OT: Old Movies Trivia

[NY Fan]

What movie actor served in the US Navy during WWII and was awarded the Silver Star ending his service at the rank of Captain in the US Navy?

Stumped, who? I hope we don't lose this thread given the Dorka transfer announcement.

 

[CajunHusky]

Stumped, who? I hope we don't lose this thread given the Dorka transfer announcement.

Can't claim credit for it since I googled it but ....

Douglas Fairbanks Jr ... served as a founding member/organizer of "Beach Jumpers" ended the war as a Navy Captain.

Another actor served with Wild Bill Donovan's OSS working behind the lines with partisans in Italy and the Balkans.

 

[veryolddog]

Can't claim credit for it since I googled it but ....

Douglas Fairbanks Jr ... served as a founding member/organizer of "Beach Jumpers" ended the war as a Navy Captain.

Another actor served with Wild Bill Donovan's OSS working behind the lines with partisans in Italy and the Balkans.

Sterling Hayden.

 

[CajunHusky]

Sterling Hayden.

I just knew you would know that one!

I particularly liked the part where he was medically discharged from the army during the war and then enlisted in the Marines under a different name.

 

[Waquoit]

I only remember Robert Taylor from Bataan.

My mom's favorite knock-knock joke:

Knock-knock
Who's there?
Robert Taylor who?
Robert Taylor, go to jail

 

[Waquoit]

Ennio Morricone - his score for Cinema Paradiso is beautiful

Stunned the poster with a Ferrari avatar/handle was all over Morricone.

 

[chrissaran]

Who was the female lead in Buster and Billie?

 

[veryolddog]

Many Hollywood actors served in the military during WWII. Name what Branch and what they did.

Clark Gable
Tyrone Power
Jimmy Stewart
Glenn Ford
Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinski)
Charlton Heston

 

[NY Fan]

Stunned the poster with a Ferrari avatar/handle was all over Morricone.

Ennio Morricone arguably the best movie score writer of all time. The Geno Auriema of movie score writers if you will!

 

[f1f1ferrari]

Stunned the poster with a Ferrari avatar/handle was all over Morricone.

And I'm not even Italian!

 

[Essexdave]

"Fury" - the only star I remember is Spencer Tracey.

I'll give you another one. Two films released in 1931 became horror classics. Name
the films and (tougher) name the actor that had a featured role in both films.

Total guess. Bela Lugosi Dracula and Frankenstein. And the wonderful Plan 9 from Outer Space.

 

[mhshuskies]

Warner Bros had a nice group of folks that would show up in lots of their movies. During the 30's, Jack Warner hired many actors that ran to the USA after Hitler took power and before he overran Europe. The movie "Casablanca" was loaded with them. Can you name a few of them?

Conrad Veidt, S Z (“Cuddles”) Sakall, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Madeleine LaBeau

 

[Waquoit]

And I'm not even Italian!

Is that you Dave Stohler?

 

[f1f1ferrari]

Is that you Dave Stohler?

I have no idea who that is

 

[Waquoit]

I have no idea who that is

It was a stretch. He was a character in a movie (Breaking Away) that loved all things Italian.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

What movie actor served in the US Navy during WWII and was awarded the Silver Star ending his service at the rank of Captain in the US Navy?

Just a guess but I’ll say Robert Montgomery. If not Montgomery then maybe Eddie Albert or Ernest Borgnine? I know all of them saw action.

 

[f1f1ferrari]

It was a stretch. He was a character in a movie (Breaking Away) that loved all things Italian.

Didn't see that one

 

[NY Fan]

Didn't see that one

And I thought I might be alone awake at this hour!

 

[veryolddog]

Just a guess but I’ll say Robert Montgomery. If not Montgomery then maybe Eddie Albert or Ernest Borgnine? I know all of them saw action.

It was Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He was also wounded in action and was awarded the Silver Star. This also was mentioned above. They had some brave guys from Hollywood in those days.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

It was Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He was also wounded in action and was awarded the Silver Star. This also was mentioned above. They had some brave guys from Hollywood in those days.

Yes they did. Thanks, didn’t know about DF. Eddie Albert should have gotten the MOH for what he did.

 

[veryolddog]

Yes they did. Thanks, didn’t know about DF. Eddie Albert should have gotten the MOH for what he did.

He received the Bronze Star with the V for valor.

 

[Waquoit]

Didn't see that one

Might be a bit dated now, but I was just the right age when I saw it. A "coming of age" movie about kids just out of high school. Sweet with laughs.

 

[veryolddog]

Many Hollywood actors served in the military during WWII. Name what Branch and what they did.

Clark Gable
Tyrone Power
Jimmy Stewart
Glenn Ford
Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinski)
Charlton Heston

Clark Gable - US Army Air Corps Gunner - flew missions and then was assigned as an instructor.

Tyrone Power - USMC - trained as a pilot for an RD4 which is a C-47. Flew missions all over the Pacific transporting personnel and supplies to the islands.

Jimmy Stewart - US Army Air Corps - Pilot - highly decorated flying 25 plus missions in Europe. Rose to the rank of LT. Colonel and stayed in the US Air Force Reserves to become a Brigadier General.

Glenn Ford - USMC - don't know exactly what he did.

Charles Bronson - US Army Air Corps - ball gunner in a B-29. Wounded flying a mission over Japan.

Charleton Heston - US Army Air Corps - Radio operator and gunner on B-25 flying missions in the Pacific with dozens of mission.

 

[NY Fan]

Clark Gable - US Army Air Corps Gunner - flew missions and then was assigned as an instructor.

Tyrone Power - USMC - trained as a pilot for an RD4 which is a C-47. Flew missions all over the Pacific transporting personnel and supplies to the islands.

Jimmy Stewart - US Army Air Corps - Pilot - highly decorated flying 25 plus missions in Europe. Rose to the rank of LT. Colonel and stayed in the US Air Force Reserves to become a Brigadier General.

Glenn Ford - USMC - don't know exactly what he did.

Charles Bronson - US Army Air Corps - ball gunner in a B-29. Wounded flying a mission over Japan.

Charleton Heston - US Army Air Corps - Radio operator and gunner on B-25 flying missions in the Pacific with dozens of mission.

Charles Buchinsky aka Bronson: Appreciated him in Pat and Mike that I saw as an adult, and as a very young kid terrified by him and Vincent Price in House of Wax.

 

[ME Husky Fan]

Watched I Want to Live with Susan Hayward the other day. Co-star Simon Oakland who was one of those character actors in the 50’s thru maybe the 80’s. John Hodiak was in Desert Fury and watch him in ‘Somewhere in the Night’ if it’s ever on Turner Classics. John Garfield was a good actor and in a lot of good old flicks but didn’t get the headlines as was the case with other frontliners