Richard Crenna Was A Republican

The rape of Richard Beck actor?

R1 yes - It is not like rapists ask what your political affiliation is before raping the person.

But his character was a right wing prick in that movie.

Who cares?

Oh my God--OP, how can I ever watch re-runs of "It Takes Two" or "Our Miss Brooks" again?

Thanks for this important and very timely piece of news.

He played a douchebag in the John Candy movie "Summer Rental" very well. Now I understand why.

So ?.....you do realize that republicans 50 years ago were not the same assholes that they are now.

[quote] Oh my God--OP, how can I ever watch re-runs of "It Takes Two"

The premise of "It Takes Two" was the left-wing wife and the right-wing husband (Crenna)

Patty Duke wrote that Crenna was even FURTHER RIGHT than

[quote] .republicans 50 years ago

Why did Patty Duke care about Richard Crenna's politics?

JACK: Maybe something with an umbrella. [TO THE WAITRESS] Excuse me, miss. Yeah, we're ready to order over here. What's good?

WAITRESS: What's good? Me in Hawaii with Richard Crenna.

ROSARIO: I heard that, sister.

[quote] Why did Patty Duke care about Richard Crenna's politics?

Because Patty Duke was a social activist involved in many causes.

Richard Chennai was Luke in “The Real McCoys.” Loved that show from the ‘60s. Also starred Walter Brennan and Kathleen Nolan.

I always knew that no good would come of Walter Denton.

HOW DID WILLIAM CONRAD VOTE? I HAVE TO KNOW!!

OMG....

First Yvonne De Carlo is exposed on DL as a deceased Republican, and now we find out Patty Duke mentioned the late Richard Crenna was a Republican in her memoirs....I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight...

It was a well-kept secret that Minnie Maddern Fiske was a Trotskyite.

R17

She looks like a Napoleon Drag Queen.

Pretty sure Walter Brennan was an extreme racist - like African-Americans shouldn't eat in the same restaurants type.

So not too surprising. Still, I imagine under 60's - maybe under 70's - are saying WHO??

It seems like end times or something, but for those of us who remember the REALLY bad times, it's actually pretty good now. Except tax rates. Those have become regressive goddammit, like the robber baron days before the Great Depression. But racially, sexism-wise, gay rights - good lord, the bad old days were worse than you younguns could possibly imagine. I lived near where people were cheering the murderers of the civil rights workers in Mississippi in the 60s. Those guys were heroes among the white rednecks.

I was talking to one recently - sadly an old relative - and he said, "Well, they were makin' out with girls on the porch..." (so of course, you had to kill 'em - he now is too embarrassed to say they deserved it for registering black folks to vote).

Minnie Maddern Fiske fought against the wearing of snowy and great egrets on hats.

Oh pooh, r20.....

He also did All's Fair with Bernadette Peters for a season ('76-'77) where he did play some sort of conservative-like d-bag. So yeah there's that.

And you call yourself Queens

Minnie Maddern Fiske fought for artistic freedom for 12 years, which caused her to perform in third-class theatres, such as churches and skating rinks.

Good career move r23.

Who was Richard Crenna, some eldergay?

Walter Brennan (Richard Crenna co-starred with him in "The Real McCoys") was a vile racist. He reportedly danced a jig on the set of his TV series "The Guns of Will Sonnett" when he heard that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.

Walter Brennan won an unprecedented THREE OSCARS so someone in Hollywood must have loved him.

Walter Brennan was one of Scotty Bowers' boys.

[quote]Walter Brennan won an unprecedented THREE OSCARS so someone in Hollywood must have loved him.

Well, then, he couldn't possibly have been a racist.

[quote]Walter Brennan was one of Scotty Bowers' boys.

One of Scotty Bowers' "boys"? Brennan was almost 30 years older than Bowers.

You came out of the womb with zero sense of humor, didn't you, r30?

So What???

The shameful truth of Otis Skinner, stage idol to thousands but secret supporter of the Bull Moose Party!

Forrest--Shakespearean matinee idol, or mere mouthpiece for the Whigs?

So, are we supposed to cancel, callout or boycott Richard Crenna? I can't keep up.

R35

I think we're supposed to sue his estate for reparations.

He also had a run as Blanche's gay brother on The Golden Girls. One of the most famous episodes, actually. How do you queens not know that?

Was Helen Lawson a so-called country club Republican?

Eve Arden and Bob Rockwell were also Republicans. Gale Gordon was a Democrat until the mid-late 1950s and switched to a Republican. It wouldn't surprise me if Lucille Ball "preferred" that people on the Desilu payroll be Republicans.

That wasn't Richard Crenna R37, it was me.

How do YOU not know that?

Slander. Calumny.

I'd have to agree with r4. Who fucking cares about the politics of some actor who's been dead 16 years and was never a politician or person with any political influence.

There are also a lot of good Italian Democrats!

"Richard Chennai"

R13 he was a conservative, so his last name was "Madras."

I'll never be able to watch Star! again.

Not that I'd ever want to.

But the worst people in America prior to the great migration (to a party that pandered to them) were Dixiecrats. (Southern Democrats)

I think the migration is 100% complete. I 'think' it started with Goldwater - but came to more prominence with Nixon's "Southern strategy". I am a white southern liberal Democrat but I'd guess about 90% of whites in Mississippi and Alabama are Republican. Hell, maybe it's worse. Especially if you don't count any snowbirds or other migrants from outside the Deep South.

I forget where I found the statistics - but after the election in 2008, I read that 7% of white males in Mississippi voted for Obama (and maybe 11% of white females. Believe it or not, Alabama was slightly worse.

Walter Brennan won three supporting actor oscars because extras were allowed to vote for acting awards at the time. Due in part to Brennan's three wins, the rules were changed prohibiting extras from voting.

Why did extras vote for Brennan en bloc and not other actors?

Brennan gives a great dramatic performance in The Westerner. And a wonderfully comic one in Support Your Local Sheriff. He was a helluva lot better than those kindly curmudgeonly grandpas he's known for today. If he's known at all.

What his personal attitudes were I don't want to know.

[quote]Why did extras vote for Brennan en bloc and not other actors?

In the backroom he was everybody's darling.

[R49] He started as an extra and the extras were trying to unionize so voting for him assured 3 victories to screw up the system. Back then the Academy pool had about 7,000 extras who voted. Now it’s only about 6,200 voters tops. His third victory —ironically, the only one worthy of a win—prompted the Academy to get rid of extras who were on its rolls as members of SAG. From then on they had to be Academy members who were invited in.

R39 Eve Arden was NOT a Republican. She campaigned for Adlai.

R7 You're really good at self-deception.

50 years ago repubs were against school desegregation, school busing, gay rights, abortion rights & the ERA.

They supported school prayer, the death penalty, tax cuts for the rich, union busting, the NRA, military build ups & foreign intervention.

They are the same party they were 50 years ago.

Heck 2 decades ago, Former House Speaker Newt G. wanted to bring back Boystown as a solution for troubled youth.

He had the undisputed biggest dick in Hollywood. I read that once but cannot include an attribution.

Bigger than Forrest Tucker's?!

[quote]JACK: Maybe something with an umbrella. [TO THE WAITRESS] Excuse me, miss. Yeah, we're ready to order over here. What's good?

[quote]WAITRESS: What's good? Me in Hawaii with Richard Crenna.

[quote]ROSARIO: I heard that, sister.

"Waitress?" That was the legendary Miss Suzanne Pleshette, bitch!

Milton Berle, Forrest Tucker and Richard Crenna walk into a bar....

Well it was three feet in front of George Raft

I worked with him too. Republican asshole.