#the affairs of dobie gillis

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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) Don Weis

December 22nd 2022

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Lynn Loring (born Lynn Eileen Zimring; July 14, 1943 – December 23, 2023) Film and television actress and television and film producer.

Loring began acting with a role on the anthology series Studio One on CBS. In 1951, at the age of seven, she played Patti Barron in the television soap opera Search for Tomorrow. She remained in the role for 10 years, until she graduated from high school in 1961. She played the title character's daughter in The Jean Carroll Show (1953) on ABC.  In 1962, she also played girl beatnik Edwina "Eddie" Kegel, the romantic interest of Maynard G. Krebs in two episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

In 1963, she portrayed Patty Walker, a girl who, due to her wanting to study drama in London, lived with the family of her father's wartime best friend, while the friend's daughter lived with Patty's family in New York, in the comedy series Fair Exchange. Also in 1963, she guest starred as Maybelle in the "Pa Hack's Brood" episode of Gunsmoke. Loring played Susan Foster in the 1964 episode "The Case of the Paper Bullets" on Perry Mason. Also in 1964, she played Filene in the "Memo From Purgatory" episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as well as Bonnie Daniels in the "Behind the Locked Door" episode of the same series. In 1965, she played the hellion outlaw Maybelle Williams in "Judgement in Heaven", the Christmas episode of the Western series The Big Valley.

Loring played Barbara Erskine, the daughter of Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.), during the first season (1965-1966) of The F.B.I. In 1966, she played an artist Carma Vasquez in "The Night of the Flaming Ghost" episode of The Wild Wild West and guest-starred as Laurie Ferguson in "Something Hurt, Something Wild", the first episode of the eighth season of Bonanza. In 1967, she guest-starred in two episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Deadly Smorgasboard Affair" and "The Test-Tube Killer Affair". Other television work included playing Betty Anderson Harrington in Return to Peyton Place, as well as roles on Wagon Train, The Eleventh Hour, Daniel Boone, Bonanza and The Mod Squad. In 1970, she guest-starred in Season 2, Episode 3, entitled "The Shadow of a Dead Man" on Lancer, having previously guest starred in the Season 1 episode, "Foley".

In 1975, she discontinued acting in favor of a career in production, of both made-for-TV movies and feature films. (Wikipedia)

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Bobby Van-Debbie Reynolds "The affairs of Dobie Gillis" 1953, de Don Weis.

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

Where's that post about MAN: I have no moral convictions, if a woman tells me something I'll believe anything she says

WOMAN: You should have convictions!

MAN: You're so right, I should!

cuz I just started The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) and Mr. "I'm an enjoyer, work's not for me!" changed his tune real fast when Debbie Reynolds said she came to college to "Work, work, work, learn, learn, learn!"

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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, 1953

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Bob Fosse | (June 23, 1927 - September 23, 1987) 

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RIP DWAYNE HICKMAN

1934-2022

Dwayne Hickman was the younger brother of actor Darryl Hickman, with whom he sometimes appeared on screen. They were born in Los Angeles. Dwayne was best known as the title character of “The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis” (1959-63) a show, like “I Love Lucy”, that aired on CBS and was sponsored by Philip Morris.  

Prior to that, Dwanye played love-struck teen Chuck on “The Bob Cummings Show” (1955-59), which filmed at General Service Studios, just like “I Love Lucy” originally did. Cummings played Bob Collins, and in 1972 he revived the character on an episode of “Here’s Lucy” titled “Lucy’s Punctured Romance” (HL S4;E22). 

A 14 year-old Hickman appeared uncredited with Lucille Ball in her 1948 film Her Husband’s Affairs.  

In 1964 he played a doctor on one episode of the Desilu series “The Greatest Show On Earth”, produced by Lucille Ball. She guest-starred in an episode of her own series in December 1963. 

On December 26, 1965, the Miami News reported that Hickman and Vivian Vance were coming to the Coconut Grove Playhouse to perform in the Neil Simon play Barefoot in the Park. In August 1965, co-star Darryl Hickman and Vance had appeared on the TV game show “Call My Bluff” together. After the height of his television fame, Hickman (like Vance) often did regional, stock, and dinner theatre plays to hone their craft.  

