#actor leo g carroll

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Birthdays 10.25

Beer Birthdays

Ellef Ringnes (1842)

Bobby Bush (1953)

Chris Ericson (1961)

Melissa Cole (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jon Anderson; rock singer (1944)

Adam Goldberg; actor (1970)

Pablo Picasso; Spanish artist (1881)

Zoot Sims; saxophonist (1925)

Anne Tyler; writer (1941)

Famous Birthdays

Billy Barty; actor (1924)

Sarah Bernhard; actor (1844)

John Berryman; poet, writer (1914)

Georges Bizet; composer (1836)

Richard E. Byrd; explorer, Naval admiral (1888)

Leo G. Carroll; actor (1886)

James Carville; political consultant (1944)

Henry Steele Commager; historian (1902)

Barbara Cook; actor (1927)

Tony Franciosa; actor (1928)

Jimmy Heath; jazz saxophonist (1926)

Bobby Knight; basketball coach (1940)

Micheal MacLiammoir; English writer, actor (1899)

Roberto Menescal; Brazilian bossa nova guitarist (1937)

Midori; Japanese violinist (1971)

Tracey Nelson; actor (1963)

Minnie Pearl; comedian (1912)

Katy Perry; pop singer (1984)

Helen Reddy; pop singer (1941)

Coco Robicheaux; blues guitarist (1947)

Marion Ross; actor (1928)

Henry Norris Russell; astronomer (1877)

Johann Strauss; composer (1825)

Bobby Thompson; New York Giants OF (1923)

Glenn Tipton; rock guitarist (1947)

Taylor Vixen; porn actor (1983)

"Smoky Joe" Wood; Boston Red Sox P/OF (1889)

[princesssarisa]

Actors who have appeared in both "Wuthering Heights" and "A Christmas Carol" adaptations

@faintingheroine

*Leo G. Carroll: Marley’s Ghost in the 1938 Reginald Owen Christmas Carol/Joseph in the 1939 Wuthering Heights

*Patrick Macnee: Edgar in the 1948 British TV Wuthering Heights/Young Marley in the 1951 Alastair Sim Scrooge

*Caroline Langrishe: Isabella in the 1978 BBC Wuthering Heights miniseries/Fred’s wife Janet in the 1984 George C. Scott Christmas Carol

*Cathryn Harrison: Catherine Linton in the 1978 BBC Wuthering Heights miniseries/Fred’s sister-in-law Kate ('the plump sister") in the 1984 George C. Scott Christmas Carol

*Charlotte Riley: Catherine Earnshaw in the 2009 Wuthering Heights miniseries/The Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge’s sister Lottie in the 2019 Guy Pearce Christmas Carol miniseries

*Andrew Lincoln: Edgar in the 2009 Wuthering Heights miniseries/Scrooge in the 2020 Old Vic Christmas Carol production shown in cinemas

*Dave Willetts: Heathcliff on the concept album of Bernard J. Taylor’s 1992 Wuthering Heights musical/one of the charity gentlemen in the 2004 Christmas Carol TV musical

Since both of these books are classic works of British literature, I'm honestly surprised that between all the adaptations, there haven't been more overlapping actors.

[byneddiedingo]

Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Henry King, 1952)

Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, Torin Thatcher, Ava Norring, Helene Stanley, Marcel Dalio, Vicente Gómez, Richard Allan. Screenplay: Casey Robinson, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Leon Shamroy. John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Bernard Herrmann.

The film version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro is handsome and dull, just like its protagonist, Harry Street, who lies waiting for death on the plains below the mountain as his life flashes past his eyes. Harry is a writer who has spent his life doing all the things he thinks a writer should, which amounts to a men's magazine version of masculinity: hunting big game, going to bullfights and to war, and sleeping with beautiful women. The actor who plays Harry, Gregory Peck, is handsome, too. And if he's also a little dull it's because Peck is miscast: The part needs an actor with a lived-in face, someone like Humphrey Bogart, who was considered for the role. At 36, Peck was about ten years too young for the role. (The 52-year-old Bogart might have been a shade too old.) Still, Peck does what he can, and it's credible that women like Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward, and Hildegard Knef would have fallen hard for him. But the screenplay by Casey Robinson is a rambling muddle that turns Hemingway's spare prose into melodrama, partly by crafting Gardner's role out of nothing -- or borrowing hints of it from other Hemingway works like The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. Henry King, one of those studio directors who were handed big projects because they wouldn't mess them up, brings no particular vision or style to the film. The handsomeness of the movie is mostly in its casting, and in the Oscar-nominated cinematography of Leon Shamroy. Bernard Herrmann's score helps, too.  

