James Woods is a regular old Hollywood historian.
He’s the one who told me about Swoosie Kurtz’s father Frank Kurtz. Swoosie was named after the Hybrid B-17 bomber ( B-17D-BO Flying Fortress) built from parts named the Swoose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swoose
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