What this means is I have a name which I think is Carol’s response and I am making sure. All my friend who was asking her emailed is the name. I just want to make sure it was her answer and not a guess of his.
The pic is not a hoax.
Too tall and lanky. I remember Red Buttons and he was only 5’6 or 5’7.
Here’s some fun footage of different Photoplay Award announcements:
Paul Michael Glaser winning the Gold Medal award for Favorite Male TV Star in 1977.
Marilyn Monroe, Gold Medal award for “Most Popular Actress of the Year” in 1954.
Newsreel footage of Sandra Dee winning “Outstanding New Actress of the Year” (presented by Steve Allen) in 1959.
Newsreel footage of Richard Chamberlain, Suzanne Pleschette, and Gary Clark winning their awards for “Promising Newcomers” in 1962. Note the EVENT attendees: (coincidentally including Johnny Carson and Bette Davis; also Hedda Hopper and Sebastian Cabot; if Bette Davis was there, you can be assured these weren’t schlock awards).
Movietone News footage of Shirley Jones, Richard Egan, and Joan Collins at the ceremony in 1956 (I think, since Carousel–for which Jones won the award–was released in '56; could be an award for 1957 instead).
Point is, these were awards that weren’t televised but definitely had ceremonies and were festive/gala events.
To show you how randomly incorrect user-edited sites can be, here’s a TV.com description of the Glen Campbell Goodtme Hour’s 1971 Photoplay special:
The 42nd Annual awards?! That’s just amusing, especially since the name of the episode is a salute to 50 Years of movie making–obviously a reference to Photoplay rather than the film format as a whole, since of course films were around before 1922.
That sounds interesting but please know that since you’re the one who started all this, you will be accused of being the hoaxer. You’ll have to send the entire Carol Burnett exchange or ask your friend to let a neutral party (I volunteer!) see the actual email, including headers.
What about Redd Foxx?
I was not the person who brought this guessing game to this board. I was the person who came on the board, registered, and explained where I first saw the pic on facebook. Then I went the extra mile reaching out until I found someone who may know the answer to the mystery.
You want me to now post a personal email to me from a friend with his and my email addresses? Ask my friend to compromise his privacy? Never gonna happen.
You have no choice but to trust me.
So, you have a name. Is it one that has already been put forward? Have you checked other pics for correlation? In short, could we check it out on our own between now and the confirmation?
No kidding! I’m dyin’ ovah heah!
If this is some form of chain yanking it’s not cool.
All right guys, let’s not turn on each other and ruin a perfectly good futile search.
I’m pretty sure he had a beard in 1970.
Are you accusing me of being one of these people who posts faked things on the Internet, or do you mean that someone has hacked into ProQuest Historical Newspapers and altered the TV listings page from the 11/11/1970 New York Times?
Ok. I won’t wait any longer. The first time I sent my friend the pic, it landed in his spam folder and he deleted it. I only re-sent it last night so Carol had to have seen it today. It is likely the clarification letter I sent him went to his spam folder, too. I was giving him time to get home from work. I live in Los Angeles. Since I got no reply, and the answer baffles me–the email said
Anthony Newley.
That’s pretty good! I never heard of him but recognized him by pics.
Anthony send in the fucking clowns Newley!? Huh.
You’re just to good to be true…
Can’t take my eyes off of you…
You’re just like heaven to touch…
I’ve seen Anthony Newley a zillion times. I’m old. I’ve seen ALL of the people suggested. I was a huge fan of Newley. He did Stop the World I Want to Get Off! and The Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd. The latter show contained the song “Feeling Good” that has recently made a comeback (“Birds flyin’ high, you know how I feel, sun in the sky, you know how I feel…” etc.)
The pic sort of resembles him. But I don’t think it’s him. The hair is wrong; Newley had very dark hair. The chin is wrong.
My bad. It was Stop the World that contained “Feelin’ Good.”
I need to try to stay away from this thread for about six months. It’s making me nuts. I assume it will still be going on in October.
I was all ready to say no to Anthony Newley, as I’m reasonably familiar with him, at least from the 80s.
But this pic does sort of look like a reasonable match. And this one too.
You were right the first time. (I only know that because the Traffic version mentions that it’s from Roar of the Greasepaint… on the cover.)
I just feel it’s bizarre that never, ever in my life have I heard of “Photoplay” or “The Photoplay Awards” before. Yet here are magazine covers with all these prominent stars, and a mystery man nobody can quite identify at one such event.
Am I in the Fringe alternate universe? Send in the Red Lantern . . .
Thanks cococ173 for finally putting this thing to rest.
