Final Curtain (the Visual Arts obituary thread)*

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  1. JozefK

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    Arthur Hiller, Director of 'Love Story,' Dies at 92 »

    Arthur Hiller, the Oscar-nominated director who transitioned from television to helm such classic films as Love Story, The Out-of-Towners and The In-Laws before serving four terms as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has died. He was 92.

    Hiller, the 2002 recipient of the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his lifetime of charitable efforts, diedWednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes, AMPAS announced.

    A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Hiller started out in radio and then television, directing scores of episodes of such series as Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Rifleman. He received an Emmy nomination for an installment of the gritty ABC drama Naked City and helmed the pilot for the wacky ABC sitcom The Addams Family.

    The well-liked Hiller went on to direct more than 30 features in all manner of genres, from intense dramas to light comedies to musicals.

    He did two films with screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky -- The Americanization of Emily (1964), starring James Garner and Julie Andrews, and The Hospital (1971), toplined by George C. Scott — and two others with Neil Simon: The Out-of-Towners (1970), starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as hopeless suburbanites, and the three-act Plaza Suite (1971), starring Walter Matthau.

    In addition to the comedy The In-Laws (1979), which featured Alan Arkin as a mild-mannered dentist thrust into a wild CIA caper with the father (Peter Falk) of his soon-to-be son-in-law, Hiller’s impressive body of work includes the musical Man of La Mancha (1972), with Peter O’Toole and Sophia Loren; The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), starring Maximilian Schell; and Silver Streak (1976), the first pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.

    Hiller’s Love Story (1970), the tragic romantic tearjerker from Paramount that starred Ryan O’Neal as a college kid from a wealthy family and Ali MacGraw as a wisecracking working-class girl, earned seven Oscar nominations, including one for best picture and mentions for Hiller and the two leads.

    “I was busting my ass to keep it from being a soap opera,” Hiller told Vanity Fair in 2010. “I wanted you to care, but not to be crying from the beginning.”​

    Paddy Chayefsky, left, and Arthur Hiller on the set of The Hospital in 1971

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  2. John B Good

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    OMG!

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    Lot of great work, especially with Chayefsky.
     
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    Out of Towners and In-Laws were both funny.

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    Marvin Kaplan, Character Actor Known for ‘Alice’ and ‘Top Cat,’ Dies at 89 »

    Marvin Kaplan
    , a character actor known for the sitcom “Alice” and his voice-over work as Choo-Choo on the animated series “Top Cat,” has died. He was 89.

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    He died of natural causes on Wednesday in his home in Burbank, Calif., according to a statement released by Theatre West. “It is with a sad and heavy heart to inform you our very own Marvin Kaplan passed away today at 5 a.m. in his sleep,” the statement reads. “We loved Marvin. He will truly be missed.”

    Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kaplan’s made his film debut in 1949’s “Adam’s Rib” starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Known for his sarcastic and deadpan delivery, Kaplan was featured in a variety of films, TV shows and animated series throughout his 60+ year career.

    Apart from “Top Cat,” Kaplan was well-known for his recurring role on the CBS series “Alice” as Henry Beesmeyer, a phone company employee named who often visited Mel’s Diner.

    He also appeared in small roles in films such as “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “The Great Race” and “A New Kind of Love.”
     
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    Cookie The Cockatoo

    Chicago Zoological Society staff are mourning the loss of one of Brookfield Zoo’s most beloved and well-known animals: Cookie, an 83-year-old Major Mitchell’s cockatoo. Cookie, who was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in 2014, died on August 27. He was the oldest resident at the zoo and the only remaining member of the original animal collection, which dates back to 1934, when the zoo first opened. Cookie lived well beyond the life expectancy for his species. He arrived at Brookfield Zoo at the age of 1 from Taronga Zoo in Australia. Over the years, Cookie’s popularity grew and he touched many people’s lives. He received many cards, letters, toys, and pictures from admirers around the world.​

     
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    Leslie H. Martinson, Prolific TV Director and 'Batman' Helmer, Dies at 101 »

    Director Leslie H. Martinson, who worked on more than 100 television series during his prolific career and helmed Batman: The Movie in 27 days between the first two seasons of the wildly popular 1960s ABC show, has died. He was 101.

    Martinson, who seemingly directed episodes of every TV program from The Roy Rogers Show in 1953 to the late 1980s syndicated comedy Small Wonder, died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced.

