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Francis 1961 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" 1995 Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr. 1995 Francis Lopez, Fren dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78 www.brainyhistory.com /topics/f/francis.html

TiVoPlex for Tuesday, September 7 through Monday, September 13, 2004 Ed - -even before Francis the Talking Mule - -came this MGM comedy about a young lad (Butch Jenkins) blessed with the gift of equine language. It’s an imperfect analogy, of course, because in THIS film, the boy does all the talking and the horses do all the listening, though they apparently answer back in a horsy tongue only Jenkins understands. Focusing on team captain and All-American linebacker Taurean Charles, Year of the Bull is a fascinating look at the pressure-cooker atmosphere of amateur athletics that also explores the overarching issues of class and race (Miami Northwestern is located in that city’s much-maligned Liberty City neighborhood). www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8514

Famous Mules and Burros too! Mules were in the silent movies and comedies of the Marx Brothers, the 3 Stooges and Laural and Hardy before " Francis, the talking mule ". The mules are the icon of " 20 mule team " Borax company, the advertiser of " Death Valley Days " a western program that ran 1951 to 1969. The mules of the desert in California really were rough and tough to with stand the heat (back and forth) of desolate Death Valley mining the "Borax Works" mills to the shipment area. horsefame.tripod.com /20mules.html

Francis 1961 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" 1961 Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70 Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy www.brainyhistory.com /topics/f/francis.html

TV ACRES: Awards - Animals Section The first PATSY was given to Francis (a Mule) in Francis the Talking Mule in 1951. The award (pictured as a "golden banana") was discontinued and replaced by the Annual Zap Awards introduced in January 6, 1990. The award was won five times by the naive yet pompous news director Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), who proudly displayed his five plaque awards on the only wall of his imaginary office. www.tvacres.com /awards_animals.htm

InFurNation! - October, 1996 Word is out that comic Arsenio Hall will be starring in a new film version of Francis the Talking Mule. A young boy named Paul finds himself transported to a magical land, where an eagle made of light introduces him to a group of talking animals, looking to find their lost king. In the premiere issue of the full-color comic, six interplanetary boars crash-land on Earth, where a secret scientific organization transforms them into cybernetic super-beings to battle the evil being they were escaping, who's also landed on Earth. www.confurence.com /infurnation/ifn9610.html   (5785 words)

Jay Livingston Remembered Producer Al Lubin, who had directed the first six of the "Francis the Talking Mule" pictures had come up with a similar idea for the home screen -- a talking palomino, who speaks only to his new owner, Wilbur, a shy architect. Two months later it was finally released as the "B" side to a song called "The Greatest Inventor of Them All." Bottom line: "Mona Lisa" not only won an Oscar, but also became a huge jukebox success and later a standard. Hitchcock agreed -- but only because he had come up with an interesting way to make the song an interesting plot device: Doris, playing an American mother whose child is kidnapped, uses the song to signal the child that she (and husband Jimmy Stewart) were coming to his rescue. www.lucyfan.com /jaylivingston.html   (1927 words)

DVD Talk > Reviews > Best of Mister Ed 1 > Printer Friendly Mister Ed was produced and directed by Arthur Lubin, a longtime director at Universal who, after having helmed many of Abbott & Costello's best films, launched the highly successful seven-film "Francis the Talking Mule" series. Ed decides to harass the new neighbor into moving out, and soon is making crank calls to Eastwood's home (Ed calls him a "mule head") and offending producers offering the Rawhide star movie roles. Ed down into a stock sitcom environment (house in the country, Mertz-like neighbors, etc.), its human star is hogtied to characters and situations the show would have done better without. www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=8879   (952 words)

Best of Mister Ed Five years after the surprising success of a series of B-pictures starring one of the screen's most unlikely heroes, Francis the Talking Mule, producer Arthur Lubin scored a hit on the small screen with the introduction of the similarly themed sitcom featuring everyone's favorite talking horse, Mister Ed. "Ed the Stowaway" finds the Posts and the Kirkwoods going on a Hawaiian vacation together, only to find that Ed has stowed away on the boat! Ed soon discovers that life with a star isn't all it's cracked up to be. www.classicsondvd.com /mistered.htm   (504 words)

Mamie Van Doren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , a part that was originally written for Van Doren, who turned it down, Universal stuck Van Doren with Francis the Talking Mule in Francis Joins the WACS. In 1964, Van Doren was at the Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood when The Beatles were at the club, and a drunk George Harrison accidentally threw his drink on her when he was really trying to throw it on some bothersome journalists. Marilyn, Mamie and Jayne Mansfield were known as the "Three M's," and Van Doren achieved legendary status as being the sole survivor (although she was currently referred to as "the poor man's Mansfield"). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mamie_Van_Doren   (1548 words)

