#luana patten

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Walt Disney showing the SONG OF THE SOUTH storyboards to Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten, 1946.

#walt disney #bobby driscoll #luana patten

[gatutor]

Luana Patten-Steven Marlo-Tom Selden "The young captives" 1959, de Irvin Kershner.

#Luana Patten #Steven Marlo #Tom Selden #Irvin Kershner

[kwebtv]

Character Actress

Luana Patten (July 6, 1938 – May 1, 1996) was an American actress who appeared in films produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Later in life, she played roles in television.

In 1958, Patten portrayed Elizabeth Buckley in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's Cimarron City western television series.

In 1959, she played Abbie Fenton in the episode "Call Your Shot" of Wanted: Dead or Alive, starring Steve McQueen. In that same year, she played Betty in "The Exploding Book", season 7, episode 21 of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" that aired on March 4, 1959; and she played Ruth in "The Ruth Marshall Story" season 3, episode 13 of Wagon Train that aired on December 30, 1959. In the 1960 Season 2, Episode 13 of Rawhide "Incident Of The Druid Curse", she played a dual role of sisters Maeve and Mona Lismore.  She played saloon girl Lorna Medford in the episode "Credit for a Kill" of Bonanza. In 1966 she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Cynthia Perkins in "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal". She also played Mindy McGurney in the television series F Troop, as the daughter of a candidate for mayor, season 2, episode 8, "The Ballot of Corporal Agarn" that aired on October 27, 1966. She appeared as various characters in three episodes of Dragnet between 1967 and 1970. She appeared in the Adam-12 "Log 94: Vengeance" that aired March 7, 1970. She then retired from the film and television industry.

(Wikipedia)

#Character Actress #TV #Luana Patten

[holymovies]

Luana Patten in 'Rock, Pretty Baby!', 1956.

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[fitesorko]

Luana Patten

#luana patten

[bigsadwolfdad]

Luana Patten.

#Luana Patten #pin-up #legs

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Roy Rogers, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, and Trigger in a scene from Melody Time (1948). This is Bob's second honorable mention, after When I Grow Up.

#roy rogers #bobby driscoll #luana patten

[hellooldsmelly]

#Luana patten

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Luana Patten

[twistedtummies2]

Fifteen Days of Disney Magic - Number 15

Welcome to Fifteen Days of Disney Magic! In honor of the company’s 100th Anniversary, I am counting down my Top 15 Favorite Movies from Walt Disney Animation Studios! Today, the countdown begins in earnest! My first entry on the countdown is a package full of fun! Number 15 is…Fun & Fancy Free!

For most people reading, this is likely going to be a surprising pick. While not by any means an atrocious film, “Fun & Fancy Free” is one of the more overlooked features in the Disney canon, and is also often regarded as one of the more confusing. Yet in a weird way, it’s insanely fitting this is the first film to start off this countdown. “Fun & Fancy Free” was released in 1947. It was one of several “package features” Disney produced during the wartime and post-war era. During that time period, it was harder for Walt and the team to make feature length movies, for multiple reasons. The solution was to take various short subjects and string them together into anthology film releases. In the case of this feature, there are two separate stories: one is the well-known “Mickey and the Beanstalk,” which is…exactly what it sounds like. Preceding this is another short entitled “Bongo,” the story of a circus bear who runs away into the wild. (This short was based on a story by Sinclair Lewis.) Both segments were originally planned as standalone movies in their own right (“Bongo” was even considered as a potential sequel to “Dumbo”), but the constraints the studio faced meant they had to be turned into two approximately half-hour-length short subjects, strung together by a framing device in this film. The framing device in question focuses on Jiminy Cricket, as he visits the home of child actress, Luana Patten; it is here that the first short is narrated by singer and actress, Dinah Shore. Jiminy later follows an unknowing Luana to a party hosted by old-time comedian and famed ventriloquist, Edgar Bergen, who tells the second story. While the film is not by any means terrible – if it was, it wouldn’t be on this countdown – I will concede that it is, in several ways, quite dated. Parts of this movie have simply not aged well. This is arguably most visible in the framing device: it’s the cause of most of the confusion for people watching the film. (For just one example, I can’t count how many times people talking about the film ask, “What’s with the weird puppet guy?” when they are introduced to Edgar Bergen in this movie. It’s a question that makes me feel physical pain, I swear.) Combined with the fact that the whole movie is, overall, rather simple and sweet in nature, it’s not surprising that it lacks the popularity of tons of other Disney movies. So, one must ask…why is this in my Top 15, and why would I say it is so perfect to start us off? Well, the reason I love “Fun & Fancy Free” so much is very simple to explain: I grew up with it. This was actually one of the first Disney movies I ever owned as a kid, and I watched it over and over again. It’s influenced me in a lot of ways, and while I recognize its issues…I still find myself revisiting it time and time again. It's a perfect film to start off this countdown because, as I said yesterday, most of the movies on this list are older Disney films: things from the pre-Renaissance era, most of them made when Walt Disney was still alive. Most of the Disney films I watched as a kid were older ones I had on VHS, such as this one.

