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clarklovescarole · 2 years ago

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March 1939: Just Married

(Printed March 31, 1939 – Los Angeles Times)

Clark Gable, Carole Lombard Wed In Little Arizona Desert Town

March 30, 1939 (Associated Press)

Fun-loving Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who wrote the long-anticipated happy ending in the story of their courtship in a little Arizona town late yesterday, returned early today to the bride’s Bel-Air home.

Exhausted by their 750-mile trip, they retired, to wait until later to move into the home on his one-mile San Fernando Valley ranch which Gable redecorated in preparation for the wedding.

Marriage Expected

Friends were not surprised when news of the ceremony reached here last night, although their absence from the film capital during the day had gone unnoticed. The marriage had been expected daily since the screen's No. 1 masculine star was given his freedom earlier this month by his second wife, Maria.

Gable, 38, and his blonde bride, 31, a top-ranking comedienne, scorned the time-tried Hollywood elopement plot. They chose Kingman, Arizona, a desert railroad community, for the rites in preference to filmdom’s more favored Gretna Greens, Yuma, Ariz., and Las Vegas, Nev. They traveled by automobile instead of by plane, as most other elopers.

They slipped in and out of Kingman so unobtrusively that only a half-dozen residents knew they were there. The license clerk, Viola Olsen, said she was so startled when she recognized them that she was almost speechless.

Directed to Parish House

After issuing the license, she directed them to the parish house of Rev. Kenneth M. Engle, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. While Miss Lombard changed from a simple traveling suit to a gray flannel ensemble, the minister quickly arranged the details.

Inside the church next door, Mrs. Engle played softly on the organ as the famous stars began their march. They walked down the aisle hand-in-hand to hear the pastor pronounce the ceremony, in which there was no word “obey.”

As each said, “I take the…” Gable slipped the ring on the actress’ finger, kissed her and they hurried out. But the news had not spread. Not a soul was waiting for them. Gable confided to Howard Cate, high school principal and one of the witnesses, that they intended to leave for Boulder City, Nev., and spend today at Boulder Dam. Then they drove away.

Dine at Needles

But a few hours later, they were eating dinner in Needles, Calif., and were reported seen in the small communities on the highway across the Mojave Desert, en route home.

They stopped briefly at a state checking station in Daggett, where an inspector said Gable was sleeping soundly, Miss Lombard appeared drowsy and their companion, Otto Winkler, publicity man, was driving.

Gable was due back on the Selznick lot today to continue work as Rhett Butler in “Gone with the Wind.” Friends said the couple expected to defer a honeymoon until summer, when both are free of picture engagements.

Gable’s ranch, with his comfortable home, was purchased some months ago. He has spent almost all his spare time there, doing some plowing and helping fare for his citrus grove.

Like “Gags”

For four years, he and Miss Lombard have been indulging in “gags” at the other’s expense. Carole’s latest was the gift of “Bessie,” a mule, to Gable on his birthday last month. “Bessie” is a favored resident of the ranch.

Once she gave him an old model T Ford for a Valentine’s gift, and he responded by parking a fire engine on her front lawn. When he gave what she considered a good performance, she sent him a ham with his picture on it. The actress, who delights in the “screwball” roles she made popular first in “My Man Godfrey,” once arrived at a party given by John Hay Whitneys in an ambulance, pretending she was ill. Gable paid her marked attention throughout the evening.

Meet In Picture

They first met in 1932 in a picture, and socially at a party a year later. Since 1935, when Gable and Maria Gable separated, they have been frequent companions at film affairs. Meanwhile he and his wife had made a mutual agreement not to meet publicly, to avert embarrassment.

The second Mrs. Gable was granted a divorce March 7, in Las Vegas. Gable earlier reached a property settlement involving $286,000 with her.

Miss Lombard, whose real name is Jane Peters, was married to actor William Powell in 1931, and divorced him in 1933.

