#tracy dobbs

[plumbogs]

a new family in brookton... time to investigate

This is Nick Dobbs and his wife, Tracy. He works in the medical career as a resident. Their house isn't fully decorated yet, but they take some time to play a few rounds of chess anyway. They aren't as piss-poor as the other families, but they're not quite rich by any means.

They're both pretty serious people, but Tracy actually cares about doing things like making friends. As you can probably tell, they have children.

Celeste is their eldest daughter. She's going through her emo phase and spends every morning frying her hair to a crisp. Starla is the second daughter. She hasn't tried that yet.

The girls aren't very similar to each other. Celeste is a very curious and energetic shy girl while Starla is a lot more friendly like their mother. She doesn't really care much for popularity despite that.

They go back and forth on whether they get along, but that's how sisters go. Celeste thinks that any job that involves working in an office sounds like a bore. Starla argues that office jobs have their own interesting culture with many chances to get ahead.

And this is Derek. He's about halfway through childhood.

He's a bit of a grumpy kid, but he takes closely after their father otherwise.

The very first thing that happens is the entire neighborhood showing up to shove their noses into their business. Tracy has to quit the chess game early to meet them.

Michael Tyler beelines for their violin, which he absolutely sucks shit at playing. Camila argues with a townie behind him. Tracy immediately wants to start befriending these people.

The kids come home from school and get to meeting the neighbors as well. Michael tells Derek about how he can fix basically any coffee machine, which gets him some real perks at work. Tracy pulls the lame "how was school?" conversation out on Starla. Celeste ignores them all in favor of painting.

Derek is a fan of chess. He plays it by himself after Michael confesses that he doesn't actually know how chess works and chooses to sit at their computer instead.

Tracy corners him to tell him jokes about jewelry. He reacts in a similar way to a stinkbug and then goes home. Nick has to go to work in the evenings, which cuts into the family time he generally wants.

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favourite poems of may

david baker whale fall

gary fincke the girl who breathes through a hole in her neck

gerald stern loneliness

mary oliver music lesson

chen jun in the kitchen (tr. ming di)

arthur sze pe’ahi light

jennifer elise foerster leaving tulsa: “leaving tulsa”

caconrad lonely deep affection

tishani doshi girls are coming out of the woods: “how to be happy in 101 days”

joshua corey mrs. god

kamau brathwaite born to slow horses: “bread”

jennifer kwon dobbs paper pavilion: “digital archive”

kimberly nguyen pregnant pauses

lucille clifton the book of light: “brothers”

pippa little the summer i lived as a wolf

natasha sajé alive

marjorie meeker colour of water

rae armantrout veil: new and selected poems: “dusk”

yi sang au magasin de nouveautes (tr. sawako nakayasu)

tracy k. smith wade in the water: “dusk”

billy collins the breather

leah umansky unleashed

javier zamora how i learned to walk

jacob trapp portrait

satoru sato susuki and dragonflies

jinhao xie moonlight

maya emilia another bomb set off in

eleanor ross tayler captive voices: “against the kitchen wall”

giovanna lomanto i’ll pray for you when you leave

mary oliver in the blackwater woods

natalie diaz when my brother was an aztec: “abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian rezervation”

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Remember my TAG Sims 4 save that I’m building? Well it’s well time for an update on where I’m at! I’m having great fun populating the worlds with characters and various people’s OCs* and thought I’d show off how they’re going! I’m focusing on CAS (Create A Sim) rather than building in this save and trying to create a full world of sims! Also note that I’m planning on the gameplay beginning with a teenage Jeff, so no main characters for now. I play with aging off and age them all manually so the other characters will just stay the same age until I’m ready to interact with them.

I’ve finished three worlds; Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, and Sulani. Working on Newcrest and Henford-on-Bagley next! Today I'll show off the characters made in Willow Creek :)

*I’m only showing the TAG characters and the OCs I have made for them today, not OCs made by other people... mostly because I'm not done!! Also if you're interested in my making your Thuderbirds OCs, let me know! I have a lot of households to fill lol and they'll just hang out in the background of the game :D

Notable changes: I moved the park to the Oakenstead lot, added a second park (in Foundry Cove) and a skate park. I changed the museum into a botanical library and placed a community garden next to it. There is now an early childhood education centre and a hospital that can be visited, and I placed a gym and a museum. I did not make any of the builds, they’re all found on the gallery and then tweaked.