My family rarely went to the movies to see a lot of the newer releases (at least as far as my memory can recall), and even when we did…to be honest, those one-time events did not leave the impact on me you’d expect. I don’t remember what the first Disney film I saw in theaters was. (I think it MIGHT have been Mulan, but I am not sure.) What left an impact on me were the movies I was able to watch frequently on videotape, and later DVD. And while I certainly had a lot of the newer films, gathering them as they came out – like Pocahontas, Hercules, Tarzan, and so on – the older ones were there, as far as I can recall, practically from the moment I left the womb. Even when they weren’t, they certainly felt like they were! This is also probably why a lot of the modern era movies aren’t in my Top 15: they’re even more recent, and while I HAVE seen many of them in theaters or via streaming, and I have revisited several of them more than once…it’s not the same as a movie you’ve been watching and cherishing in your heart since you were perhaps seven years old, sitting at your Aunt’s house, holding a plush bunny as you stare in wonder at the television screen. THAT, dear friends, is what “Fun & Fancy Free” is to me, and that is all it needs to be in order to make my Top 15. Several other features to come will be very much the same. The countdown has only just started, people! Tomorrow we continue with my 14th Favorite Disney Film! HINT: Two Fabulous Characters for the Price of One.

#disney 100 #disney 100 special #list #countdown #top 15 disney animated movies #fifteen days of disney magic #number 15 #fun and fancy free #bongo #mickey and the beanstalk

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For Vincente Minnelli’s HOME FROM THE HILL (1960), Eleanor Parker, George Hamilton, Robert Mitchum, Luana Patten, and George Peppard.

#eleanor parker #george hamilton #robert mitchum #luana patten #george peppard

[gatutor]

George Peppard-Luana Patten "Con él llegó el escándalo" (Home from the hill) 1960, de Vincente Minnelli.

#Luana Patten #George Peppard #Vincente Minnelli

[byneddiedingo]

Fun and Fancy Free (1947) Cast: Edgar Bergen, Luana Patten; voices of Dinah Shore, Cliff Edwards, Billy Gilbert, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Anita Gordon. Screenplay: Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Ted Sears, Lance Nolley, Eldon Dedini, Tom Oreb; "Bongo" based on a story by Sinclair Lewis. Production supervisor: Ben Sharpsteen. Film editing: Jack Bachom. Music: Eliot Daniel, Paul J. Smith, Oliver Wallace. Fun and Fancy Free, which comprises two featurettes, Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk, is hardly prime Disney, but I cherish it for featuring the voice of a now underrated singer, Dinah Shore. (If you don't think she was good, check out her holding her own with two of the greatest voices of the 20th century, Joan Sutherland and Ella Fitzgerald, in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Three Little Maids From School" on YouTube.) Bongo, though charmingly narrated by Shore, is a sort of reworking of Dumbo (1941), about the liberation of a circus animal, and it gets a little dull when Bongo finds love in the form of the flirtatious Lulubelle, with the usual kitschy Valentine motifs that Disney animators were so fond of. Mickey and the Beanstalk is better, with some witty animation when the beanstalk grows through the night, lifting the sleeping Mickey, Donald, and Goofy high into the air, dumping them from their beds but swiftly rescuing them. There's also some funny stuff when Goofy finds himself atop an enormous blob of gelatin on the giant's dining table, and Billy Gilbert does some great voice work as Willie the Giant. The section is framed by a live action sequence featuring a party thrown by Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd for the very young Luana Patten, who had just made her debut in Song of the South (1946) and would work for Disney till the onset of puberty. Jiminy Cricket serves as a kind of bridge between the live action and the cartoon, but only Charlie McCarthy's wisecracks add much to a fairly unnecessary frame story. Both of the featured stories had originally been planned for feature-length films, but had been shelved during the war and suffered cutbacks during the uncertainty about how the studio would fare in the postwar years.

#Fun and Fancy Free #Dinah Shore

[holymovies]

Luana Patten and Sal Mineo in 'Rock, Pretty Baby', 1956.

#luana patten #sal mineo

[fitesorko]

Luana Patten

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[bigsadwolfdad]

#Luana Patten #pin-up #legs