    Martinson also helmed several features, including the John F. Kennedy naval tale PT 109 (1963), starring Cliff Robertson, the beach comedy For Those Who Think Young (1965) and the light-hearted Raquel Welch adventure Fathom (1966). Moving easily from genre to genre, the Boston native with the wicked New England accent put his stamp on TV Westerns (Maverick, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot), crime stories (Mannix, Ironside, 77 Sunset Strip), action (Mission: Impossible, Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman), drama (Dallas, Eight Is Enough) and comedy (The Brady Bunch, Love, American Style, Diff'rent Strokes).

    Martinson's credits range from some of television's most popular hits, including Fantasy Island, CHiPS, Cannon and Barnaby Jones, to such long-forgotten shows as Dusty's Trail, The Alaskans and The Chicago Teddy Bears. It's hard to find a series that doesn't bear his name on at least one episode.

    "If you want to be a director, you can start studying before you're anywhere near a set," Martinson said during a 2003 interview with the Archive of American of Television. "Every time you watch a television show, you're learning your craft. You don't watch a show for entertainment, you watch to study."
     
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    Greta Zimmer Friedman, ‘nurse’ in iconic Times Square kiss photo, dead at 92 »

    The woman who was iconically photographed being kissed by a sailor in Times Square near the end of World War II died this week in Virginia, her family confirmed. Greta Zimmer Friedman passed away Thursday following a long illness, her son told reporters. She was 92.

    Joshua Friedman said his mother had been residing in an assisted living facility for the last two years and had developed health complications, CBS News reported Saturday. She had been ill for some time but had recently contracted pneumonia, her son told the New York Daily News.

    On Aug. 14, 1945, the then-21-year-old dental assistant — not a nurse as was commonly believed — was captured on film during a sudden embrace with an American sailor as she walked midtown Manhattan amid reports Japan had surrendered days after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph, “V-J Day in Times Square,” was soon after published in Life magazine and has since become widely regarded as one of the most iconic images of the 20th century.​

    Friedman didn’t know the sailor, George Mendonsa, and the two weren’t reunited until several decades later. Mendonsa, 93, is now a retired fisherman living in Rhode Island, the Daily News reported.

    “I did not see him approaching, and before I know it I was in this vice grip,” she told CBS News in 2012.​


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    'Liesl' from the Sound of Music, Charmian Carr, has died of complications from a rare form of dementia at the age of 73. Carr was best known for her role as the eldest Von Trapp daughter, Liesl, in the academy award winning movie, The Sound of Music. Carr was 21 at the time the movie was filmed, and is famous for singing the beloved song "I Am Sixteen Going on Seventeen." After The Sound of Music, Carr also starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the Stephen Sondheim television musical "Evening Primrose."

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    Curtis Hanson, Director of ‘L.A. Confidential,’ Dies at 71 »

    Curtis Hanson, director of “L.A Confidential” and winner with Brian Helgeland of an Oscar for adapting James Ellroy’s novel, was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday afternoon, a spokesperson with the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed. He was 71.

    As a producer of the stylish 1997 period film, Hanson shared the nomination for best picture and was nominated for best director. The film won an Oscar for actress Kim Basinger, and was nominated for cinematography, art direction, sound, editing, and score. At Cannes it was nominated for the Palme d’Or, and in 2015 it was named to the National Film Registry

    Hanson’s other films included “The River Wild” (1994), “Wonder Boys” (2000), “8 Mile” (2002) and “In Her Shoes” (2005).

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    So sad to hear of her passing.

    Of the "movie" von Trapp family from the 51-year-old film, she is the first to pass on.

    The cast in 1965 and 2015. (Charmian Carr is third from right.)
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    Bobby Breen, the celebrated boy soprano and child actor who appeared in a quick succession of popular 1930s films before puberty set in, has died. He was 88.

    Breen died Monday of natural causes in a hospital in Pompano Beach, Fla., his daughter-in-law Jackie Howard told The Hollywood Reporter. His wife of 54 years, Audre, had died there three days earlier.

    Breen's likeness is among those in the crowd pictured on the cover of the 1967 Beatles record Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Film historian Rhett Bartlett notes that there are only five survivors left from that memorable album cover — Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter Dion and sculptor Larry Bell.

    Born in Canada on Nov. 4, 1927, Breen was pushed by his older sister to become a performer. He came to Hollywood when he was about 8 and sang on Eddie Cantor's weekly radio program.

    With a reputation as "a boy Shirley Temple," the curly haired, dimpled Breen made his movie debut as an opera singer in Let's Sing Again (1936) for RKO Radio Pictures.

