When They Were Young

[Moondance]

John Gielgud (1904-2000), shown below in 1930 (age 26) as Hamlet in a production staged at the Old Vic by Harcourt Williams using the complete text of the play. This was a radical innovation (extensive cuts had been customary for earlier productions), but a running time of nearly five hours did not dampen the enthusiasm of either the public or the critics. Gielgud's performance was richly praised, theatre critic James Agate writing, "I have no hesitation whatsoever in saying that it is the high water-mark of English Shakespearean acting of our time."

 

 

Years Later: On the evening of 20 October 1953, Gielgud, usually highly discreet, was arrested in Chelsea for cruising in a public lavatory. Until the 1960s, sexual activity of any kind between men was illegal in Britain. The Home Secretary of the day, David Maxwell Fyfe, was fervently homophobic, urging the police to arrest anyone who contravened the Victorian laws against homosexuality. Gielgud was fined, and when the press reported the story, he worried the disgrace would end his career.

 

The news broke when he was in Liverpool on the pre-London tour of a new play, A Day by the Sea. According to his biographer, Gielgud was so paralyzed by nerves that going onstage seemed impossible. His fellow players encouraged him, and it was the formidable Dame Sybil Thorndike who grabbed him, whispered, "Come on, John darling, they won't boo me", and led him firmly on to the stage.

 

The audience gave Gielgud a standing ovation. They cheered, they applauded, they shouted. The message was quite clear. The English public had always been loyal to its favorites, and this was their chance to show that they didn't care tuppence what he had done in his private life; they loved him and they respected him. It was a moment never forgotten by those who witnessed it.

[P Gren]

Allan "Rocky" Lane (1909-1973) made his film debut in 1929, and became the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s (notably as Red Ryder, in a series of films based on a Western comic strip). Lane appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows in a career lasting from 1929 to 1966. His last

acting roles were voice-overs, including the memorable voice of Mister Ed on the television show that ran from 1961-1966.

 

 

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And later on ...

 

Mr. Ed that's hilarious

[Moondance]

Féral Benga (1906-1957) was a Senegalese cabaret dancer, who, like his female counterpart, Josephine Baker, created a sensation on the Paris stage with his “carnal choreography" often set in steamy and distant places. Immediately below, at age 28 (1934), in a photograph by George Platt Lynes.

 

 

 

 

Sculptor Richmond Barthe's 1935 bronze of Benga is in the collection of the Newark Museum.

 

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[bigvalboy]

Steve Reeves (1926 – 2000), a professional bodybuilder, 1950 Mr. Universe and an actor, traveled to Italy in the mid-1950s to star in a series of Italian-made films featuring characters such as Hercules, Goliath and Sandokan. By 1960, he was the number-one box-office draw in twenty-five countries around the world. He later turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No (1962) because of a low salary offer, and also refused the Clint Eastwood role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) because he could not believe that "Italians could make a western."

 

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Thank you....

[Moondance]

Jacques Sernas (sometimes billed as Jack Sernas),1925-2015, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career. The son of Jokūbas Šernas (a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was one year old), his mother took him to Paris, where he received his formal education. During WWII, he joined the French Resistance, was captured and interned at Buchenwald. After the war, Sernas considered a career in medicine, then journalism, before making his film debut in Miroir (1946). Below left, in the surf, he is age 23 (1948) in a photograph by Raymond Voinquel.

 

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[Moondance]

Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an American singer, actor and Civil Rights activist who became politically involved in response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism and social injustices. His advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with communism, and criticism of the United States government led to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.

 

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At age 28 (1926), below, Robeson posed for photographer Nikolas Muray ...

 

 

 

 

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. PR

[Moondance]

Robert Wagner, born in 1930, now 87 years old, shown here at age 23 (1953) in a publicity shot for Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. It was his first starring role. The reviews were poor, but the movie was only the third ever to be shot in CinemaScope and it was a big box office hit.

 

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[Moondance]

Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer widely considered one of the great composers of popular music of the twentieth century. He was the artist who internationalized bossa nova. This image is probably from about 1950.

 

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And here, with Sinatra, in the 1960s. Their 1967 album, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim was nominated for Album of the Year in 1968.