[project1939]

Day 61- Film: The Snows of Kilimanjaro 

Release date: September 17th, 1952. 

Studio: 20th Century Fox 

Genre: Adventure 

Director: Henry King 

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck 

Actors: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Leo G. Carroll, Torin Thatcher, Ava Norring 

Plot Summary: Harry Street, a famous writer, is dying of gangrene in Africa. While waiting for help to arrive, his latest wife tries to make him comfortable. As he confronts death, he reminisces about his past loves, and especially his first wife, Cynthia. 

My Rating (out of five stars): *** ½  

(Spoilers) This is another one of those movies that is so mixed, it’ll be hard to write about. There were many good things about it, but a lot of it didn’t work. Much of the trouble, from my perspective, comes from the attempt to adapt the original short story into a Hollywood production. Almost all of the problems the film had were changes made to the original work.  

The Good: 

Gregory Peck. He was perfect as a masculine writer and lover of women. He was good at letting the right amount of emotion creep through at the right times. He played a dying man really well, too- he successfully showed the anxiety, the pain, the reflection, and even the irritation with people around him. I cared about his character, even though I didn’t totally like him. 

The Technicolor. The print I saw on Youtube was beautiful, vibrant, and warm.

Gregory Peck in Technicolor. We’re talking about one of the most insanely gorgeous and sexy men of the Classical Hollywood era here- then add that luscious color... It could be the most boring movie in the world, and I would still be captivated just watching him! 

The location footage. There was a lot of cool footage of Africa, especially the wildlife footage. It was clearly filmed on location.

Susan Hayward. I liked her in this. She’s absolutely stunning in Technicolor as well, and I liked her complicated character. She loves Peck, but she also knows he doesn’t really love her. 

The ominous eerie feel to the present scenes in Africa. It almost feels like there’s a plodding drumbeat in the background, counting down Peck’s last moments on Earth. It’s very chilling. 

Hildegarde Knef. She was in Diplomatic Courier, and I loved her in that. This role didn’t give her nearly as much to do, but I enjoyed seeing her. I loved the scene when she was sculpting. 

The Bad: 

The ending! The ending! I knew Hollywood would probably change it, but I had a little hope they might not. They let Bette Davis die at the end of Dark Victory, right? Sadly, Hollywood would not stay faithful to the material this time. The fact that Peck survived just stripped most of the power from the story. Then it got worse, because they made him suddenly fall in love with Susan Hayward as well! It was just the kind of ridiculous thing you’d fear. 

Ava Gardner. I don’t know why, but there is just something I don’t like about her. Maybe it’s cause she’s such a “man’s woman” type and I don’t find her appealing at all... But her being cast as Peck’s one true love did not work for me. I didn’t care about her, I didn’t care about their romance, and I didn’t understand why she had such pull over Peck for the whole movie. 

The whole plot with Ava Gardner. I suppose I addressed a lot of that above! But, as I wrote, the whole thing was a miss for me. 

The absurdly ludicrous reunion of Peck and Gardner in Spain. Hemingway never would have written such a stupidly unbelievable scene. 

The rear projection and sets for Africa, especially when juxtaposed with actual location footage. Both the rear projection and the sets were so obvious it was distracting. 

The whole idea that ambushing and shooting a large animal proves a guy's manhood. Same with the bullfighting. I don't get why these things are supposed to prove how macho a man is. It bores me.

The way the whole story had to be cleaned up for Hollywood. No prostitutes, of course. Marriage to all the women, of course. Attrition for sins, of course.  

[facesofcinema]

Tarantula (1955)

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Here are 10 things you should know about Leo G. Carroll, born 136 years ago today. He enjoyed a career on stage, screen and television that spanned nearly 70 years.

