color photo from a 1940's magazine

Gentle Readers and Dear Friends - the title sort of describes the last day or so. As you know I took a day off yesterday. Feeling at about 30% - and just loving the porcelain reading room was my yesterday!!! That wraps it up nice a neat. I realize that was a bit of a TMI moment, but in a nutshell - it was my little life. In between visits to the RR I napped on and off for most of the day. Not a needle did I touch. I just didn't have the energy. The TV was on - but wrapped up in a quilt with the who-hound heating machines I was too comfortable and I couldn't tell you what I saw if you paid me. By the evening I came out of it a bit to watch the elimination on Dancing with the Stars. I wasn't to surprised with what happened. I am looking forward to next week!! __________ I did get the camera out and took another snap of the ABC Hornbook in the daylight - and again the post title describes the snap...... Now it looks blue - and super wrinkled - but you get the idea of where I am - I had to restitch that sheep/lamb a couple of times until I settled on this version. The recommended floss melted into the linen and then I chose another floss and he was really striped looking - I do like this version, but may change it out again. There you go sports fans - I do thank you for the kind comments about the cake. I'll get that recipe up in a day or two. Thanks also for stopping by, do come again!! Take care, edgar

Gloria DeHaven, a star of 1940s musicals who reinvented herself for daytime drama, died Saturday in Las Vegas. She was 91