There are twelve households in Willow Creek, including an apartment with four families. The only townies I care about are the Goths so they’ll end up being the only non TAG characters. I found a renovated Goth Mansion and a Goth family revamped to look closer to their Sims 2 counterparts on the gallery and stuck them in there :)

Sims 4 lore down, let me show off the sims!!

Sally, Grant and Jeff Tracy

In this save, Jeff has two brothers and a sister, based off of @amistrio's hc :D

Kyrano, Kayo and Tin-Tin

I decided I wanted to add in Tin-Tin and I have vague memories of reading a fic where they were sisters, so I went ahead and did it :D

Brains, Brains and Fermat Hackenbacker

I love Brains ahaha so I put him in twice :D why not after all!

The Apartment Building has four families: Ned Tedford, Tycho Reeves (and his brother David...lol), Wayne Rigby (and his daughter Eleanor... double lol, I think it was @katblu42 who suggested that name :D), and Kat Cavanaugh (who I gave a sister who lives in Oasis Springs, but I've included said sister for completeness)

Ned Tedford

I gave him lots of freckles mostly because I think they look sweet ahaha... I'm tempted to make Gladys a Plant Sim, but for now he's just going to enjoy gardening :D

Tycho and David Reeves

Come on... I had to XD David's a doctor whose aspiration in life is to solve the Strangerville mystery ahaha

Wayne and Eleanor Rigby

Yes the glasses are on purpose :D I love the idea of Rigby being a single dad and I also aged him up a little simply because he's clearly been with the GDF for a while and it made sense to me.

Kat and Sara Cavanaugh

Sara is Kat's older sister but they don't get on so they live in different worlds.

And finally, our last couple of houses are filled by...

Cass McCready, Aiden Hawkins and Theo McCready-Hawkins

Cass is obviously our favourite firefighter, and so I decided to create Aiden to be her fiance and Theo to be their kid. I always imagined Cass having two boys and to be a single mum when she met iR for the first time, so I did give Aiden a couple of less desirable traits lol... I'd like to play out their story at some point so they only have Theo to start :D

Reece and Dobbs (aka our favourite space pirates/scrappers!)

I love these guys so much, they crack me up :D They're space married, don't question me on this, and they live in a tiny home with some chickens xD I might see if I can replace their current home with one that's modelled after a spaceship bc that would be fun!

Robert and Aidan Williams

Aidan is one of my favourite kid characters in the show and I love him! So cool headed even when crisis is happening and his dad is hurt :( I thought for a long time about whether I'd add in more family but then I realised the house was only two bedrooms and then I invented a story where his mum had recently passed away and him and Gordon could have some bittersweet bonding (bc Gordon stays in touch and remembers everyone obviously!!) so I decided to leave them as they were and also the smaller the household the less likely the game is to crash lol

WillowCreek also is resident to three OC families, but they are not mine so I don't want to post about them without permission :)

Anyway I hope you enjoyed the update on this!!! Someday I'll have real gameplay to share lol, but I'm having so much fun building the world up!

[kwebtv]

TV Guide -  March 2 - 8, 1963

Wendell Reid Corey (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) Film, stage and television actor and politician. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was a board member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Corey portrayed Lou Gehrig in "The Lou Gehrig Story" for the television series Climax! (1955). He was a series lead in Harbor Command (1957–1958) for which Corey starred with Casey Walters.   In 1959 he starred in Pecks Bad girl on CBS.  In 1961 he starred with Nanette Fabray in Westinghouse Playhouse aka Yes, Yes, Nanette.  From 1962 to 1964, he played a psychiatrist in NBC’s 62-episode medical drama The Eleventh Hour.

Other series he appeared in were The Celanese Theatre, Plymouth Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The Alcoa Hour, Celebrity Playhouse, Westinghouse Studio One, Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater, The Untouchables, The New Breed, Target: The Corruptors!, Bus Stop, Channing, Burke’s Law, Branded, Perry Mason, Run for Your Life, The Road West, The Guns of Will Sonnett and The Wild Wild West.   (Wikipedia)

Jack Lee Ging (November 30, 1931 – September 9, 2022) Film and television actor. He was best known as General Harlan “Bull” Fulbright on NBC’s television adventure series The A-Team, and for his supporting role in the final season of Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson.