(Printed March 31, 1939 – Daily News)

Romantic Gable Turns Shy as He and Carole Are Wed

March 30, 1939 (INS)

The Encino home of screen hero Clark Gable today welcomed the return of Gable and his new bride, Carole Lombard, blond screen beauty, whom he married late yesterday in a surprise elopement to Kingman, Ariz.

It was an elopement that left the film colony buzzing with excitement, although it was a foregone conclusion the popular film pair was to be married shortly.

Gable, recently divorced in Nevada by his second wife, and Miss Lombard had been watched constantly by reporters since Gable was divorced.

Yesterday, with practically all the writers in San Francisco for a picture premiere, the vigilance was let down.

So Clark and Carole hopped into Gable’s white roadster, picked up Otto Winkler, a studio representative, and departed for Kingman.

At dusk, in the Methodist church of Rev. Kenneth Engle, with Winkler, Mrs. Engle and Howard Cate, Kingman High School principal, as witnesses, the long-publicized romance of the two famous stars was culminated.

Viola Olsen, county clerk at Kingman, revealed the romantic Gable and the glamorous Carole were very shy indeed when they appeared before her and asked for a marriage license.

Gable grinned and said:

“I’m Clark Gable. I’d like to get a marriage license.”

He gave his age as 38. Miss Lombard said she was 29, and an actress.

Gable, Miss Olsen said, timidly asked her to recommend a minister and the clerk suggested Rev. Engle. Then Miss Olsen drove the couple to the minister’s home.

The young minister called in his wife, and went next door for Cate. Gable and Miss Lombard sat in the rectory parlor, whispering.

After the marriage service, Gable kissed his bride.

Cate said Gable, the real-life bridegroom, was not Gable, the sophisticated lover of the screen.

“They were quite lovey-dovey,” he said.

The ceremony over, Gable and Miss Lombard headed for Boulder City, Nev., where they stayed overnight, returning here today to the rambling home whose interior Carole herself arranged.

Just before leaving, however, the couple went to a phone. Mrs. Elizabeth Peters picked up the receiver in Hollywood.

“Hello, Mom, this is your new son-in-law,” Gable laughed.

Then after the bride spoke to her mother, Gable turned reporter and called the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer press bureau in Hollywood to give details of the wedding.

It is the second marriage for Miss Lombard, who divorced actor William Powell, and the third marriage for Gable.

(Printed March 31, 1939 – Daily News)

Gables Back At New Love Nest

March 31, 1939 (INS)

Back at the bride’s smart Bel-Air home after their elopement to Kingman, Ariz., Clark Gable and Carole Lombard bubbled with excitement today as they received countless congratulations and visits from well wishers.

“Honest, “Clark explained, “it was just on the spur of the moment. I found out Tuesday night I wouldn’t have to work Wednesday and Thursday, so I called Carole and we decided to leave on Wednesday morning.”

With the nation’s No. 1 screen hero scheduled to be back to work today, the honeymoon will have to be deferred until his new picture “Gone with the Wind” is finished.

“But then we’ll go some place for a real honeymoon,” they said.

The Gables’ new love nest cottage in San Fernando valley is practically ready for occupancy, they said, and then added that it was nothing pretentious – just seven rooms.

“And one of them is going to be a gun room for Clark,” said his beaming bride, herself an actress of renown.

Discussing the marriage in Kingman, they revealed that there was no difficulty about producing the wedding ring when they stood up before Rev. Kenneth Engle in the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

“I’ve had this ring in my pocket for two months,” said Gable. “We weren’t sure when we would be able to get married because of the picture and I didn’t want to be caught unprepared in case the chance came.”

(Printed March 31, 1939 – Berkshire Evening News)

Gables Pack Up To Go To “Ranch”

March 31, 1939 (AP)

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard returned from their 725-mile wedding jaunt at 4 o’clock this morning, slept a few hours and were up at noon, looking fresh and happy, to receive photographers and reporters.

They were “at home” at Carole’s house, but there was evidence in every room that they will move soon. Dishes and pictures have been packed and Carole said she was moving to Clark’s little ranch house in about a week.

