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FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Real Hollywood Heroes Part 5 ~ May 12, 2014
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Posted on 05/11/2014 5:00:17 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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~ Hall of Heroes ~ Real Hollywood Heroes
Part 5
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"Armies do not fight wars; nations fight wars. War is not a military activity conducted by soldiers, but rather a social activity that involves entire nations. . . ." ~ Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, U.S. Army There were a lot of Hollywood stars of the 1940s that put careers on hold to fight for freedom. Movie stars of World War II earned more than 300 medals and awards that honor their valor. U.S. awards and medals include Silver Stars, Distinguish Service Crosses, Air Medals, Bronze Stars, Presidential Unit Citations, Purple Hearts, and a Congressional Medal of Honor. Back before Hollywood became Hollyweird....
Richard Eastham (1916-2005) [Man on Fire (1957); Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)] was originally headed for a musical career. He was born Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana. A student at Washington University, he was gifted with a fine sturdy baritone and performed with the St. Louis Grand Opera in the days before World War II. After finishing his wartime four-year army service, Eastham moved to New York and studied at the American Theatre Wing. His musical peak came after understudying singer Ezio Pinza as plantation owner Emile DeBecque in South Pacific, sharing the stage in the role with the likes of Mary Martin and (later) Janet Blair while using the name Dickenson Eastham. He also co-starred in an Ethel Merman production of Call Me Madam in the early 1950s and made his minor non-singing film bow with Merman in the Fox film musical There's No Business Like Show Business (1954). His TV debut came with a musical appearance on Toast of the Town (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show) in 1949. Richard Egan (1921-1987) was an American actor. Born in San Francisco, California, Egan served in the United States Army during World War II. A graduate of the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, he studied and taught at Northwestern University for a time. Having studied theatre, he took a bit role in the 1949 Hollywood film The Story of Molly X. This start would lead to his signing of a contract with 20th Century Fox where his rugged physique and good looks made him an early 1950s leading man in mainly B-movies. In 1956, he starred as Elvis Presley's older brother in Presley's first film, Love Me Tender and in 1959 was the male lead opposite Dorothy McGuire in A Summer Place. In 1960, Egan appeared in such films as Pollyanna and with Joan Collins in Esther and the King. Robert Ellenstein (1923- ) [The Garment Jungle (1957); Love at First Bite (1979)] is an American TV and film actor. The son of a Newark dentist, Robert grew up in that New Jersey city and saw his father go on to become its two-term mayor. He got his feet wet as an actor prior to serving the Air Corps during World War II. He was awarded a Purple Heart. After service, he began acting, directing and teaching in Cleveland, Ohio. A veteran of the Golden Age of live TV (he played Quasimodo in a live Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Ellenstein made his first movie in 1954 (MGM's Rogue Cop) and is still going strong with jobs in TV and regional theater. He played the Federation President in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Leif Erickson (1911-1986) [Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)] was born William Y. Wycliffe Anderson in Alameda, California and died of cancer at age 74 in Pensacola, Florida. He was a brawny, blond second lead and had the looks of a Viking god. He worked as a band vocalist and trombone player, then gained a small amount of stage experience before debuting onscreen in a bit part (as a corpse) in Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). Billed by Paramount as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns. Because of his Nordic looks he was renamed Leif Erikson, which he later changed to Erickson. He played intelligent but unexciting second leads and supporting parts in many films. Erickson took four years off to serve in World War II and was twice wounded. He made few films after 1965 and retired from the screen after 1977. Also working on Broadway and in TV plays, he played the patriarch Big John Cannon in the TV series High Chaparral (1967-1971). From 1934 to 1942, he was married to actress Frances Farmer, with whom he co-starred in Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); later, he was briefly married to actress Margaret Hayes (aka Dana Dale). ~ Rovi (Edited to insert other info.) Gene Evans (1922-1998) began his acting career while serving in World War II and performing with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe. [He served as a combat engineer and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for bravery in action.]. Evans, raised in Colton, California, made his film debut in 1947 and ended up appearing in dozens of movies and television programs. He specialized in playing tough guys like cowboys, sheriffs, convicts and Army sergeants. The near-sighted actor rarely wore his thick glasses in films, he did wear them while playing a doctor in the B-movie Donovan's Brain (1953). ...more next week... |
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Sounds like a great service. Glad you have a new member.
