For some reason, I didn't remember that being his character name. I thought it was something like Admiral Herr-rer-fer-rer.

I didn't remember Valerie Perrine's character's first name...just Miss Teschmacher!!

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Moff Jerjerrod, definitely one of the best names in Star Wars. Pennington only began signing for Topps 6-7 years ago, so he was kind of a hold out on cards for whatever reason. Hopefully, he got a nice little windfall for signing in his final years.

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Valerie Perrine was on several SUPERMAN cards. Here is one


https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard....ious-and-Delightful!

Here's Valerie's character card from 1978 Topps Superman.

Here are some Anthony Head (Buffy) cards. He passed at 72, sadly.


https://www.tcdb.com/GalleryP..../184190/Anthony-Head

Ann Blyth at the age of 98

She was born Anne Blythe and simply dropped the E's at the end to create her stage name.

Her breakthrough role was as Joan Crawford's rotten daughter Veda in 1945's "Mildred Pierce" for which she was Oscar nominated. Among her many other credits over a long career was a Twilight Zone episode that was the occasion for this autograph card.



Very, very few left from the Golden Age of Hollywood now. Hopefully, some flowers have been placed on her Walk of Fame star.

Rest in peace, Ann Blyth.

Here at last is the card image of Ann Blyth I promised in the non image obituary blog. I had forgotten that I had cards from two issuers and to my surprise I have the Ann Blyth card from both.

The two issuers are "Junior Pastimes" and "Muir-Watson" both of Glasgow and the cards were issued sometime after 1947 but before 1955. The card themselves were issued stapled together bunches of 6 with a paper wrapping. Since then the staples have started to go rusty which marks both the wrapping and card. In addition each card has two very small pin type holes caused by the staples. These were a commercial distribution although it is possible that the Muir-Watson cards may have been given out free as they were a book publisher which may be the reason why their cards are more difficult to find. I have a Junior Pastimes wrapper but not a Muir-Watson one. Interestingly the wrapper refers to the cards as "Film Stars" v yet the back of the card shows ""Star Pix".

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regards

John

Those are very nice. Who else is in the sets, or at least on the other cards you have from the set?

Here is the entire checklist of 80 cards.

01 Maureen O'Hara
02 Ida Lupino
03 John Mills
04 Dorothy Malone
05 Virginia Mayo
06 Evelyn Keyes
07 Lucille Ball
08 Greta Gynt
09 Carole Landis
10 Dana Andrews
11 George Brent
12 Barbara Bel Geddes
13 Virginia Huston
14 Jane Russell
15 Dorothy Hart
16 Randolph Scott
17 Lauren Bacall
18 Rosamund John
19 Teresa Wright
20 Wayne Morris
21 Stewart Granger
22 James Mason
23 Eddie Bracken
24 Janet Blair
25 Marguerite Chapman
26 Gloria Grahame
27 Gloria Henry
28 Margaret Lockwood
29 Rita Hayworth
30 Henry Fonda
31 Alexander Knox
32 Dorothy Patrick
33 Phyllis Calvert
34 Maxwell Reed
35 Betty Newling
36 Julie London
37 Hoagy Carmichael
38 Barbara Hale
39 Myrna Loy
40 George Raft
41 Viveca Lindfors
42 Elois Jenssen
43 Ann Blyth
44 Ingrid Bergman
45 Janis Page
46 Jean Simmons
47 Geraldine Brooks
48 Adele Jurgens
49 Maria Montez
50 Arline Dahl
51 Susan Hayward
52 Walt Disney
53 Valerie Hobson
54 Joan Crawford
55 George Formby
56 Loretta Young
57 Hedy Lamarr
58 Leslie Brooks
59 Jane Greer
60 Ann Dvorak
61 Laraine Day
62 Joan Bennett
63 Jean Gillie's
64 William Graham
65 Groucho Marx
66 Jorja Curtright
67 Priscilla Lane
68 Allene Roberts
69 Jean Pierre Aumont
70 Robert Alda
71 Danny Kaye
72 James Stewart
73 Ronald Reagan
74 Cary Grant
75 Joanne Dru
76 Marjorie Reynolds
77 Cathy O'Donnell
78 Jacqueline White
79 Joan Caulfield
80 Patricia Roc

I am 1 missing from the 80 with the Junior Pastimes back and of the Muir-Watson back I only have 9 cards

Below is an image of a wrapper with cards stapled in, followed by a wrapper unfolded without cards but with rust marks from the staple.

