Monday, July 4, 2011

Then and Now - William Christopher (78)



Then and Now - Gary Burghoff (68)



Then and Now - Connie Stevens (72)





Then and Now - Connie Francis (72)





Then and Now - Ken Berry (77)



Then and Now - Larry Storch (88)



Then and Now - Sandy Duncan (65)





Then and Now - Shelley Fabares (67)





Then and Now - Don Grady (67)



Then and Now - Stanley & Barry Livingston






Stanley Livingston (60)
Barry Livingston (57)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963)

Starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Terry-Thomas, Phil Silvers,Dick Shawn, Edie Adams, Paul Ford, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, and Jim Backus; with cameo appearances by Jerry Lewis, Don Knotts, Marvin Kaplan, Arnold Stang, Peter Falk, Jack Benny, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, William Demarest, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Andy Devine, Norman Fell, Stan Freberg, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Lane, Cliff Norton, Carl Reiner, Roy Roberts, Madlyn Rhue, Jesse White, The Shirelles, and The Three Stooges.

Directied by Stanley Kramer.

After being released from a long prison sentence, Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state to find the loot.





Georgy Girl (1966)

Starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, and Charlotte Rampling. cted by Silvio Narizzano. A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris. Directed by Lewis Milestone. The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787 bound for Tahiti. The captain will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell on the ship.

A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)

Starring Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, and Trevor Howard. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The parents of children living in Jamaica, afraid that the kids are growing up uncivilized, decide to send them to England. But during the voyage, the childrens' ship is boarded by pirates and in the confusion the children wind up trapped on the pirate ship.

Cat Ballou (1965)





Starring Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Tom Nardini, John Marley, Jay C. Flippen, Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye, Arthur Hunnicutt, and Bruce Cabot. Directed by Elliot Silverstein. An aspiring schoolteacher travels by train to Wyoming to visit her rancher father only to learn that the Wolf City Development Corporation is trying to take the ranch away from him. She hires a legendary gunfighter to come and help protect her father but finds that he is the drunkest gunfighter in the west.

Shenandoah (1965)

Starring James Stewart, Doug McClure, Katherine Ross, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Phillip Alford, Rosemary Forsyth, Strother Martin, James Best, Denver Pyle, George Kennedy, and Paul Fix. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

A farmer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War. He decides not to get involved in the war because he believes that this is not his war. But he eventually has to get involved when his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North.


Hearts on Fire
Randy Meisner (1981)

Come on Back to Me
Randy Meisner (1981)

Gotta Get Away
Randy Meisner (1981)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . EVA MARIE SAINT







Born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 4, 1924, actress Eva Marie Saint turns 87 years old today.