'Ernest Saves Christmas' Varney's cretinous character -- part Francis the Talking Mule, part Minnie Pearl, part auto parts aficionado -- will not disappoint fans with this antic combo of candy canes and slapstick. Ernest has until 7 o'clock Christmas Eve to bring the two men together or "the joy and magic feelings will be gone forever." He is assisted by his shrill, tedious Valley Girl sidekick Harmony, who has run away from understandably neglectful parents. Turner harnesses all that brain power for such lines as Ernest's "I'm at one with the yuletide, know whut I mean?" Then there is "Better safe than sorry," as one cargo handler says to another, opening an umbrella when Santa's famous reindeer fly over. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/ernestsaveschristmas.htm   (378 words)

Amazon.com: Video: Francis the Talking Mule (1950) Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) is a former bank clerk turned soldier who finds himself cast in role of reluctant hero when he strikes up a friendship with Francis, an Army mule who can talk (voiced by Chill Wills, and played by a female named Molly). Unfortunately, the stubborn mule thinks mum's the word whenever Peter tries to tell others of the critter's gift of gab: This sends Peter to the psych ward more than once, where he becomes an expert basket-weaver. Ala Cyrano de Bergerac, Francis helps Peter to win the girl of his dreams, a shapely nurse named Patricia (Maureen Gelder). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303072356?v=glance   (378 words)

Francis 1961 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" 1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies www.brainyhistory.com /topics/f/francis.html   (2500 words)

Caskets On Parade - Book of the Dead: "Oa" - "Od" played Cosmo Brown in Singin' In The Rain (1952) and Peter Stirling in six Francis the Talking Mule movies (1950-55) www.msu.edu /user/daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-oa.htm   (725 words)

Mara Corday Biography O.K. so they are all in this stupid Francis the talking Mule movie but Hell If I was a kid and went to the theatre to see a movie and my three favorite beauties (Mara, Julie, Allsion) were there I'd have been the happiest kid alive!! Ah yes 1955 was also the year of the film that Mara starred in, the one that people who may not even know her by name remember her in. The 5 foot 5 1/2 120lb (37-23 1/2-35) brown haired, brown eyed Mara moved on to modeling(which she continued all through her career) where she was labeled one of cheesecakes TOP 5. members.aol.com /aytab4/bio.html   (1118 words)

InFurNation! - October, 1996 Word is out that comic Arsenio Hall will be starring in a new film version of Francis the Talking Mule. In the premiere issue of the full-color comic, six interplanetary boars crash-land on Earth, where a secret scientific organization transforms them into cybernetic super-beings to battle the evil being they were escaping, who's also landed on Earth. Since the winners will be published in a commercial comic book, the submissions should not include copyrighted characters, especially those belonging to major corporations whose legal departments do not have a sense of humor. www.confurence.org /infurnation/ifn9610.html   (5785 words)

InFurNation! - October, 1996 Word is out that comic Arsenio Hall will be starring in a new film version of Francis the Talking Mule. In the premiere issue of the full-color comic, six interplanetary boars crash-land on Earth, where a secret scientific organization transforms them into cybernetic super-beings to battle the evil being they were escaping, who's also landed on Earth. Since the winners will be published in a commercial comic book, the submissions should not include copyrighted characters, especially those belonging to major corporations whose legal departments do not have a sense of humor. www.confurence.org /infurnation/ifn9610.html   (5785 words)

InFurNation! - October, 1996 Word is out that comic Arsenio Hall will be starring in a new film version of Francis the Talking Mule. In the premiere issue of the full-color comic, six interplanetary boars crash-land on Earth, where a secret scientific organization transforms them into cybernetic super-beings to battle the evil being they were escaping, who's also landed on Earth. Since the winners will be published in a commercial comic book, the submissions should not include copyrighted characters, especially those belonging to major corporations whose legal departments do not have a sense of humor. www.confurence.org /infurnation/ifn9610.html   (5785 words)

Mister Ed - TV Tome Bamboo Harvester was trained by Lester "Les" Hilton, who had been apprenticed under Will Rogers, and also worked with the mules in the "Francis the Talking Mule" movies. Pumpkin also appeared on the televison series "Green Acres." Bamboo Harvester had a stable mate horse named Pumpkin, who filled in as his stunt double on more rigorous shots. www.musictome.com /tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-245524   (5785 words)

