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Model: Skye McLeod

Fairywren

Bento Mesh Head: LeLutka Chloe

Bento Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara

Face/Body Applier: JUMO

Body Tatt: Music Box (Pink) by [White~Widow]

Hair: Kai by Blueberry

Outfit: Je suis Jolie (white) by Les Sucreries de Fairy The GachaLand event starting July 1st to July 30th (available in blue, green, purple, & white)

Partei Stiletto (rose) skate by Hucci

High Waisted Tights appliers: Izzie's

SLC Balloons + HUD ~Daydream~ by Body Language (I changed the colors in PS to match my outfit)

SIM: Flotsam Beach @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flotsam%20Beach/16/99/22

With impact imminent this Osprey has locked onto its prey and prepares to break the water surface to make a grab for a 2lb trout from the Scottish Lochin.

After failing to get a grip on her target in the Lochin EJ lifts off from the water and heads across the Lochin above her own mirror image on a very still water at Gordon Mcleods excellent hide in Aviemore.

They`re back! Yep Osprey season is here again so no doubt a few early starts ahead of me in the coming couple of months to get out and catch some of these guys as they begin to provide for newly hatched Osprey chicks in the Scottish Highlands.Once again the setting being Gordon Mcleods hide in the middle of Aviemore for a 5am rendezvous.A slow morning but it was still early in the season. Here is a link to Gordons hide www.aviemoreospreys.co.uk/

The osprey never really seemed to have a very good hold of this trout and in this image you can see it is already beginning to lose it`s grip and seconds later the fish had been dropped in the long grass next to the Lochin.

Male Osprey heading off with its catch through the early morning mist which was hanging over the pond at Gordon McLeod's hide in Aviemore.

This was my first encounter with an Osprey as it fished and what a fantastic experience it was.

Just the first of many during a brilliant week spent in Scotland.

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a very misty cold morning yesterday at Gordon Mcleod's Aviemore Osprey hide, fantastic place & his new hide I think is superb, if only the Osprey's would fish after 8am or even 7 would be good, heavy mist lifting off the water, dark, coupled with an iso of 5000 doesn't make for great photos, however I will still be back.

After 2 diving attempts to make a catch this Osprey finally came up trumps with a nice trout,unfortunately it would drop the trout seconds later leaving it lying on the edge of the lochin.

After failing to grab on its previous dive into the water this osprey flew around again and this time came up with his reward,the best light of the day at the end of the session.

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An early morning catch for this Osprey in the Scottish Highlands as it makes of with a trout in Aviemore on a still morning.Taken at the excellent hide of Gordon Mcleod in Aviemore.

a very misty cold morning yesterday at Gordon Mcleod's Aviemore Osprey hide, fantastic place & his new hide I think is superb, if only the Osprey's would fish after 8am or even 7 would be good, heavy mist lifting off the water, dark, coupled with an iso of 5000 doesn't make for great photos, however I will still be back. This is white EJ the most famous Osprey in Scotland, now 19 years of age & resident female of Loch Garten, many thanks to my Nephew Sam for editing this shot in Photoshop which is much to complicated for me, however maybe now I'll have to take lessons.

Nothing like an early morning Osprey photography session in the Scottish Highlands.Taken at the excellent hide of Gordon Mcleod in Aviemore.

This Osprey begins to get its body into position for striking through the water surface as it targets an unsuspecting Rainbow Trout in the Lochin at Gordon Mcleod`s Hide in Aviemore.

This Osprey flies off with a trout caught just in front of our position in the hide,although the catch itself wasn`t ideal (hit the water ass on to us!) it did make amends by then circling around in front of us to show of its catch!

Inverbrackie, South Australia

Former Inverbrackie Caledonian Church.

Land was slowly taken up here from the early 1840s. One of the first residents was Dr William Innes, a Scot who named the locality Inverbrackie after his home in Scotland near Invergordon which is across the Firth of Moray from Nairn. The Scottish McLeods had owned Inverbrackie or Inverbreakie (spellings vary) castle from the 1300s. They were related to the Innes family. In 1699 the McLeods sold Inverbrackie Castle to Sir William Gordon who was part of the Earls of Sutherland family. Sir William Gordon renamed the castle Invergordon, hence the name of today’s Scottish town. In 1873 the remains of the 14th century castle were absorbed into a newly constructed Elizabethan style mansion. Unfortunately this was totally destroyed by fire in 1928 and the castle grounds are now the Inverbreakie Golf course on the outskirts of Invergordon. Dr Innes, James Johnston of Oakbank and others met at the tiny Payne’s Inn at Inverbrackie SA in 1846 and decided to ask the colonial government for a land grant to establish a Church of Scotland there. They got a free grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of the church. The Scottish church subsequently opened in 1849 and Dr Innes was the first burial in the attached cemetery that year. The church was also used as a school as the Scots placed great importance on education. 24 children were attending the Inverbrackie School by 1851. The school closed in 1857 when the first Woodside School opened. In 1852 parishioners guaranteed a stipend to entice John Macbean from Scotland to come out as the local Presbyterian minister. A manse was built on the glebe lands for him. In 1868 Macbean got the Inverbrackie church into the Presbyterian Union of SA. He finished up as minister at Inverbrackie in 1884. Later ministers served both the Inverbrackie and Woodside Presbyterian churches. Reverend Stewart was the last minister to serve Inverbrackie between 1922 and 1926 but it is not known how often services were conducted there as the Presbyterian church in Woodside was the main one from 1878. The manse and glebe lands were sold in 1925 and the church closed permanently soon after. Miraculously this 1849 church still stands on lands adjacent to Woodside Army Barracks but it is covered with ivy. It deserves restoration by the government.

A frustrating start to my 2019 Osprey season having just had a couple of real poor mornings in the last couple of days,however the previous week I managed to capture this bird on the last dive of the morning with the light in just the right place as it takes to the air with a freshly caught trout.

This juvenile Grey Heron carefully stalks the fish in the lochin that the Ospreys use barely causing a ripple before moments later making a failed attempt to make a catch.

Blue AU6 in the final moments before impacting the water of the lochin with talons outstretched,the splashes on the water are those fish which realise whats about to happen!

1 of 6 birds which hit the Lochin at Gordon Mcleods hide in Aviemore on this particular morning,unfortunately an early morning fog caused by the warm weather and heavy rain the night before meant 4 of the 6 dives were in poor conditions but all you really ever want is 1 right on the money,and this bird was head on entering the water and then flew towards us before turning. Also a test for my new Canon 1d X

An almost perfect mirror image of Blue XD as he begins to lift from the water at Gordon Mcleods hide in Aviemore,Blue XD is one of the regular morning visitors to the Lochin,and thankfully you can still get some nice shots where the recently added transmitter on his back isn`t visible!

Inverbrackie, South Australia

Former Inverbrackie Caledonian Church.

Land was slowly taken up here from the early 1840s. One of the first residents was Dr William Innes, a Scot who named the locality Inverbrackie after his home in Scotland near Invergordon which is across the Firth of Moray from Nairn. The Scottish McLeods had owned Inverbrackie or Inverbreakie (spellings vary) castle from the 1300s. They were related to the Innes family. In 1699 the McLeods sold Inverbrackie Castle to Sir William Gordon who was part of the Earls of Sutherland family. Sir William Gordon renamed the castle Invergordon, hence the name of today’s Scottish town. In 1873 the remains of the 14th century castle were absorbed into a newly constructed Elizabethan style mansion. Unfortunately this was totally destroyed by fire in 1928 and the castle grounds are now the Inverbreakie Golf course on the outskirts of Invergordon. Dr Innes, James Johnston of Oakbank and others met at the tiny Payne’s Inn at Inverbrackie SA in 1846 and decided to ask the colonial government for a land grant to establish a Church of Scotland there. They got a free grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of the church. The Scottish church subsequently opened in 1849 and Dr Innes was the first burial in the attached cemetery that year. The church was also used as a school as the Scots placed great importance on education. 24 children were attending the Inverbrackie School by 1851. The school closed in 1857 when the first Woodside School opened. In 1852 parishioners guaranteed a stipend to entice John Macbean from Scotland to come out as the local Presbyterian minister. A manse was built on the glebe lands for him. In 1868 Macbean got the Inverbrackie church into the Presbyterian Union of SA. He finished up as minister at Inverbrackie in 1884. Later ministers served both the Inverbrackie and Woodside Presbyterian churches. Reverend Stewart was the last minister to serve Inverbrackie between 1922 and 1926 but it is not known how often services were conducted there as the Presbyterian church in Woodside was the main one from 1878. The manse and glebe lands were sold in 1925 and the church closed permanently soon after. Miraculously this 1849 church still stands on lands adjacent to Woodside Army Barracks but it is covered with ivy. It deserves restoration by the government.

Less than a second later and this Osprey had hit the water and was grabbing onto a trout with its Talons,taken at Gordon Mcleods Hide in Aviemore,this was the first dive of the morning to be relatively mist/fog free and it was facing right at us.

Ospreys in action in the highlands of Scotland,these images were taken at Gordon Mcleods hide in Aviemore. I don`t usually head up until July/August when the birds are usually more active but I just had a feeling with a good weather forecast it might be worth it. 7 dives hitting the water and a few false dives I later I was more than a happy boy.

Osprey Blue AU6 struggles to get to grips with his catch while trying to fly off,in the end he ended up having to release it to live for another day.

A boom of Herons at Gordons location this year has resulted in a couple of juvenile Herons hanging around and putting in appearance`s during my visit to the hide,ironic this is the shot I would love to get of an Osprey with its Talons breaking the water surface!

Looking like its dancing on the surface of the Lochan as the bird prepares to take off with a trout.Taken a couple of years ago at Gordon Mcleods hide in Aviemore.

Ospreys in action in the highlands of Scotland,these images were taken at Gordon Mcleods hide in Aviemore. I don`t usually head up until July/August when the birds are usually more active but I just had a feeling with a good weather forecast it might be worth it. 7 dives hitting the water and a few false dives I later I was more than a happy boy.

Ospreys in action in the highlands of Scotland,these images were taken at Gordon Mcleods hide in Aviemore. I don`t usually head up until July/August when the birds are usually more active but I just had a feeling with a good weather forecast it might be worth it. 7 dives hitting the water and a few false dives I later I was more than a happy boy.

Inverbrackie, South Australia

Former Inverbrackie Caledonian Church.

Land was slowly taken up here from the early 1840s. One of the first residents was Dr William Innes, a Scot who named the locality Inverbrackie after his home in Scotland near Invergordon which is across the Firth of Moray from Nairn. The Scottish McLeods had owned Inverbrackie or Inverbreakie (spellings vary) castle from the 1300s. They were related to the Innes family. In 1699 the McLeods sold Inverbrackie Castle to Sir William Gordon who was part of the Earls of Sutherland family. Sir William Gordon renamed the castle Invergordon, hence the name of today’s Scottish town. In 1873 the remains of the 14th century castle were absorbed into a newly constructed Elizabethan style mansion. Unfortunately this was totally destroyed by fire in 1928 and the castle grounds are now the Inverbreakie Golf course on the outskirts of Invergordon. Dr Innes, James Johnston of Oakbank and others met at the tiny Payne’s Inn at Inverbrackie SA in 1846 and decided to ask the colonial government for a land grant to establish a Church of Scotland there. They got a free grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of the church. The Scottish church subsequently opened in 1849 and Dr Innes was the first burial in the attached cemetery that year. The church was also used as a school as the Scots placed great importance on education. 24 children were attending the Inverbrackie School by 1851. The school closed in 1857 when the first Woodside School opened. In 1852 parishioners guaranteed a stipend to entice John Macbean from Scotland to come out as the local Presbyterian minister. A manse was built on the glebe lands for him. In 1868 Macbean got the Inverbrackie church into the Presbyterian Union of SA. He finished up as minister at Inverbrackie in 1884. Later ministers served both the Inverbrackie and Woodside Presbyterian churches. Reverend Stewart was the last minister to serve Inverbrackie between 1922 and 1926 but it is not known how often services were conducted there as the Presbyterian church in Woodside was the main one from 1878. The manse and glebe lands were sold in 1925 and the church closed permanently soon after. Miraculously this 1849 church still stands on lands adjacent to Woodside Army Barracks but it is covered with ivy. It deserves restoration by the government.

