#howard da silva

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The difference 😭

So for context, I think we all know by now about Howard Da Silva and his temper issues behind the scenes, how he would scream at everybody nearly every day. He was supposed to DIRECT 1776, but then Hunt was brought in and Da Silva didn’t like that. Bill Daniels was pretty much the only one who could calm him down and was fine with him because they had worked together before 1776 and they were friends. But no one else was his friend until Betty Buckley got him to open up but that’s a whole different story.

So the photo on the left is David Ford and Bill Daniels, and they both seem happy and in a good mood judging by their smirking. And on the right is Howard Da Silva and David Ford and David does not look very thrilled to be next to him. He looks almost sad I guess and maybe a little anxious incase Howard decides to blow up or something.

I don’t think for these particular photos, anyone was in character because if you know the show you know that No one is smiling during the process of signing the declaration. So in the photo of the left, I think they’re joking around or something and in the photo on the right, David Ford is afraid to say anything incase Da Silva starts lunging at him or something. It’s really sad that whole situation. But thankfully Da Silva changed and he was a trooper for the most part during the filming of the movie.

I should also mention that during out of town in Washington DC, Da Silva’s big song “Increase and Multiply” was cut, and he was FURIOUS, so he quit the show temporarily and they brought in Rex Everhart, who was a huge help and would end up being with the show for years. Obviously we all know that he had to take over for Da Silva for the first months on broadway because of his heart attack. So thank goodness they got him during DC.

But it’s clear by these two photos that David Ford wasn’t happy with Da Silva at first. I don’t blame him.

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Stephen and Benjamin’s friendship is everything

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Howard Da Silva and Eve Arden in Irving Reis’ THREE HUSBANDS (1950)

Howard Da Silva and Eve Arden in Irving Reis’ THREE HUSBANDS (1950)

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whoever designed this had a crush on alan ladd… that’s all i’m saying

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The Missiles of October - ABC - December 18, 1974

Docudrama

Running Time: 150 minutes

Stars:

Ralph Bellamy as Adlai Stevenson

Howard da Silva as Nikita Khrushchev

John Dehner as Dean Acheson

William Devane as John F. Kennedy

Andrew Duggan as General Maxwell Taylor

Dana Elcar as Robert McNamara

Larry Gates as Dean Rusk

James Olson as McGeorge Bundy

Nehemiah Persoff as Andrei Gromyko

William Prince as C. Douglas Dillon

John Randolph as George Ball

Martin Sheen as Robert F. Kennedy

Michael Lerner as Pierre Salinger

Clifford David as Theodore Sorensen

Albert Paulsen as Anatoly Dobrynin

Keene Curtis as John McCone,

Robert P. Lieb as Curtis LeMay

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Now watching:

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The ubiquitous Howard Da Silva

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Thanks to 1776 I can’t read anything Ben Franklin wrote or said without imaging it in Howard Da Silva’s gay voice

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M | Joseph Losey | 1951

Roy Engel, Jorja Curtright, Howard Da Silva, et al.

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Ray Milland and Howard Da Silva in The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)

Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Philip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, based on a novel by Charles R. Jackson. Cinematography: John F. Seitz. Art direction: Hans Dreier, A. Earl Hedrick. Film editing: Doane Harrison. Music: Miklós Rózsa. 

If such a thing as conscience could be ascribed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it might be said that giving The Lost Weekend and director Billy Wilder the best picture and best director Oscars was an attempt to atone for its failure to honor Wilder's Double Indemnity with those awards the previous year. (The awards went to Leo McCarey and his saccharine Going My Way.) The Lost Weekend is not quite as enduring a film as Double Indemnity: It pulls its punches with a "hopeful" ending, though it should be clear to any intelligent viewer that Ray Milland's Don Birnam is not going to be so easily cured of his alcoholism as he and his girlfriend, Helen St. James (Jane Wyman), seem to think. But the film also lands quite a few of its punches, thanks to Milland's Oscar-winning performance and the intelligent (and also Oscar-winning) adaptation of Charles R. Jackson's novel by Wilder and co-writer Charles Brackett. For its day, still under the watchful eyes of the Paramount front office and the Production Code, The Lost Weekend seems almost unnervingly frank about the ravages of alcoholism, then usually treated more as a subject for comedy than for semi-realistic drama. The Code prevented the film from ascribing Birnam's drinking to an attempt to cope with his homosexuality, but in some respects this can be seen today as a good change made for the wrong reason, since the roots of addiction to alcohol are far more complicated than any simplistic explanation such as self-loathing. The Code was also powerless to prevent Wilder and Brackett from finessing the suggestion that the friendly "bar girl" Gloria (Doris Dowling) is anything but an on-call sex worker. Increasingly, post-World War II films would treat audiences like the adults the Code administration wanted to prevent them from being. Wyman's Helen is a bit too noble in her persistent support of Birnam's behavior -- she moves from ignorance to denial to enabling to self-sacrifice far too swiftly and easily. But in general, the supporting cast -- Phillip Terry as Birnam's brother, Howard Da Silva as the bartender, Frank Faylen as the seen-it-all-too-often nurse in the drunk ward -- are excellent. The score by Miklós Rózsa is laid on a bit too heavily, especially in the use of the theremin to suggest Birnam's aching need for a drink. 

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Looks like they were caught kissing or some shit

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Same energy!

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Howard Da Silva (May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986)

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The Lost Weekend

directed by Billy Wilder, 1945

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What if I told you there was a cheesy made-for-television movie from the 1970s featuring a young Martin Sheen desperately attempting a Boston accent and Ben Franklin himself, Howard Da Silva eating a hard-boiled egg in the middle of a scene without dialogue or context… and what if I told you this was a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Martin Sheen (left) as Robert F. Kennedy, William Devane (upper right) as John F. Kennedy and Howard da Silva (lower right) as Nikita Khrushchev in "The Missiles of October" that aired on ABC December 18, 1974.