“You’ll have to put the word ranch in double quotes,” laughed Gable. “It’s only 14 acres. But we like it, don’t we honey? I plowed it personally and Carole did the interior decorating.”

The “ranch,” about 15 miles from Hollywood, boasts a mule, a hand tractor, walnut trees, and chickens. The house is Dutch colonial, seven rooms. It has two bedrooms. The servants’ quarters are over the garage.

Mr. Gable is to resume making love to Vivien Leigh, his leading lady, at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

(Printed March 31, 1939 – Tampa Tribune)

Honeymoon of Gables On “As and If” Basis

March 31, 1939 (United Press)

Clark Gable, who performs more gracefully as a lover on the screen than off, diffidently put his arm around the slim waist of Carole Lombard, his bride, today and said yes, he was a lucky guy. She had just called him the star in their family.

The newlyweds drove until 3 a.m., after their elopement to Kingman, Ariz., yesterday, slept for a few hours, and emerged from Miss Lombard’s torn-up house as fresh as a couple of daisies – well, almost as fresh – to say their honeymoon was on a when, as, and if basis.

The widely-grinning Gable, clad in a slightly rumpled blue serge suit, badly needed a haircut. That was the rub. He has to have his hair long for his part in “Gone with the Wind” and it’ll be two months before that job is finished.

Plans Indefinite

“And on Wednesday I go to work at RKO,” his bride said, “and it looks as it our plans for a honeymoon will heave to be indefinite as they were for our marriage. Only reason we got married yesterday was because Clark suddenly found he’d have the day off.”

“That’s true,” chimed in Carole’s mother, the wealthy Mrs. Elizabeth Peters. “I certainly was surprised when they called me up and swore me to secrecy.”

As for widely-printed reports that Miss Lombard intends to stop earning $425,000 a year as one of the movie’s top stars and become a housewife and maybe have some children, she smiled and said that was more guesswork.

“Eventually,” she said, “I’m going to retire, but that’s all in the future and I haven’t thought about it much. It’s too far away. But I can say now that Clark is the star of the family. He always has been.”

Have Pictures Taken

While his bride did the talking, Gable tried to follow the orders of a dozen directors, in the form of news cameramen, all shouting at once. Some wanted him to squeeze his wife, others wanted him to put his head next to hers as if about to bestow a kiss, while the rest insisted that the bride and groom walk arm-in-arm from the front door of Miss Lombard’s white brick house.

All this artistic work was accomplished in good time. Gable and his bride are old hands at having their pictures taken. When the last flash bulb was exploded, they invited everybody inside to drink to their happiness.

This took some doing, because all of the bride’s highball glasses were wrapped in old newspapers and packed in barrels. The catering department of the Brown Derby drove up about then, though, and all hands had a spot of Scotch and soda.

Miss Lombard had packed all her furniture on the theory that Gable’s new ranch home in San Fernando valley would be ready, but the plasterers still had not finished their work.

“So I had a few chairs and things unpacked again,” she said, “and we’ll stay in this house until our new one is ready. I think it’ll be about two weeks more.”

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) We shall Overcome (Sheet Music)

Pete Seeger - We shall Overcome (arr. for Quartet with lyrics + guitar chords) sheet music

