w/r/t my writing (both rp and og fic).

i used embarrassing OCs for Teen Titans, and slightly less awkward OCs for the odd prequels rp. this bounty hunter woman, who was really just zam wesell, and so i started playing zam wesell. and she was my first sw muse. 

at the time i was neck deep in the DCU, and for a while it became the only form of fandom rp i took part in. my first OfFiciAL fandom/canon muse was batman’s Hush lmao. kill me. i also played scarecrow, killer croc, red hood, and renee montoya. circa 2008, after Batman RIP, which was bad, terrible, but opened a lot of doors to compelling new stories*, i took on jane doe as another muse**, and she eventually edged Hush out.***

TL;DR i’ve always been more of a multi-muse/large cast rper. zam wessel and hush were my first mains, while the xenomorph lives on in my heart, the love of my rp life. sorry kylo.

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 *e.g. Grant Morrison’s debut Batman and Robin, where Dick Grayson struggles to assume Batman’s mantle, and interesting psychological motifs come into play, and God it was so nice just not to have Bruce Wayne in the picture WHY DID HE HAVE TO COME BACK THROUGH TIME ON A DINOSAUR? ffFUCK. (this is why i no longer read dc comics. i stopped long before WB started farting out their more recent cinematic spectacles.)

** btwn 2009-12 decent writers added some new & pretty deliciously gory villains to batman’s rogues’ gallery via Streets of Gotham.

*** because everything involving Hush after Batman: Heart of Hush was just bad and stupid. that and the the character is... a dreamboat mixture of tacky body horror and jaw-droppingly blatant misogyny. 

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Dick and Starfire vs Deathstroke

Directed by Nick Gomez Written by Bianca Sams I’m fairly certain Brendan Steacy did the cinematography on this but can’t find confirmation. Film Editing by Andrew Kasch Sara Mineo Brian Wessel

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Dick Tracy at RKO

“Dick Tracy” (1945) with Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy and Anne Jeffries as Tess Trueheart.  Mike Mazurki as the merciless killer Splitface.

“Dick Tracy vs. Cueball” (1946) Conway and Jeffries return and Dick Wessel plays a strangler named Cueball.

“Dick Tracy’s Dilemma” (1947) Ralph Byrd plays Dick Tracy and Kay Christopher is Tess Trueheart.  Jack Lambert plays a thief called The Claw who uses his hook hand to commit his murders.

“Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome” (1947) Ralph Byrd returns as Tracy and Anne Gwynne is Tess. Boris Karloff plays an ex-con who is back robbing banks. 

Four good films with run times of just over an hour.

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FRONTLINE and NPR: Trump’s Trade War with China

tl;dr Grab some popcorn and WATCH #BannonsWar 

“Trump’s Trade War” presents the inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade. Reporting from the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate what led the world’s two largest economies to the brink, and the billions at stake. 

“China’s middle class is now bigger than the entire United States.  And its economy is growing twice as fast. This success has become a major source of tension in the trade war.“

Interviews with Americans, former Trump and U.S. officials, current Chinese government officials and U.S. and Chinese business leaders.

Steve Bannon, Trump chief strategist, 2017-18

Gary Cohn, Director, National Economic Council, 2017-18

Michael Wessel, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission:

Susan Thornton, Assistant Secretary of State, 2017-18:

Wendy Cutler, U.S. Trade Representative Office, 1988-2015

James Mcgregor, Former Chair, American Chamber of Commerce in China

Ken Wilcox, Chairman Emeritus, Silicon Valley Bank

See the full list of those interviewed and transcript.

The real reasons for the Trump—Bannon War 😠

Bannon wants to pull a Dick Cheney and resurrect the “Project for the New American Century” whose goal was "to promote American global leadership”. Warmonger right-wing extremist Dick Cheney wanted regime change in Iraq and everyone knows how that ended for America.

STEVE BANNON:

I believe you need—you need actually a change of the top leaders in the Chinese Communist Party.

NPR Reporter LAURA SULLIVAN:

How on earth

STEVE BANNON:

I think the goal into China is quite simply, is to bring them—is to break the back of this totalitarian mercantilist economic society—

LAURA SULLIVAN:

You’re talking about regime change.

DA WEI:

The question is, is American complaint about the way China handles economy, or is about China’s legitimacy to become a prosperous and powerful country?

Our population is four times bigger than the U.S. We have 1.3 billion people, right? You have 300 million people. So China's economy should be four times higher than the U.S. economy.

LAURA SULLIVAN:

But that is difficult for people in the United States to accept.

“They needed us, so they had to tolerate us”

JAMES McGREGOR:

But you've got to remember, for all these years we had, you know, we had low-voltage congressmen or businesspeople coming in and shaking their finger in Chinese, saying, "You should have all the children you want; you should do this; you should do that," and these very capable Chinese people would just bite their tongue and say, you know, kind of, "Thank you for your wisdom," because they needed America. They needed us, so they had to tolerate us. 

Then all of a sudden, global financial crisis, and it was payback time. It was like, "You listen to us for a while."

There’s much more. Here’s a quick summary:

Trump’s Nationalist vs Globalist infighting. The nationalists lead by Bannon, Robert Lighthizer and Peter Navarro won. #TrumpStooges #TrumpTariffs  #TrumpTradeWar

Stating the obvious, American consumers are paying for Trump’s tariffs.

China hasn’t really been affected by Trump’s tariffs  Why? “In 2018, China shipped 18% of its exports to the United States“, The Balance AND it’s falling even further because of Trump according to CNBC

China’s Import Expo held 8 months after Trump’s first round of tariffs drew more than 1 MILLION people. “Thousands of companies from all around the world were here, focused on selling their products in the growing Chinese market.”  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

China has a strategy and a plan. America?

China has an economic strategy, "China Model”. The goals of “Made in China 2025 plan” are to dominate in key global industries and economic independence.

“In 16 months, WM Motors built a massive manufacturing facility that will be able to produce 200,000 electric cars a year.”

China is investing billions to achieve 2025. One Chinese “private equity firm had $15 BILLION” to invest in semi-conductors

“A lot of Chinese technology companies invest heavily in 5Gs” U.S. companies are YEARS behind.

China is stealing intellectual property from American companies  — and American companies don’t care  — they don’t want the governments help or want the subject brought up with China — ALL they care about is the money they can make in China.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  #MoneyFIRST  #ChinaFirst  #AmericaLast

Americans and Republican politicians, if you listening — 

listen to what fellow Americans;  Tom Shepherd, James McGregor and David Green advice on moving America forward.