#Carl Betz

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Carl Betz, 1959

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Shelly Fabaraes Carl Betz and Paul Peterson The Donna Reed Show

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Remembering Carl Betz on his birthday #botd

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TV Guide  -  June 29 - July 5, 1963

Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986)  Film and television actress and producer. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well known for her role as Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life. In 1953, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lorene Burke in the war drama From Here to Eternity.

Reed is probably most widely known for her work in television, notably as Donna Stone, a middle-class American mother and housewife in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–66), in which her character was more assertive than most other television mothers of the era. She received numerous Emmy Award nominations for this role and the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963. Later in her career, Reed replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow in the 1984–85 season of the television melodrama Dallas; she sued the production company for breach of contract when she was abruptly fired upon Bel Geddes’ decision to return to the show. (Wikipedia)

Carl Lawrence Betz (March 9, 1921 – January 18, 1978)  Stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera Love of Life; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed's television husband, Dr. Alex Stone, from 1958 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show. Then between 1967 and 1969, Betz played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABC's courtroom drama Judd, for the Defense, winning an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work on that series.

He also made many guest appearances on a variety of popular television shows such as Mission: Impossible, The Mod Squad, Love, American Style, and Starsky & Hutch.  (Wikipedia)

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Killdozer (1974)

My rating: 4/10

Turns out a bulldozer is way too slow and ponderous to make an effective monster. Who knew?

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Happy Father's Day 🥰🎵

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Buster Keaton, Donna Reed, Carl Betz, and Butler Hixon The Donna Reed Show - A Very Merry Christmas (SSN 1 Ep 14)

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BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB (1971) – Episode 203 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“She who is buried here shall henceforth have no name, shall cease to exist in the minds of man as she has ceased to exist in life.” Well, she has a name and she is remembered. Not much of a curse, ay? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr – as they take in the last, but not least, of the four Hammer mummy films, Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971), sadly sans Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee.

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 203 – Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

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An archaeological expedition brings back to London the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magical powers. Her spirit returns in the form of a young woman and strange things start to happen.

  Director: Seth Holt, Michael Carreras (uncredited)

Writing Credits: Christopher Wicking (screenplay); Bram Stoker (from the novel by; The Jewel of Seven Stars, 1903)

Selected Cast:

Andrew Keir as Fuchs

Valerie Leon as Margaret / Tera

James Villiers as Corbeck

Hugh Burden as Dandridge

George Coulouris as Berigan

Mark Edwards as Tod Browning

Rosalie Crutchley as Helen Dickerson

Aubrey Morris as Doctor Putnum

David Markham as Doctor Burgess

Joan Young as Mrs. Caporal

James Cossins as Older Male Nurse

David Jackson as Young Male Nurse

Jonathan Burn as Saturnine Young Man

Graham James as Youth In Museum

Tamara Ustinov as Veronica

Penelope Holt as Nurse

Sunbronze Danny Boy as Tod’s Cat

Once again, it is time to revisit a Hammer Horror entry from their 1970s features. This time, the Grue-Crew follow dismembered hands and devious archeologists as they confront the resurrection of the evil Egyptian Queen with no name. By the way, her name is Tera. Shhhh… don’t tell. Andrew Kier does an admirable job stepping in for Peter Cushing (after only a day’s shooting) to lead the heroic defense alongside the beautiful Valerie Leon against the Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971).

At the time of this writing, Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb is available to stream from Wicked Horror TV and various PPV sources. The film is available on physical media as a Blu-ray from Shout! Factory.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Killdozer (1974), based on the 1944 Theodore Sturgeon novella and starring Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Robert Urich, and Neville Brand. You asked for it! Really. You did. 

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. 