Ging portrayed Dan Wright in NBC’s The Man and the Challenge (1959–1960). He also starred in “Dead Men don’t pay no debts”, an episode of Bat Masterson, playing a small-town sheriff in love with a girl whose name is the same as the man he’s sworn to kill. He portrayed a raider in eight episodes of the 1958–1959 syndicated western series Mackenzie’s Raiders. Thereafter, he appeared as Beau McCloud in thirteen episodes in the last season of the ABC western series Tales of Wells Fargo.  (Wikipedia)

In 1960, Ging appeared in one episode of The Twilight Zone, “The Whole Truth”. He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including, in 1962, playing Danny Pierce in “The Case of the Lonely Eloper”. From 1962 to 1964, he played a young psychiatrist in NBC’s 62-episode medical drama The Eleventh Hour.  In 1966 he played “Simon Dobbs”, a blind ex-lawman trying to cope with his new affliction, on the episode “Stage Stop” (S12E10) on the TV Western Gunsmoke.

Ging had a recurring role as Lieutenant Dan Ives, one of many of Joe Mannix’s Los Angeles Police Department contacts on Mannix from 1967 to 1975. Ging’s other roles were on The Roaring 20s, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Wiseguy, B. J. and the Bear, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. In 1981, Ging played Tracy Winslow in the episode “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” of ABC’s The Greatest American Hero. From 1984 to 1985, Ging played the arrogant Lieutenant Ted Quinlan on the adventure/detective series Riptide; his character was killed off and he went on to appear on The A-Team, on which he made two guest appearances as villains. His roles as a regular on TV programs included that of Chuck Morris on the short-lived CBS crime drama Dear Detective and Admiral Conte on the NBC adventure series The Highwayman.  (Wikipedia)

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It's Friday and mew know what that means on the main blog. It means Amber has posted her latest book review.

If mew love cat cozy mysteries and books with cats in, Amber has got mew covered. Check out this week's top pick written by Leighann Dobbs and Traci Douglass.

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Alan: [is choking]

Dobbs: Reese, help! I need to call 911 but the 9 button isn’t working!

Reese: Just turn it upside down and use the 6!

Dobbs: Genius!

Alan: [stops choking momentarily] What the-

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Ghost Ship - Re-Review #28

Thought you’d appreciate them popping up before I start talking. I love this episode for so many reasons, firstly it is for the space brothers! Getting a chance to see these two interact some more was so so worth it. It was something we were seriously robbed of in TOS, with Alan and John only appearing in the same scenes thrice - ‘The Uninvited’, ‘Danger at Ocean Deep’ and ‘The Cham-Cham’. Seriously robbed, folks.

‘Space Race’ was the last TAG episode which really put these two in a similar place, but due to the new communication methods e.t.c. we have seen that they can communicate more and as such have still had scenes together as seen in ‘Relic’, ‘Chain of Command’, ‘Ring of Fire’, ‘Slingshot’.. yeah, there’s quite a list, so I’m just going to stop and keep on with the episode review for now, okay?

Okay. So, we’ll get back to John and Alan, but for now let’s stick with John. 

Firstly John and EOS (hooray someone remembered she exists!). John and EOS playing chess is just one better. Of course he would teach her to play chess - that is just so John, let’s all be honestly.

“John, I’m intercepting a GDF encoded message. The signal’s very faint.”

You’re trying to distract me, EOS. You know I finally have you checked.”

“Honestly John. The bulk of my processing is currently dedicated to boosting the weak signal. It’s a distress call from the moon side of EDEN.”

Thirdly, let’s get to the action of the episode. Space mission! It makes complete sense that John can go on missions of his own, after all, some of these places would be on his doorstep considering Thunderbird Five’s location, and ‘Legacy’ showed us that Five has an inbuilt pod. But right now, let’s discuss this work of machinery.

Jets, wings, light beam and laser beam - pretty fancy equipment this Exopod/Wingsuit has going for it. It does makes sense for John to have something like this as well - not just for the case of nearby rescues, but in the sense of needing to escape Five. I personally think this was born out of the events with EOS, because it was never used in Series 1, which implies Brains hadn’t designed it then (or just that the writer’s hadn’t thought about it, but hey, let’s put that to one side). Also, the fact Scott says;

“So you finally get to take the suit out for a spin.”

implies it is newly fitted. So, chronologically, it makes sense to me to think that those events brought around the designs for this. Yes, this wouldn’t be any good for re-entry, but it would at least provide a getaway that would last a little longer. And a laser also implies defensive/offensive capabilities - minor yes, but probably enough.

