Posted on 12/04/2022 2:19:54 PM PST by SmokingJoe
Comedy sketch
From Tallu's album Give My Regards to Broadway! Originally recorded on The Big Show, 1951
Really funny. Worth listening to. Only 6:30
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From what I’ve read about these two, both ladies were very bright and both had a keen sense of humor.
Some may have called it a sense of mischief.
Marlene was fluent in several languages, similar to many people from Europe. When she was learning common American expressions, Marlene express surprise and disdain for those who say “I know...right?” “I can’t believe that he talks like that. That’s bad English!” she exclaimed in a phone call to her film director.
Betty Hutton and Howard Keel
Funny.
Dietrich was one of Audie Murphy’s lovers. She also had relationships with Patton and James Gavin. She was fascinated with American soldiers. Murphy and Dietrich were overheard at the Brown Derby deep in, not a romantic conversation, but discussing US/German ground combat and command and control zt various levels. Murphy kept asking her detailed questions about Patton, she kept peppering him with questions about squad and platoon level infantry combat and differences between German and US tactics. As all this was in process Dietrich was giving Murphy a very intimate thigh massage as he was trying to get a good look at her tits.
Dick or George Patton?
George. Dietrich once said George Patton was the most intelligent soldier she ever knew in either the US or German armies and he had the biggest ego of any man she ever met. She had many really nice things to say about James Gavin but said he lacked Patton’s utterly ruthless drive and ambition.
Bankhead had many affairs with both sexes, along with four reported abortions. She had a habit of running around naked at parties supposedly. She was from a prominent Alabama political family and there’s a tunnel under Mobile Bay named the Bankhead Tunnel after her grandfather.
She was probably right on all accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0XzhUmijY
Here’s another classic I’ve enjoyed. Dietrich with Rosemary Clooney in a duet: “Too Old To Cut The Mustard Anymore.”
Lili Marlene, it ain’t, but that old gal was up for anything.
Yes I believe so, Patton never had the opportunity to command in huge battles such as were common on the Eastern Front. However, Eisenhower and Bradley were professional enough to make the 3rd Army at times the size of an army group by attaching army corps temporarily to the 3rd.
Anything You Can Do--Dick Haymes, Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters (1947)
Dick Haynes sang a great version a song that was very popular at the time and covered by many artists:
“The More I See You, The More I Want You”.
Frank Sinatra was said to be impressed with Dick Haynes singing skills, yet most people today, have not heard of Dick Haynes before. Some people have the talent, but not the charismatic pizazz , proper packaging or luck of timing.
I’ve always like Talullah Bankhead. Very interesting woman.
Deep South, daughter of a Speaker of the House of Representatives; incredibly talented. And a hell of a quick wit!
In high school, Mom called me “Talullah” because of how I wore my hair — like Bankhead’s.
For whatever reason one of my favorite movies with two hotties was Mogambo. Eva Gardner / Grace Kelly. Made nearly a decade before I was born, but shizzle!
Very nice. Thanks. I’ve never heard the song before now.
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