Check out this episode!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lili-Babs, Samuel Barber, Carl Betz, the late, great guitarist Chris Bovard, Trevor Burton (The Move), John Cale, Robert Calvert (Hawkwind), Ornette Coleman, Jane Antonia Cornish, Jim Cregan, Jerry Eubanks (Marshall Tucker), Jimmie Fadden, Linda Fiorentino, Martin Fry (ABC), Will Geer, Mickey Gilley, Zakir Hussain, Raul Julia, Kato Kaelin, Laura Lee, Mahler’s 3rd Symphony (1897), Mark Mancina, Jeffrey Osborne, Lloyd Price, Bobby Sands, Thomas Schippers, Bodhi Setchko, Keely Smith, Taeyeon, Chris Thompson (Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band), Diego Torres, Robin Trower, U2’s 1987 JOSHUA TREE album, Gary Walker (Standells, Walker Brothers), Paul Winter, and one of the greatest frontman in rock’n’roll: Mark Lindsay, best known as the singer for Paul Revere & The Raiders. In their major label era of the 1960s and early 70s, PR&TR were one of the tightest and most visible acts in the business. They were the first real rock band signed to Columbia Records, and their garage band energy and declarative stage look pushed back on the British Invasion bands of 1964.

The Raiders kicked out hit after hit in multiple genres including bubblegum, country rock, hard rock, psychedelia, and soul/r’n’b, all with dazzling excellence. They cut the first definitive version of “Louie Louie” before leaving their Oregon base for Los Angeles, joining Terry Melcher (Byrds producer) to launch a prolific and innovative run of great records that still play today: “Just Like Me”, “Kicks” and (recently in the film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) “Good Thing,” “Hungry,” “Mr. Sun Mr. Moon,” etc. Between 1965 and 1970, as Dick Clark expanded his jukebox TV empires, he hired PR&TR to host three TV shows. Before The Monkees even twanged “Last Train to Clarksville,” PR&TR had already set the bar for TV bands, gluing pre-adolescent me to the tube with rock’n’roll comedy and ear candy—and there was eye candy for 1000s of girls screaming for teen idol Mark Lindsay. He set the bar as a powerhouse vocalist, able to croon soft sensual pop ballads then flip to paint-peeling bluesy growls.

The Raiders crested in 1971 with the #1 hit “Indian Reservation,” which was a repackaging of a Mark Lindsay solo recording (backed by the Wrecking Crew). As a solo act, Mark was already charting with “Silver Bird” and the hippy girl anthem “Arizona.” He branched into other music business roles, composing jingles and songs for films and TV shows. Legendary author Stephen King expressed his fan-dom with Mark’s 2001 cover of “Treat Her Right,” backed by Los Straitjackets. 

Meanwhile, Mark’s career intersected with The Carpenters, The Chesterfield Kings, Eric Johnson, Carla Olson, Gerry Rafferty, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, and The Monkees, whose orbit led me to cross paths with Mark a couple of times, and he always treated me like a gentleman. I first saw him in concert in 1993, and it was a rock solid show loaded with the hits and deep cuts. Lately he’s been active doing radio shows and webcasts, the latest being “The American Revolution” on Sirius XM.

If I had to pick one Mark Lindsay track, it’s "Too Much Talk.” It blew my mind when I was a kid—my 45 of it cracked but I kept pressing it with my fingers till the vinyl tissued. The fidelity on this clip is a tad distorted, but the visuals speak volumes. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG30aN53GkY Meanwhile, HB and thank you Mark for continuing to inspire and entertain with your skills and talents.

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Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell in Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister. Screenplay: Don Mullaly, Carl Ericson, Charles Belden. Cinematography: Ray Rennahan. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: George Amy. 

