Comments on Crazy Days and Nights: Four For Friday - Old Hollywood Style

oh my gah all the sleuths from the timmy/shimmy da...

2008-06-24T13:59:00.000-07:00

oh my gah all the sleuths from the timmy/shimmy days are coming out of the woodwork (myself included)

OK, I need to get a life...damn you, google!http:/...

2008-06-22T20:56:00.000-07:00

OK, I need to get a life...

damn you, google!

http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/oracle/movielinks?game=1&secondname=ben+affleck

The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia
ben affleck has a Bacon number of 2.

Ben Affleck was in Field of Dreams (1989) with Steve Eastin
Steve Eastin was in Rails & Ties (2007) with Kevin Bacon

I am the first to admit I need to get a life!

2008-06-22T16:35:00.000-07:00

I am the first to admit I need to get a life!

lmao, good job adrian!All hail Xenu, the chosen on...

2008-06-22T16:19:00.000-07:00

lmao, good job adrian!
All hail Xenu, the chosen one (shiloh) and the almighty Kevin Bacon

Dschingis:Path from Ben Affleck to Kevin Bacon:Ben...

2008-06-22T14:30:00.000-07:00

Dschingis:
Path from Ben Affleck to Kevin Bacon:
Ben Affleck was in Good Will Hunting (1997) with Matt Damon
Matt Damon was in Ocean's Eleven (2001) with Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts was in Flatliners (1990) with Kevin Bacon
Ben Affleck's Bacon number is 3

now the missing link between the always fitting af...

2008-06-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

now the missing link between the always fitting affleck and whoewer old hollywood you wish, is the almighty seven step link to everybody: kevin bacon, the universal connection through time and space...

sillyme,Its a well known joke among regular poster...

2008-06-22T01:34:00.000-07:00

sillyme,

Its a well known joke among regular posters and readers that afflek is a popular guess. they are just kidding and/or it is now a challenge to make afflek somehow fit in every blind. we are WELL AWARE thats hes not old hollywood...but its still fun/clever tryin to make him the answer to every blind...get it???

Isn't JLO kind of "old"?

2008-06-21T16:40:00.000-07:00

Isn't JLO kind of "old"?

How does Gayla's guess in any way, shape, or form ...

2008-06-21T16:27:00.000-07:00

How does Gayla's guess in any way, shape, or form pertain to "Old Hollywood"? Note to all of you: the answers CANNOT be J.Lo, Brad Pitt, Affeck, etc.!!

Easy to believe that Evans is up for anything not ...

2008-06-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

Easy to believe that Evans is up for anything not necessarily gay bi just anybody and everybody. LOL
He married into a wild family when he married Oxenberg and his kid dated RJs kid, that could be the modern twist. Natalie was in a swinger movie, they're all friends, maybe they did a little research. LOL

Okay .. you cannot just put out there that Robert ...

2008-06-21T16:06:00.000-07:00

Okay .. you cannot just put out there that Robert Evans is gay/Bi and then provide no proof! I mean Geez!! Among other things .. I have a long term crush at stake here!! Dang!

DNfromMN said... What wild families do we have fro...

2008-06-21T12:39:00.000-07:00

DNfromMN said...
What wild families do we have from the mid 50s and back? (remember this is an Old Hollywood.)

Barrymore (Were there any women barrymores?)

Ethel Barrymore - started in stage, moved to film in the 40's

Let's try this one:
#1 - Errol Flynn
#2 - Dick Haymes
#3 - Nora Eddington
#4 - no clue.

But Haymes' IMDB page lists one marriage, to Fran Jeffries; Nora Eddington doesn't even get a mention on the page - I think that eliminates both of them.

I'm inclined to go with Vixen's guess re Lawford as he was reputed to be a notorious lothario back in the day (I've always wanted to use that word...LOL) - and would supposedly bang anything walking.
However, Van Johnson and Errol Flynn I'm not too sure of...I seem to remember Johnson more from film than from TV, aside from a few cameos as himself, however IMDB does show one Emmy nom for "Rich Man, Poor Man" in 1976.
And the same with Errol Flynn...according to his IMDB page (here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001224/awards) he got as total of 5 awards, 4 for film (including 2 "Sour Apple" awards for being "Least Cooperative Actor" but did nab a Walk of Fame star for Television, however no mention of an Emmy nom.

Sorry for only shooting down previous theories, but that's all I got for now.

Back to work.

Way to go, Gayla! And congrats to Vixen and other...

2008-06-21T10:40:00.000-07:00

Way to go, Gayla! And congrats to Vixen and others. I can't believe you figured this one out!

p.s. Ent, keep up the old Hollywood stories - they are great! I also liked the blinds you did during the strike (crew instead of cast). I know there was no way we'd ever guess any of them, but I still find it fascinating to read about what goes on behind the scenes.

Pinky: Yes, that is Louise Brooks!

2008-06-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

Pinky: Yes, that is Louise Brooks!

Natalie wood and rj and gregson?

2008-06-21T06:51:00.000-07:00

Natalie wood and rj and gregson?

Gayla--the connection just hit me--the missing lin...

2008-06-21T06:20:00.000-07:00

Gayla--the connection just hit me--the missing link is Gwynneth--she was engaged to Brad, bed Ben. & at this rate, probably bedded Angie, also!