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“No one can prove how important music is, but people in power believe it is, and they try to control it,” Pete Seeger (b. May 3, 1919) wrote in 2010 as the Foreword to the children’s book We Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the World. “The power of singing together shows us that change is possible. In Beacon, New York, where I live, adults and children gather every year for a big block party called ‘The Spirit of Beacon Day.’ There are people from different religions and different cultures, speaking many different languages. There is singing, dancing, and eating. It is a hopeful event for everyone and music helps to bring us together.” This approach gives a good sense of one of the central threads in Seeger’s long, complex public life—his optimism and promotion of folk singing throughout the world—which we have tried to capture through the discussions and documents in The Pete Seeger Reader. It has been a life filled with triumphs and pitfalls, but throughout he has struggled to be primarily a teacher as well as a performer and political organizer. In 1991 Pete journeyed to Havana, Cuba, to receive that country’s highest award, the Felix Varela Medal. Three years later, President Bill Clinton bestowed on him the National Medal of the Arts as well as a Kennedy Center Award during a nationally televised ceremony in the nation’s capital. In 1996 Pete was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the same year that his CD Pete garnered a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Three years earlier, he captured a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Grammy Awards kept coming, in 2009 with At 89, also for Best Traditional Folk Album, then two years later when Tomorrow’s Children captured honors for the Best Musical Album for Children. As Pete had come from a long line of New England aristocrats—his father, Charles, was a gifted musicologist who had pioneered the field of ethnomusicology, and his mother, Constance de Clyver Edson, was a talented violinist—and had attended Harvard College, such awards might have seemed natural and fitting. But this was not always the case. Pete had dropped out of Harvard during his second year, 1938, and never looked back. For the next seven plus decades he would follow his muse—the banjo, folk music, and activist politics—in the process becoming the country’s (even the world’s) most famous folk performer as well as political activist. The road, however, was a rough one. The basic outlines of Pete’s story have been told, particularly by his biographer David King Dunaway, in How Can I Keep from Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger (first published in 1981, then expanded and updated in 2008). Two shorter biographies have also appeared: Allan M. Winkler, “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (2009) and Alec Wilkinson, The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger (2009). Jim Brown’s wonderful documentary film, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (Genius Products, 2008), captures much of the story. David King Dunaway’s three-hour radio series Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing? is also helpful. Dunaway has cataloged, as much as possible, Seeger’s amazing list of recordings in A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings (2010). Pete has not only recorded hundreds of folk songs, old and new, foreign and domestic, but also the Folkways albums The Nativity, Traditional Christmas Carols, and Jewish Children’s Songs and Games, as well as the Phillips release The Birth: Story of the Nativity by Scholem Asch. As for Seeger’s own writings, he has published various editions of Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singalong Memoir, starting in 1993, the latest in 2009, which includes much autobiographical information as well as the lyrics to hundreds of his songs. We have, therefore, included no song lyrics. Many of his pre-1970 writings were collected and published by Jo Metcalf Schwartz, ed., in The Incomplete Folksinger by Pete Seeger (1972), including his columns for Sing Out!, titled “Johnny Appleseed, Jr.,” which began in the fall 1954 issue: “This column is dedicated to Johnny Appleseed, Jr.,—the thousands of boys and girls who today are using their guitars and their songs to plant the seeds of a better tomorrow in the homes across our land …. For if the radio, the press, and all the large channels of mass communication are closed to their songs of freedom, friendship and peace, they must go from house to house, from school and camp to church and clambake.” Most recently, Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal have edited Pete Seeger in His Own Words (2012), a broad collection of his writings, many previously unpublished and drawn from Pete’s private collection. In November 2002 Pete wrote me (Ron Cohen) a letter, commenting on my book Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society. 1940–1970 (2002). After some initial comments, mostly positive—“I learned a lot of things I never knew. And of the things I knew, I believe you got a B+, sometimes an A+”)—he helpfully concluded: “I’m sorry you didn’t give more space to women: Malvina , Holly Near, & my stepmother Ruth. And Faith Petric! … The steady (if slow) proliferation of clubs, publications, venues (including festivals), songwriters, & home music is THE important thing, and not the fame or fortune of us professionals! Not that the latter are unimportant. Arlo Guthrie and ‘City of New Orleans’ have inspired millions, I believe.” For someone who has been in the public eye since 1939, he had a telling point, but it is consistent with Seeger’s lifelong pursuit of being an educator, as well as his success as an entertainer, songwriter, and political activist. His organizing skills began with the formation of the Almanac Singers in 1941, continued after the war with People’s Songs and People’s Artists, the Weavers in 1949, then Sing Out! in 1950, the Newport Folk Festivals beginning in 1959, Broadside magazine in 1962, and the launching of the Clearwater