Movie Star Name That Face!
Hello fellow movie lovers and amateur film historian types!
Here is a game where we post a pic of a famous or not so famous movie star and associated clues for others to guess.
Now, if they are a big star I try and post a pic that is not so recognizable, if they are a supporting actor etc, then I go ahead and put up something that is more representative of their time on screen.
(I like classic movies, but go ahead and post stars from any era.)
So, let's have our first entry, let me say that this fellow was one of the first "multi-media" stars having been in Vaudeville, on film, radio and television, he was a regular household name for quite awhile there.
He was a child actor who appeared in "The Perils of Pauline" in 1914.
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So, who is this fellow, and don't forget to put up your own star pics!
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Yes, very good eye there, I don't know if I would have recognized him by that pic!
Now, there are no real rules of play here, anyone puts one up or guesses at any time.
Oh, and it can be a TV star too!
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How about this young man with the telephone?
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He was in my favorite Christmas movie: "The Shop Around The Corner" with Jimmy Stewart and had a fairly substantial role in "Tobacco Road."
wrecking a new car.
John Ford's "Tobacco Road" with Charley Grapewin, Gene Tierney, Ward Bond, Dana Andrews...
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I liked the way he could go from a "screwy kid," instantly to a more mature and refined character.
For my money, some of the best actors were children, I'm thinking of Jackie Coogan in "The Kid" when they put him in the back of that truck or Freddie Bartholomew when he received that bicycle for his birthday in "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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(we don't actually have to number them, lol 
We have seen this fellow both on the big screen and the small screen, often playing a mobster, "da' big boss."
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But he has a rather nice story to tell.
In his youth he took acting lessons and had a best friend from class.
One day his father meets them after school and offers to take them to lunch.
Well, the other kid kind of backed away and said he was afraid he couldn't go because he couldn't pay his way. 
But the old man said "Oh, that's alright, don't even think about it, it was going to be my treat anyway." and the three of them went out to lunch.
Well, that kid was Alan Ladd, and he never forgot that gesture and his friend from school and you might notice that once Ladd had enough clout we see our mystery star in a lot of his movies.
He says Alan used to call him in, he'd fan out scripts for several roles and say "Pick a part."
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Off to Google...
Of course, I knew his face right away, but just couldn't place it. Funny since I saw this program just three weeks ago. He played Bela Oxmyx on the Star Trek episode, A Piece of the Action, an iconic 1920's racketeer role, played to perfection by Mr. Caruso, if not a bit over the top in this rather campy, tongue-in-cheek episode.
and I bet that Star Trek episode is what he is most remembered for.
Very good guys, and don't forget to put up some of your own if you want to.
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This one might be too easy.
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This lady was born in Bombay India and was married to director Alexander Korda who sold "shares" of her contract to Sam Goldwyn who put her to work in America and produced her one Academy Award winning film.
She was pretty busy through the 1930s making as many as six pictures a year, her career began to taper-off in the 1940s and by the 1950s she would make maybe one picture every couple years, through the 60s and 70s we only saw a small handful of pictures with her.
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And thank you each for your participation!
Let's go back to the silent era.
This young lady started in 1917 and by the end of the silent era she was making $12,500 a week salary... (and later, much more, but relatively few talkies.)
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And in 1923 she made quite a sensation being an onscreen "flapper," whose bobbed hair was much imitated.
She said she got the idea from a Japanese doll.
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She set the stage, so to speak, for flappers yet to come.
You guys are 5 for 5!
I'm pretty sure she wasn't the first "flapper" and wasn't sure if she was actually the first movie flapper, but I believe she was. ( "Flaming Youth" 1923 was the movie in question.)
And here is a wonderful documentary on the silent era, have you folks seen this series?
It's either that episode or a following where Coleen Moore talks about bobbing her hair.
(She became one of the principal investors in Merrill Lynch.)
That is my favorite documentary series, TCM had "Moguls and Movie Stars" which might actually be a bit more comprehensive, but what I like here is there is so much input from people who were actually there, no documentary can do that anymore.
There are 12 to the series, don't miss them!
(In fact... I get a little choked-up hearing the theme music nowadays.
And I guess I'm going to have to ramp things up in the thread, lol!
(I don't like to post ones that are so obscure no one could get them though, I like to keep it fun.)
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I bet many have seen this fellow often as he has been in over 140 movies.
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I'm talking about the somewhat downcast petty officer next to Ward Bond.
An interesting note, he was a gold miner in his youth.
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was the US Coast Guard boxing and wrestling champ during his service.
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with our mystery star #7.
(Wow! Now THAT is why these people got the big bucks!
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He had a theater company named after him in Louisville KY.
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was the toast of two continents early in her career in the theater, you might compare her level of fame to Princess Diana
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And she would continue in movies, radio and even her own television show in the 1950s.
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