    The youngster followed with a blitz of top-billed singing roles in such films as Rainbow on the River (1936), Make a Wish (1937) — where he is befriended by a composer played by Basil Rathbone — Hawaii Calls (1938), Way Down South (1939) and Fisherman's Wharf (1939).

    However, his voice naturally changed as he became a teenager, and following production of Escape to Paradise (1939), he was done with the movies after a small role in Johnny Doughboy (1942), starring Jane Withers.

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    Freda Rosen, Actress on a Memorable Episode of 'The Honeymooners,' Dies at 87 »

    Freda Rosen, who as the blond bombshell Rita Wedemeyer is embarrassingly fawned over by Jackie Gleason and Art Carney on a classic episode of The Honeymooners, has died. She was 87.

    A resident of Beverly Hills for more than 50 years, Rosen died Sunday, her family announced.

    Her husband was TV writer Arnie Rosen, who won five Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and The Carol Burnett Show. He died in 1980.

    In The Honeymooners episode "Alice and the Blonde," which first aired in June 1956, Ralph (Gleason) and Ed (Carney) bring their wives (Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph) to the apartment of Ralph's co-worker, Bert Wedemeyer (Frank Behrens), for a rare couples' evening out.

    After introductions, Ralph and Ed make fools of themselves flattering Bert's new wife, the glamourous Rita, who's wearing an extremely tight dress and glittery jewelry. Meanwhile, Alice and Trixie, who bought new dresses for the occasion, are ignored by their dopey husbands and not happy about it.

    Rita notes that she and Bert have pet names for each other.

    Ralph: "Pet names for each other? Now isn't that cute. I bet that was your idea."

    Rita: "Yes, it was. Don't you have certain names you like to call your husband?"

    Alice: "Oh, I have several I'd love to call him."

    The Honeymooners credit is the only one she has listed on IMDb.​


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    Andrzej Wajda, Celebrated Polish Director, Dies at 90 »

    Renowned Polish director Andrzej Wajda died Sunday in Warsaw after a short illness. He was 90. His death was confirmed by the Associated Press and Polish media outlets.

    Though best known in the U.S. for his realistic WWII trilogy “A Generation,” “Kanal,” and “Ashes and Diamonds” from the late 1950s, the always controversial and politically vital filmmaker continued working into the 21st century and was considered Poland’s preeminent filmmaker. His latest film, the biopic “Afterimage,” had recently been selected as Poland’s foreign language Oscar submission. In 2000 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Wajda with an honorary Oscar in recognition of a lifetime of work.

    Through his bold use of imagery, Wajda was able to circumvent state censors during the Cold War years and create stinging indictments of war and political oppression in the postwar years.

    Poland’s history under the Soviet Union was the basis for two of his most acclaimed works, 1977’s “Man of Marble” and 1981’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Man of Iron,” which details the country’s famous Solidarity labor movement and featured Poland’s real-life hero Lech Walesa. (He returned to the subject of Walesa for the 2013 biopic “Walesa: Man of Hope.”) For a time, however, the Polish government became too restrictive and Wajda was forced to emigrate to France, where he lived until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. When he returned he was elected to the Polish parliament and appointed head of Warsaw’s leading theater, where Wajda was also a leading light, much like Ingmar Bergman in Sweden.​
     
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    Ted V. Mikels - Wikipedia »

    Ted V. Mikels (born Theodore Mikacevich; April 29, 1929 – October 16, 2016) was an American independent filmmaker, primarily of the horror cult filmgenre. Movies that he has both produced and directed include Girl in Gold Boots (1968), The Astro-Zombies (1968), and The Doll Squad (1973).

    During the 1960s and 1970s, Mikels also operated his own recording label, Geneni Records, which primarily issued radio spot advertisement records used to promote his various movie projects but also released a number of stand-alone singles by such artists as Vic Lance and Little Leon Payne.​

    Go directly to YouTube and search The Black Klansman. I haven't watched the film, but the theme song is a classic.

    I love this poster. It looks like a high school comic books nerd drew it during lunch period.

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    Eddie Applegate, Actor on 'The Patty Duke Show,' Dies at 81 »

    He portrayed Richard Harrison, the easygoing boyfriend of the Brooklyn-born Patty Lane, on the 1960s ABC sitcom. Eddie Applegate, who played Richard Harrison, the high school boyfriend of Patty Lane, on The Patty Duke Show, died Monday. He was 81.