sailing ship and environmental movement in 1969. All the while, music was interwoven with his strenuous promotional and educational activities. We have chosen the selections in this book to focus on materials written about Seeger and we drew upon a number of rather obscure publications. The number and rich variety of magazines in the United States (and throughout the world) where interviews and articles have appeared is certainly amazing and perhaps matched only by a few other popular musicians (such as the Beatles, Elvis, and Bob Dylan)—Rolling Stone, Goldmine, Life, Songwriter, Pickin’, FRETS, Saturday Review, Acoustic Guitar, not to mention Sing Out! and other folk publications, even the men’s magazine Penthouse, as well as dozens of newspapers and other publications. We have included a smattering of interviews coming up to 2010, but they are rather redundant, often repeating the same background stories and political views, with, of course, variations. Seeger has been a prolific writer, and some of his more interesting and insightful essays have been included, particularly demonstrating the development of his ideas and interests over the many decades. For example, by the 1960s he became increasingly concerned about the cultural role of television, during and after his blacklisting from the mainstream media. At the same time he created Rainbow Quest, thirty nine folksy TV programs, 1965–1966, for WNJU, Newark, New Jersey’s, educational channel, which began by featuring Tom Paxton along with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. There followed an amazing array of performers, old and new friends, such as Elizabeth Cotten, Malvina Reynolds, Doc Watson, Mimi and Richard Fariña, Johnny Cash, Roscoe Holcomb and Jean Redpath, Donovan and the Rev. Gary Davis, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. The series appeared after ABC-TV blacklisted him from appearing on the popular Hootenanny show, a flap that garnered much publicity. Clearwater Publishing later issued thirty-eight shows on tape, and most recently Shanachie included twelve episodes on six DVDs. Along with his multitude of recordings and books, Seeger has also produced numerous films to inform and instruct. For example, he starred in a short film in 1946, To Hear Your Banjo Play, which also included Woody Guthrie, Baldwin “Butch” Hawes, Sonny Terry, Brownee McGhee, and Texas Gladden. During the family’s world trip in 1963 the camera was continually rolling. In 2006 Vestapol released the fascinating DVD A Musical Journey: The Films of Pete, Toshi, & Dan Seeger, 1957– 1964. Pete Seeger is perhaps most proud of his children’s songbooks, beginning with Foolish Frog (1973), followed by (with Paul Dubois Jacobs) Abiyoyo (1985), Pete Seeger’s Storytelling Book (2000) Pete Seeger’s Abioyo Returns (2001), Some Friends to Feed: Stone Soup (2005), and The Deaf Musicians (2006). There are also the political songbooks, including Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People (1967), Songs for Peace (1966), and ending with Everybody Says Freedom (1989) and Carry It On! The Story of America’s Working People in Story and Song (1985), both with his collaborator Bob Rieser. In addition to Where Have All the Flowers Gone, he has produced numerous other songbooks and instruction manuals, including the influential How to Play the 5- string Banjo (1948 and subsequent editions), How to Make a Chalil (1955), Choral Folksongs of the Bantu for Mixed Voices (1960), American Favorite Ballads (1961), The Goofing Off Suite (1961), The Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong (1961), Woody Guthrie Folk Songs (1963), The Bells of Rhymney (1964), Bits and Pieces (1965), Oh Had I a Golden Thread (1968), Pete Seeger on Record (1971), and Henscratches and Flyspecks: How to Read Melodies from Songbooks in Twelve Confusing Lessons (1973). Seeger’s life has been a roller-coaster ride, with his left-wing politics often generating much heat. Many of our selections, which follow roughly a chronological progression, highlight his more than seven-decade struggle between popularity and vilification. Yet, all the while, Seeger continued his amazing productivity and influence. Most of the selections have been previously published, but not all. There are also excerpts from foreign publications, all in English, since he has been a world figure, with his recordings issued in dozens of countries. We have not included the profusion of articles from the New York Times since they are readily available. “Pete Seeger is possessed of that rarest of human qualities—the inquiring mind,” his old friend Alan Lomax has written. “This gentle and at the same time fiery and unbeatable spirit pervades his music, his friendships, his beanpole body and his thought. Hisperformances are true to our folk music traditions. He has listened with a keen ear and uses the singing and instrumental styles of our folk musicians faithfully and sensitively” (Notes for Pete Seeger concert program, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Montreal, Canada, May 13, 1962). Seeger has been a tireless champion of folk and popular music—he has never referred to himself as a “folk singer,” but rather “a singer of folk songs”—which we have tried to capture in the selections that follow. He has also been a political activist, first a crusader for socialism, labor unions, civil rights, and world peace (except during World War II), then during and following the 1960s of restoring the environment, not as a substitute for his earlier passions but rather as a compliment and addition. He has given thousands of concerts around the world, always as a tireless champion of music as well as various political causes, but he has also done so much more as a teacher, author, filmmaker, and organizer. For the latest information, check out the website www.peteseeger.net. We have not corrected factual errors in the essays, except in rare cases, but we are aware that they do exist. There are also spelling discrepancies, for example, Leadbelly instead of the correct Lead Belly. 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itcanbefilmed · 4 years ago

