# Gene Pitney and Lee Marvin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638 "2015-09-18T05:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![McGuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@McGuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McGuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/1 "2015-09-18T05:06:34Z")
If you don’t know who they are…so sad. If you do; you’re old like me…cool! Small intro: [The Man Who Shot LIBERTY VALANCE \* Gene Pitney - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJMLbyEaPWs) ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/2 "2015-09-18T06:33:54Z")
I remember Gene Pitney for “Town without pity”. that _was_ him, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![McGuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@McGuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McGuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/3 "2015-09-18T06:42:37Z")
Yes, it was. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/4 "2015-09-18T11:08:52Z")
Moving to Cafe Society ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/5 "2015-09-18T11:45:23Z")
Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/6 "2015-09-18T12:56:19Z")
Gene Pitney, I can understand. But Lee Marvin? Young’uns don’t know who he was? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/7 "2015-09-18T14:26:36Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. They didn’t write “Town Without Pity”, but they did write “Liberty Valance”. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/8 "2015-09-20T07:38:29Z")
Great singer, great song, great actor, good movie! Trivia Gotcha: Who played the title role in _ **The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance** _ ? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/9 "2015-09-20T08:51:35Z")
John Wayne ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/10 "2015-09-20T11:08:56Z")
Not Jimmy Stewart? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/11 "2015-09-20T11:10:02Z")
Second trivia question: Name at least three stars in the movie _ **Town Without Pity** _. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/12 "2015-09-20T11:57:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Not Jimmy Stewart? :dubious: 😕 Watch the end again. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/13 "2015-09-20T12:28:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Second trivia question: Name at least three stars in the movie _ **Town Without Pity** _. Kirk Douglas, EG Marshall, and…and…hmm. Trivia useless to anyone but me: it was mostly filmed in my mother’s hometown of Forchheim. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/14 "2015-09-20T13:32:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Second trivia question: Name at least three stars in the movie _ **Town Without Pity** _. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Kirk Douglas, EG Marshall, and…and…hmm. > > Trivia useless to anyone but me: it was mostly filmed in my mother’s hometown of Forchheim. Frank Sutton - Gomer Pyle’s Sgt Carter. Gene Pitney also wrote and recorded [Hello Mary Lou](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnD8PdJMBg). Frankly, I prefer Ricky Nelson’s and the New Riders covers of that song. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/15 "2015-09-20T13:40:00Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Frank Sutton - Gomer Pyle’s Sgt Carter. Good one! I was expecting Christine Kaufman to come up before Frank. 🆒 Looking over the cast list, I see that Robert Blake and Richard Jaeckel were in it too (as American GIs). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-pitney-and-lee-marvin/731638/16 "2015-09-21T00:19:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Not Jimmy Stewart? :dubious: 😕 Spoiler alert!