#fletcher markle

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Leslie Caron-Joseph Cotten "The man with a cloak" 1951, de Fletcher Markle.

[kino-zoo]

The Incredible Journey (1963)

[kwebtv]

Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (October 5, 1923 - January 4, 2024) Film, stage and television actress, dancer, musician and singer. In a career spanning eight decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She has received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a National Board of Review Award, and a Laurel Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is widely considered as being one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.

Johns made her television debut in 1952 with Fletcher Markle's Emmy Award-winning series Little Women. She appeared in just one episode: season 4's "Lilly, the Queen of the Movies" as Lily Snape. Her television credits of the 1950s include brief appearances in the Hollywood anthology series Lux Video Theatre (in the 1953 episode "Two For Tea"), Errol Flynn's anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre (in the 1956 episodes "The Sealed Room" as Lou McNamara and "The Girl in Blue Jeans" as The Girl Susan Tracey), CBS's anthology series Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (in the 1957 episode "The Dead Are Silent"), and ABC's variety and drama series The Frank Sinatra Show (in the 1958 episode "Face of Fear" as Christine Nolan)

Johns was cast in 1961 in the ABC/Warner Bros. crime drama The Roaring 20s. She portrayed Kitty O'Moyne, an Irish immigrant who falls overboard into the harbour as she arrives in the United States. Johns guest-starred in the CBS anthology seriesThe Lloyd Bridges Show in the episode "A Game for Alternate Mondays" of the 1962–63 television season, playing widow Leah Marquand, with Leslye Hunter as her daughter Isabella. On 5 August 1963, Vacation Playhouse premiered the episode "Hide and Seek" as the pilot of her eponymous CBS television series Glynis. The original working title for the series was The Glynis Johns Show; in it, Johns played the neophyte mystery writer and amateur sleuth Glynis Granvile. In the autumn of that year, Glynis officially premiered, starring Johns and Keith Andes as a married couple, Glynis Granville and Keith Granville, a criminal defence attorney. Due to pressure from NBC's The Virginian and Bill Cullen's The Price Is Right game show on ABC, the programme was cancelled after thirteen episodes. In 1965, when CBS reran the series as a summer replacement for The Lucy Show, Glynis ranked #6 in the Nielsen ratings. Johns remained busy on screen, appearing as Steffi Bernard in the episode "Who Killed Marty Kelso?" of ABC's detective series Burke's Law opposite Gene Barry. In 1967, she appeared in four episodes of the Batman television series as villainess Lady Penelope Peasoup, one half of the evil duo with Rudy Vallée as her brother Lord Marmaduke Ffogg.

During the first season of NBC's hit sitcom Cheers, Johns guest-starred as Diane Chambers' mother, Helen Chambers, an eccentric dowager who, due to a stipulation in Diane's late father's will, will lose all her money unless Diane is married by the next day. In 1985, Johns played Bridget O'Hara in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" of CBS's crime drama television series Murder, She Wrote, working again with Angela Lansbury. From 1988 to 1989, she played Trudie Pepper, a senior citizen living in an Arizona retirement community, in the television sitcom Coming of Age, also on CBS. (Wikipedia)

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Scottish writer, Sheila Burnford was born on May 11th 1918.

Sheila was born and educated in Edinburgh then Harrogate College in Yorkshire, England.

She was one of the first women in Scotland to receive her Aviation Certificate. During the Second World War she worked as an ambulance attendant and driver. Sheila married David Burnford, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, and in 1948 the Burnford family emigrated to Canada, settling at Port Arthur in western Ontario.

Sheila loved the great outdoors, particularly walking and hunting. She became friends with local artist Susan Ross. The two shared an interest in the lives of indigenous people and they inspired each other in creative endeavours.

Both Sheila and Susan were members of the Port Arthur Puppetry Club. It was during her time with the Club that Sheila began writing – scripts at first and then articles describing life in Northwestern Ontario for English magazines and newspapers such as Punch and the Glasgow Herald.

Sheila was a great animal lover, although she always said she had a practical view of them. After the death of her Bullterrier, Bill (who had kept her company during the Blitz in the Second World War), she decided to write a book, in part to memorialize him.

