Who Is This

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Post a photo of film star/celebrity and we have to guess their name.

Stormee wrote:Smiffy.

Nah...it's Keely Smith, who was married to Louis Prima, and recorded Sunday Kind of Love, which Prima co-wrote with Barbara Belle.

Original Quill wrote:

Stormee wrote:Smiffy.

Nah...it's Keely Smith, who was married to Louis Prima, and recorded Sunday Kind of Love, which Prima co-wrote with Barbara Belle.

Smiffy means Smith over here.

Stormee wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Nah...it's Keely Smith, who was married to Louis Prima, and recorded Sunday Kind of Love, which Prima co-wrote with Barbara Belle.

Smiffy means Smith over here.

Oh...well then good, you got it.

Winston Churchill?

Yep. And this?

That is either Michelle Pffiefer or Ali McGraw.....I think.

Syl wrote:That is either Michelle Pffiefer or Ali McGraw.....I think.

Good guess. Same type look.

Nah, tho...it's Michelle Phillips, of the Mommas and Poppas, a LA singing quartet back in the 1960's. They wrote and sang California Dreaming and Monday, Monday, among others.

Ahhh I see it now OQ.
When I was a girl I thought she was lovely, stood next to Mama Cass (who had the best voice by far) she always looked gorgeous.

No doubt when the above picture was taken she was Michelle Gilliam, and lived in Long Beach.  

Back in those days I was a studio guitarist in LA for the recording companies.  At one point I had a big crush on her--she was gonna be my future baby mama--but she was waaaay out of my league...a part of the drugs and sex culture of Hollywood, and I just didn't make it into that group.  John Phillips, who wrote and arranged most of their stuff, died in London of a heroin overdose.  Of the four, only Michelle survives and lives in Cheviot Hills, LA.

Cass and Denny (tenor) were the best voices in that group.  You can hear them en duet in "Twelve-Thirty (Young girls who come into the canyon...)", where they weave some beautiful contrary harmony.  Michelle's is the little girl voice you can hear in the background in the chorus.

It's alarming when you realise how many of the stars of that era have died, and some of them so young.
They were very popular in GB......their sound was one of the ones that summed up the 60's.

*SIGH*...lost love.  Ah-well, she was married.  

John Phillips wrote and produced a recording by Scott McKenzie, called If You're Goin' to San Francisco....  He was with the Journeymen back then, and I toured Canada with them for several weeks.  Loads of fun with wine and guitars, 3 am in hotel rooms, until the neighbors called the desk to complain.

Scott Mckenzie was the image of a lad I was going out with at the time.
I only saw a couple of pics of him, (no internet in those days) and desperately tried to find new pics because I thought he was gorgeous at the time.


That song (the only one of his that made it here) is still played on the radio.

Syl wrote:Scott Mckenzie was the image of a lad I was going out with at the time.
I only saw a couple of pics of him, (no internet in those days) and desperately tried to find new pics because I though he was gorgeous.

That song (the only one of his that made it here) is still played on the radio.

Yeah, it was the theme song for the San Francisco sound...Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana: "you'd better wear some flowers in your hair...".  



John Phillips and his group were playing at the 'hungry i' then, and although he and Michelle were technically LA-oriented, he wrote and produced it while in San Francisco.  So it forever became associated with the San Francisco sound.

Memories...

Yep...thanks for sharing OQ. x

About the same time we had a few hippy solo singers who always remind us of the mid 60's....know who this is?

I do, but I had to look. You know who it looks like? Hugh Grant.

But I'll let other have a go...

I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind...

Donavon

Roger Whitaker.
The best whistler EVER.

Brenda Blethyn.

Watched Brenda Blethyn last night in Vera, she's brilliant.

Your new one, damn I know that face, on the tip of my tongue, and the people he was in a series with and I can't remember their names either lol

Remembered it it, is it a young William Gaunt, or am I barking up the wrong tree lol

Wrong tree Sassy.
He was a heart throb back in the day....starred opposite Sandra Dee in a very popular film.

I'm surprised I'm managing to go up any tree at the moment, even the wrong one lol.   Will have to have a think.

It's old Troy Donahue. He's dead now.

I didn't know he had died....so many gone but not forgotten.

Your pic is Judy Davies.

My pic is of a brilliant actor who sadly died today.

bouquet of Barbed Wire.

an't think of name.

Frank Finley Nicko.
That's what I remembered him best in too.

Syl wrote:I didn't know he had died....so many gone but not forgotten.

Your pic is Judy Davies.

My pic is of a brilliant actor who sadly died today.

Lol...you keep giving these hints that tip it off!! So I know...but I'll let others have a try at it.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:I didn't know he had died....so many gone but not forgotten.

Your pic is Judy Davies.

My pic is of a brilliant actor who sadly died today.

Lol...you keep giving these hints that tip it off!!  So I know...but I'll let others have a try at it.  

No more clues then.

Nicko had already guessed right anyway....it was Frank Finley.

Stormee wrote:

A young Leonardo De Caprio

Stan (Zulu Navarone) Baker

Scarlet Johanson.

Is the first pic Susan Penhaligan? she starred (with Frank Finley as her dad) in Bouquet of barbed wire?

Syl wrote:Scarlet Johanson.

Is the first pic Susan Penhaligan? she starred (with Frank Finley as her dad) in Bouquet of barbed wire?

I knew you would get Sue.

I loved that series, wonder why they never repeated it.

A more modern girl.

The man that played her husband....I would have to google his name though.

Yours is Duffy

James Aubrey Syl ya got him

You missed 6.51 pm one

Stormee wrote:You missed  6.51 pm one

I answered that one Stormee...Scarlett Johansson and Susan Penhaligon.


You will know this face....but does anyone remember her name?

Syl wrote:

Stormee wrote:You missed  6.51 pm one

I answered that one Stormee...Scarlett Johansson and Susan Penhaligon.


You will know this face....but does anyone remember her name?

OK...Ann Bell.

While we're on the subject...

Well done OQ, I thought that one was hard because she seemed to disappear off the screen years ago.

I cant see yours.

Syl wrote:I cant see yours.

Hmmm.. It's still up on mine.

Changed browser and I just see a litle box.

Not up on mine, and I haven't changed my browser and can see everything else.