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Happy Birthday, Glenn Ford!
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/01/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 05/01/2004 10:17:03 AM PDT by kattracks

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To: kattracks
There is no doubt that Glenn Ford is one of the great Hollywood actors of his day and made MANY good movies that I enjoyed.

However, my all-time-favorite Glenn Ford movie is a little-known movie named "Pocketful of Mircles." Never laughed so much in my life. Peter Falk was also in that movie. Quote from Peter Falk in the movie because in those days there were no "ratings" for movies and they were still family oriented, "I'm gonna tell you somethin' that's gonna make you wet all over." ROFL
21 posted on 05/01/2004 12:38:03 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron (It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
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To: kattracks
Someone should tell Congress to give him the Congressional Gold Medal.
22 posted on 05/01/2004 12:43:34 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (" Permitting homosexuality didn't work out very well for the Roman Empire")
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To: kattracks
New question. Isn't there an actor that looks kind of like him?
23 posted on 05/01/2004 1:22:59 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: Ruth A.
I didn't phrase that correctly. Isn't there another actor that looks like Glenn Ford? Or was Glenn Ford in "Blackboard Jungle"?
24 posted on 05/01/2004 1:39:10 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: kattracks
A marine in the ETO behind German lines ? This doesn't somehow sound right.
25 posted on 05/01/2004 10:41:33 PM PDT by tlb
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To: El Gran Salseron
Don't forget, "Hey boss, these rich people play checkers with horses on them."
26 posted on 05/02/2004 5:02:04 AM PDT by paddles
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James Coburn was in that?

Coburn played a small part, that of the Washington liason to Nimitz.

Lots of famous actors in that film. Just saw it again the other day (I can never NOT watch it). If you look close at the Midway Island scenes, you'll also see a very young Tom Selleck--without his mustache.

27 posted on 05/02/2004 5:08:54 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist ("You'll never get the pass code Eric!")
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To: paddles
"Don't forget, "Hey boss, these rich people play checkers with horses on them."

ROFL

I had forgotten about that one!

28 posted on 05/02/2004 7:25:12 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron (It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
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A marine in the ETO behind German lines ? This doesn't somehow sound right.

Quite a few Marines served in the ETO. Some Marines even served in the OSS in Europe during WWII: Sterling Hayden, Robert H. Barrow, Peter Ortiz, etc.

Assigned to the secretive world of spies and saboteurs were 51 Marines who served with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services to engage in behind-the-lines operations in North Africa and Europe from 1941 to 1945. These OSS Marines served with partisan and resistance groups in France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, Albania, Greece, Morocco and Egypt; on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia; in Rumania; and in North and West Africa. Ten of these OSS Marines also served with forces in Ceylon, Burma, Malaya and China. Marine Colonel Peter J. Ortiz was twice awarded the Navy Cross for heroism while serving with the French Resistance.

Marines and the OSS

29 posted on 05/02/2004 10:05:34 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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