That leaves The Beaver and Opie
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 24, 2024 7:52 PM |
Darryl Hickman only appeared in three episodes of "Dobie Gillis," OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 24, 2024 8:02 PM |
Be comforted. There are still some Mouseketeers out there.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 24, 2024 8:03 PM |
And Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka and Fabian (screaming my head off)!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 24, 2024 8:06 PM |
Yeah R 2...but he was also the head producer
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 24, 2024 8:16 PM |
His brother, Dwayne Hickman, passed away January 9, 2022 at age 87.
Darryl was 92.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 24, 2024 8:25 PM |
No comment from Susan Dey yet.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 24, 2024 8:26 PM |
Will CBS Daytime dedicate an episode of "Love of Life" to him?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 24, 2024 9:24 PM |
Awww. I always liked him. He was born on the same day as my mother.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 24, 2024 10:23 PM |
[quote] No comment from Susan Dey yet.
That joke just never ceases to be funny and fresh.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 24, 2024 11:22 PM |
Op is a bit confused…
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 24, 2024 11:32 PM |
Maynard’s dead, OP.
So is Chatsworth Osbourne Jr, for what it’s worth.
Trivia - Writers used “Osbourne” because it was Bob Denver’s middle name and they thought it was funny. Steve Franken, who played Chatsworth, was the cousin of Al Franken.
Darryl was cute. This is an Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring Darryl. Nehemiah Persoff is also in it, a well known character actor of the 1950s and 1960s who died in 2022 at age 102.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 24, 2024 11:55 PM |
He delivered DL-level snark about Gene Tierney in his DVD commentary to Leave Her to Heaven--but without the wit or eloquence. Tierney was the better person by far, IMO.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 25, 2024 12:04 AM |
My first crush, at three.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 25, 2024 1:01 AM |
Why should Dey comment? She's got it all, yeah, she's got it made
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 25, 2024 1:24 AM |
There's a kind of genius to "Leave Her to Heaven" in that you at least partially sympathize with Gene Tierney's character when she tricks Hickman's character into drowning because he's been so annoying. He's so incredibly needy that he won't even let Cornel Wilde be alone with her on their honeymoon!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 25, 2024 1:32 AM |
R13, what did he say?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 25, 2024 1:36 AM |
Darryl Hickman was good looking almost until the end. 92 years old is a hell of a good run.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 25, 2024 1:49 AM |
Did he drown?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 25, 2024 2:52 AM |
[quote]Trivia - Writers used “Osbourne” because it was Bob Denver’s middle name and they thought it was funny. Steve Franken, who played Chatsworth, was the cousin of Al Franken.
I always thought the name had something to do with the two major streets in the San Fernando Valley: Chatsworth and Osborne (no 'u').
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 25, 2024 2:55 AM |
Those aren’t the two major Valley streets…and they were nothing in 1959.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 25, 2024 3:25 AM |
I didn't mean they were THE major streets -- just major streets in the Valley. Which they were then and still are.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 25, 2024 4:44 AM |
I just saw him in Joe Smith, American.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 25, 2024 4:50 AM |
R13 yes I recall his disparaging comments about Gene's acting. But Darrly was never the movie star she was and not even the TV star his brother was.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 25, 2024 4:53 AM |
His commentary on Leave Her to Heaven was a previous recorded interview that they spliced into the commentary track. That’s why it made no sense in connection with the scene being played out. It was very off putting.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 25, 2024 5:39 AM |
'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis' starring his brother Dwayne, is my earliest recollection of television. Next was 'Leave It to Beaver.'
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 25, 2024 5:45 AM |
R26 - I don't think that's right. I seem to remember him referring to something Gene does in a scene as - gasp - indicating.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 25, 2024 6:55 AM |
Coincidence? I found his commentary so annoying and so disjointed that I went onto a film forum somewhere (this was years ago, I forget) to see if anyone else had a problem with it and someone posted that he’d been interviewed but he wasn’t actually watching the film when it was taped. It was just his recollections of the film.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 25, 2024 7:37 AM |
Odd. I just watched him last week in '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐈𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬' (1946).
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 25, 2024 8:16 AM |
One of my favorite child actors. Over 60 years appearing in nearly 100 films in the industry is noteworthy. Here he is at a still boyish 85 talking about his stint in Tea and Sympathy, his first date with Elizabeth Taylor, and most of his best friends being gay, including Roddy McDowall.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 25, 2024 8:41 AM |
But his take on Tea and Sympathy is wrong because the John Kerr character is not gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 25, 2024 11:49 AM |
Fascinating interview with Robert Osborne, plus Jane Withers, Dickie Moore and Margaret O'Brien.
Jane Withers was a doll.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 25, 2024 12:54 PM |
I was a little kid at the time I saw the Hitchcock episode R12 links to. I was completely surprised by the ending.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 29, 2024 5:33 AM |
Other than June Lockhart, are there any other actors still alive who appeared in films from the 1930s?
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 29, 2024 10:57 AM |
R36, Terry Kilburn, who played Tiny Tim in the 1938 movie version of "A Christmas Carol," in which June Lockhart also appeared (her father played Bob Cratchit), is still alive at 97.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 29, 2024 9:28 PM |