That book became The Incredible Journey.

The animals in the book were based on the personalities of her own animals. In addition to Bill, she had a Siamese cat (Simon) and a Golden Labrador (Raimie). She researched incidents similar to the ones in the book and used the area around her home and cottage (Loon Lake) to describe the terrain.

The book was an international bestseller and was eventually translated into more than 17 languages. It would win a number of awards, including the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children.

In 1963 the Walt Disney adaptation of the film was released. The premiere of the film was held in Port Arthur with over 10,000 people lining the streets for the parade preceding the showing. Actors from the film and the film’s director, Fletcher Markle, attended the premiere. Although the book was based in Northwestern Ontario, it was actually filmed in the Toronto area.

In 1964, Sheila published her second book, The Fields of Noon, a collection of essays on life in Northwestern Ontario. It included a number of essays that had previously been published in English periodicals.

In the late 1960s, Sheila and Susan Ross spent a great deal of time visiting native reserves in Northwestern Ontario. Both women had long held interest in native life and found the opportunity to actually learn about native life to be irresistible. While there, Susan Ross drew sketches of the people and Sheila observed. As a result of these visits, Sheila published Without Reserve, using some of Susan Ross’s drawings as illustrations.

Sheila and Susan next travelled up to Pond Inlet and experienced the life of the Inuit, including travelling by dog sled to see the narwhal. From this experience came One Woman’s Arctic. This book also included illustrations by Susan Ross.

The Incredible Journey was acclaimed as a children’s book, even though Sheila herself did not think of it as a children’s book. In 1973, she published an actual children’s book, Mr. Noah and the Second Flood. The story focused on the impact of consumerism and waste on the planet.

Sheila’s last book, Bel Ria: Dog of War, was the story of a little dog caught up in the horrors of the Second World War. In writing the book, she drew upon her own experiences in the Blitz and used research to maintain authenticity.

In 1984 Sheila Burnford died of lung cancer. She had moved back to the UK to live with her second husband, Dr. J.D. Loughborough.

In 2017, a documentary of her life, Long Walk Home: The Incredible Journey of Sheila Burnford, was released by Sheba Films.

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The Man With a Cloak

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with creating the American detective story, so putting him in a mystery-thriller would seem a natural idea. Right? Not judging by Fletcher Markle’s THE MAN WITH A CLOAK (1951, TCM). Joseph Cotten stars as a hard-drinking poet who calls himself Dupin and gets involved in the fight over dying expatriate Frenchman Louis Calhern’s will. Did he leave everything to his shady lady housekeeper, Barbara Stanwyck, or to the grandson who sent his fiancée (Leslie Caron) to beg for his support of the Second French Republic? The mystery is hardly as complicated as those in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” or “The Purloined Letter,” and yet it still seems a leap when Cotten figures it out. But then, the whole film makes little sense. Why does Calhern plan to kill himself when he’s dying anyway? Why does Stanwyck flirt with Cotten? Does she think he can help her secure the inheritance? Is she attracted to him? Is she jealous of his friendship with Caron? Why has nobody in 1848 heard of Poe when he was already famous for his poetry and short stories? How can Cotton drink constantly and never get drunk? Why does the film treat the revelation of Cotton’s identity as a shock when anybody with a high-school education at the time would have known who he was within 20 minutes? Why did the studio and good actors look at this script and say, “This seems like a great idea?” Calhern, in a role offered to Lionel Barrymore, and Margaret Wycherly, as the cackling cook, come off best. They just disregard all the idiocy and have a high time nibbling on the scenery. Stanwyck and Jim Backus, as a friendly tavern keeper, manage to make the faux poetic dialog almost sound good, and she has a charming moment flirting with Cotton as she lip synchs a song. The music, by David Raksin, is both wonderful and far ahead of its time. If I were you, I’d skip the movie and pick up the soundtrack.