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Leo G. Carroll Was Over a Barrell

Leo G. Carroll Was Over a Barrell

October 25 was the natal day of the great English-American actor Leo G. Carroll; as it happens we have also just passed the 50th anniversary of his passing (October 16, 1972). Thanks to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Carroll will always have a nice Halloween association, for he is namechecked in the opening number. The reference is to his role in Jack Arnold’s Tarantula (1955), in which Carroll…

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The Man From W.R.I.N.K.L.E.

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Peter Ustinov in 1955, We’re No Angels. A Christmas movie with a cast of some of my favorite actors, Ustinov, Bogart, Leo G Carroll, Basil Rathbone and Dark Shadows’ Joan Bennett.

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Above: Cloris Leachman and Katharine Hepburn in As You Like It, 1950.

Cloris Leachman, 1926–2021

Cloris Leachman became popular and famous in Hollywood, but she started out as a New York stage actress. She studied at the Actors Studio with actors like Marlon Brando, Eli Wallach, and Julie Harris. From 1946 to 1959, according to the Internet Broadway Database, she appeared in a dozen plays on Broadway. Most of her parts were small or supporting ones, and she did time as an understudy. But two roles were featured and glamorous: Nellie Forbush in the original run of South Pacific (first as an understudy, then a replacement, for Mary Martin) and Celia in a Theater Guild production of As You Like It, opposite Katharine Hepburn.

Leachman  was slated to play the role of Abigail Williams (the ringleader of the girls accused of practicing witchcraft) in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The show played four preview performances in Wilmington, Delaware, before opening on Broadway on January 22, 1953. However, Leachman left the production the day before opening night in Wilmington, and Madeleine Sherwood assumed the role. Leachman's name was heavily publicized before the production's opening, and her name still appeared in the printed program. Leachman said, however, that she later played the part on Broadway.

Left: with Edward Binns in Sundown Beach, 1948. Right: with Leo G. Carroll in Lo and Behold, 1951–52.

Left: with George Britton in South Pacific, 1952. Right: the program for King of Hearts, with Donald Cook and Jackie Cooper, 1954.

[kwebtv]

Character Actor

Ernest Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958)  Film, stage and television actor whose best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper (played by Leo G. Carroll), in the 1950s television series, Topper (1953–1956).

Other TV series he appeared in were Dick Tracy, The Bigelow Theatre, Cavalcade of America, Big Town, Our Miss Brooks, Dangerous Assignment, Hopalong Cassidy, My Little Margie, Four Star Playhouse, Lassie, The Lone Ranger, It's a Great Life, TV Reader's Digest, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday , The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Loretta Young Show, Tales of the Texas Rangers , Circus Boy, Men of Annapolis and Maverick. 

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 10.25

Beer Birthdays

Ellef Ringnes (1842)

Bobby Bush (1953)

Chris Ericson (1961)

Melissa Cole (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jon Anderson; rock singer (1944)

Adam Goldberg; actor (1970)

Pablo Picasso; Spanish artist (1881)

Zoot Sims; saxophonist (1925)

Anne Tyler; writer (1941)

Famous Birthdays

Billy Barty; actor (1924)

Sarah Bernhard; actor (1844)

John Berryman; poet, writer (1914)

Georges Bizet; composer (1836)

Richard E. Byrd; explorer, Naval admiral (1888)

Leo G. Carroll; actor (1886)

James Carville; political consultant (1944)

Henry Steele Commager; historian (1902)

Barbara Cook; actor (1927)

Tony Franciosa; actor (1928)

Jimmy Heath; jazz saxophonist (1926)

Bobby Knight; basketball coach (1940)

Micheal MacLiammoir; English writer, actor (1899)

Roberto Menescal; Brazilian bossa nova guitarist (1937)

Midori; Japanese violinist (1971)

Tracey Nelson; actor (1963)

Minnie Pearl; comedian (1912)

Katy Perry; pop singer (1984)

Helen Reddy; pop singer (1941)

Coco Robicheaux; blues guitarist (1947)

Marion Ross; actor (1928)

Henry Norris Russell; astronomer (1877)

Johann Strauss; composer (1825)

Bobby Thompson; New York Giants OF (1923)

Glenn Tipton; rock guitarist (1947)

Taylor Vixen; porn actor (1983)

"Smoky Joe" Wood; Boston Red Sox P/OF (1889)

[princesssarisa]