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posted on
05/11/2014 8:55:40 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
oops! Revenge of the hoses!! :)
I had to work. It was BUSY, but I have off tomorrow to recuperate.
I’ll just pretend that tomorrow is Mother’s Day.......except for the
laundry and other stuff that needs doing! LOL!
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posted on
05/11/2014 9:05:35 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
To: SandRat
Monday already? I’m not ready.
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posted on
05/11/2014 9:09:07 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: LUV W
Well...Happy Mother’s Day to you, on Monday!!
Didn’t the guys have their shopping done before the actual day?
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posted on
05/11/2014 9:16:22 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN
Happy Mother’s Day!
I spent the weekend working on my old Airstream.
I’m getting ready to put laminate flooring in.
So everything needs to come out.
About half done...
HUGZ,
JJ
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posted on
05/11/2014 9:23:11 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Jet Jaguar
Good evening, JJ...((HUGS))...and a Happy Mother's Day to Mrs JJ.
WOW! What a project! Are you refurbishing the whole thing,
making things more to your liking/usage?
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posted on
05/11/2014 9:36:29 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Yep. The thing is all original and things corrode and break over time.
The camper itself is solid. But, they definitely had a leakey plumbing problem at some point that wrecked the appliances and the plywood veneer. I am pulling out all old and going to go dry camper with propane and AC/DC only. New cabinetry and will try to save the old stuff that is still good.
Lotta work. But, I am enjoying putting the time into it.
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posted on
05/11/2014 9:54:27 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Jet Jaguar
Sounds like quite a big project, but there is nothing better than enjoying a good project. Enjoy away!!
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posted on
05/11/2014 10:04:28 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
05/11/2014 10:07:11 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
05/11/2014 10:49:36 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
To: eyedigress
And a Happy Remembrance day for your beloved Mom, eye.
Ave Maria....beautiful!! Thank you. ((HUGS))
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posted on
05/11/2014 11:06:26 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Kathy, you are unbelievable. Keeping up must be rough but I think you enjoy it.
My schedule this week was easy but Columbia and Somewhere, Georgia was involved. I get Raleigh and somewhere, Winston-Salem Mon-Tue.
Thanks for keeping me on the ping lists. My freedom is not what it was.
:^)
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posted on
05/11/2014 11:28:59 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
To: Kathy in Alaska
There will be DVD’s for sure.
My grandson, one of that platoon, will be guest speaker for the opening Q&A at Little Rock Festival
He did the same for RESTREPO in San Antonio
WE miss Tim (Hetherington) - who was Sebastian’s photojournalist on these - killed in Libya.
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posted on
05/11/2014 11:43:16 PM PDT
by
maine-iac7
(Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
To: eyedigress
Have suitcases, will travel!
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posted on
05/12/2014 12:03:20 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: maine-iac7
Our thanks to your grandson, and his whole platoon, for their service to our country.
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posted on
05/12/2014 12:22:14 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: E.G.C.; beachn4fun; Arrowhead1952; ConorMacNessa; MEG33; LUV W; PROCON; SandRat; Allegra; ...
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posted on
05/12/2014 1:27:00 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: All
Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.
Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.
Thanks, unique, for the pastries.
Coffee is always on........
How about a donut?
Cookies?
Veggies?
Sandwich?
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posted on
05/12/2014 1:28:21 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Jet Jaguar; txradioguy; JemiansTerror; MEG33; Laurita; CMS; OneLoyalAmerican; Defender2; ...
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posted on
05/12/2014 1:30:44 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC
A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.
((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. Thanks for this morning's thread, Star. How's it going?
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posted on
05/12/2014 1:41:37 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: Kathy in Alaska
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05/12/2014 1:41:53 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
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