Is this officially a repeat?
Julie Andrews bared her breasts in the Blake Edwards’ film SOB.
Julie Andrews, at age 13, sang for King George VI and the Royal Family at the London Palladium.
Julie Andrews, the original Liza Doolittle in the stage version of My Fair Lady, was passed over for the movie role because she was an “unknown.” Audrey Hepburn, whose singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
Not doing the movie freed Andrews to do Mary Poppins, which definitely made her a known actor.
In addition to dubbing Audrey Hepburn’s voice, Marni Nixon also recorded for Margaret O’Brien, Marilyn Monroe, Deborah Kerr and Natalie Wood. She actually appeared onscreen in only one film, as Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music.
Love letters (some of them pretty mushy) from Richard M. Nixon to his then-future wife Pat Ryan were recently displayed at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Cal.
Pat Ryan was the backup quarterback of the New York Jets for ten seasons in the 1970s and 80s.
Ryan’s Fancy is an Irish-Newfoundland band that has been performing for forty years.
Lt. Arthur Fancy was a character on NYPD Blue. In one episode his superior says “Let’s get our signals straight, Fancy. If I walk into your office wearing a yellow rose on my shirt, that means I’m interested in your opinion.”
Ms. Andrews got much laughter for a line when she accepted an award for her role as Mary Poppins:“I’d like to thank the man who made this possible … Mr. Jack Warner.”
The Prince of Wales has several given names, including “Arthur”. There has not been any suggestion that when he takes the throne he would reign as King Arthur.
There has never been a British monarch named Arthur other than the semi-mythical “once and future king” about which Alfred Lord Tennyson, T.H. White, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Thomas Berger, among many others, wrote.
Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon after her first husband, Henry’s older brother Arthur, died. Technically, the marriage was considered incest at the time, a fact that ultimately led to Henry breaking with the Pope and the Anglican Church being formed.
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Communion for the past decade, recently announced his retirement. He will next teach at Cambridge University.
African-American stand-up comic Godfrey Cambridge, who once received a Tony nomination for his role in Ossie Davis’ play “Purlie Victorious”, died in 1976 while filming the ABC movie “Victory at Entebbe”, in which he was to play Idi Amin. He also cameo’d in director Sidney Lumet’s Bye Bye Braverman as a Yiddish speaking NYC cab driver involved in a car collision with the main protagonists, and another as a gay underworld figure in the 1975 Pam Grier vehicle Friday Foster.
The Broadway revue, How to Be a Jewish Mother, based upon Dan Greenberg’s best seller, flopped after only twenty performances. The producers said later that it might have been a mistake casting Godfrey Cambridge (who was black) as the son of Yiddish stage legend Molly Picon.
Liberal and ornery Texas columnist Molly Ivins was the first to dub George W. Bush, long before he was elected President of the United States, “Shrub.”
Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the first President of a republican Commonwealth state.
Martin Van Buren was the first US president to have been born an American, in 1782. However, some people (but not I) don’t count him, saying it has to be someone born since the Revolutionary War ended in 1783. I think that’s screwy, but using that criteria the first one would be John Tyler, born in 1790.
The name “Tyler” is an occupation name, from workers who installed tiles on roofs or floors. Another notable Tyler was Wat Tyler, a leader in the English Peasants revolt of 1381. The young King Richard II met with Tyler at Smithfield. Tyler was leading a huge group of revolting peasants. During the meeting, the Lord Mayor of London killed Tyler with a sword.
To be an official Smithfield ham, according to a 1926 Virginia law revised in 1966, it must be
A related Georgia law defines Vidalia onions.
Oliver Onions was a major British novelist of the early 20th century, writing historical and detective fiction.