BLUE XD prepares to punce on an unsuspecting fish on Gordon Mcleods Lochin in Aviemore,BLUE XD is 1 of Gordon`s most regular morning visitors and invariably has given me some of my best shots there.

For the half-marathon (21.1 km) results and photos...here are the local (Ottawa & area) participants -- sorted by cities and first name -- in the September 19, 2010, Canada Army Run held in Ottawa, Ontario. There were 5,452 runners in the 21.1 km race. Thank-you to Sportstats.

Click here and enter the bib numbers for the full individual race results.

Enter the bib numbers for race photos here.

Lists of local half-marathon race participants:

Part A. Ottawa (Click here.)

Part B. Other Communities (Alexandria to Navan) (see below)

Part C. Other Communities (Nepean to Woodlawn) (Click here.)

Part B:

2262…Cathy Maclean…..Alexandria

6383…John Zawada…..Alexandria

5960…Sue Duval…..Alexandria

1898…Marc Pominville…..Alfred

1330…Adam Hamilton…..Almonte

4284…Al Jones…..Almonte

6326…Alyssa Flaherty-Spence…..Almonte

4331…Bob Mosher…..Almonte

4272…Bob Thomson…..Almonte

5135…Brenda Swrjeski…..Almonte

3318…Christina Kealey…..Almonte

4509…Daphne Lainson…..Almonte

4201…Elaine Azulay…..Almonte

1145…Jenny Sheffield…..Almonte

4483…Judi Sutherland…..Almonte

918…Kathleen Everett…..Almonte

3826…Linda Melbrew…..Almonte

1423…Mark Blaskie…..Almonte

5011…Sherry Burke…..Almonte

5956…Tanya Yuill…..Almonte

3173…Bette-Anne Dodge…..Arnprior

2116…Cody Wise…..Arnprior

1093…Constance Palubiskie…..Arnprior

339…Emily Sheffield…..Arnprior

2067…Jaclyn Patry…..Arnprior

1317…Jane Dowd…..Arnprior

3849…Keri-Lyn Young…..Arnprior

2229…Kevin Smallshaw…..Arnprior

4945…Laura Stellato…..Arnprior

5325…Lynda Jamieson…..Arnprior

4990…Stephen West…..Arnprior

3809…Tara Beselaere…..Arnprior

447…Tracey Harrod…..Arnprior

2255…Mark Peterkins…..Ashton

5359…Paul Burke…..Ashton

3637…Shelley Rossetti…..Ashton

5603…Angela Hartley…..Athens

1188…Christina Ward…..Athens

2703…Desirae Heine…..Athens

981…Heather Johnston…..Athens

3268…Kevin Hartley…..Athens

2379…Annie Delisle…..Aylmer

4017…Chelsea Honeyman…..Aylmer

212…David Michaud…..Aylmer

4216…Francois Camire…..Aylmer

3773…Gerald Lewis…..Aylmer

3871…Julie Reska…..Aylmer

4218…Philippe Camire…..Aylmer

2419…Steve Faulkner…..Aylmer

2740…Alison Seely…..Beachburg

6424…Jacquelyn Macgregor…..Beachburg

1320…Lara Mylly…..Beachburg

364…Michelle Ward…..Beachburg

4416…Natalie Frodsham…..Beachburg

1695…Scott Blain…..Beachburg

2292…Wanda Gagnon…..Beachburg

1004…Luc Lalonde…..Bourget

2875…Pierre Lacasse…..Bourget

5307…Stephen Barry Plotz…..Brockviile

4940…Brenda Young…..Brockville

5346…Brian Kendel…..Brockville

4240…David Cavanagh…..Brockville

4939…Katelyn Cormier…..Brockville

4970…Monica Griffin…..Brockville

5186…Ruth McFarlane…..Brockville

5137…Sheila Appleton…..Brockville

6195…Tina Melbourne…..Brockville

3723…Lynda Cavanagh…..Brockvillle

3087…Clayton Cameron…..Brooklin

5146…Benoit Gosselin…..Cantley

6294…Camille Flipot…..Cantley

4937…Charles Francoeur…..Cantley

6335…Daryl Hargitt…..Cantley

4371…Helene Legault - Cote…..Cantley

6295…Jacky Lepeintre…..Cantley

663…Luc Rodier…..Cantley

1769…Mark Avon…..Cantley

4221…Patricia Robertson…..Cantley

2277…Rene Morin…..Cantley

5401…Richard Bisson…..Cantley

6237…Sylvie Rioux…..Cantley

5212…Danny Gagne…..Cardinal

2575…Stephen Bygott…..Cardinal

1656…Bill Bowers…..Carleton Place

449…Boyd Lemna…..Carleton Place

2520…Cheryl Smith…..Carleton Place

450…Christine Lemna…..Carleton Place

6103…Eric Gervais…..Carleton Place

156…Ivan Straznicky…..Carleton Place

2525…Jennifer Andress…..Carleton Place

5403…Jennifer Blackburn…..Carleton Place

280…Jennifer Derksen…..Carleton Place

541…Jodi Beyer…..Carleton Place

3246…John Graham…..Carleton Place

1722…Kerry Powell…..Carleton Place

991…Leanna Knox…..Carleton Place

148…Lee Warywoda…..Carleton Place

1448…Lois Ann Graham…..Carleton Place

5322…M Smith…..Carleton Place

1449…Mac Graham…..Carleton Place

440…Mary Anne Melvin…..Carleton Place

2595…Murray Dawes…..Carleton Place

3325…Roger Kinsman…..Carleton Place

5822…Ron Romain…..Carleton Place

73…Steve Pentz…..Carleton Place

2287…Timothy Day…..Carleton Place

2868…Tom Kemp…..Carleton Place

4931…Tracy Pentz…..Carleton Place

1655…Trent Bowers…..Carleton Place

4922…Kathleen Mongeon…..Carlsbad Springs

5133…Alain Drainville…..Carp

5067…Alison Green…..Carp

4047…Anna Li…..Carp

1235…Carol O'malley…..Carp

4619…Dayle Mulligan…..Carp

6303…Elizabeth Anvari…..Carp

3201…Elysa Esposito…..Carp

1536…Eric Janveaux…..Carp

3483…Gerard Rumleskie…..Carp

5427…Hans Buser…..Carp

2969…Ileana Tierney…..Carp

682…Jed Byrtus…..Carp

81…Marc Brisebois…..Carp

4544…Olivia Nixon…..Carp

4014…Raina Ho…..Carp

1429…Raymond Moffatt…..Carp

4803…Stephanie Cowan…..Carp

1510…Tracy Shouldice…..Carp

5216…Paul Jarmul…..Cary

1165…Bob Sweetlove…..Casselman

2720…Caroline Ranger…..Casselman

2152…Gillian Castonguay…..Casselman

5880…Mary Sweetlove…..Casselman

2374…Maurice Bonneville…..Casselman

4754…Michelle Phillips…..Casselman

2226…Richard Kosnaskie…..Casselman

2766…Andy Best…..Chalk River

2725…Brian Jozefowicz…..Chalk River

471…Janine Forcier…..Chalk River

6201…Jayson Murray…..Chalk River

1584…Michelle Cameron…..Chalk River

6252…Willard Smith…..Chalk River

2787…Ariane Brunet…..Chelsea

1974…Barbara Falardeau…..Chelsea

2230…Brad Smith…..Chelsea

1583…Catherine Verreault…..Chelsea

360…Christine Tardiff…..Chelsea

108…Daniel Olson…..Chelsea

2553…David Hearnden…..Chelsea

1930…David Hetherington…..Chelsea

529…Dodie Payne…..Chelsea

3294…Ian Hunter…..Chelsea

6099…James Galipeau…..Chelsea

2758…Jeff Bardsley…..Chelsea

2584…John Fahey…..Chelsea

1581…Lisa Kinloch…..Chelsea

1430…Lise Marshall…..Chelsea

256…Marie Ethier-Roy…..Chelsea

5316…Michelle Caesar Findlater…..Chelsea

5411…Murielle Brazeau…..Chelsea

6468…Phil Wright…..Chelsea

3070…Raymond Brunet…..Chelsea

8…Richard Gilker…..Chelsea

6467…Sarah Hebert…..Chelsea

5143…Serge Couture…..Chelsea

5420…Sophie Brunet…..Chelsea

189…Yvan Dion…..Chelsea

1622…Matthew Campbell…..Chesterville

1672…Sarah Derks…..Chesterville

1778…James Thibault…..Clarence Rockland

1458…Donelda Pleau…..Constance Bay

2441…Lee Saunders…..Constance Bay

3215…Abigail Fontaine…..Cornwall

2634…Andre Brunet…..Cornwall

6479…Carolyn McIntosh…..Cornwall

4097…Cathy Richer…..Cornwall

4276…Christine Marceau…..Cornwall

5328…Elizabeth Wattie…..Cornwall

4228…Gilles Gagnier…..Cornwall

4965…Jennifer Deschamps…..Cornwall

6079…Jessica Eamer…..Cornwall

2455…Jill Grant…..Cornwall

4412…Joanne Filliol…..Cornwall

2953…John St. Marseille…..Cornwall

4011…Kathleen Hay…..Cornwall

4930…Lise Irwin…..Cornwall

834…Marc Besner…..Cornwall

2683…Marc Poirier…..Cornwall

266…Marilyn Rand…..Cornwall

3795…Mike Cowden…..Cornwall

3118…Patrick Clarke…..Cornwall

2506…Sandra Contant…..Cornwall

200…Scott Heath…..Cornwall

6435…Sharron Miller…..Cornwall

756…Shawn Crockett…..Cornwall

5662…Stacie King…..Cornwall

5318…Tanya Deeks…..Cornwall

3454…Terry Quenneville…..Cornwall

1335…Thomas Leroux…..Cornwall

4929…Yvonne Commodore…..Cornwall

5952…Melissa Wren…..Cumberland

2138…Rich Boughen…..Cumberland

517…Shelley Slocombe…..Cumberland

159…Ted Lowther…..Cumberland

1961…Greg Mark…..Deep River

5863…John Speirs…..Deep River

1311…Murray Wright…..Deep River

810…Norman Spinks…..Deep River

5371…Christine Andrus…..Dunrobin

4232…Debra Gassewitz…..Dunrobin

5458…Gordon Colquhoun…..Dunrobin

5484…James Dalziel…..Dunrobin

3088…Janet Campbell…..Dunrobin

1511…Jennifer Damiano…..Dunrobin

811…Joanne Montgomery…..Dunrobin

4838…Laurie Spratt…..Dunrobin

5009…Linda Dillon…..Dunrobin

692…Lois Jacobs…..Dunrobin

2078…Marnie Armstrong…..Dunrobin

1625…Matt Gassewitz…..Dunrobin

2515…Neil Wright…..Dunrobin

5459…Pamela Colquhoun…..Dunrobin

2355…Paul Lefebvre…..Dunrobin

2079…Robert Armstrong…..Dunrobin

1802…Wayne Carroll…..Dunrobin

3786…Ben Prince…..Edwards

381…Erin Searson Clouthier…..Eganville

1565…Mike Searson…..Eganville

6073…Garrett Doreleyers…..Elgin

4372…Marianne Lowry…..Elgin

4363…Shannon Clair…..Elgin

2612…Andy Dalcourt…..Embrun

1214…Bertran Labonte…..Embrun

1742…Camilien Lamadeleine…..Embrun

5155…Caroline Poulin…..Embrun

453…Cheryl Desroches…..Embrun

1471…David Ryan…..Embrun

188…Eric Deschamps…..Embrun

639…Guy Gingras…..Embrun

742…Helene Desormeau…..Embrun

2735…Helose Sirois-Leclerc…..Embrun

4510…James Thompson-Slaven…..Embrun

672…Katherine Krenn…..Embrun

1455…Marc Courneyea…..Embrun

4367…Martine Quinn…..Embrun

65…Pierre Boulay…..Embrun

3900…Rachelle Quinn…..Embrun

4290…Richard Quinn…..Embrun

1286…Robert Butler…..Embrun

5692…Robert Lindsay…..Embrun

1976…Roxane Belanger…..Embrun

4204…Stephane Gregoire…..Embrun

5388…Sylvie Beauchamp…..Embrun

775…Yolande Dalcourt…..Embrun

5422…Jay Buhr…..Finch

569…Jean-Luc Leonard…..Finch

4082…Glenda O'rourke…..Fitzroy Harbour

5828…Denise Roy…..Fournier

433…Gregory Long…..Gananoque

