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Burt was short for Burton

Just Wiki'd him, I do know that face. Wasnt he in a film about a circus?

and the Crimson Pirate


and he's the one who had the very sexy beach scene in From Here To Eternity





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I'm off to bed



night night everyone
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Ouch....ouch....ouch.....ouch.....ouch......ouch....ouch....ouch


Banging head on wall in reaction to Gin.....!!


You cannot be serious Gins...you MUST have heard of Burt Lancaster - you ain't that young!



You'll be telling us next that you have never heard of Charlton Heston, John Wayne, Victor Mature, Kirk Douglas etc.etc......their films are still being shown - regularly!


Yeah.....pull the other one! Huh.....


Anyway, morning folks. :-D

Thank you for breakfast Sylvs. Had cereal for a change.


A beautiful if somewhat chilly morning......all tided up, washing on the line and more in the washer!


Taking my friend out this afternoon.......


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I wonder what film he was coming to shoot here, he's listed as staying in the UK for four months?


UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960

Name: Burton S Lancaster
Birth Date: 2 Nov 1913
Age: 44
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 2 Jul 1958
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Le Havre
Ship Name: United States
Search Ship Database: View the 'United States' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: United States Line
Official Number: 9511/10

but to answer David, who got lost in that little discussion ........................




I did not know his mother was from Ireland!

Of course I have heard of all of them except the Victor geezer?

Charlton Heston........he's the one with the guns :-|

could have been this one


The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title.

The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton who replaced Alexander Mackendrick[2] and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.

It's verty late for you to be up Sylvs :-0

Thank you for breakfast <3

Dea x

Not his Mother,his Grand Mother was an immigrant to New York from Belfast

His name was Burton Stephen,
but Burt sounds better(?)

Cyn,

I can't remember whether or not I gave Gladys a raise but I doubt it as I used Ebenezer Scrooge as my business roll model. ;-)

Gladys was a lovely individual. My business partner and I inherited her as part of the fixtures and fittings when we bought our first shop in 1985. She had worked for the previous owners since they started the business some 12 years earlier. By the time we first encountered her she was a middle aged widow. Whilst not blessed with good looks she was honest, reliable and genuine, attributes ideal in a shop assistant. She lived close to the shop and each lunchtime she would go home to eat and to attend to the needs of her companion, a little Yorkshire Terrier. When she returned she would bring with her a "Treat" for my business partner and myself, either a KitKat, a cake or a slice of homemade Bread Pudding.

During the first few months of our owning the business my business partner and myself were always tinkering with the layout of the shop and constantly moving items of stock into different locations within the shop in the hope that it would sell better in its new spot. If such a movement had been made whilst Gladys had been having her lunch our first task (After first consuming our "Treat") was to re-educate Gladys. Had we not done so then when asked by a customer for the item Gladys would have taken the customer to the spot where it had been for the past 12 years and not finding it there would tell the customer, "They've stopped selling it".

If Gladys had a fault it was that she was a bit clumsy. Amongst the many different things we sold were fancy goods such as china figurines, flower vases and tea sets ect. These were often displayed on shelves in the window display area to attract the eye of passers by. Over the years Gladys cost us many hundreds of pounds by reaching into the display to retrieve a trinket worth say £5 and whilst doing so she would knock over and break other things worth much more. On one occasion I recall she managed to destroy well over £100 of stock in one go. Eventually we had to ban her from either putting anything in to or removing anything from the window display, insisting that she get another staff member to reach into the window display for her.

I never got to say goodbye to Gladys. She, like me, didn't like going to visit her doctor. She had obviously been unwell for some time but had done nothing about it. I went on holiday in the USA for 3 weeks and whilst I was away Gladys was diagnosed with cancer of the liver, hospitalised and died. RIP Gladys.

Sounds as though you had a gem in Gladys Jonesey......... <3

As far as gems go, my favourite is always the 'rough diamond' and I've known and loved a few of them in my time :-D






Charlton Heston with guns? He certainly didn't have guns in The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur or The Agony and the Ecstasy. ;-)

Actually, when you look at the list of his films, it makes one realise how many great films he was in. He turned his hand to all sorts of genre.

El Cid was another with Sophia Loren.No strong acting though.

Now most of Burt Lancaster was a strong character well acted.
I recomend The Train opposite Paul Scholdfied.
I recomend Run Silent Run Deep opposite Clarke Gable
I recomend Vera Cruz opposite Clarke Gable
And From Here to Eternity opposie Frank Sinatra and Montgomery Clift

Where are you all hiding? Poor Fred was on page 2 :-(

I loved Burt Lancaster and I is only a youngster ;-)

Gins hope you are both feeling better <3

Still feeling pants Linds.....

Charlton Heston was a gun campaigner in 'real' life Cyns......sigh

So he was - I'd forgotten about that. Silly me....... ;-)



Just back home from a Lent evening service and straight into my jamas.....bliss. :-D

hi all
xxx



heavy rain today ............ 20 mm

and even heavier overnight ................ 40 mm forecast

:-( :-( :-(


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I can remember having a crush on Burt Lancaster after seeing him in The Crimson Pirate :-D


Not the best of his movies .................. and a comedy



I remember there was a scene where the pirate ship was sunk, and all hands lost ............... until the next scene were you saw an upturned boat walking out of the sea on the sand of a tropical island


yep, Burt Lancaster's character + others had ended u[p underneath the overturned boat, and had walked along the sea bed to the island, breathing in the air from an air bubble



Quite illogical when you think about it!


but he was quite the hunk :-D :-D :-D


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044517/

or wikipedia .........


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Pirate