The Straight Dope: How did they get Mr. Ed to talk? (Ed's trainer, by the way, was the late Lester Hylton, who also trained Francis the Talking Mule, eponymous star--and don't think I haven't thirsted for years to use that word in a column--of the 1950s movie series. Some may claim that a nylon bit was needed in order to have Ed turn his head or perform some other movement without his trainer having to be in the camera shot, but the evidence is clear that the bit was also used when Ed was standing still and merely had to talk. The video shows excerpts from a few episodes where the lighting and camera angle reveal the very visible nylon "bit" being pulled for each word Ed spoke. www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_029   (874 words)

Obituaries of the 90s, 1995 Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96 Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52 Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72 www.inthe90s.com /generated/obit1995.shtml   (874 words)

David Stern NEW ORLEANS (AP) David Stern III, former publisher of the New Orleans Item and author of Francis, the Talking Mule, a novel that inspired a series of movies, has died at 94 on Saturday in San Francisco. Stern, a native of Philadelphia who graduated from Harvard University, had a 30-year newspaper career, including top management posts at the New York Post, the Philadelphia Record and the Courier Post in Camden, N.J. Stern and some associates bought the Item in 1949 for about $2 million, according to Editor & Publisher, a trade magazine. David Stern says: "When I joined the Army in 1943, I had been publishing a couple of newspapers. www.biemiller.com /francis.htm   (423 words)

Clint Eastwood Signed to a contract at Universal, Eastwood got tiny roles in Revenge of the Creature with John Agar and Francis in the Navy with the famous talking mule. Eastwood's all-eyes acting was a perfect match with Leone's sparse but riveting dialogue, easy-to-translate plots, rich widescreen visuals, rousing music by Ennio Morricone, and intense close-ups that let audiences almost feel the sweat glistening on Eastwood's brow. The Hog's Breath closed in 1999, but Eastwood still owns his movie company, a golf course, Tehama Clint sportswear, and Pale Rider Ale. www.nndb.com /people/849/000022783   (1371 words)

Clint Eastwood Signed to a contract at Universal, Eastwood got tiny roles in Revenge of the Creature with John Agar and Francis in the Navy with the famous talking mule. Eastwood's all-eyes acting was a perfect match with Leone's sparse but riveting dialogue, easy-to-translate plots, rich widescreen visuals, rousing music by Ennio Morricone, and intense close-ups that let audiences almost feel the sweat glistening on Eastwood's brow. The Hog's Breath closed in 1999, but Eastwood still owns his movie company, a golf course, Tehama Clint sportswear, and Pale Rider Ale. www.nndb.com /people/849/000022783   (1371 words)

Amazon.com: The Best of Mister Ed - Volume 1: DVD: Leon Ames,Mister Ed,Connie Hines,Larry Keating,Allan Lane,Florence MacMichael,Edna Skinner,Alan Young,Jus Addiss,Rodney Amateau,Arthur Lubin,John Rich (II) Adventures of Francis The Talking Mule - Volume 1 DVD ~ Donald O'Connor I remember lovingly watching Mr Ed when I was young, although not a small child, in the 60's, so I thought I would buy this DVD when I heard it was coming out. One rumor (based on an episode in which the horse leaned on freshly painted railings and pretended it was a zebra) is that Mr. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000V490G?v=glance   (1717 words)

Variety.com - Reviews - The First Lady Of Hollywood Judy Garland was admonished for not shedding 15 pounds, Donald O'Connor for refusing to make the last Francis (the talking mule) movie. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Barbas' book is rich in detail of all aspects of Louella's time including the cultural and the political, of the other players during the decades through which she reigned as Queen of Hollywood, and of her effect on entertainment and the industry she covered. www.variety.com /review/VE1117928350?categoryId=1010&cs=1   (1148 words)

Francis the talking mule The 1953 Award of Excellence was another honor for this talented mule. The award was given to the animals shown in motion pictures for an outstanding performance. The award presentation lasted untill the 1980's then it was discontinued. www.angelfire.com /film/horsefame/francis.html   (1148 words)

Patsy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The very first recipient of a Patsy was Francis the Talking Mule in 1951. The Patsy Award was originated by the Hollywood office of the American Humane Association in 1939. Arnold's trainer, the late Frank Inn, was the proud owner of over 40 Patsy awards, thanks to his work with Higgins, the dog (who played the lead in the Benji movies and "Dog" on Petticoat Junction), Cleo the Basset Hound, and Lassie, to name a few. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patsy_Award   (1148 words)

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