LOL The following for you pleasure :-))
You tube from two crazy guys tour Reynolds ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xVB-FfKLM
Reynolds Sings”Ask Me What I Am”
http://www.nostalgipalatset.com/en/vinyl-records/country-western/reynolds-burt-ask-me-what-i-am-1973-lp.html
There is no one today who would compare to the STARS of old. Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne. Bette Davis, Kathryn Hepburn, just to name a few. When they died the mold stayed empty. Remember seeing GWTW for the first time ever - at that time Clark was in a hospital bed awaiting the birth of his son and attempting to overcome a heart attack. Changes -always changes.
what do you mean Reynolds ‘abandoned’ the ranch? Just left it to decay? Couldn’t he sell it?
The surrounding landscape was beautiful..the lake and all.
As for his singing; it wasn’t too bad.
No, our classic stars we’ll never see the like of again..and they’re almost gone. Today’s ‘stars’ can’t begin to compare..
I literally fell in love with James Steward. Now THERE was a man. He didn’t just play a war hero like Wayne and such, he WAS a war hero.
I still can’t believe Liz (of the violet eyes) the most beautiful woman in the world, is gone from us.
And Marilyn. Never will there be an equal.
She was mesmerizing. She had that certain something. You could watch nothing but her when she was on screen.
They’ve tried many times to create another, but they never will.
Bette Davis..probably my favorite. Now THAT was an actress.
Clark’s family blamed Marilyn for his fatal heart attack (right after they finished ‘the Misfits’) because she caused so much stress by being always late on set and all.
Truth probably is that he insisted on doing his own stunts at his age and that did it.
Wonder what ever happened to John Clark? (Gables’s son)
Gable was quite a rounder in his day (false teeth and all), managed to knock up Loretta Young during ‘Call of the Wild’ (Kept secret for many, many years)Loretta was supposed to have gone away and ‘adopted’ her. lol
Studios paid big money to hush up such scandals in those days. Now nobody cares. They all let it all hang out LOL