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The only film I can recall seeing of Claudette Colbert  is It Happened One Night

The co-person of the day...Buffalo Bob Smith


... died in Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1998. three days before Shari Lewis the creator of Lamb Chop

Now that is curious?

Now that is curious?

I was going to say maybe it was the puppet connection they had, but I see she had uterine cancer, so it was just a coincidence.

I was going to say maybe it was the puppet connection they had, but I see she had uterine cancer, so it was just a coincidence.
Did she see him as a form of mentor?

The only film I can recall seeing of Claudette Colbert  is It Happened One Night


I saw her on stage (in Brisbane) co-starring with Rex Harrison, back in the late 80's. I remember in a few movies (but none come to mind as I type).. :-\\

Brides in underwear (at the ceremony)!!!  :o  This shows a great disrespect for the ceremony and ocassion itself...and is tacky (includes 3rd pic in ninny's montage)! Other than that ....Va Va Va Voom!  ::)

I saw her on stage (in Brisbane) co-starring with Rex Harrison, back in the late 80's. I remember in a few movies (but none come to mind as I type).. :-\\
Did she still have her charm?

Was Mama Cass always overweight? ???

Was Mama Cass always overweight? ???


I beleive she was chubby as a baby!  ;)

Hey, Ninny! You really out-did yourself this time! You touched on three of my favorite people! Claudet Colbert (Loved her in the "Egg and I"), David Niven ("Old Dracula"), and especially Mama Cass Elliot. I love her song "Different". Thanks, Ninny and 3 Cheers to ya'!  :) :) :)

Hey, Ninny! You really out-did yourself this time! You touched on three of my favorite people! Claudet Colbert (Loved her in the "Egg and I"), David Niven ("Old Dracula"), and especially Mama Cass Elliot. I love her song "Different". Thanks, Ninny and 3 Cheers to ya'!  :) :) :)

I'm glad you liked my choices :)

Brides in underwear (at the ceremony)!!!  :o   This shows a great disrespect for the ceremony and ocassion itself...and is tacky (includes 3rd pic in ninny's montage)! Other than that ....Va Va Va Voom!  ::)

:-[ I never noticed umm her unique dress till now.

Was Mama Cass always overweight? ???
It was the way she was.

I beleive she was chubby as a baby!  ;)
Chubby, that is the word I was looking for.

The word of the day...wall(s)
  1.  An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.
  2. A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes. Often used in the plural.
  3. A structure of stonework, cement, or other material built to retain a flow of water.
  4.
        1. Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part: the abdominal wall.
        2. Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength: a wall of silence; a wall of fog.
        3. An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin: driven to the wall by poverty.
  5. Sports. The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.
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The person of the day...Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and pop music singer-songwriter popular in the 1950s and 1960s who also gained a wide international following for his pioneering smooth Nashville sound. Known as Gentleman Jim, his songs continued to chart for years following his death at age 40 in a private airplane crash. He is a member of the Country Music and Texas Country Music halls of fame.
Reeves' first country hits included "I Love You Because" (a duet with Ginny Wright), "Mexican Joe", "Bimbo" and other songs on both Fabor Records and Abbott Records. He recorded only one album for Abbott, 1955's Jim Reeves Sings (Abbott 5001). Eventually he tired of the novelty bracket he had been forced into, and left for RCA Victor. In 1955, Reeves was signed to a 10-year recording contract by Stephen Sholes, who produced some of Reeves' first recordings at RCA and signed Elvis Presley for the label that same year.

In his earliest RCA recordings, Reeves was still singing in the loud style of his first recordings, considered standard for country & western performers at that time. He softened his volume, using a lower pitch and singing with lips nearly touching the microphone, but ran into some resistance at RCA; until in 1957, with the support of his producer Chet Atkins, he used this style on his version of a demo song of lost love, written from a woman's perspective (and intended for a female singer). "Four Walls" not only took top position on the country charts, but went to number eleven on the popular charts. Reeves had not only opened the door to wider acceptance for other country singers, but also helped usher in a new style of country music, using violins and lusher background arrangements soon called the Nashville sound.

Reeves became known as a crooner because of his warm, velvety voice. His songs were remarkable for their simple elegance highlighted by his rich light baritone voice. Songs such as "Adios Amigo," "Welcome To My World", and "Am I Losing You?" demonstrated this approach. His Christmas songs have been perennial favorites, including "Silver Bells," "Blue Christmas" and "An Old Christmas Card."
Reeves toured Britain and Ireland in 1963 between his tours of South Africa and Europe. Reeves and The Blue Boys were in Ireland from May 30 to June 19, 1963; with a tour of US military bases from June 10 to June 15, when they returned to Ireland. They performed in most counties in Ireland, though Reeves occasionally cut performances short because he was unhappy with the piano. In a June 6, 1963 interview with Spotlight magazine, Reeves expressed his concerns about the tour schedule and the condition of the pianos, but said he was pleased with the audiences.

He planned to record an album of popular Irish songs, and had three number one songs in Ireland in 1963 and 1964: "Welcome to My World," "I Love You Because," and "I Won't Forget You." Reeves had 11 songs in the Irish charts from 1962 to 1967. He recorded two Irish ballads, "Danny Boy" and "Maureen."

He was permitted to perform in Ireland by the Irish Federation of Musicians on the condition that he share the bill with Irish show bands, becoming popular by 1963. The British Federation of Musicians would not permit him to perform there because no agreement existed for British show bands to travel to America in exchange for the Blue Boys playing in Great Britain. Reeves, however, appeared on British radio and TV programs
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The co-person of the day...Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc, pronounced ) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a world famous Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.

Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century. He is said to have been the most technically advanced and perhaps greatest pianist of all time. He was also an important and influential composer, a notable piano teacher, a conductor who contributed significantly to the modern development of the art, and a benefactor to other composers and performers, notably Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin.

As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the "Neudeutsche Schule" ("New German School"). He left behind a huge and diverse body of work, in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form and making radical departures in harmony
iszt was a prolific composer. Most of his music is for the piano and much of it requires formidable technique. His thoroughly revised masterwork, Années de Pèlerinage ("Years of Pilgrimage") includes arguably his most provocative and stirring pieces. This set of three suites ranges from the virtuosity of the Suisse Orage (Storm) to the subtle and imaginative visualisations of artworks by Michelangelo and Raphael in the second set. Années contains some pieces which are loose transcriptions of Liszt's own earlier compositions; the first "year" recreates his early pieces of Album d'un voyageur, while the second book includes a resetting of his own song transcriptions once separately published as Tre sonetti di Petrarca ("Three sonnets of Petrarch"). The relative obscurity of the vast majority of his works may be explained by the immense number of pieces he composed.

In his most famous and virtuosic works, he is the archetypal Romantic composer. Liszt pioneered the technique of thematic transformation, a method of development which was related to both the existing variation technique and to the new use of the Leitmotif by Richard Wagner.

Liszt's piano works are usually divided into two classes. On the one hand, there are "original works", and on the other hand "transcriptions", "paraphrases" or "fantasies" on works by other composers. Examples for the first class are works such as the piece Harmonies poétiques et religieuses of May 1833 and the Piano Sonata in B minor. Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert songs, his fantasies on operatic melodies, and his piano arrangements of symphonies by Berlioz and Beethoven are examples for the second class. As special case, Liszt also made piano arrangements of own instrumental and vocal works. Examples of this kind are the arrangement of the second movement "Gretchen" of his Faust Symphony and the first "Mephisto Waltz" as well as the "Liebesträume No.3" and the two volumes of his "Buch der Lieder".
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