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October 21: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on October 21. Discuss or comment as you please……

1924: Actress Joyce Randolph (The Honeymooners) is born (as Joyce Sirola) in Detroit, Michigan.

1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel “Casino Royale,” starring Barry Nelson as an Americanized version of spy James Bond. This is the first dramatic adaptation of a Bond novel.

1965: KTWU (channel 11) signs on in Wichita as Kansas’ first public television station.

1968: Joan Crawford begins a five-episode guest appearance on the soap opera The Secret Storm, playing the role of Joan Borman Kane. Reportedly, Ms Crawford is “under the influence,” often slurring her lines during the tapings. The full shows are not believed to exist, although clips were reportedly posted on YouTube at one time (they do not appear to be there now).

2003: Actor Fred “Rerun” Berry (What’s Happening!!) dies in Los Angeles, aged 52, of complications from a stroke.

(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..) ;)
 
Stanislav said:
1968: Joan Crawford begins a five-episode guest appearance on the soap opera The Secret Storm, playing the role of Joan Borman Kane. Reportedly, Ms Crawford is “under the influence,” often slurring her lines during the tapings. The full shows are not believed to exist, although clips were reportedly posted on YouTube at one time (they do not appear to be there now).
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Crawford's appearance on the soap is dramatized in Mommy Dearest. If I remember correctly, they imply that Crawford took the part to undermine her daughter, who was originally offered the role - that of a young woman, not a woman in her 50s, which Joan was at the time.
 
Stanislav said:
1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel “Casino Royale,” starring Barry Nelson as an Americanized version of spy James Bond. This is the first dramatic adaptation of a Bond novel.
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...for whatever it's worth, Nelson's performance was rather good, and in the cast as Le Chiffre was Peter Lorre, who I don't believe ever gave a bad performance in film or television (and, yes, I'm including the Roger Corman American International features -- The Raven is one of my favourite comedies of the period). And, I believe it was the early sale of the rights to Casino Royale that led to Cubby Broccoli not being able to start off his string of "official" Bond theatrical films with this title, but with the sixth Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, instead. In turn, that led to the spoof Bond film version of Casino Royale in 1967, with Orson Welles as Le Chiffre and no less than four actors -- David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and Terence Cooper -- as Jimmy or James Bonds...
 
Ultimajock said:
Stanislav said:
1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel “Casino Royale,” starring Barry Nelson as an Americanized version of spy James Bond. This is the first dramatic adaptation of a Bond novel.
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...for whatever it's worth, Nelson's performance was rather good, and in the cast as Le Chiffre was Peter Lorre, who I don't believe ever gave a bad performance in film or television (and, yes, I'm including the Roger Corman American International features -- The Raven is one of my favourite comedies of the period). And, I believe it was the early sale of the rights to Casino Royale that led to Cubby Broccoli not being able to start off his string of "official" Bond theatrical films with this title, but with the sixth Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, instead. In turn, that led to the spoof Bond film version of Casino Royale in 1967, with Orson Welles as Le Chiffre and no less than four actors -- David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and Terence Cooper -- as Jimmy or James Bonds...
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I might add that the producers of the James Bond series finally was able to make a serious adaptation of the first 007 novel with the 2006 release of Casino Royale that marked the debut of Daniel Craig as James Bond, Agent 007. And this verison is played with deadly serious intent, a very far cry from the 1967 spoof of the same name.
 
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