Posted on 10/12/2010 5:19:22 PM PDT by stillafreemind
A book called "Ernie" was written by Borgnine. The book was originally titled " I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to keep my nuts warm". The publishers were squeamish about using that title, thus "Ernie" became the name of his biographical book. I loved the original title. He said when he was looking for work and not having much luck, he walked by a nut vendor on the street. There on the side of the vendor's cart was " I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to keep my nuts warm." From then on, Ernie said that was his philosophy on life.
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Wife beating? Well if I had been married to Ethel Merman I probably would have..... Oh never mind.
Met both Ernest Borgnine and Tony Curtis at Chiller Conventions. Don’t forget they both are in The Vikings.
ODEN!!!!!
LOL! “The Old Bag” herself! Remember “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World?”
I didn’t know that. That would be a bummer.
Many decades ago I read about him. It seems he was first cast as a vicious bully type in the tradition of such villians as Ernest Torrance, but "Marty" humanized him.
He did so many good movies. Besides "The Dirty Dozen," there was that fine remake of "All Quiet on the Western Front."
He was the likeable Katchninsky there and he played it just as well as Louis Wholheim played it in the first one.
p.s. Louis Wholheim was also a fellow one would like to split a beer with. Pity he died of stomach cancer in the early 30s and didn't make more movies.
What does adds red to his resume mean?
Marriage to Ethel Merman is terrifying to think about.
When he wasn't being Sgt Judson, anyway.
LOL! I would have strangled her in a Mad Mad World.
The best one in the film was Jonathan Winters. He was hilarious. Most of those old school comedians would go on Carson and they were tedious. When J Winters was “on” he was a riot.
“Red” is his new movie opening this week.
I believe that is the new Bruce Willis movie and Ernie has a part in it. I clicked on the link in the article and it was a trailer for the movie Red. You can see a bit of Ernie in it. I thought “wow” he really looks great at age 93!
I love that movie. Even cast members I didn’t like in other movies hit home runs in “...Mad, Mad...World.”
One of the few remaining actors who served in WWII and is a patriot. I like him for that reason alone. My favorite Borgnine part was the cabbie in Escape from New York, and his last scene as the bad guy boss in Willard is great too.
Didn't she turn out to be a lesbian? And when it comes to divorce I find it hard to believe anything bad the woman says about the man.
Borgnine joined the navy in ‘35.
One of the best movies ever.
I saw it the year it was released and we actually went to see the other movie showing that day,but this one blew our minds.
These were the days when we got 2 movies for one ticket.
Ding Bell : So good luck, and may the best man win!
Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett): [to Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman)] Right! Except you,lady. May you just drop dead!
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