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The song is far older than the 1860s. It was played by the Irish regiments under Wellington during the Peninsular Campaign.

Some demurrals: The WW2 'Black Sheep Squadron' had nothing to do with Kipling or the tables down at Mory's. 'The Whiffenpoof Song' is the signature song of the Whiffenpoofs, but not the theme song of Yale, which would most likely be 'Bright College Years.' And I believe it's 'damned from here to ...

Dennis Price playing Noël Coward.

Dennis Price doing his Noël Coward turn. "I'll be rrround in twenty minutes!" Check him out later in Mr Mandrake's studio when they try to corner Farr. Brilliant.

Are those George Woodbridge illustrations?

"Harverd-educated lawer"? Not a John Hopkin-edukated State Deportment Uffizial?

@john48martin It is apparent that you have little knowledge of the trials. You had never heard of Carl Binger, and are unfamiliar with his bizarre "expert witness" testimony. He posited a love relationship, real or imagined, between Hiss and Chambers, and he based this on a Franz Werfel novel ca...

If you folks like this, then do check out the film that Basil Dearden made right before this: "The League of Gentlemen," which has some of the same themes and even more top-notch character actors. And pay close attention to Dirk Bogarde's next big breakout release, "The Servant," with the very yo...

Look for Juliette Greco's rendition of the "Moulin Rouge" song right here on YouTube. Better in the French, and it's not about April in Paris.

I'm French, and I'd be proud to have him as President. Well, actually I'm American. Either way.

@Meli66a Yes, I wondered if you were the same girl, different hair. People can change a lot in a year. Look at John.

Now here we have something that could have been good writing with promising themes, if Keillor had just left the "God" stuff out of it. Atheists are worse than aggressive teetotalers, the way they keep pushing their personal twitches upon you. You never see celibate people go around telling us ho...

@88bostonian Well said, 88. These characters get a free ride because most of their audiences don't even know one century from the next.

Mean Mary Jean goes back at least to 1970, in radio ads. "Mean Mary Jean, she's our Chrysler-Plymouth girl, she knows what we mean." She was just a voice.

This is the Las Vegas gangster who is funding Newt Gingrich!

Where are the marionettes? Bil Baird did very good marionettes, but these are all glove-puppets

This is from the early years of electrical recording, and very easy to listen to. Five years before, this recording would be painful to hear. No improvement in sound recording has been as momentous as the switchover from acoustic to electrical recording.

FitzPatrick is to be remembered and blessed for these achievements.

@MAXDAKILLA123 "If you are born in France, you are french..." And if you plant a douglas fir in the Canary islands, it magically becomes a palm tree! New breakthrough discovery in genetics!

@BeingOStupid Yours is a most profound and well-informed comment. Thank for your contribution to the furtherance of human knowledge.

A bottle of wine every night? Excuse me, most French and Italians would consider that drink with dinner. Now, a bottle of spirits every 24 hours might give one pause. But a few glasses of wine or beer? Come on. This stuff is good for you. Civilization was built upon such moderate intoxicants.

My old pal. Frankie, you were the best.

Mark Sarto plays the East Ender as a sort of cross between Tubby Isaacs and Fagin.

@Joshuajlawn 'Roms treatment of protestant Bible believers...Cramner," and the other evil ones. Let's see... it appears you're talking about five (5) years of Mary Tudor's reign? How does that compare with about two hundred years of torturing, hanging, drawing & quartering those who stayed true t...

I love the Jane Morgan version. There is an interesting disjuncture between the French original and English translation. To the Anglophone ear the song is ominous, about cruel fate. Almost a funeral song. Hence the lyrics. But the original is really a celebration of the variety and eternal youth ...

@Myrtle791 Thanks, yes. What's up with that condor as a paloma blanca? No stock footage of a white dove over the Andes, I guess.

What a lovely man. Who could resist? And now I find renewed respect for Tony Benn.

@Theshofumiah1 But you don't NEED a special visa to visit from Thailand. Just come as a tourist and show your return ticket.

Woodie Guthrie knew nothing about Fascism, other than notions he picked up from street leftists in Greenwich Village.

The Joads, like most Okies and Arkies who went to California, did not come from the Dust Bowl. The Joads were from eastern Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl was centered on the Oklahoma Panhandle, hundreds of miles to the west. Relatively few Dust Bowl people migrated to California.

Nasty stuff. Peanut butter and white foam. Uggh. And we mock the Marmite-eaters. Uggh.

Looks like he's doing an Al Gore impersonation. "We will...put...ev-er-y-thing...in...a...Lock-Box!"