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FC Reserves

Thanks to the amazing likes, votes, and interactions we've gathered in just a week of promoting our re-opening, I'm happy to say that I'm now open for FC reserves. Your interest means the world to me! You’re welcome to reserve two face claims! Please remember to add an alias when you reach out. We’ll hold your claims through Monday, January 6th, but it’s best to submit your applications as soon as possible since we have a limited number of member spots and prefer to be a smaller group. We won’t be sharing the application in advance, as it’s semi-appless and includes basic character info along with three short answer questions, one of which requires reading the lore.

We will be opening on January 3rd at 9:30 pm CST/GMT-6. LIST UPDATED DEC. 28 AT 12:05 AM CST. The BANNED FC Any celebrity under 21. Any face claim we cannot easily confirm the age of as we have a +/- 5-year character age rule No political people. No deceased people. No celebrity that has asked to not be used in RP. No one who has been accused or convicted of a serious crime. Amber Heard Ansel Elgort Ariana Grande Armie Hammer Joel Kinnaman Johnny Depp Kardashians/Jenners Meghan Markle Nyle DiMarco The TAKEN FC by current members Charithra Chandran Danneel Ackles Derek Klena Elliot Fletcher Jude Law Kapil Talwalkar May Nagahisa Nolan Gerard Funk Ronen Rubinstein Sarah Jeffery Shay Mitchell RESERVES Ali Stroker Danielle Rose Russell Florence Pugh Han Hyeongjun (Junhan) Rafael L Silva Ryan Destiny Taylor Swift

[oldshowbiz]

Thriller (1960-62) was not a Canadian show.

And yet...

Fletcher Markle, its producer, came from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Arthur Hiller, its director, came from Edmonton, Alberta.

Boris Karloff, its star, got his start in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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I'm in an interesting house. Handsomely upholstered in margue, with an old and dying reprobate as master, butler like a professional wrestler, and his housekeeper, she was once the toast of an era. The Man with a Cloak - Fletcher Markle (1951)

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The Incredible Journey (1963)

My rating: 4/10

Yeah, I'm pretty sure animals were, if not actually harmed, at least made extremely uncomfortable in the making of this movie. Also, the narrator is pretty annoying and smacks of studio interference.

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Mercedes McCambridge: Voice on Loan from Satan

Mercedes McCambridge: Voice on Loan from Satan

Given that nowadays one of her best known roles is as the voice of the demon in The Exorcist (1973), it is with perfect logic that we learn that Mercedes McCambridge (1916-2004) started out in old time radio. The fact also speaks to how hard she applied herself in what some might consider a thankless role, doing everything in the book that she knew in order to enhance her voice’s natural depth…

[gatutor]

Joseph Cotten-Leslie Caron "The man with a cloak" 1951, de Fletcher Markle.

[dweemeister]

The Incredible Journey (1963)

From 1948 to 1960, Walt Disney Studios released fourteen feature- and short-length nature documentaries to worldwide audiences. From Seal Island (1948 short) to Jungle Cat (1960), moviegoers were treated to stunning, innovative wildlife filmmaking accompanied by anthropomorphization via the narration’s storytelling. The True-Life Adventures series – which essentially created a genre that extends today to films like March of the Penguins (2005, France) and television series such as the two BBC Planet Earth installments – was sometimes staged and questionable ethics went into the filmmaking. Its legacy also can be seen in Fletcher Markle’s The Incredible Journey. The film – which is not to be confused by the 1993 Disney remake Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey or the 2009 BBC documentary of a similar title – nevertheless will appeal to and entertain lovers of animals with its three incredibly convincing animal performances.

The film follows Siamese cat Tao (TAY-oh), a younger Labrador Retriever named Luath, and an older English Bull Terrier named Bodger. The three pets – each one is male – are owned by the Hunter family (John Drainie, Sandra Scott, Marion Finlayson, and Ronald Cohoon), who live in Canada and are to be temporarily away to Oxford University in England. Bodger, Luath, and Tao are given to the Hunters’ friend, John Longridge (Émile Genest), who resides in Northwestern Ontario. But, soon after, a mix-up between Mr. Longridge and his housekeepers, Mrs. Oakes (Beth Amos) and her husband Bert (Eric Clavering) makes Longridge and the Oakes unaware that the animals have started a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilderness to return to the Hunter household. Episodes of natural and manmade danger, rare respites, and scenic beauty follow through an eighty-minute film that best succeeds when the humans are not interfering in an animals’ story.

