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9/24 Levin list of actors who were in the Armed Forces?
Posted on 09/24/2015 5:31:44 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
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To: Bobalu
Thanks very much, Bobalu!
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:58:24 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: West Texas Chuck
The studio got him a medical deferment because of a bad shoulder, but then in his movies (at the same time), with all the shooting and riding and fighting, it was ironic.
The fact is that he relished being one of the few name actors still acting during that time.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:59:06 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
(Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
To: laplata
I have also read he grew up in an abandoned railway car - his father had deserted the family of something like ten kids and his mother, it was rumored, was part Indian. She died young.
I don’t know why you are arguing about this - it’s perfectly true that many children of the Depression suffered dreadfully. We should all remember that and thank our blessings.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:59:41 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: LouAvul
Good point. I stand corrected.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:00:40 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Osage Orange
Some chose to serve, many were drafted. Up until the 60s, almost all American men served, even in peacetime.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:01:19 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: Bobalu
Ding Ding Ding. Thank you kindly, FReeper. That would be the one.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:01:32 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
To: Bobalu
To: stanne
To: miss marmelstein
Those people were tough and resilient. The Germans and Japs didn’t understand that aspect of what they were up against when they faced the Americans.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:04:44 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Bobalu
Thanks for the beautiful photos! This experience would go on to create one of the greatest periods in American movies - based on the toughness of those actors and directors and producers who saw action. It also helped to create Film Noir - when people refused to only appreciate the Busby Berkley style of Hollywood (not that there was anything wrong with that) and wanted something grittier to express their experiences.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:06:22 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: miss marmelstein
That’s a list of actors that served in WW2 that I posted a long time ago here on FR.
Glad to be able to post it again as it was a real chore putting it together :-)
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:09:07 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
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To: Bobalu
Great post....!!
Thanks!!
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:09:09 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Obama practices "religion" in the mirror.)
To: West Texas Chuck
The WW1 vets sometimes don’t seem to get enough credit on these lists. A young Brian Donlevy joined up with the Lafayette Escadrille. Horror actor Rondo Hatton got a bad dose of mustard gas that contributed to his problems. Silent cowboy star Fred Thomson served. Britishers Herbert Marshall and Leo G. Carroll suffered severe injuries in combat.
Many, many more I’m sure.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:13:37 PM PDT
by
greene66
To: LouAvul
Do you have a link...pilgrim?
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:14:10 PM PDT
by
berdie
To: nascarnation
Just like my aunt. I have a picture of her with my uncle (Army Sergeant) both in full uniform. Great picture. My uncle was a Stewart light tank commander during the battle of the bulge. Saw some horrible stuff heading into Germany at the end.
To: Bobalu
Thank you for the beautiful montage.
It took lots of work and I learned some things I didn’t know.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:16:38 PM PDT
by
berdie
To: West Texas Chuck
Here's a rather obscure one, but not to fans of the Three Stooges: Richard Fiske, who played the Stooges' sergeant in "Boobs in Arms." He was a second lieutenant in the infantry, and was killed in action in France in 1944.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:17:51 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Bobalu
To: West Texas Chuck
Master storyteller of Radio, Television, and Film (most people know of him because of A Christmas Story),
Jean Shepherd, served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during WWII. He attained the rank of Technician Fifth Grade.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:26:14 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: West Texas Chuck
Adam Driver who plays the boyfriend of Lena Dunham in Girls.
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