5147…Jason Lapierre…..Gananoque

434…Kiera Long…..Gananoque

671…Laura Cunningham…..Gananoque

3985…Pierre Doucette…..Gananoque

985…Steacy Kavaner…..Gananoque

1732…Walter Gamblin…..Gananoque

2400…Adeline Germain…..Gatineau

4806…Agathe Binette…..Gatineau

5302…Alain Bergeron…..Gatineau

2530…Alain Gilbert…..Gatineau

2109…Alex Gagne…..Gatineau

5156…Alex Wright…..Gatineau

3867…Alexander Schwab…..Gatineau

6434…Alexandra Miglietta…..Gatineau

2774…Alexandre Boudreault…..Gatineau

2443…Alexandre Larocque…..Gatineau

3581…Alexandria Wilson…..Gatineau

5947…Allan Wilson…..Gatineau

3907…Andree Laflamme…..Gatineau

1859…Andree Soucy…..Gatineau

550…Andrew Roach…..Gatineau

1993…Anelise Alarcon-Moreno…..Gatineau

4600…Anik Lalonde…..Gatineau

4700…Ankica Djurcic-Jovan…..Gatineau

3764…Anne Pilote…..Gatineau

2800…Anne-Marie Chapman…..Gatineau

5982…Anne-Michele Alain-Noel…..Gatineau

1808…Annie Cloutier…..Gatineau

4773…Annie Guillette…..Gatineau

1763…Annie Lambert…..Gatineau

113…Anthony Chartier…..Gatineau

803…Antoine Langlois…..Gatineau

4631…Antoine Parker…..Gatineau

367…Audrey Vezina Manzo…..Gatineau

5562…Augusto Gamero…..Gatineau

555…Barnabe Ndarishikanye…..Gatineau

4592…Barry Wood…..Gatineau

2150…Benoit Carbonneau…..Gatineau

2842…Benoit Gagnon…..Gatineau

5570…Benoit Genest…..Gatineau

1576…Benoit Guerette…..Gatineau

3018…Bernard Audy…..Gatineau

4844…Bernard Labine…..Gatineau

2708…Blair Mehan…..Gatineau

3977…Brenda Cox…..Gatineau

5327…Brian Piche…..Gatineau

3636…Brigitte Hubert…..Gatineau

1639…Bruno Castonguay…..Gatineau

1631…Carlos Pinera…..Gatineau

1522…Carole Varin…..Gatineau

3724…Caroline Dulude…..Gatineau

5297…Caroline Sauve…..Gatineau

3522…Caroline St-Pierre…..Gatineau

3182…Carolyne Dube…..Gatineau

6470…Catherine Belair-Noel…..Gatineau

668…Catherine Pelletier…..Gatineau

654…Caty Lebreux…..Gatineau

2811…Celine Couture…..Gatineau

1023…Chad Levac…..Gatineau

4845…Chantal Henri…..Gatineau

2743…Chris Duplain…..Gatineau

2777…Christian Bourgeois…..Gatineau

1220…Christian F. Courtemanche…..Gatineau

2113…Christian Jacques…..Gatineau

6415…Christian Renaud…..Gatineau

623…Christian Robert…..Gatineau

5261…Christian Rousseau…..Gatineau

6034…Christina Chirip…..Gatineau

6037…Christine Chouinard…..Gatineau

3901…Christine Hearn…..Gatineau

2136…Christine Vasseur…..Gatineau

5126…Christopher Daniel…..Gatineau

2352…Cinthia Lepine…..Gatineau

2300…Claude Laramee…..Gatineau

1336…Claude Wauthier…..Gatineau

2613…Craig Beckett…..Gatineau

5815…Cristiano Rezende…..Gatineau

3673…Cynthia Savard…..Gatineau

1629…Cyr Lavoie…..Gatineau

946…Dani Grandmaitre…..Gatineau

1815…Daniel Grenier…..Gatineau

6133…Danny Jeannot…..Gatineau

61…Dany Beliveau…..Gatineau

4111…Darya Shapka…..Gatineau

1426…David Blais…..Gatineau

1813…David Currie…..Gatineau

6327…Denis Fugere…..Gatineau

2053…Denis Ladouceur…..Gatineau

4755…Dominique Babin…..Gatineau

1933…Dominique Bernier…..Gatineau

6043…Dominique Cornut…..Gatineau

137…Doug Welsby…..Gatineau

4758…Elaine Laroche…..Gatineau

4598…Elizabeth Sousa…..Gatineau

5627…Emmanuelle Hupe…..Gatineau

6074…Eric Doyon…..Gatineau

2015…Eric Guay…..Gatineau

557…Eric Patry…..Gatineau

1147…Eric Silins…..Gatineau

1237…Estelle Marcoux…..Gatineau

245…Felix Noel…..Gatineau

3856…France Gelinas…..Gatineau

1301…Francois Dionne…..Gatineau

2476…Francois Gagnon…..Gatineau

5673…Francois Laferriere…..Gatineau

6407…Francois Roy…..Gatineau

6374…Francois Toulouse…..Gatineau

3537…Frederic Thibault-Chabot…..Gatineau

6398…Frederick Lafreniere…..Gatineau

1892…Gaetan Lafrance…..Gatineau

585…Genevieve Bolduc…..Gatineau

255…Genevieve Fontaine…..Gatineau

2166…Gerald Turmel…..Gatineau

722…Ghislain St-Laurent…..Gatineau

2160…Gilles Brazeau…..Gatineau

1514…Gilles-Philippe Pronovost…..Gatineau

5596…Gilly Griffin…..Gatineau

2484…Grant Collier…..Gatineau

151…Greg Soucy…..Gatineau

5870…Greg Stainton…..Gatineau

5466…Guy Corneau…..Gatineau

2820…Guy Desjardins…..Gatineau

669…Guylaine Brunet…..Gatineau

334…Heather Escalante…..Gatineau

2343…Helene Le Scelleur…..Gatineau

4725…Helene Tremblay-Allen…..Gatineau

1209…Herve Morissette…..Gatineau

2580…Hugo Trudel…..Gatineau

6025…Isabelle Caron…..Gatineau

3414…Isabelle Moses…..Gatineau

768…Isabelle Phaneuf…..Gatineau

2964…Isabelle Teolis…..Gatineau

2032…Isabelle Veilleux…..Gatineau

4761…J.-F. Gagne…..Gatineau

2350…Jacques De Guille…..Gatineau

1258…James Buell…..Gatineau

2933…Jean-Francois Pouliotte…..Gatineau

2439…Jean-Pascal Paris…..Gatineau

191…Jean-Philippe Dumont…..Gatineau

4824…Jean-Pierre Plouffe…..Gatineau

4326…Jennifer Scarizzi…..Gatineau

1893…Jerome Belanger-Cote…..Gatineau

3580…Jinny Williamson…..Gatineau

1541…Joanne Leblond…..Gatineau

1253…Johanne Audet…..Gatineau

6090…Johanne Finn…..Gatineau

92…Johnny Lemieux…..Gatineau

939…Jonathan Gilbert…..Gatineau

3915…Josee Charette…..Gatineau

5670…Josee Labonte…..Gatineau

1303…Josee Patry…..Gatineau

3739…Judith Parisien…..Gatineau

3619…Julie Breton…..Gatineau

3689…Julie Damboise…..Gatineau

767…Julie Defoy…..Gatineau

897…Julie Demers…..Gatineau

5797…Julie Piche…..Gatineau

5026…Julie-Anne Labonte…..Gatineau

5016…Julien Dufort-Lemay…..Gatineau

5683…Karine Leblond…..Gatineau

1409…Karine Pellerin…..Gatineau

414…Katia Audet…..Gatineau

4139…Katie Webster…..Gatineau

3817…Krista Benoit…..Gatineau

6211…Langis Parise…..Gatineau

4813…Lee Petrin…..Gatineau

882…Lissa Comtois-Silins…..Gatineau

2601…Livain Michaud…..Gatineau

778…Lori Mousseau…..Gatineau

4041…Louis Christophe Laurence…..Gatineau

26…Louis Duchesne…..Gatineau

718…Louis Dupont…..Gatineau

6120…Louis Hebert…..Gatineau

3510…Louis Simon…..Gatineau

2775…Louise Boudreault…..Gatineau

924…Louise Fortier…..Gatineau

3654…Louise Rousseau…..Gatineau

2081…Luc Beaudoin…..Gatineau

1798…Luc Perrier…..Gatineau

11…Luc Santerre…..Gatineau

5694…Lucie Lalonde…..Gatineau

502…Lynda Beaudoin…..Gatineau

2500…Lyne Cholette…..Gatineau

234…Lynn Melancon…..Gatineau

3869…Maja Muharemagic…..Gatineau

5485…Manon Damboise…..Gatineau

1003…Manon Laliberte…..Gatineau

3421…Marc Andre Nault…..Gatineau

4862…Marc Belanger…..Gatineau

5171…Marc Champagne…..Gatineau

4370…Marc Dureau…..Gatineau

5043…Marc Lacerte…..Gatineau

776…Marc Mousseau…..Gatineau

6471…Marc Noel…..Gatineau

1302…Marc Parisien…..Gatineau

1319…Marc Tremblay…..Gatineau

5687…Marc-Etienne Lesieur…..Gatineau

1997…Marcia Jones…..Gatineau

4085…Maria Petropoulos…..Gatineau

4534…Marie Rodrigue…..Gatineau

6117…Marie-France Harvey…..Gatineau

3779…Marie-France Rault…..Gatineau

1421…Marie-Josee Desroches…..Gatineau

437…Marie-Michele Clement…..Gatineau

1860…Mario Dupuis…..Gatineau

3857…Mario Ouellet…..Gatineau

6428…Mark Ellison…..Gatineau

1644…Mark Laviolette…..Gatineau

7…Mark Schindel…..Gatineau

1573…Mark Stocksley…..Gatineau

1254…Martin Corriveau…..Gatineau

2052…Martin Dompierre…..Gatineau

2995…Martin Freniere…..Gatineau

999…Martin Labelle…..Gatineau

4907…Martin Labine…..Gatineau

406…Martin Laforest…..Gatineau

1692…Martin Leduc…..Gatineau

308…Martine Pellerin…..Gatineau

5262…Maryse Mercier…..Gatineau

398…Maryse Robert…..Gatineau

6087…Mateo Farfan…..Gatineau

6236…Mathieu Rioux…..Gatineau

1736…Mathieu Sayeur…..Gatineau

5119…Mathieu Tremblay…..Gatineau

590…Mathilde Cote…..Gatineau

562…Maude Lavoie…..Gatineau

1887…Maurice Tremblay…..Gatineau

3908…Maxim Bellemare…..Gatineau

2724…Maxime Brinck-Croteau…..Gatineau

1558…Melanie Desmarais…..Gatineau

5042…Melanie Gauthier…..Gatineau

5121…Melanie Mercier…..Gatineau

4864…Mia Overduin…..Gatineau

2428…Michel Biage…..Gatineau

1767…Michel Brown…..Gatineau

28…Michel Emond…..Gatineau

1363…Michel Lessard…..Gatineau

3395…Michel Mercier…..Gatineau

162…Michel Ouellet…..Gatineau

5852…Michele Simpson…..Gatineau

685…Michelle Hartery…..Gatineau

1852…Miguel Gagnon…..Gatineau

1120…Mika Raja…..Gatineau

2843…Mikaly Gagnon…..Gatineau

5319…Mike Hotte…..Gatineau

4865…Miriam Lopez-Arbour…..Gatineau

2014…Myriam Godin…..Gatineau

405…Nadia Lavallee…..Gatineau

3301…Nancy Jean…..Gatineau

857…Natalie Brun Del Re…..Gatineau

5419…Nathalie Brunet…..Gatineau

2157…Nicolas Chalifoux…..Gatineau

1480…Nicolas Gagnon…..Gatineau

4680…Nicole Boudreau…..Gatineau

494…Nizar Ayoub…..Gatineau

219…Noel Paine…..Gatineau

777…Olivier Beauchamp…..Gatineau

93…Olivier Lebeau…..Gatineau

125…Pascal Laforest…..Gatineau

3548…Pascal Tremblay…..Gatineau

1547…Pascale Therriault…..Gatineau

6031…Pat Charron…..Gatineau

310…Patrice Forget…..Gatineau

6323…Patrick Duplain…..Gatineau

1640…Patrick Gauthier…..Gatineau

4479…Patty Soles…..Gatineau

1902…Paul Beland…..Gatineau

1946…Paul Eagan…..Gatineau

3244…Paul Gould…..Gatineau

2039…Paul Shea…..Gatineau

6240…Paul-Emile Roy…..Gatineau

5232…Peggy Duarte…..Gatineau

464…Philippe Boutin…..Gatineau

1785…Philippe Lajeunesse…..Gatineau

1488…Pierre Francois Blais…..Gatineau

4134…Pierre Villeneuve…..Gatineau

2789…Ray Burke…..Gatineau

4401…Raymond Desjardins…..Gatineau

594…Raymonde D'amour…..Gatineau

