“When are you coming back Red Ryder”? starring Ralph (Sonny) Blum’s kimosabi as the earstwhile munchen to the irrestible honcho in a class by himself….Red Ryder t v series ..recognizing Lee Grant.’s acting flavor.later...
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Putting aside jealousies from the camp of the Laker spectator bassketballer Jack Nicholson, a former New Jersey caddy (“Fore”), Ralph “Sonny” Blum’s father, a Rabbi turned agent, inveigled the aspiring actor to weigh in as Red Ryder’s kimosabi, in the horseman’s stable. Catching outlaws and those drifters ike “Jack the knife” who went astray in their “When are you coming back, Red Ryder”?
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Punctuating the Beverly Hills syndrome, was a smiling slick of Van Johnson on a boudoir nest, his freckled face adrift without his screen tally ho June Allyson, the MGM star desiress “It takes two to tango”
So in that household where Sonny and his gaucho amigo played out their symbiotic roles in those Red Ryder episodes, Tommy, and a producer from the Big Apple, arrived one night for dinner. His companion unlike the musical “tone”Lena Horne, he left in the Apple, they fought out “a deal” for the rights to the live musical in the City that never sleeps.
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In the meantime Jack Nicholson got off the ground in his role as a non commissioned officer at the Air National Guard base in Van Nuys, thereby relegating his own role ,once the Vietnam invasion came to an
unconditional surrender.
The moral of these chemistries expanding to the big screen and studio stages was a priceless ingredient…..subtle impression natures, identifying with the roles that made their characters come
alive..
May 19, 2016 Heavenly Hills, …the City that never sleeps. .