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    Applegate died at a nursing home in Los Angeles after a long illness, his friend, Lizzie Maxwell, told The Hollywood Reporter.

    Applegate appeared in 88 of the ABC sitcom's 104 episodes as Richard, who dated the Brooklyn-born Patty (Duke). Of course, Duke also played an identical cousin, Cathy Lane, on the series, which aired from 1963-66. In CBS' 1999 reunion telefilm, The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights, Applegate returned as Harrison; now, he was Patty Lane's ex-husband.

    While starring in a Las Vegas stage production of Bye Bye Birdie, Applegate was approached by a producer to appear in the 1963 romantic comedy A Ticklish Affair, starring Shirley Jones, Carolyn Jones, Gig Young and Red Buttons. A native of Wyncote, Pa., Applegate also appeared on such shows as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Lucy Show, Daktari, Gunsmoke and the short-lived comedy Nancy, created by Sidney Sheldon and featuring Celeste Holm.

    More recently, Applegate played a grandfather in the Emma Stone starrer Easy A (2010) and appeared in the crime film Rain From Stars (2013). He also worked as an agent, artist and carpenter. Survivors include his children Heather and Michael, their respective spouses Eric and Julie and grandchildren Jenna, Zack, Katie, Lauren, Kyle and Mia.
     
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/theater/tammy-grimes-died.html

    Tammy Grimes, the throaty actress and singer who conquered Broadway at the age of 26, winning a Tony Award for her performance in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” and went on to a distinguished stage career, died on Sunday in Englewood, N.J. She was 82.

    The death was confirmed by Duncan MacArthur, her nephew.

    Ms. Grimes was largely unknown in 1960 when she was cast as Molly, the rags-to-riches turn-of-the-century socialite-philanthropist who survived the sinking of the Titanic. The show’s producers, who clearly considered the music and lyrics by Meredith Willson more marketable than their female lead, declined to put her name above the title, which meant that (because of the Tony regulations of the time) she could be nominated only in the featured-actress category.

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    The stage was Ms. Grimes’s first home. The Off Broadway productions in which she starred included Marc Blitzstein’s “The Cradle Will Rock,” at City Center in 1960, and a 1979 Roundabout Theater production of Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country” with her daughter, Amanda Plummer. Ms. Grimes also worked at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, performing at least once with her first husband, Christopher Plummer; in “Henry IV, Part I” (1958), he was Bardolph and she was Mistress Quickly.​

    She appeared in many stage productions and several films, but she may be best remembered for turning down the role of Samantha on Bewitched.

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    Jud Kinberg, Father of Simon Kinberg and Producer on Kirk Douglas' 'Lust for Life,' Dies at 91 »

    Jud Kinberg, the father of X-Men movie architect Simon Kinberg who produced such stellar films as the Vincent van Gogh biopic Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas, and William Holden's Executive Suite, has died. He was 91. Kinberg, who also wrote the screenplay for the Hammer Films cult horror classic Vampire Circus (1972), died Nov. 2 of natural causes at his home in New York City, his son told The Hollywood Reporter.

    Kinberg served as an apprentice under the influential producer-actor John Houseman, and they went on to produce films at MGM including Julius Caesar (1953), starring Marlon Brando; Executive Suite (1954), directed by Robert Wise; Her Twelve Men (1954), featuring Greer Garson and Robert Ryan; Vincente Minnelli's The Cobweb (1955), toplined by Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall; Moonfleet (1955), helmed by Fritz Lang; and Lust for Life (1956), which received four Oscar nominations.

    Kinberg also produced the taut British psychological thriller The Collector (1965), directed by William Wyler (who turned down The Sound of Music to work on this film), and the Michael Caine-starring The Magus (1968). Both movies were based on novels by Englishman John Fowles, who was the best man at Kinberg's 1971 wedding.​


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    Lupita Tovar, Actress in the Spanish-Language Version of 1931's 'Dracula,' Dies at 106 »

    Lupita Tovar, the Mexican actress who starred in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula that was shot concurrently with the famed Bela Lugosi version, has died. She was 106.

    Tovar was married to Czech-born producer and Hollywood agent Paul Kohner, who represented the likes of Greta Garbo, John Huston, Lana Turner, Ingmar Bergman, Yul Brynner, David Niven, Billy Wilder and Charles Bronson, from 1932 until his death in 1988.