5672…Rejean Lacroix…..Gatineau

1949…Renaud Dunn…..Gatineau

2147…Rene Chabot…..Gatineau

1900…Rene Hatem…..Gatineau

3642…Renee Leblanc…..Gatineau

5991…Richard Audet…..Gatineau

5…Rick Whitford…..Gatineau

3107…Robert Chasse…..Gatineau

6492…Said Irene…..Gatineau

4099…Sandra Roberts…..Gatineau

3556…Sanjay Vachali…..Gatineau

2593…Sean Boushel…..Gatineau

4239…Selena Grinham…..Gatineau

3635…Serge Boucher…..Gatineau

4863…Serge Dussault…..Gatineau

4716…Serge Guindon…..Gatineau

1952…Shawn Robertson…..Gatineau

5743…Shelley Milton…..Gatineau

4336…Shelley Moody…..Gatineau

4480…Somphane Souksanh…..Gatineau

3001…Sonja Adcock…..Gatineau

1467…Sophie Gauvreau…..Gatineau

1524…Sophie Martel…..Gatineau

5407…Stephane Boudrias…..Gatineau

1146…Stephane Siegrist…..Gatineau

561…Stephane Sirard…..Gatineau

500…Stephanie McMullen…..Gatineau

4262…Stephanie Racine…..Gatineau

4108…Stephanie Seguin…..Gatineau

1638…Steve Roussin…..Gatineau

2971…Steves Tousignant…..Gatineau

1148…Susie Simard…..Gatineau

1333…Susi-Paula Gaudencio…..Gatineau

3456…Suzanne Ramsay…..Gatineau

2718…Sylvain Michaud…..Gatineau

1373…Sylvain Sirois…..Gatineau

6371…Tamara Thibeault…..Gatineau

4604…Tammy Rose…..Gatineau

461…Tanya Tobin…..Gatineau

2915…Tayeb Mesbah…..Gatineau

1428…Tena Gallichon…..Gatineau

2943…Terry Sancartier…..Gatineau

4169…Thanh Loan Nguyen…..Gatineau

3930…Tudor Banea…..Gatineau

383…Valerie Morin…..Gatineau

3848…Veronique Simoneau…..Gatineau

4889…Vincent Bolduc…..Gatineau

6227…Vincent Proulx…..Gatineau

5838…Wayne Saunders…..Gatineau

419…Wendy Larose…..Gatineau

4807…Yvan Laforest…..Gatineau

6400…Yves Lafreniere…..Gatineau

1777…Yves Saint-Germain…..Gatineau

1726…Yves Theriault…..Gatineau

5607…Zachary Healy…..Gatineau

1685…Zahida Assari…..Gatineau

4830…Zoe Couture…..Gatineau

3921…Alex Miles…..Gloucester

5476…Allan Crisford…..Gloucester

1364…Amy O'reilly…..Gloucester

5453…Belinda Coballe…..Gloucester

3582…Cam Wilson…..Gloucester

879…Catherine Clifford…..Gloucester

942…Cathy Gould…..Gloucester

3658…Chanel Huard…..Gloucester

4650…Daniel McGarry…..Gloucester

4128…Danielle Thibeault…..Gloucester

1676…Darren White…..Gloucester

5481…Dave Currie…..Gloucester

6265…David Tinsley…..Gloucester

540…Don Day…..Gloucester

4919…Gilles Philion…..Gloucester

5900…Gillian Todd-Messinger…..Gloucester

1074…Jackie Millette…..Gloucester

6163…Jeannie Leblanc…..Gloucester

317…Joel Willison…..Gloucester

4001…John Girard…..Gloucester

1944…John Ledo…..Gloucester

2192…Jonathan Gardam…..Gloucester

3471…Joseph Rios…..Gloucester

4303…Karine Moreau…..Gloucester

2824…Lee Dixon…..Gloucester

636…Linda Simard…..Gloucester

4439…Lisa Macgillivray…..Gloucester

3560…Lucie Villeneuve…..Gloucester

3774…Mariette Ledo…..Gloucester

6068…Matthew Dewtie…..Gloucester

6006…Michael Bergeron…..Gloucester

2620…Michael G. Lepage…..Gloucester

5361…Michael Hook…..Gloucester

2673…Mona Tessier…..Gloucester

5669…Nicole Labelle…..Gloucester

4538…Patricia Suys…..Gloucester

2221…Richard F. Proulx…..Gloucester

63…Savvas Farassoglou…..Gloucester

4096…Sonja Renz…..Gloucester

5390…Tiffany Belair…..Gloucester

4967…Tim Morin…..Gloucester

2838…Tom Fottinger…..Gloucester

1611…Trevor Duff…..Gloucester

3878…Una Beaudry…..Gloucester

5745…Virginia Mofford…..Gloucester

2431…Andrew Downes…..Greely

3710…Angele Vanderlaan…..Greely

3572…Ann Westell…..Greely

356…Brett Reynolds…..Greely

843…Carol Boucher…..Greely

1841…Casey Goheen…..Greely

4023…Claire Johnstone…..Greely

1052…Claire Maxwell…..Greely

1374…Dave Erling…..Greely

5394…David Benyon…..Greely

154…David Harding…..Greely

1384…Jeff Oliver…..Greely

2839…Jennifer Frechette…..Greely

2395…John Baranyi…..Greely

1713…John Sterling…..Greely

359…Jon Hamilton…..Greely

844…Joseph Boucher…..Greely

707…Joseph Clarmo…..Greely

1415…Karin Johnson…..Greely

2734…Keith Decoste…..Greely

1839…Kevin Goheen…..Greely

5213…Michael J. Patrick Anderson…..Greely

4313…Michel Gaudreault…..Greely

252…Patricia Brander…..Greely

2858…Randall Holmes…..Greely

571…Rob Johnston…..Greely

3202…Scott Evans…..Greely

6193…Scott Mcleod…..Greely

5471…Stephanie Courcelles…..Greely

1563…Travis Maxwell…..Greely

1669…Zachary Routhier…..Greely

2430…Annie Jean…..Hull

5008…Jasmine Lefebvre…..Hull

5996…Julie Ballard…..Hull

4236…Debra Marr…..Iroquois

2108…Erika Clow-Hawkins…..Jasper

2224…Tara Lamb…..Jasper

5986…Adam Ashbourne…..Kanata

5410…Adam Boyle…..Kanata

3441…Adam Pelham…..Kanata

3489…Adrian Salt…..Kanata

5887…Afshan Thakkar…..Kanata

5233…Al Daggett…..Kanata

3879…Alicia Gerwing…..Kanata

3196…Alistair Edwards…..Kanata

3447…Allen Piddington…..Kanata

350…Alyson Ferguson…..Kanata

4120…Anand Srinivasan…..Kanata

3091…Andrea Carisse…..Kanata

6207…Andrea Nicholls…..Kanata

1354…Anita Cadieux…..Kanata

881…Anne Collis…..Kanata

1964…Barbara Wiens…..Kanata

337…Barbara Williams…..Kanata

176…Bernie Armour…..Kanata

1379…Bianca Liebner…..Kanata

5007…Bianca Santerre…..Kanata

5574…Bill Gilchrist…..Kanata

1856…Bobbie Nevin…..Kanata

723…Brandon Greening…..Kanata

1544…Brandon Shirley…..Kanata

5788…Brittney Pavlovic…..Kanata

5490…Carmen Davidson…..Kanata

4608…Caron Fitzpatrick…..Kanata

253…Cathi Yabsley…..Kanata

984…Cecilia Jorgenson…..Kanata

3931…Chandan Banerjee…..Kanata

994…Cherie Koshman…..Kanata

2889…Cheryl Levi…..Kanata

2236…Chris Brown…..Kanata

3138…Chris Cowie…..Kanata

2011…Christine Fraser…..Kanata

1114…Christine Pollex…..Kanata

2918…Cindy Molaski…..Kanata

1690…Cindy Southgate…..Kanata

940…Colleen Gilchrist…..Kanata

4428…Colleen Kilty…..Kanata

4775…Conrad Bellehumeur…..Kanata

6338…Copperfield Jean-Louis…..Kanata

3321…Dan Kelly…..Kanata

3495…Danny Schwager…..Kanata

2489…Daryle Smith…..Kanata

2010…David Muldoon…..Kanata

1589…David Ogden…..Kanata

5915…Deanne Van Rooyen…..Kanata

1088…Debbie Olive…..Kanata

5888…Dhanya Thakkar…..Kanata

4385…Diane Boyle…..Kanata

4339…Donna Atkinson…..Kanata

302…Donna Brennen…..Kanata

6315…Donna Clark…..Kanata

528…Donna Gow…..Kanata

4705…Doug Glasgow…..Kanata

802…Douglas Miller…..Kanata

2511…Drew Bursey…..Kanata

3833…Elana Graham…..Kanata

5048…Eva Klassen…..Kanata

3558…Fiona Valliere…..Kanata

5572…Francine Giannotti…..Kanata

315…Gary Woodworth…..Kanata

4590…Genevieve Le Jeune…..Kanata

6381…Gi Wu…..Kanata

5548…Ginette Ford…..Kanata

3179…Greg Dow…..Kanata

3341…Greg Layhew…..Kanata

2911…Greg McNeill…..Kanata

3612…Guy Campeau…..Kanata

6271…Guy Turgeon…..Kanata

1768…Harvey Chatterton…..Kanata

4768…Heather Chanter…..Kanata

2008…Hugh Wright…..Kanata

2013…Ian Govan…..Kanata

1402…J.P. Tremblay…..Kanata

5241…Jaclyn Shepherd…..Kanata

2376…James Derosenroll…..Kanata

2738…James Muldoon…..Kanata

583…James Vieveen…..Kanata

6385…James Wildgen…..Kanata

3176…Jan Donak…..Kanata

6306…Janet Atkins…..Kanata

5442…Janet Chadwick…..Kanata

4486…Janice Tughan…..Kanata

1494…Jared Semenchuk…..Kanata

4897…Jason Hillier…..Kanata

2846…Jeff Goold…..Kanata

5775…Jeffrey O'connor…..Kanata

3721…Jennifer Burn…..Kanata

4975…Jennifer Campbell…..Kanata

3142…Jennifer Croisier…..Kanata

5497…Jennifer Delorme…..Kanata

904…Jennifer Donohue…..Kanata

3419…Jennifer Nason…..Kanata

1117…Jennifer Prieur…..Kanata

472…Jennifer Wilson…..Kanata

246…Jessica Dean…..Kanata

5912…Jody Vallati…..Kanata

887…John Cooper…..Kanata

2962…John Sullivan…..Kanata

5158…Jonathan Letendre…..Kanata

5974…Joshua Childs…..Kanata

5798…Karen Piddington…..Kanata

174…Kathleen Westbury…..Kanata

894…Kelly Ann Davis…..Kanata

3350…Kelly Livingstone…..Kanata

3477…Kelly Ross…..Kanata

5665…Kenneth Klassen…..Kanata

3274…Keri Hillier…..Kanata

1735…Kerry Kennedy…..Kanata

3055…Kevin Boyd…..Kanata

85…Kevin Donak…..Kanata

3458…Kevin Rankin…..Kanata

2510…Kim Duval…..Kanata

1954…Kim Robertson…..Kanata

2771…Kimberley Bohn…..Kanata

5540…Krista Ferguson…..Kanata

1466…Krista Levesque…..Kanata

4948…Kristin Bennett…..Kanata

1443…Lanny Underhill…..Kanata

5491…Laurie Davis…..Kanata

5500…Lesley Dewsnap…..Kanata

382…Lianna Macdonald…..Kanata

993…Lida Koronewskij…..Kanata

4079…Lillian Ng…..Kanata

2397…Lisa Mayhew…..Kanata

4419…Lise Gray…..Kanata

1932…Logan Daley…..Kanata

4429…Lois Kirkup…..Kanata

5661…Louise King…..Kanata

895…Luisa De Amicis…..Kanata

4391…Lynda Ciavaglia…..Kanata

3159…Lyne Denis…..Kanata

2719…M Gabriele Castelnuovo…..Kanata

6206…Man Nguyen…..Kanata

4476…Maneesh Sharma…..Kanata

4406…Manorie Edirisinghe…..Kanata

1399…Marcel Butz…..Kanata

4386…Mark Brownhill…..Kanata

5162…Mark Fagnan…..Kanata

5642…Mark Jorgenson…..Kanata

3482…Mark Ruddock…..Kanata

5367…Marlene Alt…..Kanata

4424…Mary Anne Jackson-Hughes…..Kanata

2424…Mary Campbell…..Kanata

4837…Mary-Anne Sauve…..Kanata

4006…Melissa Hall…..Kanata

1989…Michael Best…..Kanata

2782…Michael Brennan…..Kanata

5879…Michael Sutherland…..Kanata

1803…Michel Gosselin…..Kanata

1017…Michele Lemay…..Kanata

6173…Michelle Lyster…..Kanata

1691…Mike Southgate…..Kanata

2238…Mike Watford…..Kanata

5667…Mikkyal Koshman…..Kanata

330…Miriam Mustapha…..Kanata

1787…Monica Van Dam…..Kanata

1064…Nancy McGuire…..Kanata

5298…Natalie Damiano…..Kanata

4976…Neil Campbell…..Kanata

1218…Neil Marshall…..Kanata

3372…Neil Maxwell…..Kanata

5894…Neil Thomson…..Kanata

466…Nicole Myslivecek…..Kanata

4413…Pamela Ford…..Kanata

855…Patricia Brown…..Kanata

1248…Paul Maskell…..Kanata

4189…Pauline Joly…..Kanata

3116…Peter Clark…..Kanata

4607…Peter Fraser…..Kanata

4200…Peter Johnston…..Kanata

5958…Peter Zimmerman…..Kanata

6310…Philip Boyer…..Kanata

1827…Philip Rushworth…..Kanata

5909…Philip Tughan…..Kanata

1800…Philippe Sauve…..Kanata

5037…Prabhu Vaithilingam…..Kanata

4835…Renata Hogan-Sullivan…..Kanata

4327…Renee Johnston…..Kanata

3375…Rob McAulay…..Kanata

4767…Robert Chanter…..Kanata

1658…Robert Charbonneau…..Kanata

199…Robyn Hardage…..Kanata

5801…Sandra Plourde…..Kanata

2783…Sandy Brennan…..Kanata

2739…Sarah Muldoon…..Kanata

3305…Scott Jewer…..Kanata

1953…Shelley McDonald…..Kanata

4076…Shelly Nesbitt…..Kanata

3101…Sheri Cayouette…..Kanata

190…Sindy Dobson…..Kanata

2831…Sridhar Erukulla…..Kanata

2568…Stephane Bedard…..Kanata

1353…Stephen Cadieux…..Kanata

3139…Steven Cowie…..Kanata

2047…Sue Ackerman…..Kanata

4582…Sue Peck…..Kanata

4584…Susan Harvey…..Kanata

455…Susan Pagnutti…..Kanata

4215…Sylvie Olsen…..Kanata

1637…Taylor Sicard…..Kanata

995…Terry Koss…..Kanata

1702…Terry Mesdag…..Kanata

1219…Theresa Marshall…..Kanata

2772…Tiffany Boire…..Kanata

5752…Tim Moses…..Kanata

3019…Tom Auger…..Kanata

5950…Tom Winter…..Kanata

160…Tommy Des Brisay…..Kanata

4202…Tracey Dunfield…..Kanata

293…Valerie Desjarlais…..Kanata

6250…Vanessa Sloan…..Kanata

5159…Veronique Breton…..Kanata

3884…Victoria Gebert…..Kanata

5161…Vince Fagnan…..Kanata

2836…Vincent_Andy Fong…..Kanata

3600…Wei Zhou…..Kanata

1103…Wendy Patton…..Kanata

2433…Wendy Rostek…..Kanata

4258…Wilf Sullivan…..Kanata

2163…William Matthews…..Kanata

393…William Potts…..Kanata

3712…Celeste St. John…..Kars

4586…Ginny Flood…..Kars

5674…Guy Laliberte…..Kars

5980…Kevin Adamsons…..Kars

6041…Matthew Cook…..Kars

3354…Paula Lund…..Kars

5789…Carole Perkins…..Kemptville

3058…Cheryl Brennan…..Kemptville

5510…Connie Duclos…..Kemptville

2486…Dale Richardson…..Kemptville

3521…Dave Springer…..Kemptville

2781…David Brennan…..Kemptville

2143…Dawn Murray…..Kemptville

4789…Emily Conway…..Kemptville

1111…Gerald Piette…..Kemptville

4833…Glenna Bigras…..Kemptville

4962…Grant Lowe…..Kemptville

5105…Jacob Banks…..Kemptville

2195…Jeff Swrjeski…..Kemptville

4831…Joyce Cavanagh…..Kemptville

5242…Luke Foster…..Kemptville

3888…Mary Mejia…..Kemptville

4666…Michael Munroe…..Kemptville

3034…Paul Bedard…..Kemptville

4986…Rory Blaisdell…..Kemptville

3266…Roxanne Harrington…..Kemptville

1619…Russ Beaton…..Kemptville

3734…Sheri Steeves…..Kemptville

35…Simon Sukstorf…..Kemptville

3405…Stephanie Mombourquette…..Kemptville

1921…Steven De Ville…..Kemptville

3148…Teena Dacey…..Kemptville

421…Valerie Sayah…..Kemptville

1545…Mike Walsh…..Kenmore

563…Angela Stewart…..Kinburn

4230…Debbie Turcotte…..Kinburn

5869…Jackie Stadnyk…..Kinburn

1179…Kathy Twardek…..Kinburn

3524…Ronald Stadnyk…..Kinburn

6500…Aaron Clow…..Kingston

2259…Aaron Dries…..Kingston

5197…Alain Gosselin…..Kingston

678…Alan Cohoon…..Kingston

2600…Alfred Barr…..Kingston

3254…Allan Gudlaugson…..Kingston

121…Allison Mowat…..Kingston

717…Alyson Mahar…..Kingston

6244…Andreas Schabetsberger…..Kingston

6171…Andrew Lloyd…..Kingston

1870…Andrew Wallace…..Kingston

4952…Angela Allen…..Kingston

5165…Arthur Hesford…..Kingston

1819…Audethy Tallack…..Kingston

2426…Barb Parker…..Kingston

1714…Ben Doherty…..Kingston

2959…Benoit Stockless…..Kingston

5907…Bill Truelove…..Kingston

5294…Brenda Flaherty…..Kingston

5795…Brian Phillips…..Kingston

698…Bruno Chagnon…..Kingston

86…Cam Miller…..Kingston

6365…Carsten Sorensen…..Kingston

4868…Chelsey Hutson…..Kingston

4753…Chris Carter…..Kingston

3765…Chris Plaza…..Kingston

6257…Chris Stevenson…..Kingston

4850…Christine Powers-Tomsons…..Kingston

6069…Christopher Doan…..Kingston

150…Christopher Horeczy…..Kingston

1836…Chuck Douglas…..Kingston

6190…Colin McCue…..Kingston

3570…Colleen Webber…..Kingston

2339…Cory Vale…..Kingston

3894…Crystal Parker…..Kingston

3439…Dan Peebles…..Kingston

5494…Dani Delaloye…..Kingston

4827…Daniel Gosselin…..Kingston

5127…Daniel Rondeau…..Kingston

5929…Daryl Watters…..Kingston

3262…Dave Hammond…..Kingston

1620…Dave Johnston…..Kingston

4373…David Mailey…..Kingston

1215…David Robinson…..Kingston

5873…David Steeves…..Kingston

2256…Debbie Hawes…..Kingston

4550…Deborah Hynes…..Kingston

3346…Denis Levesque…..Kingston

5741…Derek Milner…..Kingston

5978…Duart Townsend…..Kingston

3853…Ed Tardif…..Kingston

5349…Elizabeth McQuillan…..Kingston

5916…Elizabeth Vezina…..Kingston

3328…Emily Koolen…..Kingston

3840…Emily Quinn-Black…..Kingston

6480…Etienne Marcoux…..Kingston

813…Frederic Drolet…..Kingston

2258…Frederic Jean…..Kingston

149…Frederick Lavoie…..Kingston

3312…George Jones…..Kingston

695…George Lackonick…..Kingston

3185…Glen Duckett…..Kingston

2367…Greg Phillips…..Kingston

664…Guillaume Proulx…..Kingston

5066…Helga Grodzinski…..Kingston

5995…Hugo Babin…..Kingston

5358…Hugo Boilard…..Kingston

2360…Jacklyn Power…..Kingston

33…James Brown…..Kingston

4741…James Krahn…..Kingston

5949…Jan Wilson…..Kingston

3877…Jason Chor…..Kingston

5611…Jason Hiltz…..Kingston

968…Jason Howe…..Kingston

3252…Jean-Marc Grimard…..Kingston

2313…Jeff Barr…..Kingston

2201…Jeff Teeple…..Kingston

627…Jeffrey Reid…..Kingston

510…Jillian Brenner…..Kingston

5267…Jim Terfry…..Kingston

1065…Jody Mcinnis…..Kingston

124…Joey Steacy…..Kingston

3839…John Black…..Kingston

3952…John Brooks…..Kingston

3850…John Brown…..Kingston

6007…Jon Berrey…..Kingston

6030…Jordan Charboneau…..Kingston

5848…Jordan Shoniker…..Kingston

3165…Joseph Dilworth…..Kingston

6378…Juli Wheeler…..Kingston

3010…Julie Anghelescu…..Kingston

3036…Julie Belanger…..Kingston

5742…Katrin Milner…..Kingston

3855…Kelly Campbell…..Kingston

2496…Kelly Morrice…..Kingston

6267…Kelly Tobias…..Kingston

4185…Kerri Tadeu…..Kingston

3854…Kit Orme…..Kingston

5309…Krzysztof Butkiewicz…..Kingston

616…Lance Marshall…..Kingston

6070…Leslie Doering…..Kingston

6348…Linda McMillan…..Kingston

3741…Line Gosselin…..Kingston

4699…Liza Tzotzos…..Kingston

3295…Louise Hunter…..Kingston

793…Lyne Lefrancois…..Kingston

2921…Marcel Neron…..Kingston

42…Margarita Sviajina…..Kingston

681…Marielle Houle…..Kingston

2799…Mark Chabot…..Kingston

2362…Mary-Anne Macdonald…..Kingston

690…Mary-Elizabeth Irwin…..Kingston

485…Matthew Charlesworth…..Kingston

1901…Matthew Sprague…..Kingston

3385…Melissa McIlroy…..Kingston

2322…Michael Avery…..Kingston

4698…Michael Clarke…..Kingston

5256…Michael Divittorio…..Kingston

2274…Michael Muise…..Kingston

628…Michel Pearson…..Kingston

3628…Michelle Kerr…..Kingston

702…Michelle Simiana…..Kingston

2149…Mike Lapensee…..Kingston

3844…Monica Pereira…..Kingston

6194…Murray McTavish…..Kingston

5176…Nadine Kopp…..Kingston

4738…Noelani Shore…..Kingston

4400…Pamela Decker…..Kingston

849…Pascal Brisson…..Kingston

818…Patricia Ambrose…..Kingston

5111…Paul Daley…..Kingston

5277…Paul Thompson…..Kingston

1738…Peter Vrooman…..Kingston

2363…Ralph Feisthauer…..Kingston

6142…Ray Konigs…..Kingston

5172…Rhonda Murphy…..Kingston

1975…Robert Allen…..Kingston

2031…Robert Bard…..Kingston

2346…Robert Meade…..Kingston

790…Robert Thomas…..Kingston

3650…Robyn Broeders…..Kingston

5372…Roman Antoniewicz…..Kingston

2232…Rosario Messana…..Kingston

6402…Sergio Grice…..Kingston

79…Shane Bourgeois…..Kingston

5249…Shannon Brown…..Kingston

791…Shawn Kadlec…..Kingston

5943…Shelley Williams…..Kingston

1121…Shoba Ranganathan…..Kingston

3852…Sonja Chisholm…..Kingston

2268…Sony Chris Marchal…..Kingston

703…Stefanie Arthurs…..Kingston

792…Stephane Brisson…..Kingston

1075…Stephanie Milner…..Kingston

2851…Stephen Hall…..Kingston

3081…Steve Bycok…..Kingston

2761…Steven Beattie…..Kingston

2179…Steven Doherty…..Kingston

4382…Susan Blake…..Kingston

467…Susan Stark…..Kingston

5110…Sylvie Bouchard…..Kingston

2248…Terri Heffernan…..Kingston

102…Tim Keith…..Kingston

615…Tim Macdonald…..Kingston

2746…Timothy Holmes-Mitra…..Kingston

2697…Tommy Villeneuve…..Kingston

1820…Tony Phillips…..Kingston

6503…Toure Alfa-Toga…..Kingston

2676…Travis Loughery…..Kingston

1357…Trevor Martin…..Kingston

691…Troy Irwin…..Kingston

4871…Victor Lopes…..Kingston

4505…Lucie Dufour…..La Peche

3805…Amy Vanderspank…..Lanark

1433…Scott Shaver…..Lanark

6033…Derek Cheff…..L'ange Gardien

13…Adam Robinson…..L'ange-Gardien

1506…Samuel Chenevert…..L'ange-Gardien

1537…Stephane Gosselin…..L'ange-Gardien

4275…Melissa Lanigan…..Lansdowne

3864…Adelle Brazeau…..Limoges

3791…Alain Giroux…..Limoges

4739…Ann Duguay…..Limoges

2029…Chantel Oshowy-Carvallo…..Limoges

