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The Mummy’s Curse (1944) dir. Leslie Goodwins

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The Killers (1946) Robert Siodmak

December 7th 2023

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The Charlie Chaplin short Pay Day was actually from 1922.

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Series Premiere

Behind Closed Doors - The Cape Canaveral Story - NBC - October 2, 1958

Drama / Espionage

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Paul Monash

Produced by Sam Gallu 

Directed by Paul Wendkos

Stars:

Joe Maross as Wayne Hollister

Jacques Aubuchon as Charles Meyers

Peter Whitney as Edwin Getty

Bill Henry as Herb Goodwin

Virginia Christine as Julie Hollister

Kathleen O'Malley as Sue-Ellen Goodwin

Marc Snow as Captain

Gabriel Curtiz as Russian Scientist

Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias as Himself

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Here are 10 things you should know about Virginia Christine, born 104 years ago today. She is best remembered for her coffee commercials, but she had a prolific career in movies, radio and television.

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Virginia Christine

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House of Horrors (1946)

"Listen closely, Clarence my lad, I have penned a deathly masterpiece of barbed invective."

"Ah, don't kid me, Mr. Ormiston, you don't use a pen. I saw you do it on the typewriter - and not very fast, either."

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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Don Segel USA, 1956

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Virginia Christine as Princess Ananka in The Mummy's Curse (1944)

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Podcast Actress Virginia Christine Golden Age of Radio Tribute

#onthisday #onthisdate #otd March 5, 1920 #actress #virginiachristine was born (died July 24, 1996). Though Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television, she is probably best remembered as "Mrs. Olson" (or the "Folgers Coffee Woman") in TV commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and 1970s.  On this special #podcast listen to a #goldenage of #radio #oldtimeradio #otr #audio #thriller starring Virginia Christine. https://rileyandkimmyshow.blogspot.com/2022/03/podcast-actress-virginia-christine.html

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Pepper : Tony annoyed me today so I told him that I can’t wait to see what he have planned for our special day tomorrow.

Christine : But, there is nothing special about tomorrow?

Pepper : But there is something special about watching the color leave his face as panic takes over.

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The Gangster (1947) Gordon Wiles

July 27th 2023

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Character Actress

Virginia Christine (born Virginia Christine Ricketts; March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996) was an American stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress. Though Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television, she is probably best remembered as "Mrs. Olson" (or the "Folgers Coffee Woman") in a string of television commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and 1970s.

In addition to her work in films, Christine also appeared in numerous television series. In the 1950s, she appeared in multiple guest roles on The Abbott and Costello Show, Four Star Playhouse, Dragnet, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Ford Television Theatre, Gunsmoke, Science Fiction Theatre, Matinee Theatre, Father Knows Best, Trackdown, State Trooper, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, Letter to Loretta, Superman, and General Electric Theater. In November 1959, Christine co-starred as the wife of a verbally abusive hypochondriac in the first-season episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Escape Clause".

In 1960 and 1961, Christine guest-starred on episodes of Coronado 9, Rawhide, and The Untouchables. From 1961 to 1962, Christine had a recurring role as widow Ovie Swenson in the Western series Tales of Wells Fargo. She made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of defendant Beth Sandover in the season-six, 1962 episode, "The Case of the Double-Entry Mind", and murderer Edith Summers in the season-seven, 1963 episode, "The Case of the Devious Delinquent". For the remainder of the decade, she continued with guest-starring roles in such shows as 77 Sunset Strip, Ben Casey, Bonanza, The Fugitive, Hazel, Wagon Train, The Virginian, Going My Way, The F.B.I., and Daniel Boone. In 1969, Christine co-starred in the ABC television movie Daughter of the Mind.

Her greatest fame came in 1965 when she began her 21-year stint as the matronly Mrs. Olson, who had comforting words for young married couples while pouring Folgers coffee in television commercials. They became a popular staple on television, whereupon the character began to be parodied by comedians and entertainers, including Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Ann-Margret, and Jackie Gleason. She went on to appear in over 100 commercials for Folgers. In 1971, Christine's hometown of Stanton, Iowa, honored her by transforming the city water tower to resemble a giant coffee pot.

During the 1970s, Christine continued to work primarily in television. Her last role was on the 1979 animated series Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, in which she provided additional voices.  (Wikipedia)

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Claire Dodd, Christine Maple, and Virginia Bruce (1930)

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Thinking about Virginia Lewis violently sobbing while saying, “And I feel like I was on a train and it crashed or something and no one came to rescue me,” about being abandoned by her mother who due to repression she doesn’t remember tried to drown her before she disappeared.

Thinking about her saying this to her father, Tony, who came home just barely in time to save his daughter and who kept the truth of all this secret so that Virginia could keep the memory of her mother untainted by it.

Thinking about Virginia reuniting with her mother, Christine, who denies that Virginia is her daughter and then attempts to strangle her all the while portraying just how broken, unwell, and manipulated Christine is.

Thinking about Christine trying to kill Virginia but getting killed in return, in self defense, and Virginia holding her as she dies, “Don’t die. Just remember who you are,” as clarity comes far too late in one last terrible hallelujah, “Don’t cry. My little girl. My little girl.”

Experiencing many emotions about it.