From 1977 to 1988, Hickman served as a programming executive at CBS. He took time out for cameos and guest spots, while also directing and producing. In his retirement, he took up painting. 

Thrice wed, Hickman has two children -- one by his first wife, actress / model Carol Christensen (1963-1972) who appeared a few times on "Dobie Gillis", and the other by his present wife, actress / voiceover artist Joan Roberts, to whom he has been married since 1983. 

He was 87 years old. 

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I watched this the other night on TCM and it was great fun. Debbie's character was expected to study, study, study. No Mrs. Degree. It was refreshing. If only Hollywood did that more often.

[crushondonald]

Remembering Debbie Reynolds on her birthday

Born on April 1, 1932 as Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas

Died on December 28, 2016 in Los Angeles, California

“We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a ‘wanton woman’.”

“‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.”

“I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world. I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.”

“I never thought I would live this long.”  ... thank heavens, you made it! 

Happy Birthday Debbie ... wherever you are, sweetheart ❤! 

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Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in a scene from You'll Never Get Rich (1941), photographed by Philip Tannura. Phil was born in New York City and had 157 cinematography credits, from a 1917 short, to 29 episodes of Family Affair (1966-67). His other notable credits include Reveille with Beverly, Night Editor, The Babe Ruth Story, 54 episodes of Racket Squad, 171 episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, 11 episodes of The Jack Benny Program, and an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Almost all of his feature film credits are for forgettable obscurities.

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Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds in THE AFFAIRS OF DOBIE GILLIS (1953)

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Some thoughts on movie musicals, since I’ve been watching a ton of them this year...

According to IMDB there were 200 MGM musicals. So far (in my life, not just this year) I have seen 63 of them. The oldest one I’ve seen is The Merry Widow (1934). The one I’ve watched most recently is Rosalie (1937). The best of them are obvious: Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Wizard of Oz (1939), etc. The worst that I’ve seen so far are probably Hit the Deck (1955) and I Love Melvin (1953), although each definitely has elements to recommend it. My favorite new encounters of 2020 include The New Moon (1930), Rose Marie (1936), Give A Girl A Break (1953) and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) – the former two actually great movies, the latter two delightful fluff.

This year I’ve also watched at least a dozen musicals from RKO (including all the Rogers/Astaire films, every one a winner), another dozen from 20th Century Fox (with a focus on Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda, although Stormy Weather (1943) is probably better than all the Faye & Miranda films put together), and a handful each from Warner Bros and Disney, and one or two each from Columbia, Paramount and Universal. Love Me Tonight (1932, d. Mamoulian, Paramount) is my favorite of all the films I’ve watched for the first time this year. Some other delightful surprises were Strike Me Pink (1936), A Damsel in Distress (1937), and Cover Girl (1944), the first two because they were genuinely, hysterically funny. (Pink was an Eddie Cantor vehicle with Ethel Merman; Damsel a Fred Astaire picture with Burns & Allen. Cover Girl is the first film Gene Kelly choroegraphed and is considered by many the movie where we first saw him at his full power.)

Watching so many of these films so close together, with a heightened awareness of directors, choreographers, stars, and studio, has really given me a new perspective on the era (or really, the two eras, as there was a decisive break in musical filmmaking between the 30s and the mid-40s). You start to recognize locations (like that one mansion on the Fox lot that shows up in a half-dozen of their musicals) and costumes (eg. the “Broadway Melody” costumes from Singin’ in the Rain show up in the “It” number in Deep in My Heart) and songs (for example, “You Are My Lucky Star” shows up in a ton of MGM movies) and even plots (uppity college girl deigns to be wooed by the quarterback; French princess goes undercover as a mail order bride; and of course, students must put on a show to save their school). 

And the repetition isn’t a bad thing -- what makes the films sparkle is the how, not the what. Every operetta might have its marching song, but listen to “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” and “Stouthearted Men” and “The Riff Song” and “Song of the Vagabonds” back to back – rather than being bored by variations on a theme, you will be thrilled with the ways different talents attacked the same puzzle. 