The action is narrated by Rex Allen, a “singing cowboy” and fixture of Walt Disney Studios’ nature and Western film and television productions. Allen’s presence – in most all of the films he narrated for Disney – is superfluous, but not necessarily unwelcome. Considering Disney’s inclination for storybook-like storytelling in its nature documentaries – a feature that the True-Life Adventures innovated and normalized for that subgenre – The Incredible Journey might not have been greenlighted otherwise. Allen’s twang is distinctive, and he brings a warmth and specific folksiness more acceptable to audiences in the 1960s. The narration, penned by producer-writer James Algar, is neither enlightening nor comical, and will probably be better tolerated by moviegoers of a certain age as well as children. For everyone else, imagine being stuck in a Frontierland in one of the Disney parks and having that Old West-influenced English over the speakers every few minutes.

Canadian director Fletcher Markle, for whatever reason, was selected by Walt Disney to direct The Incredible Journey despite having helmed only three films prior (1949′s Jigsaw, 1951′s Night Into Morning, 1951′s The Man with a Cloak – all box-office duds and critically panned). Markle’s greatest credit may be for his involvement in CBS’s dramatic radio anthology series, Studio One, which was later brought to television in 1948. An auteur, Markle is not. Nor is he a master visualist or storyteller, as evidenced by The Incredible Journey’s lackadaisical direction. But Markle, alongside the animal trainers and cinematographer Kenneth Peach, know exactly how to shoot the animals – from the pets to the bear to the lynx – so that The Incredible Journey’s animal performances are as realistic as possible. Editor Norman R. Palmer, a veteran of Disney television productions and the True-Life Adventures film series as well a mentor to the late Roy E. Disney, has an always-exacting eye, and sells the artifice beautifully. And like in so many of Disney’s True-Life Adventures, it is oftentimes impossible to distinguish performance from these animals being animals. It is a formula that would be replicated decades afterwards, and improved upon to make fictitious and natural behavior inseparable onscreen.

This is as successful an anthropomorphization as ever seen from animals in a live-action feature film. Bodger, Luath, and Tao’s personalities are clearly depicted and differentiated, and The Incredible Journey summons unexpectedly powerful emotions by just hanging its camera over its animal actors – the elderly Bodger in particular. The film is at its most compelling when humans are not present – and, yes, that includes Rex Allen’s narration. Though the objective of the wandering trio is to return to their human family, a minimal human presence in The Incredible Journey could have spared the film some dreadful human performances. With so much emotion and story packed into the behavior and expressions our furry protagonists, a more intrepid director might have aimed for a production unfolding solely through the perspectives of the animals.

Accusations of animal cruelty have followed The Incredible Journey in recent decades. With consultation from the American Humane Association (AHA), a 1980 revision to the Producer-Screen Actors Guild Agreement (the P-SAG-AFTRA Agreement) included protections to animal actors for the first time. Before 1980. infamous incidents like the multiple racehorse deaths while filming the chariot scene to the original Ben-Hur (1925) and the gory, sensationalized sacrificial death of a water buffalo in Apocalypse Now (1979) could not be subject to litigation and sanction. There are multiple scenes throughout Markle’s film that invite such speculation – without spoiling, two of the most germane scenes involve Tao navigating a river and encountering a lynx. Though at least one True-Life Adventure is known to have contained scenes of ghastly animal cruelty (1958′s White Wilderness), there have been no verified documents or testimonies that confirm any unethical practices by the filmmakers in The Incredible Journey. Assuming that is correct, this is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking centered around animal performances. However, too many of these different species of animals should not have shared screentime with the other.

Shot in rural Ontario and mountainous regions in the American Pacific Northwest, The Incredible Journey assures younger viewers that the animals are never in grave peril. Sure, those encounters with the bear and a lynx might have resulted in a painful scrap, but they soldier on. The film should delight the youngest children, even if the lynx chase scene might prove a little too intense at first. And if possible, one should seek out The Incredible Journey rather than its, 1993 remake, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. The remake introduces the voice acting of Michael J. Fox, Don Ameche, and Sally Field – distracting from the animal performances, which is a formula that Babe (1995) and few other such films have ever perfected.