page from the November 1938 Screen Book Magazine

Oh, my pets... things have been utterly lunatic in The Underworld lately. The latest chapter in the serial that is my life is that my satellite provider completely, without warning, ERASED FOREVER my entire library of saved programs on my DVR. So there went several posts down the tubes, including part of my proposed 400th one. Anyway, while I'm wringing the tears out of my hanky, I have had to resort to a different sort of post while I attempt to get my act together again. If you don't enjoy the quiz, hopefully a couple of the pictures may be interesting at least! Today's Pop Quiz will involve a celebrity whose parent or child is/was also a performer and you will have to guess who they are. In most, if not all, cases, the less famous (or well known these days) celeb will be the lead-off and the answer is the slightly more familiar entity. Stick around at the end for one last amusing photo! 1. This memorably imposing and dour-looking actor is Vic Morrow, perhaps best known for the WWII series Combat! (1962-1967), but also the guest star of many TV shows (such as The Rifleman, Police Story and Charlie's Angels) and supporting actor in movies (including 1955's The Blackboard Jungle, 1958's God's Little Acre, 1960's Cimarron and 1976's The Bad News Bears.) His final role was in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) thanks to a horrific on-set accident in which a helicopter decapitated him and killed the two children he was filming with. His daughter grew up to be a critically popular actress known for her edgy, immersed performances. 2. Fans of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives (the only big-screen version that I acknowledge!) will recall this man, who played Katharine Ross' husband. He maintained an acting career for about two decades from 1966 to 1987, but ultimately switched gears to directing. His square-jawed daughter (who also appeared as his child in Wives) went on to a successful career in the movies chiefly from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s. 3. This young lady's name is Tisha Sterling, a pretty actress with striking, large eyes. As a girl, she toiled in plenty of television shows from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour to Batman, segueing to movies such as Coogan's Bluff (1968) with Clint Eastwood and Norwood (1970) with Glen Campbell. She's shown in the inset with James Franciscus in the 1970 TV-movie Night Slaves. She inherited her huge eyes from her famous mother, a 1930s beauty who had her own film series in the 1940s before conquering TV in the 1950s. Sterling played the younger version of her mother's character in her mother's final movie. 4. This one's such a gimme, I shouldn't even include it, but we must balance out the more difficult ones, mustn't we? Stage actress Blythe Danner, who went on to film success in 1776 (1972), The Great Santini (1979) and more recently Meet the Parents (2000) is the mother of an actress who achieved tremendous popularity (and even managed to wrangle an Oscar.) The daughter has lately become associated with a popular, CGI-laden, superhero film franchise. 5. Most of you won't be too familiar with this young man, Kyle Johnson, who enjoyed a brief run at acting in the mid-'60s to the mid-'70s (starring in The Learning Tree, shown here, in 1969, regarding social and racial issues in small town 1920s Kansas.) He also popped up in Rock Hudson's 1971 dark comedy Pretty Maids All in a Row. Johnson's mother was a groundbreaking TV actress who was and is part of a major fan favorite franchise so great that the followers were given their own name. 6. Here we have television actress Whitney Blake, a TV actress from the 1950s through the 1970s who costarred on the Shirley Booth sitcom Hazel (1961-1965) and guest-starred on many other shows. her daughter became a highly-successful television actress as well as part of a 1976-1980 drama series and then a 1981-1989 sitcom in which she, too, played the mom. She proceeded to star in popular TV-movies and still works frequently today. 7. These two writer-producer-director gents are brothers, Paul and Chris Weitz. They have collaborated on several movies from the hugely-popular gross-out comedy American Pie (1999) to the far more sensitive About a Boy (2002) to the big-budget misfire The Golden Compass (2007), among other things. Their father was a German fashion designer and writer named John Weitz. Their mother, prior to having her sons and retiring, was a promising, thriving actress who won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for one of her more memorable roles. 8. This young man is Paul Clemens, who starred as an unfairly accused murderer in the 1978 TV-movie A Death in Canaan before landing supporting roles in the 1979 movies Promises in the Dark and The Passage. As seen here, he also starred in 1982's The Beast Within as the product of rape between a woman and diabolical creature! His acting career petered out for the most part, though he did segue into art (his father was a portrait painter of the same name.) His mother is a thrice Oscar-nominated actress who enjoyed considerable fame, including one film that is a bonafide family classic for the ages. 9. The glamour-puss shown here is Marjorie Lord, the TV wife of Danny Thomas on The Danny Thomas Show (known also as Make Room for Daddy) from 1957-1964. The glam quotient is notable since she replaced Jean Hagen on the show after the first three seasons, partly because Thomas didn't approve of Hale's appearance. The two-time Emmy nominee (three, actually, because of a special category) was allegedly once told by Thomas, "For God's sake, Jean. Put on a little lipstick!" Anyway, Hagen wasn't happy on the show, but Lord was. Lord's daughter went on to significant fame as an actress, scoring an Oscar nomination for her part in a major blockbusting thriller. 10. This is another pretty easy one. Sean Astin got started in television and movies as a preteen, with The Goonies (1985) a cult favorite. Later, he starred in Toy Soldiers (1991) and Rudy (1993) before the triple-whammy of the three The Lord of the Rings movies (in 2001, 2002 and 2003.) He maintains a very busy career now. His mother was also a teen star of stage, screen and television and won an Oscar while still a youth. 