    Before the advent of sound in the movies, studios could just change the language of the subtitles to get their message across to overseas audiences. But when the talkies arrived, many elected to shoot new foreign-language versions.

    For the Spanish-language Dracula (produced by Tovar’s future husband), Universal employed a different director, actors and crew to work at night on the same sets (and in the same costumes) that were used during the day for the English version of the Bram Stoker classic that made Lugosi a legend.

    Tovar played Eva Steward, the daughter of the sanatorium owner, who comes under Dracula’s (Carlos Villar) evil spell.

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    Manos: Restored - Timeline | Facebook »

    Tom Neyman, who played The Master in cult fave Manos The Hands of Fate, died Saturday Nov. 12, according to a Facebook post by his daughter Jackey Raye Neyman Jones. He was 80.

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    My dad, The Master from Manos The Hands of Fate passed away last night when his heart stopped. He has now transcended to become Manos. #HeisWithUsAlways. I miss my dad. He was such a gentle, sweet, humble and loving man.



     
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    Paul Sylbert, Oscar-Winning Production Designer on 'Heaven Can Wait,' Dies at 88 »

    Paul Sylbert, the famed production designer and art director who worked on the best picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer and won an Academy Award for Heaven Can Wait, has died. He was 88. Sylbert died Saturday in a hospital near his home in Jenkintown, Pa., producer Hawk Koch announced.

    Recently, Sylbert had served on the faculty of the Film & Media Arts Department at Temple University in Philadelphia. He and his twin brother, the late Richard Sylbert (he won Oscars for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Dick Tracy), were two of the most sought-after production designers in Hollywood from the late 1950s through the '90s.

    Paul Sylbert also designed (with his brother) A Face in the Crowd (1957) for director Elia Kazan, and he did Bad Company (1972), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Nadine (1987) for Robert Benton and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) for Milos Forman.

    His film résumé also includes such notable pics as Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), Mikey and Nicky (1976), Gorky Park (1983), Blow Out (1981), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Ishtar (1987), Biloxi Blues (1988), Rush (1991) and Rosewood (1997).
     
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    Former ‘Our Gang’ child actor dies »

    Jerry Tucker of Our Gang

    Copiague resident Jerry Schatz, a former child actor who appeared in several “Our Gang” comedies, often as a spoiled rich kid, and co-starred opposite such screen luminaries as Shirley Temple, Ginger Rogers and Laurel and Hardy, died Wednesday morning of natural causes at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook at age 91, his daughter Renee Schatz Wolf confirmed.

    “He was a child actor, a disabled World War II veteran, a Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, but most of all he was our dad,” Wolf said. Schatz, who was born in Chicago and acted under the screen name Jerry Tucker, always downplayed his screen accomplishments. “Growing up, I thought everybody worked in the movies,” Schatz told Newsday in 2013. “I had no idea there was an outside world.”​

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    Schatz’s screen debut — on loan to MGM — was in the Buster Keaton comedy “Sidewalks of New York” (1931), which was followed by his first “Our Gang” comedy, “Shiver My Timbers.” With his carrot-topped locks and freckled complexion, Schatz fit in perfectly with the rest of the gang and appeared in 14 shorts in the series, which was known as “The Little Rascals” when shown later on television. In his favorite episode, “Hi, Neighbor” (1934), he played a rich snob who uses his fancy fire engine to win the affections of a pretty blond girl.

    Schatz also appeared in some of the biggest movies of the 1930s including “Babes in Toyland” (1934) with Laurel and Hardy, “San Francisco” (1936), “Captain January” (1936) with Temple and “Boys Town” (1938).

    Still, Schatz was never enchanted with Hollywood, and in 1942 he joined the Navy as part of the demolition team aboard the destroyer USS Sigsbee. “Jerry Tucker died at the age of 16, and Jerry Schatz was reborn in the Navy,” Schatz said. “It’s not that being in the movies was anything that was bad. That’s just not my life.” He was awarded the Purple Heart after suffering a permanent leg injury when a piece of shrapnel was caught in his leg during an attack on his ship during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. “He talked about the movies, but if you asked what he was most proud of, it was his Navy career,” Wolf said.​
     
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    You all forgot Florence Henderson, 82, from the Brady Bunch, died Thursday, the sweet, beloved mother from that 1969-74 show and most spinoffs.Where werte you all...any way I did a psot, which you should have..)
     
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    RIP Tammy..
     
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    They're gonna have to spin off an entire In Memoriam show in addition to the Oscars and Emmy broadcasts next year... :cry:
     
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