There’s also the bizarre situation where so many of these films were adapted from stage musicals but either the book or the score was entirely replaced -- so you get the story of Something For the Boys but only one Cole Porter song (and the replacement score is in no way comparable to what was discarded), or you get (more or less) the score of Girl Crazy with an entirely new story. With Rosalie, they took a show with a score by The Gershwins, Romburg and Wodehouse, threw out all the songs and hired Cole Porter to write a new one! 

I said this earlier on Twitter, but it’s also fascinating to me, as someone who grew up on post-Rodgers & Hammerstein stage musicals (and their film adaptations) how little concern the filmmakers showed for form and structure. There were certain things that happened in most of the films, like an introductory number that establishes the film as a musical and often a wedding or other kind of coming together at the end, but beyond that? It’s the wild west, with no strict rules about song placement or function, who gets to sing or doesn’t, etc. And that in its own way is thrilling (if at times frustrating), because you never know what’s going to happen. (Although it also means some of the films can be meandering because there’s less of a clear direction of where the story is heading, if there’s even a story.) 

Anyway, as long as we are staying home seven days a week I’ll probably continue this exploration. I doubt I’ll ever see all 200 of the MGM musicals (and I’m not sure that some of the early ones haven’t been lost), but deepening my engagement with and knowledge of this specific corner of my interests has been a fun side effect of all this time at home.

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Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words, and her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Golden Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie.

She starred in Singin' in the Rain (1952), How the West Was Won (1962), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Molly Brown.[1] Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973), Mother (1996) (Golden Globe nomination), and In & Out (1997). Reynolds was also a cabaret performer. In 1979, she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today.

In 1969, she starred on television in The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1973, Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love (1999) and an Emmy Award for playing Grace's mother Bobbi on Will & Grace. At the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney's Halloweentown series. In 1988, she released her autobiography, titled Debbie: My Life. In 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable: A Memoir.

Reynolds also had several business ventures, including ownership of a dance studio and a Las Vegas hotel and casino, and she was an avid collector of film memorabilia, beginning with items purchased at the landmark 1970 MGM auction. She served as president of The Thalians, an organization dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties. In January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In the same year, a documentary about her life was released titled Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, which turned out to be her final film appearance; the film premiered on HBO on January 7, 2017.[

Reynolds died following a stroke on December 28, 2016, one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

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Debbie Reynolds-Bobby Van “The affairs of Dobie Gillis” 1953, de Don Weis.

[classicfilmfan64]

'Footloose' - Dancing In The Movies

THIS IS GREAT! 

The movies are: It's A Wonderful Life, Dirty Dancing, Don't Knock The Rock, Gold Diggers Of 1935, Good News, Dames, Babes On Broadway, Panama Hattie, Follow The Fleet, Bye Bye Birdie, Lady Of Burlesque, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Show Boat (1951), I Love Melvin, Meet Me After The Show, Down To Earth, Viva Las Vegas, A Date With Judy, Footloose, Moon Over Miami, Hello Dolly, The Gold Rush, Flower Drum Song, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, The Kid From Brooklyn, Les Girls, Easter Parade, Guys & Dolls, Royal Wedding, 42nd Street, Sweet Charity, White Nights, The Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, Three Little Words, Let's Be Happy, Blue Skies, Singin' In The Rain, Lullaby Of Broadway, The Seven Little Foys, Broadway Melody Of 1940, Tea For Two, Call Me Madam, Sun Valley Serenade, Words And Music, It's Always Fair Weather, The Band Wagon, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Down Argentine Way, Les Demoiselles De Rochefort, Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, On The Town, The Little Princess, Stormy Weather, Hit The Deck, Excuse My Dust, Pennies From Heaven, The Great American Broadcast, Damn Yankees, Broadway Melody Of 1938, You're My Everything, Look For The Silver Lining, Sensations Of 1945, White Christmas, Lovely To Look At, Deep In My Heart, A Damsel In Distress, There's No Business Like Show Business, You'll Never Get Rich, The Barkleys Of Broadway, Evergreen, Honolulu, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hollywood Canteen, The Belle Of New York, Star!, Broadway Rhythm, The Gang's All Here, Anchors Aweigh, Breakin'.

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Bob Fosse, Debbie Reynolds, Bobbby Van and Barbara Ruick dance and sing: “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis” 1953.