# Spotting a Familiar Actor in a Surprising Place - Part Deux **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931 "2017-06-26T19:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/261 "2017-09-01T00:02:29Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > …Also Lucille Ball in the Three Stooges short “Three Little Pigskins”. One of her first accredited roles. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was surprised to just see a very young Lucille Ball in a small part in the 1938 Marx Brothers’ comedy _Room Service_. > [@terentii](#): > > Lucy had a supporting role in \*\*\*Having Wonderful Time \*\*\* (1938) opposite Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks (jr), Red Skelton, et al. > > Not only was she incredibly hot (most of the time she was wearing shorts, and her legs were gorgeous), her voice was positively mellifluous. She sounded nothing like she did twenty years later. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > Even earlier appearances by Lucille Ball: in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies; she had lines in the 1936 _Follow the Fleet_ and appeared also in 1935’s _Top Hat_ and the same year’s _Roberta_ (as a fashion model). All were in black and white so it’s impossible to be sure, but she looked platinum blonde in all. > > Also earlier than 1938: her quite substantial (and comic) role in 1937’s _Stage Door_. One of my favorite subtitle fails is on the 2005 Warner Bros. DVD of [Stage](http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1549door.html) [Door](http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/?p=3968). Lucille Ball, cautioning Ginger Rogers before they go on a date with two well-heeled men, warns “Don’t start anything here or I’ll wrench your back.” (See [here](http://www.filmsite.org/stag2.html) for example.) The subtitles? “Don’t start anything here. I’ll rinse your bag.” ([here](https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=stage-door)) Another favorite and earlier Lucille Ball movie that is also available on a Warner DVD is 1933’s [Roman Scandals](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024507/fullcredits). Yes, she is mostly just one of the many eye candy Goldwyn Girls in the background, but her 22-year-old face and voice are easily recognizable in 2 scenes where she actually has lines. Just before Eddie Cantor sings “Build a little Home” she echoes, “He said the city put us here and we should live here!” At the end of the movie, however mellifluous her voice, she runs through the street, waving her arms and screaming what sounds like “Ma! Eddie’s Coming! Ma! Eddie’s Coming! Ma! Eddie’s Coming!” She wears a white top and a long dark gray skirt in the non Roman wrapper of the story, but still (or animated as she seeks attention), 22. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/262 "2017-09-02T15:41:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The old 50s and 60s Westerns that MyTV shows on Saturday mornings always has lots of surprise stars. I saw a Wagon Train the other day with Charles Laughton on it. There is a Wagon Train that has Lou Costello and Harry von Zell in it. I guess George Burns finally made his firing of von Zell(a common occurrence on “Burns and Allen” stick). There is an episode of “My Three Sons” that has Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart make a speech to Robbie’s school and giving him a sweater. Yes, the actor was also a general in the Air Force reserve. ---
**Author:** ![Flare4roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7cd45c/32.png) [@Flare4roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flare4roach)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/263 "2017-09-02T21:41:03Z")
Here’s a weird one. I was watching The Godfather a couple of months ago and was really watching the background for things I might usually missed. I noticed something unusual. When Sonny is beating Carlo for hurting Connie I noticed an extra who seemed very familiar. If you look behind Sonny when he tells Carlo “Touch my sister again…I’ll kill ya” you can see Frank Sivero watching the fracas. Don’t tell me you don’t know Frank Sivereo? Of course you do, he played Genco in Godfather II! The guys actually plays 2 roles in both Godfathers. He is also played Frankie Carbone in Goodfellas who was found frozen in the meat truck. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WFjaE3aL0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WFjaE3aL0) Go to 2:50 in the video ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/264 "2017-09-02T22:25:02Z")
I was just watching Airplane! and who do I barely recognize, Mike “Jonathan Banks” Ehrmantraut playing the Radar Tech that checks the radar range to see if it is ready. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/265 "2017-09-05T13:09:56Z")
Last night’s SVU rerun had John “Uncle Jesse” Stamos as a reproductive abusive man. He was very charming, seduced women, and always used a condom _that he punched a hole in_. He had 42 children! One of his victims killed him by “pulling a Bobbit.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/266 "2017-09-07T01:02:48Z")
Raymond Bailey, Mr. Drysdale from _the Beverly Hillbillies_, playing a tough police commissioner on _77 Sunset Strip_. I did not know that the man could act. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/267 "2017-09-07T01:14:38Z")
No, by golly, Mr. Drysdale was a Senator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931.md?page=13)