Actors Creating Magic Together ... Then Leaving It All Behind

[Steve Crook]

name='cornershop15']Thanks for both your posts, Tim. A Matter of Life and Death is the perfect example. I particularly liked Roger Livesey's contribution when the three were together. The scenes with David Niven and Marius Goring were also wonderful. I've mentioned this before somewhere (probably here!) but David and Kim were reunited in a TV version of The Petrified Forest (1952). Pretty unlikely we'll be seeing that, whether it exists or not, so we shall have to be content with their first collaboration, from which this is the last image:

David & Kim were also reunited in a radio version of A Matter of Life and Death for American radio (under the title used for the American release of the film, Stairway to Heaven).



This was one of 4 re-creations of the film as a radio play and it was also done as a live TV play on US TV!



It was twice performed on the "Lux Radio Theatre". Once with Ray Milland & Ann Blyth and once with David Niven & Barbara Rush



It was performed as part of the "Screen Director's Playhouse" on NBC radio with Robert Cummings and Julia Adams



It was performed on the "The Hedda Hopper Show - This Is Hollywood". I don't know much about that one and have only recently found out about it. It was broadcast on 17 May 1947 but this is the one where David Niven & Kim Hunter apparently revived their roles from the film.



The live TV version was for the "Robert Montgomery Presents" series for Lucky Strike Theatre. It starred Richard ("Robin Hood") Green, Jean Gillespie and Bramwell Fletcher. I have the full script from this and some of the episodes of " Robert Montgomery Presents"were recorded on telecine but there's n o sign of this one - so far.



I have recordings of the first 3 of the radio shows above, but not the Hedda Hopper version



See the details on PaPAS site



Steve

[cornershop15]

Julie Christie and George C. Scott in 'Petulia' (1968) [filmed in Late 1967]

The only time they worked together, alas It was a joy to see this again last night, many years after my last viewing:



Petulia is waiting for a bus but is unable to take the tuba with her so leaves it with Archie. Location: Montgomery Street, San Francisco.

One of three George C. Scott films I've added to my DVD collection recently - the others being Anatomy of a Murder and the ill-fated 1970 adaptation of Jane Eyre (played by Susannah York). Bearing in mind the terrible state of that film, perhaps I should ignore the negative reviews of the Far from the Madding Crowd DVD(s) and be satisfied with what's available .... but I think I'll wait a bit longer for a better copy. The Hospital and The Last Run, two more of George's films are Region 1 only and difficult to get at a good price. Not seen either since the 1980s.

[Nimuae]

"Howard's Way" Stephen Yardley and Jan Harvey ended up married in real life, as did Tracey Childs and Tony Anholt.

[cornershop15]

I saw Tony Anholt in an episode of The Protectors last night called The Last Frontier. A tragic part for Hildegard Neil.

Suzanne Cloutier and Peter Graves in 'Derby Day' (1952)

Suzanne plays a maid, who, thanks to her lady employer breaking a leg, takes her place at the Epsom Derby. The prize,
won in a charity raffle, is to have film star Gerald Berkeley (Peter Graves) as her escort for the day. Although they seem
destined to be together, Peter is left disappointed at the end when his new love tells him she has a boyfriend in France:



Again, the only time these two stars appeared together on screen, unfortunately. By contrast, the other two couples in
this Ensemble film were in many more. Googie Withers and John McCallum, married in real-life, made ten and Anna Neagle
and Michael Wilding seven (this was the last of them). Suzanne Cloutier later became Peter Ustinov's wife (1954 -1971).

[ruthd7274]

Sorry if this is a dead thread, but I've just come across this on an IMDb message board for David Burke's page (discussing why he left the Holmes' series) and thought it was quite relevant to this very old discussion. Apologies if it's already here somewhere - I haven't seen it! Equally, I've not actually verified this quote myself (lazy me!).


by gerwynfan � Sun Jul 15 2007 22:45:08 Flag ▼ | Reply |
IMDb member since January 2003
Sinister2: thanks for the info! Makes sense. My gossipy side always wonders about recasts and other such things.

After I posted my "I want to know too" question, I saw this quote on Jeremy Brett's page and it only deepened the mystery.

<<(about David Burke) "The last time we finished filming together, I went down to the same train and waved goodbye to him. That was absolutely devastating. I don't know how I got back to the hotel. I thought 'What are we going to do now?'

I was so proud of him for going back to his son. There would be more happy marriages if fathers went back to their children. His son was only two at the time.">>

[shinning_like_me]

For me the pair of ACtors that create Magic on Screen are ,
ranbir Kapoor & Deepika Padukone, Amitabh and Rekha, Dilip Kumar & Madhubala
They all are so Mesmerising on screen that they make you forget that you are watching a film And make you involve in their performances.
Dilip kumar and Madhubala have given some Best Hindi Videos

[cornershop15]

I'll be posting at the aforementioned David Burke's thread in a moment (an early appearance in Rattle of a Simple Man).

Edward Woodward and Patricia Maynard, as his mistress, in the Armchair Cinema production When Day Is Done (1975):



Again, their only appearance on screen together. I especially love this moment - where she's ordering a gin and tonic!

Five days before this was broadcast, The Sweeney made its debut on British screens. Patricia guest starred as a teacher in an early episode. In real-life, she was the partner of Dennis Waterman and gave birth to their actress daughter Hannah later that year.

I hadn't seen much of Patricia Maynard's work until last year. Her appealing performance in When Day Is Done was soon followed, on the DVD player, by cult Children's series Escape Into Night, in which she was again cast as a teacher. Depressingly, I fear most of her episodes of General Hospital (the next series she made and another ATV show), are lost.

Edward Woodward has been one of my favourite actors since childhood. Years after Callan, he starred in a play - and then mini-series - called The Bass Player and the Blonde, which I'm looking forward to watching again after more than 35 years. The main thing I remember is Jane Wymark, the Blonde, asking "What did you do in the war, daddy?" - the first time I heard that oft-repeated question (originating from a World War I poster, I believe). It's also the final line in one of my favourite films, Oh! What a Lovely War.

Hopefully, Network will re-release what's left of The Edward Woodward Hour, his variety show from the 1970s. Amazon, the only other place I buy from, currently have it at an overpriced �13.90.

[cornershop15]

Edward Woodward Hour update: Ten months later, it's still �13.90 at Amazon!


A fantastic publicity still of Michael Bryant & Carroll Baker for BBC2's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Rain (1970):



As I suspected, the only time they worked together. Looking forward to seeing Carroll's episode of Thriller again soon. I know the sadly-
late Michael best for his brilliant performance opposite Julia Foster in ITV play Mr. Axelford's Angel and a cameo in The Deadly Affair.