Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).
Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones (not Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones as has often been stated). His birth was registered in the March Quarter of 1907 in Neath, Wales, and he was the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott) and Alfred Jones. In the 1911 census the family were living at 66 Coronation Road, Mount Pleasant, Neath, Wales. Of his parents, Milland wrote in his 1974 autobiography Wide-Eyed in Babylon, "My father was not a cruel or harsh man. Just a very quiet one. I think he was an incurable romantic and consequently a little afraid of his emotions and perhaps ashamed of them... he had been a young hussar in the Boer War and had been present at the relief of Mafeking. He never held long conversations with anyone, except perhaps with me, possibly because I was the only other male in our family. The household consisted of my mother, a rather flighty and coquettish woman much concerned with propriety and what the neighbours thought.."
Coordinates: 51°02′10″N 0°48′22″W / 51.03601°N 0.80607°W / 51.03601; -0.80607
Milland is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is situated north of the A272 road on the border with Hampshire.
In the 2001 census the parish covered 5,023 acres (20.33 km2) and had 332 households with a total population of 829 of whom 394 residents were economically active.
The village lies along a section of the Chichester to Silchester Way Roman road, almost the only part to have survived in modern use. At the southern end of the village the boundary banks of a mansio, a Roman posting station on the road, are visible.
The parish has an Anglican church, St. Luke's, the independent Milland Evangelical Church (MEC) and the disused Tuxlith Chapel which is in the care of a national charity the Friends of Friendless Churches.
Hamlets within the civil parish include:
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Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made. He also excelled in sophisticated, screwball romantic comedies. His career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death in 1961, and comprised more than one hundred films.
Cooper received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant York and High Noon. He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from the Academy.
Decades later, the American Film Institute named Cooper among the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars, ranking 11th among males from the Classical Hollywood cinema period. In 2003, his performances as Will Kane in High Noon, Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees, and Alvin York in Sergeant York made the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, all of them as heroes.
Plot
In a slick New York club for the rich and famous, Mr Humphrey Bogart orders rabbit. Waiter Elmer Fudd is at a loss where he'll get fresh rabbit at that time of night until he finds Bugs Bunny feasting on carrots. With time running out, Fudd tries to get Bugs into the pot.
Keywords: 1940s, animal-in-title, bar, breaking-the-fourth-wall, carmen-miranda-impersonator, celebrity-caricature, conga, custard-pie, dance-number, grabbed-by-the-lapels
Bogart: Hey, waiter. C'mere.::Elmer Fudd: Yes sir, Mr. Bogart. Ah, we have some vewy nice...::Bogart: Cut the gab and bring me an order of fried rabbit.::Elmer Fudd: Oh, I'm vewy sorry, Mr. Bogart. But we're just fwesh out of wabbit. Heh-heh-heh-heh. We got some vewy nice Cwepe Suzzette.::Bogart: [Picking up Elmer by the lapels] I said I want rabbit, and I'll give you just 20 minutes to bring it, or else.::[lays a gun on the table]::Elmer Fudd: [nervous] Yes, sir, Mr. Bogart. The customer is always wight. Heh-heh-heh, heh-heh.
Bogart: Well, time's up, shorty. Where's my rabbit?::Elmer Fudd: Pwease, Mr. Bogart. I couldn't get a wabbit. I twied and I twied.::Bogart: Oh, yeah? Well, I guess there's just one thing left for me to do.::[reaches into his coat pocket]::Elmer Fudd: Don't! Pwease, don't!::Bogart: [Pulling out a handkerchief to wipe his brow] Baby will just have to have a ham sandwich, instead.::Bugs Bunny: Baby?::[Bugs hops onto Bogart's table; sitting there is "Baby" - Lauren Bacall]::Bugs Bunny: Remember, garçon. The customer is always right. If it's rabbit baby wants, rabbit baby gets.
Bugs Bunny: [as Groucho Marx] I hope you won't mind waiting while I remove these wet things and slip into a dry martini.