A Christmas Carol Holiday Season: "A Christmas Carol" (1938 film)

This vintage Hollywood Christmas Carol has always been known as a lightweight version among Dickens lovers. But it's probably the "classic" Carol most often seen on American TV, as Turner Classic Movies airs it every December. Produced by MGM at the height of the studio's prestige, it stars 51-year-old British character actor Reginald Owen – whom many of us today remember best as Admiral Boom in Mary Poppins – in the role of Scrooge, surrounded by a cast of MGM's stock British players. Chief among them is Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit, with his real-life wife Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Cratchit, and their daughter, future Lassie and Lost in Space star June Lockhart, as the middle Cratchit daughter Belinda.

This is indeed a cozy, lighthearted Carol, which downplays the horror and pathos of the book. The sequence with the Ghost of Christmas Past (portrayed as a beautiful young woman by Ann Rutherford) omits Scrooge's lost love Belle, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Lionel Braham) lacks the phantom children Ignorance and Want beneath his robe, and Christmas Yet to Come lacks the scene of the thieves selling the dead Scrooge's belongings. More emphasis than usual is placed on the Cratchit family, whose comfortable house looks more lower-middle class than poor, and on nephew Fred (Barry MacKay), who has a romance subplot borrowed from Edison's 1910 silent version. Rather than already being married, he can't yet afford to marry his fiancée Bess (Lynne Carver), which in the end Scrooge resolves by offering him a new job as his business partner. In another added subplot, Scrooge fires Bob Cratchit for accidentally ruining his hat with a thrown snowball, and Bob spends all of Christmas hiding this crisis from his family. Marley's Ghost (Leo G. Carroll) and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (D'Arcy Corrigan) provide token spookiness, but for the most part, this is a family-friendly Carol defined by Christmas cheer.

But whether or not it's authentic Dickens, the warmth and charm of this film is hard to resist. The scenery and costumes offer a vivid, if idealized portrait of Victorian London, enhanced by Franz Waxman's musical score. Reginald Owen's Scrooge might lack the depth and pathos of other Scrooges (and looks slightly cartoonish in his heavy old age makeup), but his journey from crotchety miser to joyful benefactor is convincing and endearing all the same. Gene Lockhart's Bob Cratchit strikes an ideal balance between merriment and melancholy, Barry MacKay's jovial Fred makes the most of his expanded role, and the rest of the cast is equally strong.

This cheerful film might be "Dickens lite," but as far as I'm concerned, it's still worth watching every year.

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[byneddiedingo]

Judith Anderson and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) Cast: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, Nigel Bruce, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates, Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll. Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan, based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier. Cinematography: George Barnes. Art direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, William Cameron Menzies. Music: Franz Waxman. Rebecca is a very good movie. Would it have been a better one if Alfred Hitchcock, directing his first American film, had been left alone by the producer, David O. Selznick, an incurable micromanager? That's the question that lingers, especially since Hitchcock later expressed some dissatisfaction with the film. It does mostly lack the director's sense of humor, except  in the scene in which the horrid Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates) snuffs a cigarette in a jar of cold cream, a gag Hitchcock liked so much that he used it again 15 years later in To Catch a Thief, in which the substitute ashtray is a fried egg. The differences between Hitchcock and Selznick largely lay in the realm of editing, in which Selznick loved to dabble, insisting that scenes be shot from various camera angles to give him latitude in the editing room. Hitchcock was a famous storyboarder, working out scenes and planning camera setups well in advance of the actual shooting -- "editing in the camera," as it's usually called. The story would probably also have been very different in the Hitchcock version: According to one source, the original version suggested by Hitchcock began on shipboard, with various people being seasick. Selznick, however, liked to stick closely to the novels on which he based his films: The opening title, for example, refers to the movie as a "picturization" of Daphne Du Maurier's bestseller. (This was doubtless a comfort to Du Maurier, who hated Hitchcock's version of her novel Jamaica Inn (1939) -- but then so did Hitchcock, and both of them were right to do so.) The glory of Rebecca lies mostly in its performances. Although Laurence Olivier never makes Maxim de Winter a fully credible character -- I think he felt he was slumming, doing the film only to be near Vivien Leigh, and disgusted when Selznick didn't cast her as the second Mrs. de Winter -- he was always a watchable actor, even when he wasn't doing a great job of it. Joan Fontaine is almost perfect in her role, making credible the crucial character switch, when she stops being shy and stands up to Mrs. Danvers. And Hitchcock must have loved working with the gaggle of British character actors who had flocked to Hollywood and populate all the supporting roles.