“I only have five minutes on the meter.”

“Then we’ll see you in four.”

Oh that Tracy brother confidence. Must run in the blood.

“Precision flight isn’t as easy as I make it look. Let me know if you need any pointers.”

“Oh I do have one question. What’s that big, blue, marblely looking ball down there?”

“Haha.”

So this is EDEN, now nothing more than a Ghost Ship, and the setting of today’s episode. Apparently the GDF maintain it to make sure it doesn’t become a space hazard... maybe they should have just got rid. It’s probably going to become a space hazard now after all, because it’s made it into an episode of Thunderbirds and that is just what happens to these things.

“Whenever I’m near it, the place always gives me the creeps.”

‘The Ghost Ship’ is also an episode of the Anderson’s series ‘Stingray’. The episode also starred Ray Barrett and David Graham, the original voices of The Hood and Parker respectively. Of course, David Graham stuck around for TAG - because Parker could only ever have one voice actor as we all know (and I’m sure you’ve all guessed by now by absolutely love and praise for the man who made Parker into everything he is). Also, is it ironic or chance that this reference appears in a John strong episode, after it was John in ‘Ring of Fire’ who declared ‘Stingray’ his favourite show? I think it could be a good bit of script writing, but who am I to say. Anyone want to give me the answer - script writers of TAG I’m looking at you now.

And this is GDF Captain Ridley O’Bannon. Hello! Everyone introduced? Good let’s keep moving.

“Lights on, but nobody’s home.”

Probably a good sign to leave... No, okay, let’s just go even deeper into the malfunctioning ship.

“Some people say the place is haunted.”

“There’s no such thing as ghosts, Captain.”

“It’s the end of the line.”

Yeah... lets just keep going still... with no comms and the feeling you’re not alone. Yeah, let’s definitely do that!

“John, do you hear me? EDEN, are you there?”

Apparently not Scott, so don’t waste your breath shouting into the void.

So, I’ll be honest, ghosts and stuff don’t really spook me and I breezed through this episode fine. Except first time I saw this thing - it gave me the creeps. So, I watched this episode for the first time at night (I was thinking it’s a children’s show, what can go wrong?) and I looked away for two seconds and then this appeared. It looked too much like a spider for my comfort and yeah, scared me cold. Especially these red blinking eyes.

“Hello there. We come in peace.”

John, did no one pass you the memo? This is not ‘Alien’!

“Looks like he understands. could be some sort of sentient AI.”

He loves tech a little too much I think.

Yeah... accidentally punch the thing John. That will do it

“It thinks you’re a threat. Show it you’re not.”

“Seriously? Ok, I surrender.”

Yeah, still not in ‘Alien’, or ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ or ‘Peter Pan’... But whatever you want to say, John, is absolutely cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WezjFUZOvVA

I can’t describe this scene any better than the scene itself, so I’ve included it.

“And it won’t be ghosts.”

No it won’t, it wasn’t... um, isn’t? It’s just Mau’rice [Edward Razor Burn Reece] (right) and Dobbs [Dan - no nickname, no middle initial - Dobbsy Dobbs] (left). Space pirates! Okay... maybe it is turning a little into ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’...

How about... Pirates of EDEN... Next big block buster?

Yeah I think so!

“Plundering. I like that. Very nautical.”

Yeah, there’s nothing nautical about these guys though. I really do love the voice acting though. These characters are great.

Trust John to figure it out - never shut something down until you know what the after effects will be! 

I do really love this getaway plan though. It made for an absolutely awesome scene.

Overall, I think this episode leaps its way onto my favourites list too! It literally has everything, I think! Well, nearly everything.

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Franklin Dobbs - Wayward Pines (2015, 51yo)

[ravenclawtower2911]

Harry Potter characters that are POC because i said so

(This list does not include characters that are canonically poc)

Oliver Wood - Latino

Adrian Pucey - Latino

Alicia Spinnet - Black + Indian

Geoffrey Hooper - Black

Summers - Native American

Tracy Davis - Black 

Harry Potter - South Asian

Hermione Granger - Black + Jewish

Justin Finch Fletchly - Black

Leanne - Japanese

Lisa Turpin - Black + White

Michael Corner - Indian + White

Terry Boot - Black + White

Demelza Robins - Filipina

Cadwallader - South Korean

Ritchie Coote - Black + Filipino 

Romilda Vane - Afro-Latina

Andrew Kirke - Black

Emma Dobbs - Black

Hestia Jones - Black

Pomona Sprout - Black

Aurora Sinistra - Black

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I’m back with the rest of our staff’s picks for #TheMissouriReview ‘s #NationalReadingMonth, this time, just in order. Hope you enjoy!