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[TruHart1]

Army lieutenant Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Doud on their wedding day, July 1, 1916. Ike was 25, Mamie was 19:

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TruHart1

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Antoni Gaudi

 

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was an architect from Reus, Catalonia, Spain. He is the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.

 

 

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[TruthBTold]

Antoni Gaudi

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was an architect from Reus, Catalonia, Spain. He is the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família. . . . .

 

What a wonderful piece of architecture. Like faith on acid.

[Moondance]

George Hukin was a razor maker from Sheffield, England.

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... In 1886, he met Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), an English socialist, poet, philosopher and an early activist for the rights of homosexuals.

 

Their friendship became tender and loving, and they would occasionally sleep together. But Hukin also had a girlfriend, Fannie, who he eventually married. Carpenter was heartbroken, but the two remained dear friends until Hukin died in 1917 from an asthma attack while visiting Carpenter.

 

Carpenter read at Hukin’s funeral, and was greatly upset by the experience. He was by then living with his other George -- his long time partner, George Merrill. Carpenter (on the left) is shown with Merrill below.

 

 

Carpenter's friend E.M. Forster used the story of Carpenter’s friendship and love for both men as the inspiration for his novel Maurice.

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actor Ryan Reynolds at age 19 (1996).....

 

[Moondance]

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

... a very incomplete line-up

 

Kevin Spacey (born 1959), American actor, director, producer and sexual predator.

Harvey Weinstein (born 1952), American film producer, business executive and sexual predator. Shown here in the 1980s.

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Roger Ailes (1940-2017), American television executive, media consultant and sexual predator. Shown here in 1968.

 

Charlie Rose (born 1942), American journalist, TV host and sexual predator. Shown here in the 1960s.

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Bill Cosby (born 1937), American comedian, actor, author and sexual predator.

 

Bill O'Reilly (born 1949), American journalist, author, TV host and sexual predator. Shown here in 1971.

 

Matt Lauer (born 1957) American television journalist and sexual predator. Shown here at age 39 in January 1997, his first day as co-anchor of Today.

 

 

John Conyers, Jr. (born 1929), American politician, civil rights activist and sexual predator. Shown here in 1967, speaking to a crowd in Detroit.

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James Levine (born 1943), American conductor, pianist and sexual predator. Shown here in the 1960s.

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[TruthBTold]

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Kevin Spacey (born 1959), American actor, director, producer and sexual predator.

. . . .

 

I would have dated him at this age. And then he would never have wandered.

[Moondance]

Johnny Hallyday, "the Elvis of France," died today (December 6, 2017) at age 74. Born Jean-Philippe Smet in 1943, he became famous while still a teenager for singing rock-n-roll in French. His debut single and first album were both released in 1960. During his life, he sold more than 110 records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling recording artists of all time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10wheMhyUU

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Kenny Rogers long before he had all the "work" done....

 

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Jack Nicholson

 

[P Gren]

actor Ryan Reynolds at age 19 (1996).....

 

That is a very cute puppy. But I bet he didn't make it to 21 years old now

[+ azdr0710]

That is a very cute puppy. But I bet he didn't make it to 21 years old now

 

no, Ryan is now 41.....he made it well past 21!.....

[TruHart1]

Sorry for the following OT post:

In 30 years, this pic may be posted here in this topic!

Not bad at all for a 41 year old DILF(!) LOL:rolleyes:

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TruHart1

[gallahadesquire]

I think he's cuter ... and hotter ... now.

 

 

actor Ryan Reynolds at age 19 (1996).....

 

[TruHart1]

I think he's cuter ... and hotter ... now.

 

My point exactly!!!

 

TruHart1

[Moondance]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., 1947) was 6-foot-8 by eighth grade and could already slam dunk a basketball in a hoop at regulation height. By the time he entered the NBA at 22, he had reached his full adult height of 7-foot-2, but he began his record-breaking basketball accomplishments well before that. In high school, he led his team to three straight New York City Catholic championships, a 71-game winning streak, and a 79–2 overall record. His 2,067 total points were a New York City high school record. He is shown here, in a photograph by Richard Avedon, in 1963:

 

[Moondance]

Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (1885 – 1966) played a major role in the history of WWII as Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet. In the more than 50 years since his death, no other officer has held the rank of Fleet Admiral, a current, still authorized five-star flag officer rank in the United States Navy. Here, ca. 1905, is Nimitz as a midshipman: