Fiolar,

Like Lanfranc I'd like to say "Thanks for the Memories." I was born in 1941. There are a lot of familiar and fondly remembered names on your list.

Here are a few of the memories and associations. (I'm not trying to be comprehensive, just to flesh out Fiolar's list with some personal memories):

Ray Walston has a place in my heart for his performance as the devil in the movie version of "Damn Yankees." He was a royally entertaining devil. I can still hear him chuckling evilly as he sang "Those Were the Good Old Days," about famous villains of history.

Dale Evans of course was Roy Rogers' wife. She was warm and pretty and sang well and looked cute in her cowgirl outfits. But even when I was a kid, the thing I like most about her was that she and Roy had a house full of adopted children.

Al Hibbler was a fine musician but what I remember is that he recorded a hit version of "Unchained Melody." My son and his friends like Unchained Melody and I keep telling them they should hear Hibbler's version.

Our family watched Arlene Francis on the TV show "What's My Line," where the panelists asked questions to figure out the guest's occupation. She was a witty and sharp minded woman. Perry Como was another TV favorite for my whole family, natch - he's Italian, isn't he?

Frank Slaughter wrote very popular historical and other novels which seem incredibly naive and pompous today. I loved 'em when I was fifteen. Don't think I could wade through one today.

Imogene Coca co-starred with Sid Caesar in "The Show of Shows." A face like a monkey and a great comedy sense.

Carroll O'Connor played Archie Bunker in "All in the Family." Classic stuff. I think we watched every episode for the whole run of the show.

To me, Anthony Quinn will always be Zorba the Greek. I had (maybe still have?) the record album, with some of Quinn's best lines from the movie starting off each cut of music. "Am I married? Am I not a man? And is not a man stupid? Of course I'm married. Wife. Kids. The whole catastrophe." ... and ... "Of course that woman is trouble. To be a man is to unbuckle your belt and look for trouble." Sorry, of course they were chauvinistic. Zorba was chauvinistic. They still make me smile, roughly 40 years later.

There are lots more memories in that list, but this is already long enough. Thanks again, Fiolar.

Rita