#Edmund Gwynn

[esonetwork]

THEM! | Episode 399

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THEM! | Episode 399

Jim dedicates this episode to the memory of his parents, Jim & Phyllis, who would have celebrated their 70th Wedding anniversary the day after this publishes. One of the most-loved “Big Bug” films of the 50’s is discussed here with 1954’s “THEM!,” starring James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Edmund Gwynn, Sandy Descher, Fess Parker, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Leonard Nimoy, Dub Taylor, and Olin Howland. Directed by Gordon Douglas, this film set the tone for radiation-themed, big-big films to come. Join us or a very special episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

#Dub Taylor #Edmund Gwynn #Fess Parker #First Big-Bug Film #geek podcast #James Arness #James Whitmore #Jim & Phyllis Adams #Jim Adams #Joan Weldon #Leonard Nimoy #Monster Attack! #nerd podcast #Olin Howland #Onslow Stevens #Sandy Descher #Sean McClory #The ESO Netwrok #THEM!

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Christmas 🎄 Movie 🎥 Marathon...A Miracle On 34th Street (1947) on Prime Video #movie #movies #christmas #merrychristmas #miracleon34thstreet #maureenohara #edmundgwenn #nataliewood #johnpayne #PrimeVideo

#movies #movie #christmas #merry christmas #a miracle on 34th street #Maureen O'Hara #Natalie Wood #Edmund Gwynn #john payne #40s #prime video #Spotify

[mariocki]

Black Friday (1940)

"Dad... your best friend... oh, you couldn't!"

"I saved his life, didn't I?"

"Well, what's the good of that if you've turned him into a criminal?"

#black friday #american cinema #horror film #1940 #mad doctor cycle #i mean it isn't part of the cycle really‚ they were Columbia films‚ but it might as well be; it has an identical set up and format #arthur lubin #curt siodmak #eric taylor #boris karloff #bela lugosi #stanley ridges #anne nagel #anne gwynne #virginia brissac #edmund macdonald #paul fix #raymond bailey #john kelly #murray alper #joe king #fun little nonsense horror that functions as a step sibling to the Mad Doctor Cycle Columbia were concurrently producing with Karloff #but actually he wasn't meant to play the doctor here; supposedly he was cast as the unfortunate subject of the doctor's brain swapping #experiments‚ with Lugosi as the doc. Karloff for whatever reason wanted to play the Doc (possibly he felt he couldn't transform himself #well enough in a physical sense‚ being so distinctive) so Ridges became the victim and Lugosi instead took a lesser role as a crime boss #the result is slightly unsatisfactory for fans of the gruesome twosome; while Ridges walks away with the film (he's genuinely brilliant) #Lugosi is wasted in a bit part and Karloff goes through the motions a little. still there's fun to be had‚ not least in the novel approach #to brain transplants (here the body holds the personality and the brain is just organ‚ whereas it's usually the opposite in the genre) #still it all backfires as it usually does.. Siodmak seems to have had a thing for brain swaps‚ it was a pet passion subject #that he revisited several times (most successfully with 1942 novel Donovan's Brain and its 50s film adaptation)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.10

Beer Birthdays

Adolphus Busch (1839)

Frank Yoerg (1867)

Jack "Legs" Diamond; bootlegger (1897)

Francis Showering (1912)

Lloyd Knight

Peter Estaniel

Five Favorite Birthdays

Saul Bellow; writer (1915)

Chiwetel Ejiofor; actor (1977)

Ron Glass; actor (1945)

Camille Pissarro; artist (1830)

Joe Shuster; cartoonist, "Superman" creator (1914)

Famous Birthdays

Kurt Adler; German chemist (1902)

Arthur Ashe; tennis player (1943)

Harvey Ball; illustrator, "smiley face" creator (1921)

Milt Buckner; jazz keyboardist (1915)

Dick Cary; jazz trumpeter (1916)