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Cards from the above list are on sale on eBay but at silly prices due to profiteering, such prices do not indicate rarity. I bought 23 cards recently for about £12.75 plus postage. There are two different coloured boards used for the cards white or cream, my purchase was a mixture of the two enabling me to add several to white board cards collection. Note that these cards were probably being issued in the UK when cardboard was still being rationed following the 1939-45 war. One of the card dealers catalogues gives a release date of 1960 which is totally wrong when you read the backs of the cards as most of the films mentioned date from 1946-1949. Cardboard rationing was over by 1954 and Muir-Watson publications ceased around 1955-56.

regards

John

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Very, very few left from the Golden Age of Hollywood now.

More in the later part of the Golden Age, but Eva Marie Saint will turn 102 on the 4th of July. Probably best known for the movies "On the Waterfront" and "North By Northwest" with Brando and Cary Grant in the 50's. She could be the current record holder, and I hope she has it for quite a while longer.

Mel Brooks just turned 100. His early work was more on TV writing for Sid Caesar in the 50's before screen stardom in the 70's.

Terrific checklist and I recognize a lot of those names, probably even more than I should being born in the 70's.

Congrats on having a nearly complete set! For myself, I'd mostly be interested in the Groucho Marx, and Viveca Lindfors (for my "Creepshow" collection), but there's a lot of great names in there, for sure.

Antoinette Bower at the age of 93

She had a nearly 40 year acting career before retiring about 35 years ago. She appeared on lots of 60's and 70s TV series including fan favorites Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, and a late Twilight Zone episode that was the occasion for this autograph card. (She signed for Trek and Bionic Man, too, I think.)



I remember being slightly dismayed that the "r" was seemingly cut off on many of her TZ cards, including mine, until I saw some later cards she signed that had more room on them. Even on those, she still seemed to sign it the last two letters sort of joined together, as above. Maybe she was just used to running out of room for the whole thing.

Rest in peace, Antoinette Bower.

It was announced on the late news tonight that actor, Sam Neill, has passed away at the age of 78. He starred in at least two Jurassic Park movies but I remember him from one of my favorite movies, "The Hunt for Red October."

Sad news. He was in the original Jurassic Park in 1993, the third one in 2001, and the sixth one (Jurassic World Dominion) in 2022.

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It was announced on the late news tonight that actor, Sam Neill, has passed away at the age of 78. He starred in at least two Jurassic Park movies but I remember him from one of my favorite movies, "The Hunt for Red October."

Sam Neill was the sort of actor that you didn't always notice, and I mean that in the best way. His list of work is extensive, and he was usually but not always, the star. He did the Jurassic films, but also many smaller, less known ones. He made international films and not always safe films.

He was a real actor who managed to be a real person too. After all his recent health trouble, I thought he was doing well, so this was a sad surprise. RIP Mr. Neill.

And if you want to check out two strange and very underrated Sam Neill roles that show his range, try "Event Horizon" and "In the Mouth of Madness". They are not anywhere near Jurassic.

I also remember him from the semi-controversial drama SIRENS from 1994, with Hugh Grant, in which the latter was a Protestant minister who traveled to New Zealand to try to convince Neill to not paint certain subjects

Sam Neill popped up in so many things. He was a good Cardinal Wolsey in The Tudors series, a decent Merlin in a mini series where Helena Bonham Carter played Morgan le Fay, a decent dodgy cop in Peaky Blinders. It's actually quite staggering the amount of TV shows and movies he was involved with.
On the lunchtime news here they showed his screen test for James Bond and while he may not have quite been a 'right' Bond, I'm sure he'd have given it his all. I always loved seeing him in everything and anything. He'll be sadly missed.

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but I remember him from one of my favorite movies, "The Hunt for Red October."

In which he said "I would like to have seen Montana."

Which he did, in "Jurassic Park."

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
I remember him from one of my favorite movies, "The Hunt for Red October."

Just wondering, since you liked "Red October" so much, did you ever see a 1957 movie called "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. Different war, but it's a US Destroyer vs a German U Boat and I think they borrowed from it for Red October. It's still a good movie because the time frame is set to WWII and I rewatch it every so often. The other great submarine saga is "Das Boot", movie or series.

Oh yeah, "The Enemy Below" was a great movie. I thought the movie could've just followed the book but was still great. There was an episode of the original Star Trek, "Balance of Terror," that was more like "The Enemy Below." That's my favorite episode.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
I remember him from one of my favorite movies, "The Hunt for Red October."

Just wondering, since you liked "Red October" so much, did you ever see a 1957 movie called "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. Different war, but it's a US Destroyer vs a German U Boat and I think they borrowed from it for Red October. It's still a good movie because the time frame is set to WWII and I rewatch it every so often. The other great submarine saga is "Das Boot", movie or series.

Yeah, it's funny how that worked out for Neill across two films not far apart timewise.

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but I remember him from one of my favorite movies, "The Hunt for Red October."

In which he said "I would like to have seen Montana."

Which he did, in "Jurassic Park."

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He also goes to Montana in "The Horse Whisperer".