16. “Love Poem as Eye Examination” by Victoria Chang. Her quote: “I wrote a poem ruminating on an eye doctor visit, and since I’ve struggled to write love poems on many occasions, I decided to work backwards and make the poem a love poem. This process helped me to write a love poem, although in the end, like many of my poems, there’s an acidic strain that runs through the spine of the poem.”

17. “Love Letter to Flavor Flav” by Marcus Wicker. This poem—equal parts playful and poignant—was born out of the writer’s ambivalent feelings toward the titular pop culture icon: “I’ve always been troubled by my own willingness to accept Flavor Flav as an important popular icon. As a former member of Public Enemy, he operated like nightly lubricant for the group’s straight ahead politics; but one can’t deny, he’s a bit painful to watch. When Flav still had his VH1 reality show, I tuned in every week to watch him parade around a mansion, announcing his wild-ass presence in the world of my living room. Admittedly, I think that’s kind of dumb. But also kind of cool, and maybe honest.”

18. “The Wall” by Emma Törzs. In this 2015 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize-winning fiction, set in contemporary Israel, a young Jewish woman seeks to bridge the divide between life and death as she mourns the loss of her brother. 19. “Swarf.” In this essay, Tyler Keevil writes about an accident and ensuing medical emergency during a fraught time of global recession.

20.  A Poem of the Week from 2010 titled “Noli Me Tangere.” The poet, Traci Brimhall, said that the poem came from “a desire for absolution.” She felt guilty for helping with animal studies despite the fact that “helping to catch endangered frogs for future study meant that there would be hope for the species….”

21. “Motherland” by Min Jin Lee was awarded our William Peden Prize in fiction when Judge Alice McDermott selected the piece as our best-of-volume fiction for that year.

22. The story pulls you in from the very beginning—or, more accurately, from the title itself. “How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949)” by Kim Coleman Foote is partially born out of the author’s exploration of her own family history, which she later described to TMR’s editors. In my first semester interning at #TMR, I read this piece with classmates. It’s killer.

  23. An excerpt from Alethea Black’s memoir, You’ve Been So Lucky Already. In this piece, titled “A Place in the World,” the narrator explores the aftermath of grief while navigating through a world that’s changed overnight.

24. The poem of the week from last May, “he doesn’t flirt with me, he just texts me love poems,” by Zain Murdock. In the author’s note, Murdock described how emotional honesty factored into the poem: “This poem was really the first time I allowed myself to write about love in a way that didn’t make me feel ashamed.”

25. “Serpentine,” an essay by Ember Johnson. In this piece, which was a finalist for the 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, Johnson masterfully evokes tension and anguish through her poignant exploration of her experience as a military wife and widow, offering a unique perspective on the burden of carrying on alone.

26.  “A Djinn Hums in Sakhnin” by Tarik Dobbs. The poem, which he wrote “frantically on [his] airplane home,” includes reflections on his Muslim faith.

27. “Heart-Scalded” by Daphne Kalotay. In this story, a terminally ill woman attends a party where she knows she’ll have to brave a fraught encounter with her ex. In this narrative of emotional pain and acceptance, we find intimations of magic—and mortality.

28. “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” by Jennifer Anderson. This raw portrait of Anderson’s experiences providing “diversional activities” for nursing-home patients was a 2012 Editor’s Prize finalist in nonfiction.

29. “Actaeon,” by Kelly Weber. On the origin of the poem, Weber said, “When I started writing about my personal experiences as an aroace woman, I turned to the myth of Artemis as a model. What I found compelling about the story of Actaeon and Artemis is how it differed from other myths like that of Daphne, for example, who becomes a tree to escape Apollo. In the Actaeon story, it’s not Artemis who must change but Actaeon. His entire way of being in the world must fundamentally shift, putting the burden of change and responsibility for his actions back on him instead of the one he gazes upon.” This one’s up next on my list, as I’m studying Ovid this semester. 

30. A 2021 Poem of the Week, “Not an Ode to April 22nd, 2019,” by Gisselle Yepes. On the poem’s craft, Yepes explained, “This poem is one, too, that thinks with the anaphora, the litany in Aracelis Girmay’s poem, ‘Here,’ as it thinks with and revels in rupture, in grief, in noticing how we, Afro-diasporic people(s), more specifically Puerto Ricans, grieve, smoke, love, yell, wail, weep, and silence.”

31. A historical persona poem by David Mura titled, “A Soldier of The 100th: The Lost Battalion.” To provide some historical context, Mura explained: the 100th battalion “was part of the 442nd regiment, the most decorated unit in Europe [during World War II], and was made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland; the families of the latter were imprisoned in internment camps during the war and deprived of their rights as citizens.” We hope you’ll take the time to read this powerful piece.

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at the dobbs household. Nick needs to learn a bunch of random junk before they'll let him have a promotion, and he's pretty tired of working night shift, so he hits the books.

Meanwhile, Tracy heads out to the deck to look out through the telescope.

No clue what she thinks she's seeing, because it''s pine woods for miles around.

The bills arrive and pull her from her delusions of joshua trees.

She greets this tacky townie that walks by while she checks the mail and forces her inside to watch her play the violin poorly.

The teens come home. Celeste puts her homework down so she can ignore it. Starla does hers right away.

they have some sibling bonding :) celeste thinks cities are probably dumb and stupid. it isn't her real opinion even she just wants to piss her sister off. it works wonders.

Derek comes home and asks his father to help with his homework. He manages to squeeze that in before work. They were about to play some chess together but it was too late.

Tracy does her evening phone calls. She tells Michael about a pet goldfish she had as a kid. She killed it by trying to replace the water in its tank with orange juice under the belief that it would become even more orange that way. Michael wasn't thrilled by that story, and then ended the call because his girlfriend was offering him a wonderful nap on one of her weird devices.

Starla enjoys the stars once the sun sets. She's trying to find out what saturn is really hiding behind all those rings. She's pretty sure it's aliens, but she's skeptical about their existence and the locals that ramble on about them usually seem a bit out of their minds.

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BOTTOMS UP

April 13, 1934

Directed by David Butler 

Produced by Buddy G. DeSylva for 20th Century-Fox

Written by David Butler, Buddy G. DeSylva, and Sid Silvers

Choreography by Harold Hecht

Synopsis ~ Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to pass off Hollywood extra Wanda Gale (Pat Patterson) and forger Limey Brook (Herbert Mundin) as British nobility, getting both of them prestigious jobs at a movie studio. Eventually Wanda becomes a big star, falling out of love with Smoothie along the way in favor of her leading man Hal Reed (John Boles). But Smoothie takes it all in stride; after all, there's still a world full of chumps and suckers, ripe for fleecing.

CAST 

Spencer Tracy (’Smoothie’ King) won two Oscars and was nominated seven other times in his long career. This is his only musical.  He also appeared with Lucille Ball in Without Love (1945). 

John Boles (Hal Reed) also did Thousands Cheer (1943) with Lucille Ball).

Pat Paterson (Wanda Gale) was married to Charles Boyer. This is her only film with Lucille Ball. 

Herbert Mundin (Limey Brook) was an English-born actor making his only film with Lucille Ball. 

Sid Silvers (Spud Mosco) was also the co-writer of this film. This is his only movie with Lucille Ball. 

Harry Green (Louis Baer) makes his only film with Lucille Ball. 

Thelma Todd (Judith Marlowe)  was known as ‘The Ice Cream Blonde' and ‘Hot Toddy'. This is her only film with Lucille Ball. 

Robert E. O'Connor (Detective Rooney) went on to do five more films with Lucille Ball. 

Dell Henderson (Lane Worthing) went on to do five more films with Lucille Ball. 

Suzanne Kaaren (Secretary) makes her only screen appearance with Lucy. 

Douglas Wood (Baldwin) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Her Husband’s Affairs (1947). 

UNCREDITED CAST 

Lucille Ball* (Chorine) makes her eighth film since coming to Hollywood in 1933. 

Barbara Pepper* (Chorine) made six films with Lucille Ball, including her Lucy’s first, Roman Scandals (1933). The two became friends, and she was one of the first people Lucille Ball wanted for the role of Ethel Mertz after Bea Benadaret passed. Pepper’s drinking made her a risk for the network and sponsor, but she went on to make ten appearances on “I Love Lucy”. 

Chorines: Lee Auburn, Bonnie Bannon*, Lynn Bari, Dolores Casey*, Irene Coleman, Ann Darcy, Jean Gale*, June Gale, Sugar Geise, Betty Gordon, Jane Hamilton, Vivian Keefer*, Laura La Marr, Mary Lange*, Shirley Lloyd, Dona Massin, Ruth Moody, Vera Payton, Virginia Ray, Beverly Royde, Katharine Snell, Alice Stombs, Valerie Traxler

Party Guests:  Richard Carle,  Cecil Cunningham, Opal Ernie, Paul McVey, Ronald R. Rondell, Henry Roquemore, Loretta Rush, Larry Steers, Ferdinand Munier

Minor Roles: Peggy Beck, Georgia Clarke, Elizabeth Cooke, Patricia Dobbs, Dee Dowell, Jean Fursa, Kathryn Hankin, Betty Neitman, Ellen Thomas, Mildred Unger

* Goldwyn Girls on loan to Fox. As they are not in a Sam Goldwyn picture, they are not credited as Goldwyn Girls.

OTHERS

David Field (Reporter)

Allen Connor (Ticket Taker)

Walter Hardwick (Waiter)

Teddy Hart (Chorus Boy)

Samuel E. Hines (Bellboy)

Arthur Loft (Yes Man)

John T. Murray (Radio Announcer)

Ned Norton (Yes Man)

Frank O'Connor (Jack, Director)

Virginia Pine (Showgirl)

Sam Wolfe (Harmonica Player)

Ernest Wood (Hotel Clerk) 

Johnny Boyle (Dance Specialty)

SOUNDTRACK

“Little Did I Dream” by Harold Adamson and Burton Lane

“Turn on the Moon” by Harold Adamson and Burton Lane

“I'm Throwing My Love Away” by Harold Adamson and Burton Lane

“Waitin' at the Gate for Katy” by Richard A. Whiting and Gus Kahn

“Is I in Love? I Is” J. Russel Robinson

Opera Singer: I've always considered myself a virtuoso. 'Smoothie' King: I didn't ask about your morals.

Lucille Ball was paid $75 dollars a week when she was loaned out to Fox by RKO to make this film. She appears in the song “Waitin’ at the Gate for Katy.”

The film received a favorable review from The New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, who called it "a neat, carefree piece of work, which is helped greatly by Spencer Tracy, Pat Paterson, an English actress who here makes her American picture bow; Herbert Mundin, Harry Green, and, to a lesser extent, by John Boles" and noted that it "has its full share of honest humor and also several tuneful songs." Nonetheless, it was a box office disappointment for Fox.

[vicky82gargoylesfan]

Lee Majors voices Jeff Tracy in Saturday's episode, "Signals Part One". Pirates Reece and Dobbs may also make an appearance... Don't miss out! @ITV and @ChildrensITV at 8:00am this Saturday.

The Pirates are back.

Excited to hear Jeff voice but I reckon it will be from a flashback video.

[kwebtv]

Jack Lee Ging (November 30, 1931 – September 9, 2022) Film and television actor. He was best known as General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright on NBC's television adventure series The A-Team, and for his supporting role in the final season of Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson.

Ging portrayed Dan Wright in NBC's The Man and the Challenge (1959–1960). He also starred in "Dead Men don't pay no debts", an episode of Bat Masterson, playing a small-town sheriff in love with a girl whose name is the same as the man he's sworn to kill. He portrayed a raider in eight episodes of the 1958–1959 syndicated western series Mackenzie's Raiders. Thereafter, he appeared as Beau McCloud in thirteen episodes in the last season of the ABC western series Tales of Wells Fargo.

In 1960, Ging appeared in one episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Whole Truth". He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including, in 1962, playing Danny Pierce in "The Case of the Lonely Eloper". From 1962 to 1964, he played a young psychiatrist in NBC's 62-episode medical drama The Eleventh Hour.  In 1966 he played "Simon Dobbs", a blind ex-lawman trying to cope with his new affliction, on the episode "Stage Stop" (S12E10) on the TV Western Gunsmoke.