Like many older Disney live-action films not entitled Mary Poppins, memory of The Incredible Journey continues to wither as its availability on television and home media is comparatively limited. The film is a refinement of cinematic techniques regarding animals that continue to be tinkered with today. But, I suspect, the primary fascination for most will come in the endearing personalities from the three pets involved. Because where practices and methods to cinema may change, the companionship and human connection to their beloved dogs and cats is enduring.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating.

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Sussex Squad claim Receipts exists!

Scobie claims that Meghan and Harry have loads of Receipts

Oprah interviewed Harry and Meghan who spoke their “Truth” and of the proof/ evidence that prove their claims

Gayle went on the record claiming that Harry and Meghan are not happy with the Palace/family response to their interview and Meghan has receipts.

The Sussexes friends and Lawyer on the Netflix docu-series claim receipts which they have seen.

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For 3 years, these “Receipts” kept popping in almost every discussion concerning the Unfair and biased treatment of the palace towards the Sussexes ( according to the Sussexes and their supporters). I’m perplexed. If there are receipts, Why couldn’t the Sussexes release a single receipt out of the pile of receipts they had been accumulating ? I’m a very rational person, but I can’t handle more “Receipts” being mentioned.

Well Jenny then show us the evidence. "Meghan's privacy lawyer Jenny Afia said: 'There was a real... war against Meghan and I've certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the Palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other peoples' agendas.'"

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Leslie Caron, Louis Calhern, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joseph Cotten in a publicity photo for Fletcher Markle’s THE MAN WITH A CLOAK (1951)

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Duchess Kate and Prince William resemble movie stars at Top Gun: Maverick premiere – best photos

Last modified on May 19, 2022 - 21:57 BST

Prince William looked dashing in his McQueen suit, it was his shoes from C&J that grabbed attention, as they were emblazoned with an F-15 fighter jet, like those used in the movie.

Duchess Kate wore a glamorous Roland Mouret dress with a bardot neckline - a favourite of sister-in-law Meghan Markle. The dress was a black column style with a white band across the top that showed off her collarbones. She added Robinson Pelham's Tsar Star diamond earrings in 14ct white gold.

Fresh from his appearance at the Platinum Jubilee Celebration at Windsor, having won an honorary Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the previous day, 59-year-old Cruise and legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer introduced the royal couple to the film's stars, who were lined up against the backdrop of a real P51 fighter plane, like the one Cruise pilots in the film.

They included Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Greg Tarzan Davies, Glen Powell, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez and Lewis Pullman.

William and Kate were welcomed to the premiere by Lord Lieutenant Sir Kenneth Olisa, Cameron Saunders, Acting Chair of The Film and TV Charity and Alex Pumfrey, the organisation's CEO.

Also in the line up were Brian Robins, President and CEO of Paramount Pictures & Nickleodeon, Mark Viane, President, international Theatrical Distribution, John Fletcher, Managing Director, Paramount and Miles Quarles, Cinema Manager, Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square

Some 36 years since the original Top Gun movie was released in 1986, the sequel sees Cruise reprise the role of US naval aviator Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, returning to the Top Gun academy to train fighter pilots.

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Fletcher Markle: “¿Qué es la felicidad?”.

Un horizonte claro: no hay nada de qué preocuparse en tu plato, solo cosas que son creativas y no destructivas ... No puedo soportar las peleas, no puedo soportar los sentimientos entre las personas, creo que el odio es energía desperdiciada, y es todo no productivo. Soy muy sensible, una palabra cortante, pronunciada por una persona, por ejemplo, que tiene mal genio, si está cerca de mí, me duele durante días. Sé que solo somos humanos, vamos por estas diversas emociones, las llamamos emociones negativas, pero cuando se eliminan todas estas cosas y se puede mirar hacia adelante y el camino está despejado, y ahora se va a crear algo: Creo que eso es tan feliz como siempre querría ser.