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An American Christmas Carol (Eric Till, 1979)

#an american christmas carol #henry winkler #scrooge #christmas movies #1979

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kwebtv · 11 months ago

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Henry Winkler as Benedict Slade and Dorian Harewood as Matt Reeves in "An American Christmas Carol"

#An American Christmas Carol #TV #Henry Winkler #Dorian Harewood

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tiraninho · 4 years ago

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soweirdondisney · 1 year ago

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Earlier this month Modesto, California hosted The American Graffiti Festival and Car Show.

A celebration of the George Lucas movie and a fundraiser for charities, the event kicked off with a parade of classic cars on the historical 10th and 11th Streets that inspired the film.

While the festival and car show celebrated its 24th anniversary, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of American Graffiti.

Last year Mackenzie Phillips had to cancel her appearance, but she was able to attend this year.

In her first acting role ever at only 12 years old, Mackenzie portrayed Carol Morrison in the movie that starred Ron Howard (who would later be on Happy Days alongside So Weird's future executive producer Henry Winkler), Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, and other now-recognizable names.

One of two stars who attended this year's festival, Mackenzie was the only woman of the six inductees to the Legends of the Cruise Walk of Fame.

She was escorted through the route and received a plaque at an onstage ceremony before mingling with the crowd to sign autographs, take photos, and hang out with car enthusiasts.

Thanks for the tip, Jimmie!

#mackenzie phillips #molly phillips #american graffiti #so weird #so weird disney #disney so weird #candy clark #henry winkler #harrison ford #ron howard #richard dreyfuss #modesto #modesto california #car show #american graffiti car show #george lucas #festival and car show #youtube #Youtube

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abs0luteb4stard · 3 years ago

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universitybookstore · 7 years ago

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And 10 more Scrooges, all from TV, to celebrate A Christmas Carol, originally published in 1843: Patrick Stewart, 1999, Mister Magoo (Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol,) 1962, Cicely Tyson (Ms. Scrooge,) 1997, Kelsey Grammer, 2004, Henry Winkler (An American Christmas Carol,) 1979, Fred Flinstone (A Flinstone’s Christmas Carol, 1994, Michael Horden, 1977, Oscar the Grouch, 2006, Rowen Atkinson (Blackadder’s Christmas Carol,) 1988, Frederic March, 1954.

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The animated Happy Days spinoffs (who knew there were so many talking animals in the 50s?)

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[All images are owned by Hannah-Barbara or Paramount. Please don’t sue me]

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For those who do not know, Happy Days was a sitcom from the mid-70s through the mid-80s about the Cunningham family and their lives in the 50s and early 60s in the city of Milwaukee. The star of the show is the oldest son Richie (played by Ron Howard) He and his friends Ralph Malph and Warren “Potsie” Webber had all sorts of mundane adventures until they encountered...

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...Arthur “The Fonz” (or “Fonzie”) Fonzerelli (played by Henry Winkler), who would become Richie’s best friend. Fonzie was the epitome of “cool”, able to do supernatural things with just his "coolness”.

