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Every year on this day, I present to you the dreamy Gary Cooper who just makes me swoon.
Such a great movie star who was born on this day in 1901.
My favorite films of Cooper’s are Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and High Noon which won him one of his two Academy Awards. The other Oscar was for Sergeant York.
Cooper, who died of cancer in 1961 at the age of 60, also starred as Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees played Roark in The Fountainhead, and starred opposite Lauren Bacall in Bright Leaf, Ingrid Bergman in To Whom the Bell Tolls, Helen Hayes in A Farewell to Arms and Barbara Stanwyck in Great Balls of Fire.
His first big movie role was in the silent film Wings which came only three years after he had failed to make the drama club in college!
In the last year of his life, Cooper received an Honorary Oscar ‘for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry.’ He could not attend the awards ceremony so James Stewart accepted the award on his behalf.
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With Tony Award nominee Nicole Scherzinger currently lighting up Broadway as the latest Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, it seems like a good times for one of these sing-offs which I think they are just all kinds of fun.
The song is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Boulevard. The main character, Norma Desmond, reveals her longing to return to the spotlight of fame. She’s a faded star of the silent screen era who was originated on the London stage by Patti LuPone followed closely by Glenn Close in a Los Angeles production. The rest is history. Close was chosen over the already contracted LuPone to take the show to Broadway. LuPone sued, Close won a Tony then played the role in London in a 2015 revival and again on Broadway in 2017.
Betty Buckley also had two marvelous runs when she replaced LuPone in the original London production then replaced Close on Broadway.
Below are their versions plus a few more including Barbra Streisand who featured it on her Back to Broadway album and used the song to open her show when she returned to live performing in 1994 after a hiatus of more than 20 years.
The late actor Antony Hamilton was born 73 years ago today.
Sadly, he was just 42 when he died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1995.
The strikingly handsome Hamilton was best-known for replacing Jon-Erik Hexum as the male lead in the CBS series Cover-Up. Hexum died after shooting himself ion the head with a gun loaded with blanks. The force of the blast caused bleeding in his brain.
Hamilton began his career as a ballet dancer with The Australian Ballet touring Europe and the Soviet Union for two years. He quit dancing at 21 to pursue a career as a model and frequently appeared in magazines such as Vogue and GQ. Hamilton said in an interview: “Dancing was too confining and regimented for me. I became a model not because I was interested in fashion or styles, but because I knew it was a good way to see the world. It gave me independence. The money was good too.”
Once he transitioned into acting, he landed his first notable role in the 1984 television film Samson and Delilah which was immediately followed by Cover-Up.
He then went on to play agent Max Harte in the 1988 revival of Mission: Impossible. His final role was in the 1992 thriller Fatal Instinct.
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