11. This man was a reliable character actor in movies from the 1910s until his premature death at only age fifty-seven of a liver ailment. As a Warner Brothers contract player, he wound up in more than a dozen films that featured screen swashbuckler Errol Flynn, as seen here in the inset. He had a similar-looking son named after him who was placed in movies as a child and who grew up to work in many films and television shows. Although the son worked until the late-1980s, he is chiefly known for his iconic role on a sitcom that only ran for three seasons (yet has never left the airwaves in reruns since!) 12. This exotic French beauty, shown in the inset with James Cagney, was a considerable movie actress of the 1920s and '30s when she met and married an up and coming hunk in 1935. His career soon shot off like crazy while hers dwindled. They had one child together before divorcing and she continued to draw spousal support from her ex until he was dead and gone. Their very handsome son took a stab at acting, too, in less than ten movies (mostly foreign made) before switching gears to photojournalism. 13. Fans of the 1937 movie Lost Horizon will recall Margo (seen here with Horizon's Ronald Coleman), a Mexican actress who worked sporadically in TV and film up through the mid-'60s. Though married first to actor Francis Lederer, she wed another, more familiar actor in 1945 and they were together until her death forty years later. Their handsome son, named after his father, but resembling his mother more, went on to a more than forty-year career before the cameras himself when he was prematurely taken by lung cancer at only age fifty-five. That concludes the quiz. The answers will be shown below with a tad more commentary accompanying each answer! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Vic Morrow's daughter is Jennifer Jason Leigh, costar of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), The Hitcher (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Single White Female (1992) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), among many others. 2. The actor-director's name is Peter Masterson and his daughter is Mary Stuart Masterson, star of Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Chances Are (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Benny & Joon (1993) and Bad Girls (1994), among others. 3. Tisha Sterling's mother was Ann Sothern, through her six-year marriage to Robert Sterling. Tisha played the young version of Sothern's character in The Whales of August (1987) for which Sothern was Oscar-nominated. 4. Blythe Danner is the mother of Gwyneth Paltrow through her thirty-two-year marriage to writer-producer-director Bruce Paltrow. 5. Kyle Johnson's mother is none other than Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) from her brief marriage to Foster Johnson. 6. Whitney Blake's daughter is Meredith Baxter (star of Family and Family Ties) from her first marriage to Tom Baxter. Ironically, Blake's name on Hazel was "Dorothy Baxter," though by then Blake was divorced from Baxter. 7. The Weitz brothers are the sons of Imitation of Life's Susan Kohner. Kohner was married to John Weitz from 1964 until his death in 2002. 8. Paul Clemens is the son of The Sound of Music's (1965) elegant Baroness Schraeder, Eleanor Parker. She was wed to artist Paul Clemens (Sr) from 1954-1965. 9. Marjorie Lord's daughter is Anne Archer, of Fatal Attraction (1987) and many other movies. Lord was married to actor John Archer from 1941 to 1953. 10. Sean Astin's mother is Patty Duke, who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker (1962), was the star of The Patty Duke Show (1963-1966) and is part of the cult gay phenomena Valley of the Dolls (1967.) Astin got his name from Duke's marriage to John Astin (1972-1985), but his father was really someone else. During a manic phase of her bipolar disorder, she had slept with rock promoter Michael Tell, John Astin and Lucille Ball's son, Desi Arnaz Jr! She married Tell for less than two weeks to "give her baby a name" all the while believing that Arnaz was the father. Then she married Astin, who raised Sean. Years later DNA tests confirmed that Tell was Sean's biological father. If all this had been the plot of one of her movies, audiences would have claimed it was too far-fetched... 11. The character actor is Alan Hale and his son, Alan Hale Jr, played Skipper on Gilligan's Island from 1964-1967 and in a few reunion movies. 12. Actress Lili Damita wed Errol Flynn and gave birth to Sean Flynn. Sean went missing during a photojournalism jaunt in Cambodia and was presumed dead in 1971 (officially declared so in 1984.) A desperate Damita tried and tried to recover her son and only child, or at least his remains, but was unsuccessful. After Errol Flynn's death (and the end of his spousal checks), Damita wed for a third time, but divorced again after twenty-one years. 13. Margo was married to movie actor and star of Green Acres (1965-1971) Eddie Albert and their son, Edward Albert, starred in Butterflies Are Free (1972) and many subsequent films. My little bonus photo is coming up. One of the most (in)famous parent-child Hollywood relationships was that of Joan Crawford and her adopted daughter Christina, who pursued acting as a girl. (Most fans of Joan will recall her stepping into Christina's role on the daytime serial The Secret Storm for a couple of days during an illness.) Apart from jobs that Joan helped arrange (like 1961's Wild in the Country), Christina had to settle for TV guest spots and work on the regional stage. By 1972, she was completely done with screen acting after just a handful of jobs. This photo, a promotional picture for the very popular series Medical Center (1969-1976) starring Chad Everett, was meant to publicize her guest appearance on a 1970 installment, but the newspaper thought so little of her that they cropped it to feature ONLY Everett and X-ed her out of the shot entirely!! At the time, such a thing would have probably enraged Joan, who wished for Christina to succeed, but in retrospect, she's probably looking at this now from the great beyond with a karmic smirk. Till the next moment I can rejoin you, my friends. Best wishes!

Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott in "Pitfall" (1948) directed by André De Toth John Payne and Lizabeth Scott in "Silver Lode" (1954) directed by Allan Dwan John Payne never especially wanted to be a movie star; he wanted to be a writer. Never the typical actor type, he was more of a thinker and a doer, but he took special pride in one of his movies. Believing in the unbelievable was a key spiritual value to him, and that is why "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) was so important to him. John Payne and Maureen O'Hara in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) directed by George Seaton John liked the film because it was about belief, and the importance of belief was something he took care to impress upon his children. He had noticed the original story, by Valentine Davies, in a magazine, and pressed 20th Century-Fox to make a movie of it. It was right after World War II and studio chiefs were more inclined to make lavish musicals than a simple little story about a department store Santa taken to court on lunacy charges. Years later, after Miracle on 34th Street had become a holiday favorite, his daughter Clancy Payne, learned that Fox agreed to make it only after her father put up his own money. According to Clancy, her dad even suggested some of the movie's sweetest touches, such as having Santa and a little orphan girl speak in Dutch, and the closing-scene discovery of Santa's cane by the fireplace.The film made a strong impression on his daughter. After all these years, Clancy still recalls her debates with schoolyard skeptics. Whenever one said there was no Santa Claus, she would declare, "My father was the lawyer who proved there is." John attended Broad Street School in Salem, Virginia, before being sent off to Mercersburg Academy, a prep school in Pennsylvania. The summer he was fifteen he served as a ship's steward on a voyage to Cuba. There, he signed on to a hemp boat. "My job was to keep watering the hemp so that it didn't catch fire." No stranger to the sea, he explained, "Fishing has always been one of my favorite sports, especially deep sea fishing." Payne's father, a businessman, died when John was 17. With three boys to raise and the nation in the grips of the Great Depression, Ida Hope Payne struggled to hold onto their 1825 Colonial-style mansion at Fort Lewis, west of Salem, Virginia. John, nearly 6-foot-four with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, looked like a movie star even as a teenager. At the time of his father's death, John was a student at Roanoke College, but he was forced to suspend his studies in order to help support his struggling family. In an effort to make ends meet, the young man took on a variety of jobs, including working as a male nurse to a neighboring widower's two children. He also sang at local radio stations. After a while, he was able to enroll at the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University. "While working for my keep while a student in the extension division of Columbia University, I had a program [airing] over 18 stations. 'The South Singer,' I was known as 'in them there days,' as Fibber McGee would say, and I teamed up with an organist and a violinist for three broadcasts a week. My end of the take was eight dollars a week. The year was 1935, however, and a man could buy a lot of nourishment for eight dollars!" He also earned money as a boxer and later, a wrestler, billed as Alexei Petroff, the Savage of the Steppes. Also, he was sometimes known as "Tiger" Jack Payne. "When my money ran out, I ran the elevator, operated a switchboard and took care of a pool room," Payne recalled in an interview with famed columnist Hedda Hopper. "I'd been studying voice so I got a job on radio. Then the Schuberts offered me a part in a road company. I told the Schuberts I could do anything. They took me at my word, for $40 a week. I ended that tour with $3.20 to my name. But show business was in my blood by then." From July 1937 to February 1938 John Payne and Betty Grable made twenty-six semi-regular appearances on the CBS radio program Song Time on Saturdays. He later recalled, "Back in 1937 while I was under contract to Paramount, I sang on a five-minute radio program with another contract player from Paramount. A girl who's done rather well since —Betty Grable. Betty and I didn't do so well then, though. We couldn't find a sponsor, and finally gave up the program. I sang low tenor —or should I say, high baritone." At a cocktail party in 1937 he met Anne Shirley, the 18-year-old actress who had recently made a hit as the daughter in Stella Dallas. She told a fan magazine the story of how they met. He had promised to call, but she sat home waiting a week in vain. Finally, she had some