Famous faces, obscure names

[petek]

And another winner Allan, the last one above is Agnes er Endora. And you get an added bonus if you know where the name Endora is derived from.

 

[eluxomarty]

the picture of the blonde

Thats not Sandra Gould who played the second Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched is it?

 

[fixerman]

the picture of the blonde

Looks like Ethel of I Love Lucy to me.

 

[filterflo]

Actually thats Barbara Pepper, AKA Doris Ziffle on Green Acres. Character actress, started as a Goldwyn Girl with Lucille Ball. She and Lucy were life long friends and Barbara was originally thought of for the part of Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. A chronic drinking problem made Lucy nix using her for a permanent spot on her TV show, but Barbara did make single apperances several times on the series. She was also in a bit part in 1954's A Star Is Born with Judy Garland but was cut out of the final picture. Her voice and single image is on the restored 1983 version. Barbara also had a great role in the mid 40's with Marjorie Main and Fred MacMurry in "Murder He Says"........a wacky kind of off beat comedy about some crazy hillbillys, murder, and such.

 

[petek]

And another winner on Barbara Pepper.

No takers on where Endora's name came from ?

 

[retromom]

Pete - do tell!

Just where did Endora's name come from? Not to offend anyone (it ain't my mother's name), but it is so ghastly, someone had to make it up.

 

[whirlcool]

The origin of the name Endora

Endora, derived from Pandora and her box of evil!

Agnes Moorehead was one of my favourite actresses. Did you know that as part of the Mercury Players she was part of the team of radio actors/actress that put on the famous 1939 War Of The Worlds radio show that scared everyone on the east coast?

I actually got a chance to meet her around 1973 or so. She was travelling to Madison, WS to see some relatives. Little known fact, she absolutely hated flying! It scared her to death! She was a big fan of rail travel. I told her about how in our High School Drama class we learned about early radio broadcasts and we studied her and Bea Benadaret's participation in such. Her response,"well it's nice to know that people remember me for other things besides Bewitched!"
A few months later she passed away. To tell you the truth, when I met her she was already pretty frail.

 

[petek]

Nope, it's not from Pandora's box.

Hint. a famous play set in medieval Scotland written by the worlds most famous English playright. I don't want just the name of the play but where her name came from in the play.
No half answers.

 

[air-waycharlie]

Agnes Moorehead

If you like Agnes,you MUST see the film "Caged" with Agnes as the women's prison's matron. Eleanor Parker was the lead character. The main woman guard, (whose name escapes me at the moment), is realllly something too!

Anybody here ever see it?

 

[air-waycharlie]

Update on

Hope Emerson played guard, "Evelyn Harper". Eleanor Parker portrayed, "Marie Allen" and Agnes Moorehead was, "Matron Ruth Benton".

A must see for Agnes fans and probably disturbing for it's day since it was released in 1950.

 

[petek]

Well I see we had no one awake during English lit class so here is the answer regarding the name Endora.
Act I Scene 1 Shakespeares Macbeth opens with
the 3 witches of Endor
Bubble bubble toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble

 

[petek]

actually it's
double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. LOL

 

[petek]

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Yes air-waycharlie Ive seen Caged

And now I'm going to shave your head and throw you into
solitary!!!!!!!!

 

[westyslantfront]

I saw Caged years ago...a very young Eleanor Parker...she came a long way to play the Baroness in The Sound Of Music.

 

[air-waycharlie]

Eleanor Parker

Amen.........I thought the same thing too. But even a Barnoness has to pay the rent.