1323…Denis Benoit…..Limoges

614…Joanne Froment…..Limoges

3033…Joey Beaudin…..Limoges

3997…Judy Gagne…..Limoges

4552…Marc Benoit…..Limoges

5097…Serge Froment…..Limoges

4808…Karen McDonald…..L'orignal

6212…Manon Parisien…..L'orignal

152…Patrick Lalonde…..L'orignal

3986…Susan Draper…..Low

2098…Chris Crain…..Maberly

4173…Frederick Barrett…..Maberly

1734…Nancy Villemure…..Maberly

3758…Susan Marble…..Maberly

910…Jennifer Duffy…..Maitland

911…Penny Duffy…..Maitland

3319…Jennifer Kellar…..Mallorytown

5174…Joyce Mills…..Mallorytown

3067…Robert Browne…..Mallorytown

1922…Amy Moustgaard…..Manotick

6291…Brad Ysseldyk…..Manotick

6016…Charles Bruce…..Manotick

1376…Christian Vaillancourt…..Manotick

6071…Emily Donaldson…..Manotick

2370…Gerald Leahy…..Manotick

2764…Guy Beaudoin…..Manotick

6341…Hollee Kew…..Manotick

409…Jocelynn Cook…..Manotick

6072…Karen Donaldson…..Manotick

1597…Laura Wilson…..Manotick

2117…Malcolm Todd…..Manotick

6255…Paul Steers…..Manotick

5531…Robert Fabes…..Manotick

3338…Robert Lange…..Manotick

5059…Sara Wilson…..Manotick

3474…Theresa Roberts…..Manotick

848…Yvonne Brandreth…..Manotick

3526…Michele Steeves…..Maxville

4685…Angus Macdonald…..Merrickville

1238…Barbara Bacon…..Merrickville

4682…Isabelle Paris…..Merrickville

3059…Jodi Brennan…..Merrickville

4740…Krista Jensen…..Merrickville

5383…Michael Barkhouse…..Merrickville

1296…Penny Foxwell…..Merrickville

804…Rick Bowes…..Merrickville

4533…Will Starr…..Merrickville

2881…Andre Lasalle…..Metcalfe

4861…Barb Beiersdorfer…..Metcalfe

307…Brittney Potvin…..Metcalfe

5352…Bruce Bourgeault…..Metcalfe

5149…Erika Morris…..Metcalfe

997…Kazimierz Krzyzanowski…..Metcalfe

3933…Keith Beardsley…..Metcalfe

2009…Luc Aubrey…..Metcalfe

2218…Rob Howell…..Metcalfe

4435…Sylvie J Lapointe…..Metcalfe

6304…Krista Atchison…..Moose Creek

1918…Cindy Waldner…..Morewood

5641…Isabella Jordan…..Morrisburg

4653…Kelly Ryan…..Mountain

59…Raymond Sherrer…..Mountain

5856…Allan Smith…..Munster

418…Colleen O'Connell-Campbell…..Munster

554…Jamie Dumont…..Munster

1154…Nancy Ann Smith…..Munster

514…Norman Watt…..Munster

1960…Shelley Hindle…..Munster

1534…Steve Lachaine…..Munster

153…Alain Gonthier…..Navan

534…Brian Barber…..Navan

5446…Carole Charlebois…..Navan

3359…Marcella Macdonald…..Navan

5058…Marie Labrie…..Navan

5688…Marie-France Levesque…..Navan

4686…Matthew Valiquette…..Navan

5002…Melanie Vetter…..Navan

1412…Mike Rozon…..Navan

4445…Mychele Malette…..Navan

896…Paul De Grandpre…..Navan

826…Rosemary Barber…..Navan

3939…Veronique Bergeron…..Navan

1413…Vicki Rozon…..Navan

French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 256. Photo: Warner Bros.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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West German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 258. Photo: Paramount.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Up and away this Osprey makes of with its prize towards our position with water droplets falling from itself and the trout.

A couple of really enjoyable mornings in Gordon Mcleods Osprey hide in Aviemoe the last couple of days with this image being 1 of the last I took over the 2 mornings,this Osprey after having hit the water shortly before and failing to grab on to its target came back around and had another go and this time came up with its quarry.

Inverbrackie, South Australia

Former Inverbrackie Caledonian Church.

Land was slowly taken up here from the early 1840s. One of the first residents was Dr William Innes, a Scot who named the locality Inverbrackie after his home in Scotland near Invergordon which is across the Firth of Moray from Nairn. The Scottish McLeods had owned Inverbrackie or Inverbreakie (spellings vary) castle from the 1300s. They were related to the Innes family. In 1699 the McLeods sold Inverbrackie Castle to Sir William Gordon who was part of the Earls of Sutherland family. Sir William Gordon renamed the castle Invergordon, hence the name of today’s Scottish town. In 1873 the remains of the 14th century castle were absorbed into a newly constructed Elizabethan style mansion. Unfortunately this was totally destroyed by fire in 1928 and the castle grounds are now the Inverbreakie Golf course on the outskirts of Invergordon. Dr Innes, James Johnston of Oakbank and others met at the tiny Payne’s Inn at Inverbrackie SA in 1846 and decided to ask the colonial government for a land grant to establish a Church of Scotland there. They got a free grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of the church. The Scottish church subsequently opened in 1849 and Dr Innes was the first burial in the attached cemetery that year. The church was also used as a school as the Scots placed great importance on education. 24 children were attending the Inverbrackie School by 1851. The school closed in 1857 when the first Woodside School opened. In 1852 parishioners guaranteed a stipend to entice John Macbean from Scotland to come out as the local Presbyterian minister. A manse was built on the glebe lands for him. In 1868 Macbean got the Inverbrackie church into the Presbyterian Union of SA. He finished up as minister at Inverbrackie in 1884. Later ministers served both the Inverbrackie and Woodside Presbyterian churches. Reverend Stewart was the last minister to serve Inverbrackie between 1922 and 1926 but it is not known how often services were conducted there as the Presbyterian church in Woodside was the main one from 1878. The manse and glebe lands were sold in 1925 and the church closed permanently soon after. Miraculously this 1849 church still stands on lands adjacent to Woodside Army Barracks but it is covered with ivy. It deserves restoration by the government.

Sir!: July 1959

Inverbrackie, South Australia

Former Inverbrackie Caledonian Church.

Land was slowly taken up here from the early 1840s. One of the first residents was Dr William Innes, a Scot who named the locality Inverbrackie after his home in Scotland near Invergordon which is across the Firth of Moray from Nairn. The Scottish McLeods had owned Inverbrackie or Inverbreakie (spellings vary) castle from the 1300s. They were related to the Innes family. In 1699 the McLeods sold Inverbrackie Castle to Sir William Gordon who was part of the Earls of Sutherland family. Sir William Gordon renamed the castle Invergordon, hence the name of today’s Scottish town. In 1873 the remains of the 14th century castle were absorbed into a newly constructed Elizabethan style mansion. Unfortunately this was totally destroyed by fire in 1928 and the castle grounds are now the Inverbreakie Golf course on the outskirts of Invergordon. Dr Innes, James Johnston of Oakbank and others met at the tiny Payne’s Inn at Inverbrackie SA in 1846 and decided to ask the colonial government for a land grant to establish a Church of Scotland there. They got a free grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of the church. The Scottish church subsequently opened in 1849 and Dr Innes was the first burial in the attached cemetery that year. The church was also used as a school as the Scots placed great importance on education. 24 children were attending the Inverbrackie School by 1851. The school closed in 1857 when the first Woodside School opened. In 1852 parishioners guaranteed a stipend to entice John Macbean from Scotland to come out as the local Presbyterian minister. A manse was built on the glebe lands for him. In 1868 Macbean got the Inverbrackie church into the Presbyterian Union of SA. He finished up as minister at Inverbrackie in 1884. Later ministers served both the Inverbrackie and Woodside Presbyterian churches. Reverend Stewart was the last minister to serve Inverbrackie between 1922 and 1926 but it is not known how often services were conducted there as the Presbyterian church in Woodside was the main one from 1878. The manse and glebe lands were sold in 1925 and the church closed permanently soon after. Miraculously this 1849 church still stands on lands adjacent to Woodside Army Barracks but it is covered with ivy. It deserves restoration by the government.

Dutch postcard by Takken, no. A.X. 351.

American actress and dancer Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) is best known for her series of film comedies with Danny Kaye, including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947). She personified the quintessential voluptuous Hollywood beauty, like a pin-up painting coming to life. Audiences flocked to cinemas just to see her blonde hair and classic looks on-screen in Technicolor. Going against stereotype, Mayo played unsympathetic gold-digger Marie Derry in the Oscar-winning drama The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Later she was a sluttish gun moll opposite James Cagney in White Heat (1949), and Burt Lancaster's leading lady in The Flame and the Arrow (1950). It made Mayo Warner Brothers' biggest box office money maker in the late 1940s.