tickets to a preview and wondered if it would be all right for her to call him. She did, but when he said he had another engagement, Anne broke down and cried. The next day a dozen gardenias arrived from Payne. The following week a dozen camellias came, then a dozen orchids, and then roses. He claimed he wanted to play hard to get at first, but once the campaign started, he wasn't fooling. He fell just as hard as Anne had. On August 22, 1937, they were married. After three years, they had a daughter, Julie Anne Shirley Payne, born on July 9, 1940. Anne and John made their only professional appearance together on Lux Radio Theater and were heard supporting W. C. Fields in a version of his film Poppy, when they returned from their honeymoon. Friends thought the couple enjoyed a perfect marriage, but they were wrong. On February 28, 1943, they divorced, and John began to carry a torch. Although he would date Jane Russell briefly, he was very unhappy. When they were making To the Shores of Tripoli together in 1942, his co-star Maureen O'Hara said, "He came into my dressing room one day and sobbed like I've never heard a man sob. Without any knowledge that anything was wrong, he woke up to find that Anne had left and was getting a divorce. He was totally heartbroken. He kept saying, 'Why didn't she ever tell me she was unhappy?'" Margaret Lindsay and John Payne in "Garden of the Moon" (1938) directed by Busby Berkeley Career-wise, a big chance came when Payne was signed with Warner Bros., where he replaced Dick Powell in Busby Berkeley's "Garden of the Moon" (1938). In this snappy musical, he played a struggling bandleader, and Margaret Lindsay played his love interest. After another four pictures Payne again moved on, this time signing with 20th Century-Fox which turned out to be the big breakthrough of his career. Alice Faye and John Payne in "Tin Pan Alley" (1940) directed by Walter Lang At Fox people began to really notice him, thanks to substantial roles in classic films like Tin Pan Alley (1940) opposite the studio's beloved star Alice Faye. He was wooing Faye again in the studio's big Technicolor musical Weekend in Havana (1941), and that same year he played the romantic lead in the classic Glenn Miller musical romp Sun Valley Serenade (1941) attracting the attentions of both Lynn Bari and Sonja Henie. That same year, he starred in one of his best films, the beautiful "Remember the Day" (1941), directed by Henry King and starring Claudette Colbert. King remarked many years later of Colbert's influence on the cast members. "She got child actor Douglas Croft to glow with confidence and poise, and I saw her do the same thing with her romantic lead, John Payne, who was then a Fox stock player more noted for his good looks than for his acting skills. Payne gave one of his best performances in that picture." Until Miracle on 34th Street came around, Remember the Day was Payne's favorite. "When Claudette Colbert agreed to have me as her leading man in Remember the Day, it was a great boost to my career," Payne noted. This film has become one of those sleeper classics that seem to grow in stature as the years go by. In the next year he was the romantic lead opposite Fox's big star Betty Grable in "Springtime in the Rockies" (1942). An expensive Technicolor production, this film would practically define the glossy Fox musical of the 1940's loaded with talent —Harry James and His Band, Carmen Miranda and Helen Forrest— and great songs—"I Had the Craziest Dream"—. The war, however, would put a dent in Payne's career. On October 13, 1942, he entered into military service as a Student Aviator, serving in the 11th Corps Training unit of the Ferry Command. He enlisted for Army Pilot training in Phoenix, Arizona. He reported to Camp Williams, Arizona, on January 11, 1943, and after completing his training, in June, 1944, he was assigned to the Ferry Command at Long Beach. After his discharge, Payne returned to Fox and was cast in "The Dolly Sisters", with Betty Grable and the new Fox beauty June Haver. He played Betty Grable's love interest in this delightful musical also featuring S. Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner and Frank Latimore. John and Betty previously co-starred in three movies before he joined the military and it was obvious the two were still an appealing and popular screen team. During the making of The Dolly Sisters, he met Gloria DeHaven, an actress under contract to MGM, and they married a couple of months later. Their daughter, Kathleen Hope (Clancy), was born to them on January 1, 1946. A son, Thomas, was born on February 25, 1948. Problems arose immediately in the marriage. Unlike John, Gloria was born into a show business family. Her father, Carter DeHaven, and her mother, Flora Parker, were in the theatrical world for years. "My mother was a big star," she told a writer for Modern Screen magazine. "She could have gone lots farther on the stage but she quit to have children. She was left behind with her babies while my father went on to hear the applause and listen to the flattery of the world." Gloria obviously saw that this might happen in her own marriage, and she wanted to resume her career after her children were born. John felt that picture work was very hard, and married couples see very little of each other when they are both working. "I told John I had show business in my blood," Gloria exclaimed. "He said that was just silly, that there wasn't any such thing. He thinks that all this talk about the background and tradition of the theater is just so much conversation." Payne resumed his career with a vengeance at Fox after his return from service, doing fewer musicals and more variety. After The Dolly Sisters, he co-starred with Maureen O'Hara in Sentimental Journey, a tearjerker about a dying actress who adopts a little girl to give her husband (Payne) a companion when she is gone. The story was a pet project of Payne's. He had bought the property for himself from a magazine and sold it to his studio, only to discover they were going to cast Cary Grant in the lead. John wanted the role and was determined to convince studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck that he, not Grant, was the actor for the part. "I really had to do some acting that day," he recalled. When he cornered his boss in the men's room, Zanuck threw up his hands, "OK, OK, John, you got the part. Now let me finish what I came in here for." Next was The Razor's Edge (1946), an important project at the studio. This gigantic film drama cost four million dollars to produce, and took more than three months to shoot. Movieland praised "Somerset Maugham's brilliant gift of language and his insight into human types have not been lost in the screen's version of his classic novel. Apart from the diamond studded cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall and a host of other big names, the Maugham characters leap to life as the author, played by Herbert Marshall, tells the story. The portrait isn't always pleasant, but excellent story, perfect casting and fine directing make this film a classic example of a good movie." Payne's was a supporting part, but a good one, allowing him to stretch himself as an actor. He and Gloria DeHaven separated in December 1946 for the first time. John had made three pictures in a row and was working on Larceny (1948) for Universal-International when they separated for the second time. When he finished the picture, he went east to play in The Voice of the Turtle in Princeton, New Jersey with Joan Caulfield, his leading lady in Larceny. Gloria joined him in New York. And after six weeks of separation, they were back together again. There was gossip that his co-star Joan Caulfield had something to do with their separation, but Gloria said, "This definitely was not true." Shortly after this came the final separation and divorce in 1950. Payne was a loving father and said he wouldn't be without his children, not even for two weeks if he could help it, and loved to take them on location with him. About his two small daughters he said, "They're Daddy's girls, come right to the old man when they want something. And the boy? I don't know what I'm going to do about him," he laughed. "Here he is over a year old and he hasn't contributed a cent to the family income." Payne, by the way, was successful in business and had a real estate company in Hollywood. John Payne and Gail Russell in "El Paso" (1949) directed by Lewis R. Foster In 1949 Payne signed a contract to co-star in "El Paso", for producers William Pine and William Thomas. After that he starred in six pictures for the action producers and in 1950 signed to star in six more films for Pine & Thomas, then known as the "Dollar Bills" due to their cost-conscious ways. Until he joined the Pine-Thomas family, he had been basically known for starring with Betty Grable, Alice Faye, June Haver and other screen beauties, mostly in musicals, which took advantage of his handsome looks and his singing voice. With his shift to action pictures, John Payne toughened up his screen image and successfully lengthened his career. Typecasting in musicals could have meant that his career would die with the waning of that genre in the '50s. Donna Drake and John Payne in "Kansas City Confidential" (1952) directed by Phil Karlson During the '50s he made such films as Tripoli, Passage West, 99 River Street, Silver Lode, Slightly Scarlet and Kansas City Confidential. With Pine-Thomas Productions he shrewdly insisted that the films he appeared in be made in color and