Owen Chamberlain; physicist (1920)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley; English writer (1875)

David Brinkley; television news anchor (1920)

William Blackstone; judge (1723)

John Calvin; French theologian (1509)

Robert Chambers; Scottish writer, naturalist (1802)

Roger Craig; San Francisco 49ers RB (1960)

Kim Deal; pop singer (1961)

Ronnie James Dio; rock singer (1949)

Finley Peter Dunne; Irish writer (1867)

Bela Fleck; banjo player (1958)

Blind Boy Fuller; blues guitarist (1907)

Arlo Guthrie; folk singer (1947)

Fred Gwynne; actor (1926)

Jerry Herman; composer, lyricist (1933)

Jean Kerr; writer, humorist (1923)

Greg Kihn; pop singer (1949)

Jake LaMotta; boxer (1921)

Lee Morgan; jazz trumpeter (1938)

Alice Munro; writer (1931)

Karl Orff; German composer (1895)

Marcel Proust; French writer (1871)

Pierre-Joseph Redoute; Belgian artist (1759)

Cindy Sheehan; anti-war activist (1957)

Jessica Simpson; pop singer (1980)

Neil Tennant; pop singer (1954)

David Teniers III; Flemish artist (1638)

Nikola Tesla; Serbian inventor (1856)

Robert the Bruce; Scottish king (1274)

Sofia Vergara; model, actor (1972)

Virginia Wade; tennis player (1945)

#Birthdays

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Edmund Gwynn, Spring Byington as Louisa Norton, and Charles Coburn in Louisa (1950). This is Ed's second honroable mention, after Apartment for Peggy. This is Chuck's second honorable mention, after In This Our Life. Spring's entries among my best 1,001 movies are The Charge of the Light Brigade, You Can't Take It With You, and The Devil in Miss Jones. Her final acting credit was an episode of The Flying Nun in 1968,

#spring byington #charles coburn #old hollywood #edmund gwynn

[letterboxd-loggd]

Honeymoon Deferred (1940) Lew Landers

September 16th 2021

#honeymoon deferred #1940 #lew landers #edmund lowe #margaret lindsay #chick chandler #elisabeth risdon #cliff clark #joyce compton #anne gwynne #julie stevens #jerry marlowe #joe sawyer

[frankenpagie]

8.12.19

#watched #film #letterboxd #black friday #boris karloff #bela lugosi #arthur lubin #stanley ridges #anne nagel #anne gwynne #virginia brissac #edmund macdonald #paul fix #murray alper #jack mulhall #joe king

[smthscoming]

hi !! i’ve just cleared out my following and old threads and would love to get some new things going. below the cut is a list of all my muses and the specific genre i want for them. as this is primarily a horror blog, most of the genres will be some variation of horror. if you're interested in any of these, drop a like and i'll contact you as soon as i can :) an overview of my muses is linked in the source

(updated 25/10/2021)

lucas royal: mutual crushes / colleagues / single dad * (m/nb only)

harley royal: rivals / underground fighter

gwynne royal: celebrity-fan / rivals * / hollywood * (f/nb only)

ronan royal: fantasy horror / dark academia * / southern gothic

lene marszałek: slasher / dark academia

edmund marszałek: small town horror

lucia hall: fantasy horror / road trip / small town horror / spn

gang chae-won: eldritch horror ** / southern gothic

emery st. john: mythology / southern gothic *

jupiter ts'ai: sci-fi horror *

junhe delany: sci-fi horror * / mutant * / mcu

sunny landon: spn / exes / apocalyptic *

jensen jones: mystery / mcu

hawke: mutant / mystery / sci-fi horror

novak: mutant / mystery / sci-fi horror

clara aldridge-west: colleagues / rivals / boss-employee / cyberpunk / crime

dae kyung-tae: bodyguard / fake marriage

francesca snow: mystery / crime / supernatural horror / wedding planner (f/nb only)

