2006 Festival Guests
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2006 Memphis Film
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Jon
Provost
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Lassie had many owners and companions over his television and film career but none are as well remembered as "Timmy" who was immortalized forever by Jon Provost. Jon also appeared in "Back From Eternity", "This Property is Condemned" and Disney's "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes". |
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Ken
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Ken
Osmond is fondly
remembered for his comic role as "Eddie
Haskell," Wally's weaselly friend on Leave
It To Beaver.
Frank Bank was another zany character on Beaver. He was the thick-headed bully, "Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford", who Wally also counted as one of his buddies. |
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Dorinda Clifton |
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Dorinda had an impressive career in films during the early days of Hollywood. Among her credits are starring in the '44 version of "Girl of the Limberlost" and costarring with Hopalong Cassidy in "The Marauders". She also established herself as a popular dancer in films during that time. |
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She is the daughter of Elmer Clifton (picture on the right) who started his career appearing in the landmark films, "Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance" for D.W. Griffith. He was also the director of many B films throughout the forties, including westerns starring Tex Ritter, Dave O'Brien, Russell Hayden, Don "Red" Barry, Johnny Mack Brown, Buck Jones, Rex Lease and others. His other directing works include some of the most popular movie serials such as "Captain America" and "Secret of Treasure Island" (of which a newly-restored version was screened at the festival). |
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Robert
Easton |
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Shirley
Eaton |
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In addition to working with Sir Sean Connery in "Goldfinger" (she is seen in the above picture with Mr. Connery and Ian Fleming, Bond's literary creator), she also made multiple appearances with another James Bond, Sir Roger Moore, in the hit "Saint" TV series. Mr. Moore has kind enough to write the forward to Shirley's new book of poetry she has recently published, "Shirley Eaton's Golden Touch". |
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Karolyn Grimes |
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Karolyn
Grimes' film career
has included working with such greats as John
Wayne, Gary Cooper, director
John Ford, Glenn
Ford, Jimmy Stewart and Randolph
Scott. One of Karolyn's greatest joys is spending time with her fans as she shares her memories from her "Wonderful Life" in Hollywood ! |
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James
Hampton
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Ted Infuhr |
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Ted
Infuhr played a major part in our tribute to screen legend
Gene Autry since he has quite a history
performing with the singing cowboy including 3 feature films and
additional appearances on his TV show. Other western
stars he has worked with nclude Johnny Mack
Brown, The Cisco Kid and Charles
Starrett, the Durango Kid. He is also a veteran
of several film series, such as the "Ma
and Pa Kettle" entries including their debut film, "The
Egg and I", Basil Rathbone's
Sherlock Holmes movies, the "Rusty"
canine films and the "Blondie"
comic strip adaptations. |
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Jerry
"The King" Lawler Memphis-born wrestling legend Jerry "The King" Lawler has been on television for over 30 years, both as an athlete and a color commentator. He has been doing the latter for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for several years. In the course of his career, Mr. Lawler has also appeared in two Hollywood movies; "Man on the Moon" with Jim Carrey and "Life With Mikey" with Michael J. Fox. The former dealt with Mr. Lawler's real-life encounter with the late comedian Andy Kaufman.
Biography /
Film Credits |
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Elizabeth
MacRae Who could ever forget "Lou Ann Poovie", the sweet, naive girlfriend who was a perfect match to "Gomer Pyle" ? Besides charming TV viewers with that delightful character and many other TV roles (including multiple appearances on "Gunsmoke" as Festus's girlfriend, "April Clomley"), Elizabeth has also appeared in films like "The Wild Westerners" and "Love in a Goldfish Bowl". Many may not realize she also provided the voice for "Ladyfish" in Don Knott's popular film, "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" |
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Noel Neill |
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While Noel is instantly recognizable as the screen's first Lois Lane, her film career reaches far beyond that classic role to include several westerns (working with stars like Lash LaRue, Clayton Moore, Jimmie Wakely, Johnny Mack Brown and Ken Curtis). She has also worked with stars like Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly and William Holden. |
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Hot off the presses! Noel Neill brought the latest edition of her biography with her to the show and Memphis attendees were the very first members of the public to have an opportunity to get a copy! The new 2006 edition was released on June 15th - the opening day of the Memphis festival! It is more than twice as large as the 2003 edition (growing from 8 chapters up to 17) and contains more than 500 photos mostly in color (more than three times the 158 photos that were seen in the earlier edition!) This doesn't sound like a later edition of her book - but an entirely new book altogether! |
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Gregg
Palmer He also guested
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Maggie
Peterson |
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Don
Kay
Don took part in
our tribute to Gene Autry and reminisced
about the films he made with Mr. Autry
- "Beyond the Purple Hills"
and "The Last Round-Up". |
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