Virginia Mayo was born Virginia Clara Jones in 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of a newspaper reporter Luke Jones and his wife, Martha Henrietta (née Rautenstrauch) Jones. The family had a rich heritage in the St. Louis area: Virginia's great-great-great-grandfather served in the American Revolution and later founded the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois, in 1797. Virginia was interested in show business from an early age. Her aunt operated acting school and Virginia began taking acting and dance lessons at the age of six. After graduating from high school in 1937, she became a member of the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Impressed with her ability, performer Andy Mayo, recruited her to appear in his vaudeville act. Still using her real name of Virginia Jones, she worked for three years in vaudeville with the Mayo Brothers, Mayo and his partner, Nonnie Morton. They did a performing horse act: 'Pansy the Horse' was comprised of Morton and Mayo and Virginia was the ringmaster and comedic foil for Pansy. They also appeared together in some short films. In 1941 Jones, now known by the stage name Virginia Mayo, got another career break as she appeared on Broadway with Eddie Cantor in Banjo Eyes. After being spotted by an MGM talent scout during this Broadway revue, she was signed to a contract by movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn. Goldwyn only made a few films a year and would usually loan out the actors he had under contract to other producers. David O. Selznick gave Virginia Mayo a screen test, but decided she wouldn't fit into films. She was slightly cross-eyed and had to be carefully photographed. Goldwyn, however, believed that her talent as an actress was there and producer Samuel Bronston cast her in a small role in Jack London (Alfred Santell, 1943) opposite her later husband Michael O'Shea. Later that same year, she had a walk-on part in Follies Girl (William Rowland, 1943) starring Wendy Barrie. Goldwyn gave her a bit part in Up in Arms (Elliott Nugent, 1944), starring Danny Kaye in his film debut. Then RKO borrowed her for a supporting role in a musical, Seven Days Ashore (John H. Auer, 1944). Believing there was more to her than her obvious ravishing beauty, producers thought it was time to give her bigger and better roles. In 1944 she was cast as Princess Margaret in The Princess and the Pirate (David Butler, 1944), with comedian Bob Hope. It was a spoof of pirate movies and earned over $3 million at the box office. A year later she appeared in Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1945) as the leading lady of Danny Kaye. The film was very popular and so was the radiantly beautiful blonde star. Her roles may have been coming in slow, but with each one her popularity with audiences rose. Virginia was cast in two more films in 1946, The Kid from Brooklyn (Norman Z. McLeod, 1946), again with Danny Kaye, and The Best Years of our Lives (William Wyler, 1946). She went against previous stereotype, and played the unsympathetic, gold-digger Marie Derry who becomes Dana Andrews' unfaithful wife. For this supporting role she received good notices. The film became the highest-grossing film in the US since Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939).

Virginia Mayo finally struck pay-dirt in 1947 with a plum assignment in the well-received fantasy-comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947) as the gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn, who uses clumsy, daydreaming Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) to escape from her pursuer. Walter unintentionally gets involved with a dangerous ring of spies that are seeking a black book with notes about a hidden treasure. Her next film together with Kaye, A Song is Born (Howard Hawks, 1948), was a box office disappointment. Warner Bros ended up taking over her contract from Goldwyn. Mayo got some of the best reviews of her career in James Cagney's return to the gangster genre, White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949), as Verna, the scheming, cheating wife of homicidal killer Cody Jarrett (Cagney). She was in another huge hit The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur, 1950) as Burt Lancaster's love interest. The striking beauty had still more plum roles in the 1950s. She starred in the Film Noir Backfire (Vincent Sherman, 1950) opposite Gordon MacRae. She co-starred again with James Cagney and a young Doris Day in The West Point Story (Roy Del Ruth 1950), singing and dancing with Cagney, and was Gregory Peck's leading lady in Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh, 1951), Warners most popular film of the year. She costarred with Kirk Douglas in his first Western, Along the Great Divide (Raoul Walsh, 1951). Parts in the musical She's Working Her Way Through College (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1952) with Ronald Reagan, a biopic of pioneer Jim Bowie The Iron Mistress (Gordon Douglas, 1952) featuring Alan Ladd, and the action-adventure South Sea Woman (Arthur Lubin, 1953) with Burt Lancaster, showed she was still a force to be reckoned with. Although her vocals were always dubbed, she enjoyed doing musicals like She's Working Her Way Through College because she got to dance. Virginia Mayo co-starred with Rex Harrison and George Sanders in King Richard and the Crusaders (David Butler, 1954) She was Paul Newman's first on-screen leading lady, in the Biblical Epic The Silver Chalice (Victor Saville, 1954). But the film was a notorious flop. She was Cleopatra in the guilty pleasure The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen, 1957), which tries and fails to jam the entire history of humankind into 100 minutes. As the decade ended, Virginia's career began to slow down. She began guest starring on television shows such as Conflict (1957), Wagon Train (1958), The Loretta Young Show/Letter to Loretta (1958), and Lux Playhouse (1959). Mayo and her husband made a pilot for a TV series McGarry and His Mouse (Norman Tokar, 1960), which was not picked up. She went to Italy to make the Peplum La rivolta dei mercenari/Revolt of the Mercenaries (Piero Costa, 1961) opposite Spanish actor Conrado San Martin. She had four film roles in the 1960s and four more in the following decade. Mayo appeared on stage in shows like That Certain Girl (1967) and Barefoot in the Park (1968). She continued to act on stage for the rest of her career, mostly in dinner theatre and touring shows. She guest starred on TV shows such as Burke's Law (1965), Daktari (1967), Santa Barbara (1984) and The Love Boat (1986). Among her last films were the horror films Evil Spirits (Gary Graver, 1990) starring Karen Black, and The Man Next Door (Rod C. Spence, 1997). Virginia Mayo died of pneumonia and complications of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles, in 2005. She was 84. In 1947 she had married actor Michael O'Shea and remained with him until his death in 1973. The couple had a daughter, Mary Catherine O'Shea, in 1953.

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GROUNDBIRCH is a community in the north-east of British Columbia, Canada. It is on British Columbia Highway 97 approximately halfway between Dawson Creek and Chetwynd. On the east side there is Progress and to the west side there is East Pine. The Groundbirch Store is locally owned and operated. There are also two halls, the Groundbirch Hall and the McLeod Hall.

The GROUNDBIRCH Post Office was established - 16 December 1929.

LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the GROUNDBIRCH Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;

John McGinnis was the Postmaster at GROUNDBIRCH from - 30 September 1932 to - 11 October 1947.

Jack "John" McGinnis

(b. 12 March 1900 in Read, Ontario - d. 30 April 1993 at age 93 in Victoria, B.C.) His occupations were Postmaster / business man.

His wife: Agnes (nee Gibson) McGinnis

(b. 22 October 1906 in Scotland - d. 21 September 1986 at age 79 in Victoria, B.C.)

LINK to an article - The Fort Nelson Trial & “E.J.” Spinney (talk about John McGinnis) - calverley.ca/article/03-030-the-fort-nelson-trial-e-j-spi...

- sent from - / GROUNDBIRCH / JUL 13 / 48 / B.C / - split ring cancel - unknown when proofed - most likely c. 1929 - (RF B).

Letter reads: Groundbirch / B.C. / Canada / 9 July 1948 / Friday - Dear Maryjayne, Tomorrow Bob's brother (Alexander / Alex / Sandy) is going out to the Post Office (their cabin was about 25 miles from Groundbirch), so I thought I would take the chance to send you this wee note & picture of your husband. I was wondering that like a trip you had home from our place, I also wanted to thank you for posting the letter to my Mum. We have been having lovely weather, but the mosquitoes are terrible, I'm all bitten up, however I've been told they will bite so much the next time, they know new people to this country. If you have a few minutes, drop a few lines. I hope you are all well. Yours Sincerely - Mrs. Agnes Elliot

Letter was sent by: Agnes C. (nee Ferguson) Elliot

(b. 1915 - d. 1999 at age 83 / 84)

(this was Robert Elliot's second marriage - he was divorced from his first wife - 30 April 1947 in Vancouver, B.C.)

Her husband: Robert "Bob" Elliot

(b. 15 December 1896 in Dumfrieshire, Scotland - d. 10 July 1974 at age 77 in Dawson Creek, B.C. / Groundbirch, B.C.) - he arrived in Canada in 1908 and settled in GROUNDBIRCH, B.C. in 1920. He was a rancher / farmer. He had one daughter and two sons from a previous marriage.

(mentioned in the letter was) - Robert "Bob" Elliot's brother: Alexander / Alex "Sandy" Elliot

(b. 27 May 1899 in Durrisdeer, Scotland - d. 26 October 1973 at age 74 in Dawson Creek / Pouce Coupe, B.C.) - he came to Canada in 1908 and the Peace Country around 1921. His occupation was rancher / farmer. He never married.

The Elliot's father was James Elliot born in Ireland and their mother was Kathreen McLellan born in Scotland.

We stayed at Frank Parr’s that night to catch up on sleep and rest. The next night we arrived at Al Hopkin’s cabin. There was more snow during the night so we could use a team and sleigh from here out. "In the morning we left for Bob and Sandy Elliott’s, some fifteen miles on. From Elliott’s to Groundbirch was twenty-five miles," and from there to Dawson Creek about thirty miles on a well-travelled road. I stopped off at our Fish Creek cabin where I had trapped in 1937 - LINK to the complete article - Mercy Mission to Rocky Mountain Lake - www.flickr.com/photos/allmycollections/51414390880/in/dat...

Addressed to: Mrs. Maryjayne Hladky / 1548 East 88 / Seattle / Washington / USA

Maryjayne (nee Meredith) Hladky

(b. 15 February 1923 in Manette, Kitsap County, Washington, United States – d. 20 April 2002 at age 79 in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, United States)

Her husband: Richard "Dick" Lavern Hladky

(b. 12 May 1921 in Iowa Township, Benton, Iowa, United States to Joseph Ferdinand and Marie Louise Lyman Hadley – d. 7 May 2014 at age 92 in Kitsap, Washington, United States) - they were married - 27 December 1943 in Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington, United States. He took up flying with his friend Gordon Esterberg when he was in his twenties. He served with the U.S. Navy in World War II. He later worked for the Boeing Aircraft company.

List of aircraft models that are or were manufactured by HLADKY, RICHARD LAVERN along with the number of each model currently registered in the United States.

HLADKY RV-4

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Obituary - Maryjayne (Meredith) Hladky, 79, died unexpectedly of heart problems on Saturday, April 20, 2002. Born in Manette, Washington, February 15, 1923 to Clyde and Estelle Meredith, she attended Manette School, and graduated from Bremerton High School in 1941. She studied music and played piano and flute in band and orchestra, and participated in choir. She began nurses training in the Cadet Nurse Program at the University of Washington and Harborview Hospital, which she interrupted to marry Dick Hladky in December 1943 and raise two sons, Rich and Clyde. As her sons approached adulthood she returned to the UW to complete her training and worked as a psychiatric nurse at the UW Hospital in Seattle and as head of the Key West public health department in Florida.

Maryjayne and Dick lived in many parts of America during their marriage with homes in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, and western Washington. She especially enjoyed travel and visited Africa, England, Canada, Cuba, Costa Rica, Easter Island, Tahiti, Galapagos Islands, and Mexico, and she and Dick also took an extensive tour of the Caribbean during a yearlong sailing journey. She was eager to meet people, especially of other cultures and an interest in history led to her founding the Manette History Club during the production of Manette Pioneering, a book about the early families settling in her East Bremerton neighborhood. Her other interests included writing short stories and newspaper articles about the people she met, painting, and collecting keepsakes from her travels. She and Dick returned to Manette from Arizona two years ago, and Maryjayne was well known for her participation in the Manette History Club and for riding her trike near her Perry Avenue home. Survivors include her husband Dick Hladky, her brother James Meredith, her sons Rich and Clyde Hladky, and her grandsons Scott Hladky and Paul Fraizer.

Maryjane's and Richard's yearlong Caribbean sailing journey - Clipped from - Florida Today newspaper - Cocoa, Florida -

31 January 1971 - The Hladky family had always owned boats, - at least six or seven over the years, ranging from a 12 foot sailing dinghy on up. And with each new craft, the length was longer and the distances covered during summer vacations greater. With their two sons grown, the Hladky's moved from Seattle to Brevard four years ago, and Dick went to work for Boeing as a logistics engineer. After a year of living in a house on Merritt Island and taking short hops to the Bahamas on their sloop, sea fever once again set in. They traded their home and boat for their current Piver design multihull and moved bag and baggage aboard to live dockside at the Island Point Marina on Merritt Island. The next few years were filled with activities to get their new boat in shape for the projected voyage, and late in 1969, Dick Hladky took his year's leave of absence from Boeing and be and Maryjane set out. Nassau in the Bahamas was the first port of call for the Diosa, and island after Island followed Calcos, Turk, Andros, the Exumas, Aklins, Caicos, Puerto Rico approximately 2,000 miles down the Caribbean chain to the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands and finally the stopping point at Grenada. The trip south took 10 months, the trip returning only three - 13 months of nothing but sailing, scuba diving, sightseeing, sun and salt air. And on Dec 31, 1970, the Dioas slipped back Into her berth at the Island Point Marina. LINK to the complete article - Maryjane's and Richard's yearlong Caribbean sailing journey - www.newspapers.com/clip/84454859/maryjane-and-dick-also-t...

French postcard by Editions du Globe, no 486. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Belgian postcard. Photo: Warner Bros.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, presented by Les Carbones Korès "Carboplane", no. 587. Photo: Paramount, 1955.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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G20 GMP...........M90 Perth.

Belgian postcard, no. 551. Photo: Warner Bros.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Italian postcard by B.F.F. Editore, no. 2986. Photo: MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer).

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, no. 1014. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Hedy Lamarr in My Favorite Spy (Norman Z. McLeod, 1951).

Glamorous and seductive film star Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000) was born in Austria. The notorious Czechoslovak film Ekstase/Ecstasy (1933) made her an international sensation, and Louis Mayer invited her to Hollywood where she became ‘the most beautiful woman in films’.

Hedy Lamarr was born as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), the daughter of Jewish parents. Her mother was a pianist and her father a successful bank director. She studied ballet and piano. When working with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the ‘most beautiful woman in Europe’. Her first film role was a bit part in the German film Das Geld liegt auf der Straße/Money on the Street (Georg Jacoby, 1930). Soon, the attractive and talented teenage girl played major roles in the German films Die Frau von Lindenau/Storm in a Water Glass (Georg Jacoby, 1931), Die Abenteuer des Herrn O. F./The Trunks of Mr. O. F. (Alexis Granowsky, 1931), and Man braucht kein Geld/We Need No Money (Carl Boese, 1932) alongside stars like Heinz Rühmann and Hans Moser. But it would be her fifth film that catapulted her to worldwide fame. In early 1933, she starred in Gustav Machatý's Ekstase/Symphonie der Liebe/Ecstasy (1933), a Czechoslovak film made in Prague. It's the story of a young girl who has an indifferent old husband and falls in love with a young soldier. Closeups of her face in orgasm, and long shots of her running nude through the woods, created a sensation all over the world. The scenes, very tame by today's standards, caused the film to be banned by the US government at the time. Hedy soon married Fritz Mandl, a munitions manufacturer, 13 years her senior. The Austrian fascist bought up as many copies of the film as he could possibly find, as he objected to her nudity and ‘the expression on her face’. (She later claimed the looks of passion were the result of the director poking her in the bottom with a safety pin.) He prevented her from pursuing her acting career, and instead took her to meetings with technicians and business partners. In these meetings, the mathematically talented Lamarr learned about military technology. Otherwise, she had to stay at the castle Schwarzenau. She later related that even though Mandl was part-Jewish, he was consorting with Nazi industrialists which infuriated her. In 1937, she convinced Mandl to allow her to attend a party wearing all her expensive jewelry, later drugged him with the help of her maid, and made her escape out of the country with the jewelry.

First Hedwig Kiesler went to Paris, then met Louis B. Mayer in London. After he hired her, at his insistence she changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara LaMarr, who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis and nefritis. In Hollywood, she was usually cast as glamorous and seductive. Her American debut was in Algiers (John Cromwell, 1938). Hedy Lamarr made 18 films between 1940 and 1949 including Boom Town (Jack Conway, 1940), White Cargo (Richard Thorpe, 1942), and Tortilla Flat (Victor Fleming, 1942), based on the novel by John Steinbeck. White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains arguably her most famous film quote, "I am Tondelayo". She left MGM in 1945. For Paramount she as Delilah opposite Victor Mature's Samson in Cecil B. DeMille's epic Samson and Delilah (1949). This proved to be Paramount's most profitable movie to date, bringing in $12 million in rental from theaters. However, following her comedic turn opposite Bob Hope in My Favorite Spy (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1951), her career went into decline. She was to make only six more films between 1949 and 1957, the last being The Female Animal (Harry Keller, 1958). She became a naturalised US citizen in 1953. The publication of her autobiography 'Ecstasy and Me' (1967) took place about a year after accusations of shoplifting, and a year after Andy Warhol's short film Hedy/The Shoplifter (1966). The controversy surrounding the shoplifting charges coincided with an aborted return to the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (Bert I. Gordon, 1966). The role was ultimately filled by Zsa Zsa Gabor. In the ensuing years, she retreated from public life and settled in Florida. She returned to the headlines in 1991 when the 78-year-old former actress was again accused of shoplifting, although charges were eventually dropped. Hedy Lamarr died in Altamonte Springs, Florida in 2000. She had been married six times, including to actor John Loder. Their son Anthony Loder took her ashes to Vienna and spread them in the Wienerwald, according to her wishes. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd.

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British postcard in "The People' series by Show Parade Picture Service, London, no. P 1137. Photo: Warner Bros.

American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965). Her biographer Doug McClelland called her ‘Woman of a Thousand Faces’, because of her versatility.

Eleanor Jean Parker was born in 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Lola (Isett) and Lester Day Parker. Her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public schools and graduated from Shaw High School. She appeared in a number of school plays. When she was 15 she started to attend the Rice Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to California and began appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse. There she was spotted by a Warners Bros talent scout, Irving Kumin. The studio signed her to a long-term contract in June 1941. She was cast that year in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941), but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in the short Soldiers in White (B. Reeves Eason, 1942). She was given some decent roles in B films, Busses Roar (D. Ross Lederman, 1942) and The Mysterious Doctor (Benjamin Stoloff, 1943) opposites John Loder. She also had a small role in one of Warner Brothers' biggest productions for the 1943 season, the pro-Soviet Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943) as Emlen Davies, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R (Walter Huston). On the set, she met her first husband, Navy Lieutenant. Fred L. Losse, but the marriage turned out to be a brief wartime affair. Parker had impressed Warners enough to offer her a strong role in a prestige production, Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She played support roles for Crime by Night (William Clemens, 1944) and The Last Ride (D. Ross Lederman, 1944). Then she got the starring role opposite Dennis Morgan in The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944). She was considered enough of a ‘name’ to be given a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Warners gave her the choice role of Mildred Rogers in a new version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding, 1946), but previews were not favourable and the film sat on the shelf for two years before being released. She had her big break when she was cast opposite John Garfield in Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945). However, two films with Errol Flynn that followed, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye (James V. Kern, 1946) and the drama Escape Me Never (Peter Godfrey, 1947), were box office disappointments. Parker was suspended twice by Warners for refusing parts in films – in Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947), where she was replaced by Alexis Smith and Love and Learn (Frederick De Cordova, 1947). She made the comedy Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947) with Ronald Reagan, and the mystery The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948). She refused to appear in Somewhere in the City (Vincent Sherman, 1950) so Warners suspended her again; Virginia Mayo played the role. Parker then had two years off, during which time she married and had a baby. She turned down a role in The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) which she wanted to do, but it would have meant going to England and she did not want to leave her baby alone during its first year.

Eleanor Parker returned in Chain Lightning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) with Humphrey Bogart. Parker heard about a women-in-prison film Warners were making, Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), and actively lobbied for the role. She got it, won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a good role in the melodrama Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950). In February 1950, Parker left Warner Bros. after having been under contract there for eight years. Parker had understood that she would star in a film called Safe Harbor, but Warner Bros. apparently had no intention of making it. Because of this misunderstanding, her agents negotiated her release. Parker's career outside of Warners started badly with Valentino (Lewis Allen, 1951) playing a fictionalised wife of Rudolph Valentino for producer Edward Small. She tried a comedy at 20th Century Fox with Fred MacMurray, A Millionaire for Christy (George Marshall, 1951). In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films. This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (Kirk Douglas). Parker was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance. Parker followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952), a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. Wikipedia: “Parker later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry and the film was a massive hit. “MGM cast her into Above and Beyond (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, 1952), a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit. While Parker was making a third film for MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (John Sturges, 1953), she signed a five-year contract with the studio. She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, My Most Intimate Friend and of One More Time, from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made. Back at Paramount, Parker starred with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), produced by George Pal. Parker returned to MGM where she was reunited with Robert Taylor in an Egyptian adventure film, Valley of the Kings (Robert Pirosh, 1954), and a Western, Many Rivers to Cross (Roy Rowland, 1955). MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence struck down by polio in Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955). This was a big hit and earned Parker a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favourite film. Also in 1955, Parker appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), released through United Artists. She played Zosh, the supposedly wheelchair-bound wife of heroin-addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success. In 1956, she co-starred with Clark Gable in the Western comedy The King and Four Queens (Raoul Walsh, 1956), also for United Artists. It was then back at MGM for two dramas: Lizzie (Hugo Haas, 1957), in the title role, as a woman with a split personality; and The Seventh Sin (Ronald Neame, 1957), a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo and, once again, intended for Ava Gardner. Both films flopped at the box office and, as a result, Parker's plans to produce her own film, L'Eternelle, about French resistance fighters, did not materialise.

Eleanor Parker supported Frank Sinatra in a popular comedy, A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). She returned to MGM for Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960), co-starring with Robert Mitchum, then took over Lana Turner's role of Constance Rossi in Return to Peyton Place (José Ferrer, 1961), the sequel to the hit 1957 film. That was made by 20th Century Fox who also produced Madison Avenue (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1961) with Parker. In 1960, she made her TV debut, and in the following years, she worked increasingly in television, with the occasional film role such as Panic Button (George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, 1964) with Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield. Parker's best-known screen role is Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965). The Baroness was famously and poignantly unsuccessful in keeping the affections of Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) after he falls in love with Maria (Julie Andrews). In 1966, Parker played an alcoholic widow in the crime drama Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967), a talent scout who discovers a Hollywood star in The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966), and a rich alcoholic in An American Dream (Robert Gist, 1966). However, her film career seemed to go downhill. A Playboy Magazine reviewer derided the cast of The Oscar as "has-beens and never-will-be". From the late 1960s, she focused on television. In 1963, Parker appeared in the medical TV drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode Why Am I Grown So Cold?, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also appeared in episodes of Breaking Point (1964). And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968). In 1969–1970, Parker starred in the television series Bracken's World, for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award. Parker also appeared on stage in the role of Margo Channing in Applause, the Broadway musical version of the film All About Eve. In 1976, she played Maxine in a revival of The Night of the Iguana. Her last film role was in a Farrah Fawcett bomb, Sunburn (Richard C. Sarafian, 1979). Subsequently, she appeared very infrequently on TV, most recently in Dead on the Money (Mark Cullingham, 1991). Eleanor Parker was married four times. Her first husband was Fred Losee (1943-1944). Her second marriage to Bert E. Friedlob (1946-1953) produced three children Susan Eleanor Friedlob (1948), Sharon Anne Friedlob (1950), and Richard Parker Friedlob (1952). Her third marriage was to American portrait painter Paul Clemens, (1954-1965) and the couple had one child, actor Paul Clemens (1958). Her fourth marriage with Raymond N. Hirsch (1966-2001) ended when Hirsch died of oesophagal cancer. She was the grandmother of actor/director Chasen Parker. Eleanor Parker died in 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91. Parker was raised a Protestant and later converted to Judaism, telling the New York Daily News columnist Kay Gardella in August 1969, "I think we're all Jews at heart ... I wanted to convert for a long time."

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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