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To: RichardW
I thought she was really something in the Glenn Miller story.

Unfortunately, what she and James Stewart were in that movie---through no fault of their own---was a bowdlerised version of Helen and Glenn Miller. (It only begins with the fact that "Little Brown Jug" was not just some brand-new entry in the Miller book that he planned to play on a radio broadcast as a surprise for her that ended up being played in his memory. Miller had had a hit with the song before he went into the Army Air Force, whether or not he really did hate the song as the film also portrayed. The good news is that the Miller film wasn't quite the worst bowdlerisation of a musician's story---for my money, the top honour is a dead heat between the films made of the lives of Benny Goodman and Red Nichols, and there's something rotten to be said about the films made about Gene Krupa and the Dorsey brothers, too.)

But that said, now June Allyson returns to her true love. Dick Powell has been waiting for her for years. Here's to the last surviving co-founder of Four Star Productions, a lady with class and understated grace, reunited to the true love of her life.

20 posted on 07/10/2006 3:02:12 PM PDT by BluesDuke (My schizophrenic career has made my life no bed of neuroses.---Goodman Ace.)
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To: BluesDuke

How about that 'Rhapsody in Blue' travesty with Robert Alda?


24 posted on 07/10/2006 3:04:30 PM PDT by Borges
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To: BluesDuke

Dick Powell always seemed like such a sweet man. Don't know if he was, but he sure seemed to match June Allyson. I always thought they were a great "love story," too.

Wow, look at the list of Four-Star productions! Many, many favorites in here:

Four Star Playhouse (1952-56) hosts Dick Powell, Ida Lupino, David Niven, Charles Boyer
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater(1956-60)
Hey, Jeannie(1956-57) starring Jeannie Carson
Mr Adams And Eve (1957-58) starring Ida Lupino & Howard Duff
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957-60) starring David Janssen
Trackdown (1957-59) starring Robert Culp
Black Saddle (1958-59) starring Peter Breck
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958-60) starring Steve McQueen
The Rifleman (1958-63) starring Chuck Connors
The David Niven Show (Summer 1959)
The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor (1959-62)
The June Allyson DuPont Show (1959-61)
Johnny Ringo (1959-60) produced by Aaron Spelling, starring Don Durant
Law of The Plainsman (1959-60) starring Michael Ansara
The Westerners (1960) produced by Sam Peckinpah, starring Brian Keith
Michael Shayne (1960-61) starring Richard Denning
Dante (1960-61) starring Howard Duff
The Law and Mr. Jones(1960-62) starring James Whitmore
Stagecoast West (1960-61) starring Wayne Rogers
The Tom Ewell Show(1960-61)
Peter Loves Mary(1960-61) starring Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy
Mrs G. Goes To College(1961-62) starring Gertrude Berg
Target: The Corruptors (1961-62) starring Stephen McNally
The Dick Powell Show (1961-63)
Saints and Sinners (1962-63) starring Nick Adams & John Larkin
The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962-63)
McKeever And The Colonel(1962-63) starring Scott Lane & Allyn Joslyn
Ensign O'Toole(1962-63) starring Dean Jones
Burke's Law (1963-65) / aka Amos Burke, Secret Agent (1965-66) Gene Barry
Honey West (1963-65) starrng Anne Francis & John Ericson
The Rogues (1964-65) David Niven, Charles Boyer, Gig Young
The Big Valley (1965-69) starring Barbara Stanwyck
The Smothers Brothers Show (1965-66)
PDQ (1965) host Art James
Thrill Seekers (1973-74) host Chuck Connors
Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection (1985)
Liar's Club (1988-89) host John Barbour


Also, here's another good bio of June:

http://www.juneallyson.com/Biography.htm


76 posted on 07/10/2006 5:27:37 PM PDT by Rte66
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