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Date: 12 April 2019

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Post No. 6256

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ACTORS ANECDOTES

Ladies Vs Men

Someone remarked to Adolph Menjou that the depredations of the draft were working havoc in the ranks of Hollywood’s romantic leading men
“That is true, said Menjou, and it will be the first time that some of our leading ladies will be playing opposite men their own age”.

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Gift from a School Boy

No actress could ever have enjoyed a more touching tribute than that one received by Helen Hayes when she was portraying the role of Mary of Scotland. As darkness was falling after the matinee one winters afternoon, she encountered outside the stage door a small boy gazing at her adoringly.
After several successive matinees he still appeared faithfully. Then one time he impulsively stepped forward thrusting something into her hand and fled down the street. Miss Hayes found herself holding a small box. Opening it she found a little glided medal bearing the inscription
“Scholarship medal, Public school 42, 1933”.
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Please hit me!

When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, a notably devoted husband and wife , started rehearsing.
At Mrs Beans, a play in which it was necessary for Miss Fontanne to strike Mr Lunt in the face, she found she couldn’t hit him. She pulled her hand back and let go— and then stopped dead before she struck. Her husband begged her to do it, but after thirty minutes still she couldn’t. Finally Mr Lunt shouted,
“For God’s sake, Lynn you are the lousiest actress I have ever played opposite!”
The Fontanne hand made a direct hit. Mr Lunt yelped with pain, then grinned. But when they put on the show he had to whisper,
“Don’t be lousy, dear”, each time before she would hit him.
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Actor is dead!

A film salesman was trying to sell the latest Clark Gable picture to a cinema proprietor in the wilds of Venezuela.
‘Clark Gable is dead’ , he was told
You recall the film Parnell?
Yes, a box office winner, is, senor, but , the Gable had died in that.
Look here, I don’t……………..
I tried to show another Gable film after that., went on the Venezuelan.
And what happen? Hell broke loose. @Senor, my clients see the Gable die in one picture.
Cannot one believe one’s own eyes? So far as this village is concerned, Gable is dead.”
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You are a Poster Boy!

Robert Palmer, the eighteenth century actor, was in the early part of his life a bill sticker, which circumstance was pretty generally known to the performers. One evening being dressed for Sir Brilliant Fashion, he strutted into the green room, with sparkling buckles on his and at his knees, and a brilliant ring on his finger. One of the company inquired if they were real.
“I wear nothing but diamonds”, replied Palmer
“I congratulate you, said john bannister, for I remember when you wore nothing but paste”.
This occasioned a war, which was heightened by Mrs Jordan crying out
“Stick him against the wall, Bob, Stick him against the wall”.

xxx subham xxx