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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

I remember the p-nut butter spots well..was vaguely aware of the song 'Tall Paul"..but did not know of her other "Hits"..but I wasn't listening to radio at all back then..I know at the stations I worked at..we never played any of her songs..Her duets with Frankie and her songs from the beach movies were the only music I associated her with..and wouldn't have thought any of those were chart material..just filler tunes for the movie..kinda like most of the Elvis songs in his flicks..She was a sweetheart and just about every boy's first glimpse of a 'girlfriend'..
 
Annette also sung on several episodes of Walt Disney's "Zorro" series as well as on the Mickey Mouse Club and related sub-series like "Spin & Marty" and "Annette". Her songs tended to be typical teen fodder for the times.

She herself was very apprehensive about singing (she didn't think she had the talent) but Disney assured her they could "clean it up" and that was pretty much true.

None of that mattered to those of us who loved to watch her - both males and females. I have heard from several old female friends in the past week who told me (for the first time) "I wished I was her".
 
I do remember the Zorro episodes, and "Annette'..Spin and Marty...don't think she was on the Hardy Boys..Something I didn't know til a few months ago about the Walt Disney shows..Texas John Slaughter, Elfega Bacca, etc..those were based on actual real life western characters that lived back then..and Walt presented them fairly close to actual historical facts...as a side bar..some of you might like this site i watch all the time..the shows and episodes change fairly often so you get a lot of variety clik on a series and a drop down menu appears..some of the early fifties shows lack in quality..but then again..may have looked like that on an old 50's tv anyway http://www.westernsontheweb.com/?page_id=7752
 
Here is something about 1950s television and movie westerns that a lot of people may not be aware of: Real cowboys hardly ever played guitar and sang while they were herding cattle or trailing an outlaw or wooing the schoolmarm. :D
 
LARadioRewind said:
Here is something about 1950s television and movie westerns that a lot of people may not be aware of: Real cowboys hardly ever played guitar and sang while they were herding cattle or trailing an outlaw or wooing the schoolmarm. :D
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Marion Mitchell Morrison brought to the screen the same trade characteristics, or lack there-of. Though he became a household name for his roles, chiefly in westerns and war movies, he was never a cowboy, nor did he serve in the military. He applied to the U.S. Naval Academy, but was rejected. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, he was exempted from military duty due to his age.

Mr Morrison left us long before the start up of LAR's 2013 Obituaries thread. This is one reason you don't recognize his name. Another reason is that Mr Morrison actually adopted a "stage" name, one not even remotely similar to 'Morrison'.

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John Wayne of course. And I believe his middle name was Michael, not Mitchell.

Now I have one for you.

Why was his nickname "Duke"?
 
landtuna said:
John Wayne of course. And I believe his middle name was Michael, not Mitchell.

Now I have one for you. Why was his nickname "Duke"?
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"Duke" was the name of young Marion's pet Airedale Terrier. Got that info from Wikipedia, a source which also identify's "Mitchell" as Duke's middle name. Interestingly, the middle name used to be Robert. Parent's changed it to "Mitchell", after naming their second son "Robert".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
"Duke" was the name of young Marion's pet Airedale Terrier. Got that info from Wikipedia, a source which also identify's "Mitchell" as Duke's middle name. Interestingly, the middle name used to be Robert. Parent's changed it to "Mitchell", after naming their second son "Robert".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
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I researched multiple bio sites for Wayne and all but Britannica.com give his birth name as Marion Michael Morrison. Britannica says his birth certificate gives his original middle name as Robert. They also state that Wayne supports that statement and his middle name was later changed to Michael upon the birth of a younger brother in 1911. The middle name of Mitchell was apparently an error by one or more biographers but has no basis in fact.

As for "Duke" - the story goes that after the family moved to Glendale, CA he used to walk his dog "Duke" past a local fire house and stop to talk to the firemen. They nicknamed him "Little Duke" which later became just "Duke".
 
One of improv comedy's most prominent architects, Jonathon Winters, died last night. Winters was 87.

Texted this news to my wife at work, with the rhetorical question, "Who's left?"...
 
landtuna said:
jfrancispastirchak said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
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I researched multiple bio sites for Wayne and all but Britannica.com give his birth name as Marion Michael Morrison.

As for "Duke" - the story goes that after the family moved to Glendale, CA he used to walk his dog "Duke" past a local fire house and stop to talk to the firemen. They nicknamed him "Little Duke" which later became just "Duke".
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As for "Michael", looks like you nailed it. It appears Wiki ran with a bio error. I've noticed how Wiki always seems to be searching for 'citations' on facts they report anyhow.

As for "Duke", looks like Wikipedia got this one right.
 
As jfrancis noted, Jonathan Winters died April 11 at age 87. Winters starred in almost 50 movies and tv shows and here is how AOL News chose to headline the story of his death:

Mork & Mindy star dead at 87

"Star"? If Robin Williams hadn't insisted on letting his friend Jonathan Winters play his son, and if Williams and Winters hadn't insisted on ad-libbing most of their scenes, Mork & Mindy might have lasted three more seasons. Nanu nanu!

http://www.tmz.com/2013/04/12/jonat...id10|htmlws-main-bb|dl2|sec1_lnk2&pLid=297617
 
LARadioRewind said:
Mork & Mindy star dead at 87

"Star"? If Robin Williams hadn't insisted on letting his friend Jonathan Winters play his son, and if Williams and Winters hadn't insisted on ad-libbing most of their scenes, Mork & Mindy might have lasted three more seasons. Nanu nanu!
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AMEN! Reprising a thought I offered on a different thread, Winters role as Mork & Mindy's baby proved disastrous to the show. Marrying the two principals didn't help either. M & M simply captivated my son, then 9 or 10. One night, as he watched in a state of hypnotic bliss, I remember sharing with his mother, in ever hushed tones, a prediction that both story lines would destroy the show.

Robin Williams was and still is a comic genius. But even the greatest of leading characters ocassionally stub their toes. Insisting on Winters in the role of the baby earned Williams the Broken Toe Nail Award. ShaazBahd!
 
Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams were arguably the best improv comics ever. They were ad-libbing and doing impersonations and acting out zany scenarios long before Whose Line Is It Anyway came to television. Each episode of the 1972-74 syndicated series The Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters opened with Winters walking onto a set that was made to look like a musty old attic with tables piled high with old junk and knick-knacks and antiques. Winters never knew ahead of time what kind of junk the propman had put on the tables. It was fun to watch Winters pick up various items and start improvising by playing zany characters in zany situations.

Now there will be no more zany. :(
 
Frank Bank, who played Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford on Leave It To Beaver (1957-63) and in the tv movie Still The Beaver and the 1980s series The New Leave It To Beaver, died April 13, one day after he turned 71. April 13 is also the birthday of Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver in those series. Ooohh, creepy!

Bank made a brief cameo in the 1997 Leave It to Beaver movie, playing a character named Frank. Most recently he was working as a bond broker in Los Angeles.
 
Chi Cheng, founder and original bass player of the Grammy Award-winning alternative metal group the Deftones, died April 13 at age 42. In 2008 he was thrown from his car after colliding with another car in Santa Clara, California. He was in a coma for a year, then emerged from the coma but remained in a semi-conscious state. The Deftones have released seven albums and three (Adrenaline, Around The Fur, White Pony) have gone platinum.
 
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