The ever-imperiled Fay Wray gets higher billing, but the real star of Mystery of the Wax Museum is Glenda Farrell, playing an intrepid (what else?), tough-talking (ditto) newspaper reporter, Florence Dempsey. Flo's boss, Jim (Frank McHugh), gives her her walking papers, so she sets out to find a sensational story to save her job. She uncovers the sinister plot of Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill), who is opening a new wax museum in New York. Igor had a similar museum in London, but it was losing money, so his partner in the business, Joe Worth (Edwin Maxwell), burned it down to collect the insurance. Igor was trapped in the conflagration but survived. Handicapped by his wounds, he trains new sculptors to re-create the glories of the old museum. One of the trainees is Ralph Burton (Allen Vincent), whose fiancée, Charlotte Duncan (Wray), turns out to be the spitting image of Igor's most prized sculpture in the old museum, an effigy of Marie Antoinette. Naturally, Igor plans to "sculpt" Charlotte into a new Marie: His method of capturing images is, let's say, not the traditional one. By a bit of breaking and entering, Flo manages to discover the macabre truth behind the wax museum's images. The plot gimmick -- a reporter uncovers a madman's schemes -- is exactly that of Doctor X (1932), Michael Curtiz's other venture into horror movie territory filmed in two-strip Technicolor, which also starred Atwill and Wray. Mystery of the Wax Museum is the better movie, with Farrell giving a better performance as the snoopy reporter than Lee Tracy in the earlier movie. It also has a neater plot, and a real creep factor in the spooky statues -- most of which are actors standing very still. Makeup artists Ray Romero and Perc Westmore and costume designer Orry-Kelly deserve special mention.

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Star Carl Betz and guest Jessica Tandy in “Punishment, Cruel and Unusual,” 1968 episode of “Judd, for the Defense.”

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Birthdays 11.10

Beer Birthdays

Martin Luther; religious leader (1483)

William Hogarth; English artist (1647)

Jacob Betz (1843)

Edward Cecil Guinness (1847)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bill Bryson; writer (1946)

Neil Gaiman; English writer (1960)

Billy May; composer, bandleader (1916)

Roy Scheider; actor (1932)

Carl Stalling; composer (1891)

Famous Birthdays

Francis Maitland Balfour; British biologist (1851)

Paul Bley; Canadian-American pianist and composer (1932)

Richard Burton; Welsh actor (1925)

Jacob Cats; Dutch poet, jurist (1577)

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1433)

Winston Churchill; author and painter (1871)

Francois Couperin; French composer (1668)

Tommy Davidson; comedian (1963)

Zoey Deutch; actress (1994)

Taron Egerton; Welsh actor (1989)

Roland Emmerich; German film director (1955)

Robert F. Engle; economist, Nobel Prize laureate (1942)

Jacob Epstein; American-English sculptor (1880)

Ernst Fischer; German chemist (1918)

Oliver Goldsmith; Irish writer (1728)

W.E.B. Griffin; writer (1929)

Hachikō; Japanese dog (1923)

William Hogarth; English painter, illustrator (1697)

Russell Johnson; actor (1924)

Mikhail Kalashnikov; Russian general, designed AK-47 (1919)

Jared P. Kirtland; naturalist (1793)

Greg Lake; rock guitarist, singer (1947)

Louis le Brocquy; Irish painter and illustrator (1916)

Vachel Lindsay; poet (1879)

Dave Loggins; singer, songwriter (1947)

J.P. Marquand; writer (1893)

Johnny Marks; composer and songwriter (1909)

Mike McCarthy; Green Bay Packers coach (1963)

Tracy Morgan; comedian, actor (1968)

Ennio Morricone; Italian composer (1928)

Brittany Murphy; actor (1977)

Zofia Nałkowska; Polish author and playwright (1884)

Tom Papa; comedian, actor, tv host (1968)

Mackenzie Phillips; actor (1959)

Ellen Pompeo; actress (1969)

Henri Rabaud; French composer (1873)

Claude Rains; actor (1889)

Ann Reinking; dancer, actor (1949)

Tim Rice; lyricist (1944)

Friedrich Schiller; German poet and playwright (1759)

Sinbad; comedian (1956)

David "Screaming Lord" Sutch; English entertainer (1940)

Bram Tchaikovsky; English singer-songwriter (1950)

Steven Utley; author and poet (1948)

Friedrich von Schiller; German writer (1759)

Brooks Williams; singer, songwriter (1958)

Arnold Zweig; German author (1887)

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The Donna Reed Show

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Happy Heavenly Bday Carl Betz 🌹📺

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 9, 1921- ∞