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But this isn’t about Happy Days per se. You see, when a show is successful, producers want to cash in on the show’s success by making new shows in the same “universe” (There were four shows “spun off” from Happy Days) Some are based on existing characters (such as Joanie Loves Chachi, which was about Richie’s sister and her boyfriend) or about characters who were introduced for the express purpose of spinning them off (such as Mork & Mindy)

The former is the case for the first subject of this review (the latter I’ll discuss later)

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(Yes, that’s legendary “oldies” DJ Wolfman Jack narrating the intro. Sadly, that’s his only involvement)

The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang followed...

...Fonzie, Richie, and Ralph (voiced by Winkler, Howard, and Donny Most, whom longtime will remember also voiced Eric the Cavalier) as they are dragged into a “Gilligan’s Island, time travel edition” style show.

For whatever reason, the writers added a talking dog named “Mr. Cool” as comic relief. Most fans of the show were very confused as Fonzie had a dog on the show named Spunky.

...who looks nothing like Mr. Cool.

Mr. Cool thought that, since he was the Fonz’s dog, he had Cool Powers too, but far from it. Nearly every time he tries using them it spelled disaster.

Piloting the time machine is Cupcake (they have weird names in the future. Are her parents named Bundt and Cheese?) who has no clue how the damn thing works.

If you would like to watch this show, it’s available on KissCartoon.

Now on to the final spinoff...

Laverne & Shirley was a sitcom followed best friends...

...Laverne DiFazio (played by Penny Marshall. For whatever reason, Laverne needed to have a giant L embroidered on everything she wore) and Shirley Feeney (played by Cindy Williams) as they went through life in another part of Milwaukee (and later, for some reason, Los Angeles)

However, what I’m here to cover is the spinoff of the spinoff (which was paired with The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, naturally)

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Yes, for whatever reason, the girls decide to join the army. Thing is, there was an episode of the main series where they did that very thing.

Meet Sgt. Plout (played by Carol Burnett Show alum Vicki Lawrence), who would’ve made a better foil in the animated series than...

...their Commanding Pig, Sgt. Squealy (though I’m not sure why he has Private stripes). Hell, they could’ve made Plout a frog (since Shirley commented Plout resembled one) if they REALLY wanted a talking animal.

The episodes involved Laverne, Shirley, and Squealy dealing with all sorts on nonsense that had almost nothing to do with Army life.

If you would like to watch this train wreck, it’s also available on KissCartoon

If you would like to see an episode from either series reviewed, let me know!

#happy days #laverne & shirley #animation #henry winkler #ron howard #donny most #penny marshall #cindy williams #Fan Colored Glasses

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NICKELODEON’S HIT PRESCHOOL SERIES BUBBLE GUPPIES MAKES A SPLASH WITH SEASON PREMIERE’S BRAND-NEW GUPPY, FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, AT 12 P.M. (ET/PT) NEW YORK–Sept. 17, 2019–Nickelodeon’s hit preschool series Bubble Guppies will make a splash with the debut of an all-new season and a brand-new guppy on Friday, Sept. 27, at 12 p.m. (ET/PT). Season five of Bubble Guppies (26 half-hour episodes) will…

Bubble Guppies Season 5 Premieres on Nickelodeon September 27, 2019 was originally published on Anime Superhero News

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tcm · 4 years ago

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The Horror of Christmas By Jessica Pickens

“There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago,” goes the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” released in 1963. That Christmas song’s lyric may have left you scratching your head each time you hear it. Written by Edward Pola and George Wyle, the song looks back at old holiday traditions. Ghosts, goblins and creepy murderous tales are strictly relegated to Halloween, right? That’s how it stands today, at least. But in the Victorian era, telling ghost stories was part of the Christmas tradition.

The death and rebirth of a new year during the Winter Solstice seemed like an appropriate time for telling ghost stories. “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories,” wrote author and humorist Jerome K. Jerome in Told After Supper (1891). “Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about specters. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood.”