Gayla, we totally need to stick Clooney in there, ...

2008-06-21T06:02:00.000-07:00

Gayla, we totally need to stick Clooney in there, & then we would so have our blind!

Ahem.#1 is Ben Affleck.#2 is Marc Anthony.#3 is JL...

2008-06-21T01:44:00.000-07:00

Ahem.

#1 is Ben Affleck.
#2 is Marc Anthony.
#3 is JLo.
#4 is Brad Pitt.

Okay, obviously, NOT. But if you ignore the award nomination part, this totally fits (JLo was an actress but pretty much "gave up" whatever acting talent or box office pull she had left when she and Ben did Gigli, you see? And Marc and JLo did that film together, so that technically makes him a film actor. I'm using technicalities to my advantage here.)

So everyone would know Brad - he and Angie are the most talked about couple in Hollywood. Before Brad married Angelina (this is the wild family), he, JLo, Marc, and Ben used to share a bed together. That's the twist because there has never been any tangible link between Brad and the other three before. And JLo and Marc dated before she had even met Ben so that even makes it more plausible.

YAY WE MADE IT BEN AFFLECK! Give me the rest of this weekend and I'll come up with a better one. LOL, I need a life.

This story has been around for years, including th...

2008-06-20T21:16:00.000-07:00

This story has been around for years, including the sharing Peter Lawford part.

MGM made up Van Johnson's "metal plate in the head" story to cover up the real reason for his lack of WW2 service- he'd admitted his homosexuality on his enlistment forms.

I think impertinent vixen got it right. Van Johns...

2008-06-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

I think impertinent vixen got it right. Van Johnson is still alive and I got this from Wikipedia to elaborate what impertinent vixen already has mentioned:

Johnson married Eve Lynn Abbott on January 25, 1947, the day her divorce from actor Keenan Wynn was finalized. In 1999, Eve told a reporter that their marriage had been arranged by MGM because the studio "needed their star to be married to quell rumors about his sexual preferences".

In his 2005 biography of Louis B. Mayer, Lion of Hollywood, Scott Eyman quotes her as saying, "In retrospect I can see he (Mayer) was arranging my marriage to Van just as Universal did for Rock Hudson. That was a farce. Ours was a real marriage. I was in love with Van, but I wouldn't have married him if I'd known he was a homosexual."

According to stepson Ned Wynn, the Johnsons separated in 1961 over an alleged affair by Eve with a young man, and divorced in 1968. Eve Lynn Abbott Wynn Johnson died in 2004 at the age of 90.

Ali McGraw on IMDB says: The roles she walked awa...

2008-06-20T20:13:00.000-07:00

Ali McGraw on IMDB says: The roles she walked away from to marry lover Steve McQueen were Daisy in The Great Gatsby (1974) and Evelyn in Chinatown (1974).

Ali McGraw, Steve McQueen, Robert Evans and Peter ...

2008-06-20T20:11:00.000-07:00

Ali McGraw, Steve McQueen, Robert Evans and Peter Lawford? But did Ali McGraw give up acting when she married McQueen?

Y'all have some great answers. I would love it to...

2008-06-20T20:09:00.000-07:00

Y'all have some great answers. I would love it to be Marcus Welby MD, then of course, James Brolin, but I guess not.

#4 is obviously Peter Lawford.

wow! Robert Evans -- phew! I need a cigarette ju...

2008-06-20T20:07:00.000-07:00

wow! Robert Evans -- phew! I need a cigarette just reading his spouse list

nice work, guys

Hi ya'll new blogger here... Had to get in on this...

2008-06-20T18:22:00.000-07:00

Hi ya'll new blogger here... Had to get in on this one.

I thought it strange that Robert Evans was in the pictures for today. This man has been around the block a couple of times, could he be the bi for today? He has been married a couple of times and is known to float both ways....spouses: Sharon Hugueny (1961-1962)
Camilla Sparv (1963-1965)
Ali MacGraw (1969-1972)
Phyllis George (1977-1978)
Catherine Oxenberg (1998-1998)
Leslie Ann Woodward (2002-2004)
Victoria White (2005-)

Those of us that think Holliweird is weird today in the old days it was really weird, just covered up more.

Cary Grant is another good guess he was married to American’s original “rich-bitch,” dime store heiress Barbara Hutton she was married to "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 1933 - 1935 (divorced)
Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 1935 - 1938 (divorced)
Cary Grant, 1942 -1945 (divorced)
Prince Igor Troubetskoy, 1947 -1951 (divorced)
Porfirio Rubirosa, 1953 - 1954 (divorced)
Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 1955 - 1959 (divorced)
Prince Pierre Doan, 1964 -1966 (divorced)

Cary Grants spouses were
Virginia Cherrill (1934-1935)
Barbara Hutton (1942-1945)
Betsy Drake (1949-1962)
Dyan Cannon (1965-1968)
Barbara Harris (1981-1986)
Domestic partner(s) Maureen Donaldson (1973-1977)[1][2]

Betsy Drake was from the famous Drake Hotel family. She gave up acting when she married Cary. She is also the one that introduced Cary to LSD. Grant's personal life was complicated, involving five marriages. Rumors persisted regarding his sexual orientation.