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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      Non-Film Score Discussion: Richard Erdman dies     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 7:59 AM     By:   mgh   (Member) Richard Erdman, one of the great supporting actors, has died. I always remember him from Cry Danger with Dick Powell. As an wise cracking alcoholic, he walked off with the movie. Rest in peace.    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 11:11 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Mgh - you mean this guy, on the right?    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 11:13 AM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) The lovesick sap from TZ " The Chaser"    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 11:15 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 12:25 PM     By:   riotengine   (Member) R.I.P. Erdman was supremely obnoxious in the Twilight Zone episode, A Kind Of Stopwatch (in a good way). Need to watch Cry Danger. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-erdman-dead-community-stalag-917730 Greg Espinoza    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 3:46 PM     By:   mgh   (Member) Mgh - you mean this guy, on the right? Nice work, Bill. That's the guy.    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 4:03 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Youre welcome mate    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 12:02 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Nineteen-year-old Dick Erdman made his film debut in a bit part as a Western Union boy in the 1944 Bette Davis drama MR. SKEFFINGTON. Vincent Sherman directed the film. At the time, most Warner Bros."A" features had a 30-day shooting schedule. MR. SKEFFINGTON took 110. When Jack Warner sent writer-producers Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein a note inquiring why the picture was behind schedule, their tersely humorous reply was, "Bette Davis is a slow director." Franz Waxman's score was re-recorded by William Stromberg and the Moscow Symphony for a 1999 Marco Polo CD.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 12:11 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1944's HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN, a myriad of Warner Bros. stars appeared as themselves. Dick Erdman was not one of them, but had a minor role as a soldier in the film, which was a top money-maker for Warners. Delmer Daves directed the musical comedy.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 12:46 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In the Errol Flynn war drama OBJECTIVE, BURMA!, Dick Erdman played "'Nebraska' Hooper", one of the soldiers involved in the fight to take back Burma from the Japanese during World War II. Raoul Walsh directed the film, which was criticized for giving short shrift to the British, Chinese, and Indian soldiers who made up the majority of the Allied combatants in that campaign. Franz Waxman's Oscar-nominated score was re-recorded by William Stromberg and the Moscow Symphony for a 2000 Marco Polo CD. Waxman lost the Oscar to Miklos Rozsa for SPELLBOUND. Dick Erdman (second from left) with Errol Flynn (holding radio) in OBJECTIVE, BURMA!    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 12:54 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) NIGHT AND DAY was the 1946 fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter (Cary Grant), from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success in the 1940s. Dick Erdman had a bit part as a music store custormer. Michael Curtiz directed the film. Ray Heindorf arranged and conducted the musical numbers, while Max Steiner provided incidental background music. In 1951, David Rose And His Orchestra created a 10-inch LP called "A Cole Porter Review (Songs And Scenes From The Life Of The Composer As Presented By Warner Brothers In Their Technicolor Production "Night And Day")"    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 1:18 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In DECEPTION, a piano teacher (Bette Davis) believes that her fiancé (Paul Henreid) was killed on the battlefield. When he miraculously returns, they decide to marry, but are threatened by a wealthy, egotistical composer-cellist (Claude Rains), whom the piano teacher started dating after she became convinced her love had died. Dick Erdman had a small role as student "Jerry Spencer." Shura Cherassky played the piano during Davis' solo, even though Davis, who had played piano as a child, practiced the piece for three hours a day in order to perform credibly on film. During the cello-playing scenes, Paul Henreid's hands were tied behind his back and two actual cellists were used in the close shots--one placed his right hand through Henreid's right sleeve and worked the bow; the other placed his left arm through Henreid's left sleeve and did the fingering. Irving Rapper directed the 1946 film. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score was re-recorded by William Stromberg and the Moscow Symphony for a 2007 Naxos CD.