Even while we don’t tell ghost stories today at Christmas, one ghost story is still one of the most beloved Christmas tales, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. But even when it was published in 1843, it was not the first, or last, paranormal story told about Christmas. While the tradition of sharing Christmas ghost stories died long before the dawn of film, it still found its way onto the screen:

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (’38 and ‘51)

Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter and mean old man who has no patience for humanity or happiness. On Christmas Eve, a series of ghosts visit Scrooge and take him on a journey of self-exploration. Scrooge revisits his past, present and future and is warned to change his ways before it’s too late.

Since first appearing in a short film in 1901, A CHRISTMAS CAROL has been retold on film and television numerous times for over 100 years. The story has even been retold by The Muppets and Mickey Mouse for family-friendly audiences. It has also been modernized into various time periods, with Scrooge-like characters portrayed by Bill Murray, Henry Winkler, Cicely Tyson, Matthew McConaughey, Vanessa Williams and Susan Lucci.

But there are still several, more faithful retellings of the Dickens novel, including the 1938 version, starring Reginald Owen, and the 1951 version, starring Alastair Sim as the main character.

Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the 1938 version has a lighter and more joyful vibe. Owen’s Scrooge is more of a grump rather than entirely mean-spirited. He is almost immediately remorseful and says he loves Christmas while he’s with the Ghost of Christmas Present. Gene Lockhart plays Bob Cratchit as a cheerful man, despite having to work for a tyrannical boss. The 1951 version, made in England and released by Renown Pictures Corporation, is a darker telling of the Dickens story. Alastair Sim’s Scrooge is more brutish, cruel and dismissive to Bob Cratchit, played by Mervyn Johns. Johns plays Cratchit as a meeker and more browbeaten character.

Regardless of the films’ differences, the message of both versions is the same. The ghosts in A CHRISTMAS CAROL aren’t meant to frighten the audience but to encourage self-reflection. Scrooge isn’t just haunted by Jacob Marley and the three ghosts; memories of his past haunt him — that’s why he’s so bitter.

BEYOND TOMORROW (’40)

On Christmas Eve, we meet three elderly businessmen: George Melton (Harry Carey), Allan Chadwick (C. Aubrey Smith) and Michael O’Brien (Charles Winninger). The three men live together and are old friends, but they all have very different pasts. George is a man of little faith and is business-focused with a dark past. Distinguished Allan has a military background and lost his only son in World War I. Michael is the most whimsical of the three.

On Christmas Eve, Michael has the idea that they throw three wallets out into the street to see if an honest person returns them. A young man and woman, Jean Lawrence (Jean Parker) and James Houston (Richard Carlson), return the wallets. Neither having a family to go to that night, they join the gentlemen — all becoming fast friends by the end of the night. As Jean and James fall in love, they become close friends with the three men. Tragedy strikes when all three men are killed in a plane crash, leaving money to the couple so they can marry. However, with the new wealth and publicity, James becomes a singing radio star, forgetting about Jean in favor of another woman. The three men's ghosts try to guide James away from the other woman and encourage Jean to fight for her love.

In this story, the past lives of the three men don’t affect them in life, but in death. Carey’s character, George, is sort of like Scrooge. It’s hinted that he has a dark past, which may involve another woman and murder. Also, in his old age, anything but money is foolish to him. In death, George’s friends warn him that all he has to do is feel sorry for his past, but George has no regrets, even if it means going “to the dark place.”

In contrast, the other two characters are rewarded in death. Smith’s character gets to see his son again, who comes to fetch him. His son tells him that heaven is anything he wants it to be. Charles Winninger’s character is reluctant to leave his friends on Earth because he wants to continue to help them. But before leaving for heaven, he is able to. Even in death, the ghosts have to do good deeds not only to help their friends who are still living but to allow them to rest in the great beyond.

While we may not still tell ghost stories around the fire, the holiday season closes another year, allowing us to reflect on past memories. Some memories may be good, and others may haunt us in a way. However, 2020 may haunt us forever.

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