that the rights to the films revert to him after a few years. This helped make him wealthy when they rented his films to television. He also starred in his own primetime NBC-TV series, The Restless Gun (1957-1959). Although he was not generally thought of as a cowboy, he was very convincing as loner Vint Bonner, a reluctant gunfighter roaming the west in the days after the Civil War. Investing a bit of his own personality into the role, his character was described as "a quiet, idealistic individual who preferred not to fight if there was an acceptable alternative. Unfortunately, there often was no alternative." On September 27, 1953, Payne married Mrs. Alexandra Crowell Curtis at the bride's home in Bel-Air. Dr. Frank Dyer, Santa Monica Congregational minister, officiated. Matron of honor was the bride's aunt, Mrs. Donald Roarty, and the best man was Charles Spangler, a friend of Payne. The new Mrs. Payne was formerly married to actor Alan Curtis. His ever-evolving business ventures were considerably slowed down on March 1, 1961, when Payne was hit by a car as he was crossing Madison Avenue, a block from the hotel where he was staying. He was hurled onto the hood, his head smashing the windshield and his body denting the hood. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was on the operating table for hours as surgeons set fractures in his left leg and carefully sewed up numerous scalp and face wounds so as not to mar his handsome appearance. He begged doctors not to tell his wife, who was at their home in Santa Monica, but the hospital informed her and she got on a plane to come to him. In 1964, Sheilah Graham reported in the Hollywood Citizen News: "He never thought it could happen. That he would be all in one piece. And able to act again." He told her, "For two and a half years I was full of nuts and bolts. I have been full of hardware since I collided with that car in New York City. Everything had to be pinned together. The doctor has taken out all the nuts and bolts and pins and I'm not clanking anymore. If you only knew how good it felt." He bravely pushed ahead, despite the pain. "That wasn't as much fun," Alice Faye said in the 1980s, "especially for John who sometime before had been badly injured when hit by a car in New York. His leg hurt a great deal, making it very difficult for him to sing and dance and just move around onstage. John was a very well-read person and a fine businessman, the least actorish of all the men I worked with." John Payne's real passions were poetry, fiction, Greek philosophy, and Jungian psychology. He was, indeed, well read and wrote a number of short stories which were published in magazines. His daughter said he had a genius-level I.Q. He had one of the best physiques in Hollywood and worked out daily. He lived at the beach and often went swimming, summer and winter. John Payne died on December 6, 1989, at his home in Malibu, of heart failure. With him when he died were his wife, Sandy, and his three children. "Miracle on 34th Street" was playing on television in the Payne home as he lay dying. Watching the film today, his daughter, Clancy, sees the father she knew as a little girl. For her, his whole demeanor —the gentle movements, the calm, kind voice, and his funny double take with his left eyebrow raised— brings back a flood of childhood memories. The film has become as special to her as it was to him. Any time she feels she needs him, she simply watches Miracle on 34th Street, especially at Christmas. Source: www.classicimages.com

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Wondering how to get rid of neck fat? You've come to the right place! Here are the best tips and tricks to lose neck fat & double chin fast.

Equip your child for success with these awesome educational resources! You'll have everything you need to help your preschooler explore the alphabet and beyond. Take advantage of these free printables.

Do you want to start a business, but not sure what to start? You're in the right place! Here are 10 low cost business ideas with high profit!

Use this free All About Me printable book to practice early literacy skills during preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten all about me theme.

These Panko Crusted Chicken Breasts are perfectly crunchy on the outside and juicy and tender on the inside.

Everyone loves this rich and creamy Homemade Alfredo Sauce Recipe. Made with five simple ingredients and ready in less than fifteen minutes, it’s easy to make and perfect with your favorite pasta or vegetables.

The perfect 7 day Big Island itinerary! This day-by-day guide for how to spend one week in Hawaii with the best things to see and do.

A step-by-step guide for making the best bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers.