Phyllis Diller Dies at Age 95 (2012)

Phyllis Diller Stand Up Routine - 1977

Phyllis Diller's final appearance on The Bold and the Beautiful

Phyllis Diller on The Merv Griffin Show - 1965

Phyllis Diller on You Bet Your Life

What's My Line - Phyllis Diller

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR (1928)

STEAMBOAT BILL JR, released in 1928 by United Artists Pictures, Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Riesner, stars Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neill, and  Walter James. A steamboat captain is carrying on a feud with the wealthy owner of a fancy new ferry boat. Complicating matters, the captain's son is in love with the ferry operator's daughter. 

THE LADY IS WILLING (1942)

                                       THE LADY IS WILLING, released in 1942 by Columbia Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, stars Fred MacMurray, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Lane, Sterling Holloway, and Neil Hamilton. A bold and eccentric Broadway performer comes home one day with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband in order to adopt the child. Who better than her new obstetrician? She offers him help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage and he accepts.                                     

MOONTIDE (1942)

MOONTIDE, released in 1942 by 20th Century Fox Pictures, directed by Archie Mayo, stars Ida Lupino, Jean Gabin, Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, and Victor Sen Yung. After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues a lovely young woman from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge. But Tiny, Bobo's longtime pal and parasite, hopes to drive Anna away before domestic bliss tears Bobo away from him; the still unsolved murder may be just the wedge Tiny needs. 

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

DOUBLE INDEMNITY, released by
 Paramount Pictures in 1944, directed by Billy Wider, stars Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, and Porter Hall. Insurance agent Walter Neff meets Phyllis Dietrichson, the seductive wife of one of his clients and they begin an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of his accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Phyllis' husband is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance company's analyst, Neff's best friend Barton Keyes, does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.

BLUE VELVET - Bobby Vinton (1963)

BLUE VELVET by Bobby Vinton spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September and October 1963.

 

SUKIYAKI - Kyu Sakamoto (1963)

 SUKIYAKI by Kyu Sakamoto spent 3 weeks at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June and early July 1963. Kyu Sakamoto was killed August 12, 1985, in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 near Mount Osutaka, Japan.

THOSE LAZY-HAZY-CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER - Nat King Cole (1963)

 THOSE LAZY-HAZY-CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER by Nat King Cole reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963

WIVES AND LOVERS - Jack Jones (1963)

WIVES AND LOVERS by Jack Jones reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1963

TWENTY FOUR HOURS FROM TULSA - Gene Pitney (1963)

 TWENTY FOUR HOURS FROM TULSA by Gene Pitney reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1963

HELLO STRANGER - Barbara Lewis (1963)

HELLO STRANGER by Barbara Lewis peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963

DON'T TEASE YOUR DOG!

GILDA (1946)

GILDA, released in 1946 by Columbia Pictures, directed by Charles Vidor, stars Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready. Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by the sinister boss of a South American casino, who makes Johnny his right-hand man. Their friendship becomes strained when the older man returns from a trip with a wife, the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate.

NOTORIOUS (1946)

NOTORIOUS, released in 1946 by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, stars Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, and Frank Wilcox. (Look for Bea Benaderet and Virginia Gregg is cameo roles as file clerks!) Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the United States, a young woman is approached by a government agent who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro.

THE STRANGER WORE A GUN (1953)

THE STRANGER WORE A GUN, released by Columbia Pictures in 1953, directed by Andre de Toth, stars Randolph Scott, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Claire Trevor, and George Macready. Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinks he is a wanted man and flees to Prescott, Arizona, where he runs into a man named Jules Mourret who knows of Travis' past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is attempting to rob for the gold shipments. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his, Travis sets out to get Mourret and his gang.