[silveragelovechild]

Mild Mannered Reporter for a Great Metropolitan Newspaper

Imagine a Superman movie produced in the mid-1960s (before the campiness of the Batman TV show). Who would star?

In his civilian identity Superman is Clark Kent, a mild mannered reporter at the Daily Planet. Perry White is Editor-in-Chief and Jimmy Olsen is a cub reporter.

Gardner McKay as Clark Kent - talk, lean, and handsome, McKay (who starred in the TV series “Adventures in Paradise” would be great as Clark and Kal.

Leo G. Carroll as Perry White - starred in serveral series in the 1950s/60s - the ghost comedy "Topper" and as Mr. Waverly on "Man from UNCLE". I think he would have worked well as Perry. Maybe not as gruff as other portrayals but effective. 

Tony Dow as Jimmy Olsen - I tried to find a young actor for Jimmy. As I researched I came across a photo to Tony Dow from the 1960s. He was quite handsome and with the “Leave it to Beaver” series ending in 1963 that would have been a perfect time for Dow to make a movie. 

[princessgracekelly1956]

ABOVE: Movie stars Grace Kelly, Louis Jourdan, and Brian Aherne were among more than 50 persons who arrived from Hollywood last night to begin shooting scenes from the MGM production “The Swan.”

The Asheville Citizen-Times - September 25, 1955

Grace Kelly And Troupe Here For Work On Film

Beautiful Academy Award winner Grace Kelly and a troupe of about 60 other movie functionaries arrived in Asheville last night after an uneventful six-hour, non-stop flight from Los Angeles to prepare for shooting of scenes from the MGM picture, “The Swan.”

Also arriving with Miss Kelly were Alec Guinness, the English actor, Louis Jourdan and others who will play lesser roles in the movie.

The plane, a chartered DC-7, put down at Donaldson Air Force Base, S.C., late yesterday afternoon. Only a small crowd was on hand to catch a glimpse of the stars.

AHERNE HAS BEARD

Brian Aherne, who will play the part of a Franciscan priest in the movie, arrived by train yesterday morning festooned in a rich, full-blooming beard.

The first scenes in the picture will be shot here Tuesday on Biltmore Estate, former home of the Vanderbilts.

It will be the first time Guinness, England’s brightest star, will have appeared in an American movie.

Miss Kelly, Jourdan and Guinness motored here last night and are staying at The Manor along with Aherne and others of the MGM officials.

GREETED BY RAIN

The stars entered Asheville early last night all but unnoticed and greeted principally by Asheville’s first September rain. Mayor Earl W. Eller was present at The Manor and was all smiles as he was introduced to the stars.

Save for two young girls, dressed in Bermuda shorts, and a boy, there were no prospective autograph seekers on hand.

The film people will be in Asheville for between two and three weeks shooting outdoor scenes. Then they’ll return to Hollywood for two months of indoor shooting.

The location unit - one of the largest ever sent from the movie capital - includes about 130 tons of equipment moved here by the chartered plane and seven huge trucks.

EXPECTED TOMORROW

Character actress Agnes Moorehead is expected to arrive tomorrow, completing the cast.

Also on the plane with Miss Kelly yesterday were Estelle Winwood, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Coote and two small boys - Christopher Cook, who played Peter Todd as a youth in the recent “A Man Called Peter,” and Van Dyke Parks. The boys play the parts of Miss Kelly's brothers in the film.

Miss Landis plays Miss Kelly's mother for the second straight picture. She had the same role in “To Catch a Thief.”

Miss Kelly plays a beautiful princess whose family has a long and old title but no money. Her mother promoted a marriage between the princess and a rich prince, played by Alec Guinness. Guinness is an indifferent suitor and spends more time looking at the cows than at the princess. They get married, however.

The princess’ tutor is played by Louis Jourdan. He and the princess fall in love, but the prince (Guinness) wins out in the end.

However, according to the script, Guinness will go through the entire film without kissing the beautiful Miss Kelly.