Ging had a recurring role as Lieutenant Dan Ives, one of many of Joe Mannix's Los Angeles Police Department contacts on Mannix from 1967 to 1975. Ging's other roles were on The Roaring 20s, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Wiseguy, B. J. and the Bear, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. In 1981, Ging played Tracy Winslow in the episode "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" of ABC's The Greatest American Hero. From 1984 to 1985, Ging played the arrogant Lieutenant Ted Quinlan on the adventure/detective series Riptide; his character was killed off and he went on to appear on The A-Team, on which he made two guest appearances as villains. His roles as a regular on TV programs included that of Chuck Morris on the short-lived CBS crime drama Dear Detective and Admiral Conte on the NBC adventure series The Highwayman.  (Wikipedia)

[rent-day-blues]

Scott the Good Cop + Ava and Lettie Sullivan

An off-duty cop is still a cop.

And one of Scott’s most vivid memories of his father happened not while his dad was in uniform and officially on the job, but on one of his rare nights off, after he’d picked Scott up from soccer practice, and they were driving home through the sort of solidly middle class suburb that they’d used to call home.

Scott had been too busy trying to work out a way to count the number of black pentagons on his soccer ball, but he remembers the way the car’s brakes had slammed and there had been a terrible crunching, screeching, tearing sound from the interection in front of them. His dad had been out of the car almost as quickly as the accident had happened, pinning Scott to his seat with a sharp, no-nonsense order to “Stay. There.”

He remembers being in the back seat of the car, straining against his seatbelt as he’d leaned forward, trying to peer over the dash for a better look at what was happening out the front windshield. It had been just dusk, and the rain that had ended soccer practice early had left the streets slick and treacherous. The windshield was too blurry with rainfall for him to be able to see, and he remembers being young enough to pout about it when he’d heard sirens start singing behind him, that he hadn’t been able to *see* anything.

Then the passenger’s side door had opened, and his father had reappeared, ushering two kids out of the rain, to huddle together in the front seat, wide-eyed and tearful, but both too shaken and startled to actually be crying.

At the sight of two blond heads belonging to two small children, Scott’s immediate instinct had been that his Dad had procured Alan and Gordon from somewhere—but the ages weren’t actually quite right. The youngest was older than Alan, and the elder was nearer to Scott’s age, though smaller.

“Say hi, Scotty,” Dad had called into the backseat, calm and comforting. “We’ve just got a couple guests for a couple minutes, while everything gets sorted out.”

The clever rejoinder of “Hi, Scotty!” had earned him a dazed and fragile giggle from the elder boy, and a wide-eyed stare from the younger. Scott had immediately volunteered his soccerball to the cause of distracting the poor pair of kids, who clearly had no idea what they’d just been through.

Scott remembers his dad, climbing back into the driver’s seat after it had all been sorted out, soaked to the skin from crouching in the rain outside the passenger side door the entire time. And he remembers how proud Jeff had been of how readily and willingly Scott had tried to help.

The accident in the intersection in front of him, a full twenty years later, is a lot less ugly than the one that made such an impression in his childhood. Scott’s off-duty, just like his dad had been, and he’s not even the first officer on scene—he hadn’t seen this wreck happen, and there’s already a black and white cruiser warding the scene, two of his coworkers curtailing traffic and mediating the shouting match between the two drivers. It’s a fender bender, nothing too bad. There’s an ambulance lurking near the edge of the scene, but they look to be packing up.

But a pair of pale faces peek out the back window of the hunter green SUV belonging to the man in the hawaiian print shirt, and Scott’s already pulled over into the nearest parking lot. He climbs out of his car, keeps a sensible distance until one of the officers notices him—Rhys, blithely directing traffic, while poor Dobbs has to keep things from escalating between a middle-aged suburban father and the harried business woman all but shrieking at him about what her lawyer’s going to do with the footage off her dashcam—and gives him a nod and a wave of permission to approach. Scott gestures at the back of the , and Rhys flashes him a thumbs-up.

“Hi,” Scott says, smiling as he approaches the rolled down window, and sketches a little salute at the two little girls therein. “I’m Officer Tracy. You guys okay?”

A pair of silent nods and a hasty attempt from the younger girl to wipe her tears away with the back of her sleeve. Scott leans casually against the doorframe and keeps up the reassuring smile, as he says, “So, which one of you gets to tell your mom why Dad’s in trouble tonight?”

[roysrolls]