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 1:42 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In NOBODY LIVES FOREVER, ex-GI "Nick Blake" (John Garfield) gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow (Geraldine Fitzgerald), but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts (George Coulouris and George Tobias). Dick Erdman had a bit part as the bellboy at The Marwood Arms hotel. Jean Negulesco directed the 1946 crime drama. Adolph Deutsch's score has not had a release.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 1:50 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Although by its title and advertising it could be mistaken for a romantic comedy, 1949's EASY LIVING was a drama. RKO borrowed Victor Mature from Twentieth Century-Fox for the production and Lucille Ball and Lizabeth Scott from Hal Wallis' company. Scott played the wife of veteran pro quarterback Mature, who finds his career threatened after he starts suffering from dizzy spells. Dick Erdman had a supporting role as "Buddy Morgan" in the film. Roy Webb provided the unreleased score.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 2:22 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In his motion picture debut, Marlon Brando played "Ken 'Bud' Wilocek", a paralyzed war veteran who tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs. He is one of THE MEN who suffer the after effects of World War II. At the paraplegic ward at a hospital in his hometown, Bud meets "Leo" (Richard Erdman), a fellow patient. Erdman, now being billed as "Richard," received his first poster credit for this film. While shooting THE MEN, Brando stayed in the one bedroom apartment of Erdman. Brando slept on the couch and was a voracious eater. According to biographer Peter Manso, Brando, who was being paid $40,000 for his role, never offered to help with expenses or restock the refrigerator for Erdman, who was being paid only $5000. Fred Zinnemann directed the 1950 Stanley Kramer production. A three-minute cue from Dimitri Tiomkin's score was included in a 1957 Dot LP, "Backgrounds for Brando," recorded by Elmer Bernstein. The album was re-issued on CD in 2004 by Spanish label Blue Moon.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 3:23 AM     By:   Ray Faiola   (Member) Erdman had a significant role in THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT in a scene that elevated the film from pure farce (in much the same manner as the scene with the refugee mother and daughter in the Ford Theater radio version). However, the sequence was cut and Erdman's soldier character did not appear in the final release.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 7:34 AM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) That poster (for The Men), which I'd never seen before, must rank among the most wildly inappropriate in Hollywood history. The movie is set primarily in a hospital ward where most of the characters are amputees or paraplegics in wheelchairs. I don't recall Brando or Wright or anybody else engaging in that sort of torrid embrace.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 9:29 AM     By:   Nightingale   (Member) Was also in "Stalog 17" and an episode of Hogan's Heroes.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 9:51 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) He was very enjoyable, especially in playing a character you just wanted to grab by the neck and aaaarrrrgghhh! His role as Col. French in Tora! Tora! Tora! was classic, when Lt. Col. Bratton (E.G. Marshall) comes rushing into his office with a message about an impending attack and the lackadaisical attitude of Erdman's character: Bratton: "Ed, here's a message; I need this typed up immediately!" French: "Riiight. Umm... the General's handwriting - hard to read. You're going to have to help me out with this, Rufe." - in other words, you type, I'll send...whenever. It made you wish he'd been onboard the Arizona. He was also in some Perry Mason episodes and was great as well. RIP    Posted:   Mar 18, 2019 - 11:33 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) That poster (for The Men), which I'd never seen before, must rank among the most wildly inappropriate in Hollywood history. The movie is set primarily in a hospital ward where most of the characters are amputees or paraplegics in wheelchairs. I don't recall Brando or Wright or anybody else engaging in that sort of torrid embrace. I had the same feeling when I first saw that poster. When THE MEN was re-released in 1957 by NTA, it came with a new advertising campaign and a new title. This poster's tagline is a little closer to the truth of what the film was about, but both the title and the artwork make it appear as if the film is a war epic. The opening credits for THE MEN include the following written dedication: "In all wars, since the beginning of history, there have been men who fought twice. The first time they battled with club, sword or machine gun. The second time they had none of these weapons. Yet, this by far was the greatest battle...This is the story of such a group of men. To them this film is dedicated."     Non-Film Score Discussion: Richard Erdman dies    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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