When They Were Young

[Moondance]

Actors Charles “Buddy” Rogers (1904-1999) and Richard Arlen (1899-1976) were 23 and 28 when they starred in Wings in 1927. The first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was also one of the first to show two men kissing -- both when aviators are presented medals by a French general and are ceremonially pecked on their necks, and, more significantly, in a lingering deathbed kiss between friends Rogers and Arlen.

 

 

 

[TruthBTold]

Actors Charles “Buddy” Rogers (1904-1999) and Richard Arlen (1899-1976) were 23 and 28 when they starred in Wings in 1927. The first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was also one of the first to show two men kissing -- both when aviators are presented medals by a French general and are ceremonially pecked on their necks, and, more significantly, in a lingering deathbed kiss between friends Rogers and Arlen. . . . .

 

The clean shaven guy is really cute.

[Moondance]

The clean shaven guy is really cute.

That's Buddy Rogers, known once upon a time as America's Boyfriend.

[TruthBTold]

That's Buddy Rogers, known once upon a time as America's Boyfriend.

 

Well, I wish he were mine.

[marylander1940]

Emmanuel Macron young

 

 

[+ Charlie]

That's Buddy Rogers, known once upon a time as America's Boyfriend.

Buddy Rogers was married to Mary Pickford. The Mary Pickford Theater in downtown Cathedral City, CA, is on Buddy Rogers Avenue. I drive past it often.

[Larstrup]

@jjkrkwood at age 3.

 

[TruthBTold]

Buddy Rogers was married to Mary Pickford. The Mary Pickford Theater in downtown Cathedral City, CA, is on Buddy Rogers Avenue. I drive past it often.

 

Damn her!

[Moondance]

Actor Richard Burton (1925-1984)

 

As an RAF cadet at age 18 (1943)

 

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/richard-burton-c-late-1940s-everett.jpg In the late 1940s.

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/158fdc226b00c77954e02a07c1d8c74f/tumblr_oygf0mU2pY1qazanuo1_540.jpg At age 31 (1956).

[Moondance]

Tony Sansone (1905–1987) was an Italian-American bodybuilder, born in New York City, the son of Sicilian immigrants. At age 16, he saw pictures of physique star Tommy Farber in Physical Culture magazine and became interested in physical development. He trained under the tutelage of bodybuilding publisher Bernarr Macfadden and bodybuilder Charles Atlas and, at age 18, in 1923, won a physique contest sponsored by Atlas. Sansone never pursued competitive bodybuilding as a career, and never earned any titles. His enduring fame in bodybuilding history is the result of his success as a model. He began modeling when he was still a teenager and during the Depression sold pictures of himself through mail-order ads. Here he is at age 30 (1935):

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orPg5Tw3L58/UkmB-cuiAoI/AAAAAAABNMo/smRhyZ6rphY/s1600/AA+32+Tony+Sansone.jpg

[+ azdr0710]

don't know if these were already posted.....

 

Warren Beatty

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/14/article-2458368-005B509D00000258-163_634x617.jpg

 

 

 

 

George Peppard

 

[+ azdr0710]

Totie Fields

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/1399cf4dd40b2fd04bcdea10d2e1b277/tumblr_ov39p0VcAG1rojphdo1_500.png

[+ azdr0710]

Matt Dillon

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/53710533c2b4bcbe4db3574eb5359611/tumblr_otd4cho9wf1rojphdo1_500.jpg

[TruthBTold]

Matt Dillon

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/53710533c2b4bcbe4db3574eb5359611/tumblr_otd4cho9wf1rojphdo1_500.jpg

 

The guy has got some great lips.

[+ Charlie]

Years ago, I encountered Matt Dillon on a street corner in Manhattan, while waiting for the light to change. He glowered at me when he realized I was staring at him, and quickly walked away.

[+ azdr0710]

Sterling Hayden

 

[P Gren]

Brendan Fraser (and Ian MacClelland) from Gods and Monsters

[LADoug1]

Totie Fields

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/1399cf4dd40b2fd04bcdea10d2e1b277/tumblr_ov39p0VcAG1rojphdo1_500.png

A blast from the past. Will never forget her hilarious monologue about trying on pantyhose.

[TruHart1]

Brendan Fraser (and Ian MacClelland) from Gods and Monsters

 

Here's a very nice retrospective of Mr. Fraser's best acting (in my opinion) in his best physical shape

With Ian McKellan & Lynn Redgrave:

 

TruHart1

Edited January 15, 2020 by TruHart1

[julius]

Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), British politician and socialite

[LADoug1]

Years ago, I encountered Matt Dillon on a street corner in Manhattan, while waiting for the light to change. He glowered at me when he realized I was staring at him, and quickly walked away.

 

Had a similar experience with Jake Gyllenhaal. But I can understand why celebs don’t always want to be under constant surveillance.

[+ poolboy48220]

There was an interesting bit on Fresh Air, interviewing Patton Oswalt, about dealing with fans after the sudden death of his wife. You never know what's going on with someone when you approach them.

[Moondance]

Roald Dahl (1916-1990), shown here at age 17 (1934), 27 years before James and the Giant Peach (1961), 30 years before Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964):

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/28/17/30AC768800000578-3420922-image-m-154_1454001302107.jpg

 

Born in Wales to Norwegian immigrants, Dahl was a fighter pilot, intelligence officer and diplomat before becoming one of the world's best known authors of children's literature. Here in his RAF uniform, circa 1940:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T0dugWhJx7k/Um0bu2toXKI/AAAAAAAAKf4/R553o-gA_1o/s1600/Roald+Dahl.jpg

[N13]

Dahl was also married to Patricia Neal.

[Moondance]

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, he was the first human to fly in outer space (April 12, 1961, when his spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth in 108 minutes).

 

Short (only 5-foot-2), Gagarin earned a reputation as an adept public personality. An instant celebrity after his space flight, he was described as having a smile "that lit up the Cold War."

 

He died at 34 in the crash of a routine training flight. His ashes are interred in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.