charlotte snow: crime / apocalypse / mystery

bree finch: slasher * / crime

harry dietrich: slasher * / crime

beckett keener: slasher * / hollywood

andromeda mercier: mentor-mentee / rivals / secret agent

cha hyun-jun: exes / secret agent

cal wilder: small town horror / southern gothic

lainey waltzer: dark academia * / murder mystery

avia beverly-grant: dark academia * / small town horror

ilse glass: folk horror * / southern gothic / superhero

beau poindexter: slasher

seo dal: sci-fi horror / apocalyptic / blackmail

august bartosz: dark academia / small town horror / folk horror

leong zien: small town horror / folk horror

bonus points if you bring me any of these fcs: riz ahmed, hayley atwell, haley bennett, andy biersack, freddy carter, henry cavill, cody christian, charlie cox, elizabeth debicki, winston duke, rebecca ferguson, megan fox, jake gyllenhaal, oscar isaac, dakota johnson, anthony mackie, richard madden, justin h. min, max minghella, lupita nyong’o, elizabeth olsen, teyonah parris, dev patel, sebastian stan, aaron taylor-johnson, sophie turner, deborah ann woll

#indie horror rp #indie supernatural rp #indie crime rp #indie rp #open to mutuals and non mutuals #especially if we're mutuals and haven't talked before this is an open invitation to you!! #and don't ask me about fear street i haven't watched it #discord available upon request #— ❛❛ // ooc › i could show you my mistakes ・ 「 ooc ! 」

[captzexx]

The Shadowlands - Blog Roll

The Lich King is usurped;  the Scourge have gone mad;  the way is open to the Shadowlands.  

No one is safe.

OOC: I figured with the impending coming of the Shadowlands I’d offer a quick update on all my blogs (hopefully in story form just much as I still have...alot of October stuff to write).  I am recently returned to the game because I am weak in the face of my obsession that is Warcraft despite how I feel about their actions in the past.  That’s my cross to bear, but my hope to be creatively fulfilled again with this bunch of characters I can’t quit.  I’ve opted to list the main characters as well as  big list of minor characters for both retail and classic.  SO here’s the list and a quick blurb on what’s to come for each of the mains, some have ends and others beginnings.

Mains

Eldridge Candell - Inquisitor of the Order of Embers - (Hunter 50, WRA)  @eldridgecandell Eld has returned to Stormwind, buried his father, and been asked by the Argent Crusade to aid in the coming war beyond life.  His service always remains with the Order of Embers and the Crusade is counting on his knowledge of what hides in shadow.  A deep hatred runs through the witch hunter for the Scourge and he is eager to aid in their destruction as he is to help end this dark invasion.

Zexx Candell - Hero for Hire - (Warrior 50, WRA) @zexxcandell The would be hero from the depths of the Multiverse has returned to his sea legs, having escaped the clutches of past enemies to find a home aboard the G’nash.  Keeping his head down for the most part has kept him being noticed and enjoying his time of quiet among the crew but that never lasts.  A stranger lead him to an even stranger funeral and to confront people he’d never though he’d meet.  In this world or another.  Now the way to the Shadowlands opens and a new desperate plan comes to fruition.

Reyomara ‘Rey’ Candell - Soldier of Fortune - (Hunter 12, MG) @gatesofthetroupe Youngest of the Candell children, Reyomara has decided that despite her lack of knowledge or history with her father that there should always be a Candell to cause trouble.  Taking up the family sword and having it adjusted for her height, the young soldier has taken the tales of her family from her Uncle Lan and sought out adventure again.  Recently her older sister Xaya and herself were forced to rescue their brother from the clutches of a Zandalar prisoner ship with mixed results.  Gendry was pulled from the clutches of his captors but at the same forced to reveal the stolen artifact that got him captured to begin with.  With Icecrown abuzz and the way made open, the sisters of Candell have joined thier brother follow the quiet words he hears now from the artifact.  Come to me, the way is made clear.  Come to me.

Oplisca Du’mere - Bearer of the Key - (Warlock 25, WRA) @opliscadumere  What do you do when you’ve won?  Oplisca was plagued by this for a time having finally caught her quarry and imprisoned him in the unbreakable puzzle box of the Dark Irons she designed.  You wait for a sign.  Sadly that sign began with the unescapable being escaped.  Alone, destitute, and even more depressed the half elf cultist had begun to suspect the end was the only way out.  But a chance moment in time set the walls of reality thinner and a voice called out to her from a broken treasure, a familiar voice.  Her master’s, her true love’s.  Now bearing the emerald pommeled sword, Oplisca follows the thin whispers northward and the chance to be reunited with all she had lost.  And to complete her task.

Minors

These are Alt characters or former Mains that may return at some point but for now are more fun times or when I want to try something new but are always up for stories or interactions. Erlain Candell - IC: Deceased Paladin (Paladin 50, WRA) @erlaincandell Fenrag One-Hand - IC: Wounded Warrior (Monk 50, WRA) @fenrag-sonofsevlaz Alfred Klaudin - IC: Sylvanas Loyalist (Warrior 28, WRA) @alfredklaudin Edmund Dumast - IC: Stormwind Scout (Rogue 35, WRA) @edmunddumast

@gatesofthetroupe​ Xaya Candell - IC: Eldest Candell Sibling (Monk 10, MG)  Gendry Candell - IC: Middlest Candell Sibling (Priest 10, MG) Gwynn Candell - IC: Youngest Missing Candell Sibling (Druid 10, WRA) Beatrix Gallina Candell - IC: MIA Paladin (Paladin 15, LH) Arallan Daemir - IC: Bronze Guardian (Paladin 45, MG) Coldbringer - IC: Enemy of Life (Mage 10, WRA; DK 10, MG) Coren - IC: Herald of Bronze (Druid 40 WRA; Priest 10 MG; Mage 1, LH)

Cheryl Duun - IC: Order of Embers Inquisitor (DK 10, WRA) Josiah Nubern - IC: Order of Embers inquisitor (Rogue 10, WRA) Sarasam Styrnlock - IC: Wayward Tidesage (Shaman 10, WRA) Ganus Klaudin: IC: Artificer (Mage 40, WRA)

Kinowin Du’mere - IC: Misplaced Twilight Cultist (DH 10, WRA) Fredman - IC: Drust Cultist (Druid 10, WRA) Classic ( @azerothiancausalityparadox​ ) Sevlaz - IC: Orc Pirate (Rogue) Grumvald - IC: Dwarven Solder (Warrior) Hornur  - IC: Holy Warrior (Paladin) Crawlen - IC: Servant of the Shadow (Priest) Juandia - IC: Speaker of FIre (Shaman) Kinowin - IC: Corrupted Wizard (Mage)

#blog roll #shadowlands #cast of characters #world of warcraft #open roleplay #looking for contact #wyrmrest accord #moon guard #classic #altaholism

[dinoandrade]

It’s Sunday and today’s Classic for Connor is a throwback to where it all started, the 1954 Warner Brothers sci-fi horror hit “Them!” Why a throwback? Because on a whim I showed this flick to Connor a bunch of years ago and he was so captivated by it that I decided to start showing Connor classic flicks - especially genre classics - every week alongside a big homemade waffle breakfast, and thus our Sunday Classics for Connor was born. “Them!” was directed by Gordon Douglas (“In Like Flint”), and stars James Whitmore (“The Shawshank Redemption”), Edmund Gwynn (Santa from “Miracle on 34th St”) and James Arness (The Thing itself from 1951’s “The Thing from Another World”). “Them!” Is noted for not only being one of earliest nuclear mutation monster flicks but it’s also the very first, and best of the 1950’s giant bug movies. Connor loved it way back when, and now with home-made waffles he loved it even more. https://www.instagram.com/p/CH6Fd8vDPqQ/?igshid=17uzz1ose79br

[classicfilmfan64]

BLACK FRIDAY

Universal, 1940.  Directed by Arthur Lubin.  Camera:  Elwood Bredell.  With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Virginia Brissac, Edmund McDonald, Paul Fix, Murray Alper, Jack Mulhall, Joe King, John Kelly, James Craig, Jerry Marlowe, Edward McWade, Eddie Dunn, Emmett Vogan, Edward Earle, Kernan Crips, Edwin Stanley.

[terror-in-the-aisles-2021]

Imagine having a picnic and having an ant invasion. Yikes! Giant ants that is. The 1954 Warner brothers cult classic called Them! And what an impressive cast. James Arness ( gunsmoke) James whitmore, Edmund Gwynn( Santa Claus of miracle of 34th Street. When I saw this as a kid over my cousins house in New Jersey. It was pretty scary. Especially the part where the giant ant crushes James Whitmore with its huge mandibles. Ouch. Them was made the same time as Godzilla. And the beast from 2,000 fathoms.The giant ants in this are mechanical. Early animatronics.And of course the bomb is responsible for these mutations. Too bad there wasn’t a giant ant eater to take care of these monsters. James Arness made this a few years after starring as The Thing from another world 1951.I love the monster movies of the 1950s. Even the so bad they’re good ones like The giant claw and from hell it came. The fifties was a time for giant bugs,giant people, giant octopuses, and yes the big G himself. Godzilla aka Gojira in Japan.

[mariocki]

House Of Frankenstein (1944)

"If they search the ruins of the prison, our bodies will not be found - we should hide!"

"So we shall, but in the open. All the protection of a traveling show; I as Lampini, you as my assistant. Free to move on towards those... for whom I have unloving memories."

#house of frankenstein #1944 #universal monster cycle #frankensteinathon #films i done watched #boris karloff #lon chaney jr #j. carrol naish #john carradine #glenn strange #elena verdugo #anne gwynne #lionel atwill #peter coe #sig ruman #george zucco #william edmunds #charles f. miller #philip van zandt #julius tannen #erle c. kenton #curt siodmak #after the success of frankenstein meets the wolf man it was only natural that someone at universal would have the idea to go bigger and #better and try and get a whole roster of monsters together. originally this would have involved the invisible man and the mummy but as it i #we have such iconic monsters as...the hunchback? im not sure that really counts. regardless naish is very good and much more nuanced than #previous hunchback assistants (no shade on dwight frye who was gloriously evil in previous frankenstein films. sadly frye had died by this #point). this was karloff's final outing with the universal team and it's a fine send off. he's in excellent form as a distracted and #irritable mad scientist follower of frankenstein. the monster itself doesn't really come into the action until the final ten minutes but #there's lots to enjoy on the way. chaney's talbot is a delightful if depressing figure as always. atwill pops up again. and dracula is #introduced to the mix and then promptly disposed of in a wonderfully dark bit of funny business. fun forgettable nonsense.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.10

Beer Birthdays

Adolphus Busch (1839)

Frank Yoerg (1867)

Jack "Legs" Diamond; bootlegger (1897)

Francis Showering (1912)

Lloyd Knight

Peter Estaniel

Five Favorite Birthdays

Saul Bellow; writer (1915)

Chiwetel Ejiofor; actor (1977)

Ron Glass; actor (1945)

Camille Pissarro; artist (1830)

Joe Shuster; cartoonist, "Superman" creator (1914)

Famous Birthdays

Kurt Adler; German chemist (1902)

Arthur Ashe; tennis player (1943)

Harvey Ball; illustrator, "smiley face" creator (1921)

Milt Buckner; jazz keyboardist (1915)

Dick Cary; jazz trumpeter (1916)

Owen Chamberlain; physicist (1920)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley; English writer (1875)

David Brinkley; television news anchor (1920)

William Blackstone; judge (1723)

John Calvin; French theologian (1509)

Robert Chambers; Scottish writer, naturalist (1802)

Roger Craig; San Francisco 49ers RB (1960)

Kim Deal; pop singer (1961)

Ronnie James Dio; rock singer (1949)

Finley Peter Dunne; Irish writer (1867)

Bela Fleck; banjo player (1958)

Blind Boy Fuller; blues guitarist (1907)

Arlo Guthrie; folk singer (1947)

Fred Gwynne; actor (1926)

Jerry Herman; composer, lyricist (1933)

Jean Kerr; writer, humorist (1923)

Greg Kihn; pop singer (1949)

Jake LaMotta; boxer (1921)

Lee Morgan; jazz trumpeter (1938)

Alice Munro; writer (1931)

Karl Orff; German composer (1895)

Marcel Proust; French writer (1871)

Pierre-Joseph Redoute; Belgian artist (1759)

Cindy Sheehan; anti-war activist (1957)

Jessica Simpson; pop singer (1980)

Neil Tennant; pop singer (1954)

David Teniers III; Flemish artist (1638)

Nikola Tesla; Serbian inventor (1856)

Robert the Bruce; Scottish king (1274)

Sofia Vergara; model, actor (1972)

Virginia Wade; tennis player (1945)

#Birthdays

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Edmund Gwynn in Pride and Prejudice (1940), directed by Robert Z Leonard.  Robert was born in Chicago and had 162 director credits, from 29 shorts 1913-14, his first feature in 1914, to 1957.  His entry among my best 1,001 movies is Dancing Lady with Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Fred Astaire, he also directed the Best Picture Oscar winner The Great Ziegfeld.

#Laurence olivier #greer garson #Maureen osullivan #Edmund gwynn #pride and prejudicce

[uacboo]

Jane Austen died on this day 200 years ago. Learn more about Poet’s Corner, where she is buried in Westminster Abbey, in this beautifully done video with amazing background music.

(Published on Apr 26, 2017)

Ever wondered about the origins of Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where over 100 poets and writers are buried or commemorated? It all began in 1400 when Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of ‘The Canterbury Tales’ was buried there but not because he was a poet.

One of the best-known parts of Westminster Abbey, Poets’ Corner can be found in the South Transept. It was not originally designated as the burial place of writers, playwrights and poets; the first poet to be buried here, Geoffrey Chaucer, was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey because he had been Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, not because he had written the Canterbury Tales.

Over 150 years later, during the flowering of English literature in the sixteenth century, a more magnificent tomb was erected to Chaucer by Nicholas Brigham and in 1599 Edmund Spenser was laid to rest nearby. These two tombs began a tradition which developed over succeeding centuries.

Burial or commemoration in the Abbey did not always occur at or soon after the time of death. Lord Byron, for example, whose lifestyle caused a scandal although his poetry was much admired, died in 1824 but was finally given a memorial only in 1969. Even Shakespeare, buried at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, had to wait until 1740 before a monument, designed by William Kent, appeared in Poets’ Corner.

Other poets and writers, well known in their day, have now vanished into obscurity, with only their monuments to show that they were once famous.

Conversely, many whose writings are still appreciated today have never been memorialised in Poets’ Corner, although the reason may not always be clear.

Music:

Serenade to Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams performed by Elizabeth Connell, Amanda Roocroft, John Mark Ainsley, Martyn Hill, Maldwyn Davies, Anne Dawson, Linda Kitchen, Alan Opie, Gwynne Howell, Sir Thomas Allen, Sarah Walker, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, John Connell and the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Matthew Best. Courtesy of Hyperion Records Ltd, London.

Source: YouTube and @wabbey

#westminster abbey #poets corner #jane austen #otd #serenade to music #English Chamber Orchestra #william shakespeare #geoffrey chaucer #c s lewis #lewis carroll #d h lawrence #visit london