Bugs Bunny: Eh, what's up, Doc?::Elmer Fudd: Pardon me, Mister Wabbit, but Mr. Humphwey Bogart would just wove to have you for dinner.::Bugs Bunny: Yeah? Well, that's mighty neighborly of him. You tell Bogie if he wants me, all he has to do is just whistle. [Turns on a tea kettle to make it whistle; pops up wearing coattails and top hat] Good evening, Maitre d'. Am I the first to arrive? Eh, by the way, what's on the menu for tonight? In other words... eh, what's cooking, doc?::Elmer Fudd: Oh, eh, something vewy special. Fried wabbit.::Bugs Bunny: Fried wabbit? Mmm-mm! Love it, love it, looove it! Eh, let's have a peek at it, shall we?::Elmer Fudd: Well, wight over here. [Puts a mirror in the pot for Bugs to see himself in it]::Bugs Bunny: Now there's a delicious-looking rabbit. [Realizes he's looking at his reflection; turns to Elmer]::Bugs Bunny: [Very fast] Oh, I just remembered, previous engagement, I must be going, my apologies to Mr. Bogart, matter of life and death, unavoidable, gotta go.
Bugs Bunny: Ah, my public. How they love me.
Bugs Bunny: [Disguised as waiter] One lemon meringue pie!::Elmer Fudd: One wemon mewingue pie coming up! [Goes behind counter and gets pie] Pick up pie!::Bugs Bunny: [enters kitchen, picks up pie] Roger! [Enters again and hits Elmer in face with pie] Your pie, sir! [Leaves and enters again] One banana cream pie! [Leaves]::Elmer Fudd: One banana cweam pie coming up! Pick up pie!::Bugs Bunny: [Same as before] Roger! Your pie, sir! One coconut custard pie with whipped cream!::Elmer Fudd: One coconut custard pie with whipped cweam coming up! Say, you know what I think? I think that's the wabbit. Well, he who waughs wast... He he he! Pick up pie!::Bugs Bunny: Rogerini! [as Bugs enters, Elmer throws the pie; Bugs ducks and the pie goes over his head; Enter Bogart with pie on his face]::Bogart: Why did you hit me in the face with a coconut custard pie with whipped cream?::Elmer Fudd: Pwease, Mr. Bogart...!::Bogart: Now listen, chubby. You got just five more minutes to get me my rabbit. Get me?
Plot
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Keywords: variety-club
And if I ev-ever fall in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will make sure that the lady's just like you. Oh!
What's happenin ladies?
Whats up wit my lil shorty's.
It's your man mr. cannon on the beat.
Yeah.
I'm here wit Romeo.
O.k.
He bout to tell ya'll some things.
To all the girls out there... I'm lookin like for a cinderella.
Yeah. New no limit. Can I ball.
Yeah yeah.
Talk to em rome.
Look dis young romey lookin for a homey, a little juliet, who say she'll console me.
When I'm all lonely, knows how to hold me, a little tight shawty, know what I mean.
Little attitude but not controlling, with them pink nike's, and them passion jeans.
I need a girl sweet as a dove, first time in my life, I see I need love.
New no limit, mommy no gimmicks, Maybach Benz, mommy jump in it.
You remind me of my diamonds, always shinin, I'm flawless girl.
I'm a young Bill Gates, get all this girl, in my g-4 we could tour the world,
before I'm 24 I'mma rule the world, and you can be my queen, yo that's for real, ok.
And if I ev-ever fall, in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will be sure that the lady's just like you.
Oh!
Ok. I want my shawty to be like you, sweet and sassy, someone to write to.
Yes it's quite true, I kinda like you, you say we just friends but not tonight boo.
Lets pretend you my cinderella, have you home by twelve, or respect the fellas.
Keep you together in my butter soft weather.
Night is young, we could do whatever.
I know you see me on the tv shows, videos, big screen, but I'm just Romeo.
A real cool dude you should get to know, on a diffrent plateu, like whoa!
Buyin out what's love, like fat joe, mommy I know, but I'm willin to grow.
To the mountain top if you willin to go.
Don't be scared, romey take you there, come on.
And if I ev-ever fall, in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will be sure that the lady's just like you.
Oh!
Look, if I ever fall in love it's all or nothin, no reason for the kids to go and start frontin.
Lookin for a girl who can press my button, hit me on the cell to do a lil somethin.
Can I ball?
You know it ma.
Playa thin and tall, I'm growin up.
It's a new no limit, ya'll can't flow wit us, on my way to school I got my own bus,
and I can't leave home without my chain, got girls all over screamin out my name.
I'm like tracy mcgrady, and Yao Ming, I might switch up my team, but I'm still in the game.
MVP, so I'm earnin that, searchin for a chick who sweep, to put his slipper on her feet.
Until then, I'm gon run the street, keep spinnin these rhymes, nick bring the beat.
And if I ev-ever fall, in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will make sure that the lady's just like you.
Oh!