Tuesday, October 15, 2019

WHEELS #4


Posted by Chic Silber at 10/15/2019 11:36:00 PM

3 comments:

Roger Smith said...

This trick reminds me of one similar demonstrated by Burt Lancaster, as Robert Stroud, in BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ. The birds for that picture were trained by Mr. & Mrs. A.W. Kinnard. The connection being, Mrs. Kinnard was famous to us as Dorothy Herbert.

16 October, 2019 22:02
Chic Silber said...


This is a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

pulling an African Gray in a cart

Cockatoos in Sydney are like pigeons

in New York's Central Park (& loud)

16 October, 2019 22:49
Roger Smith said...

We (Jungleland) had a Sulphur-crested cockatoo for the 1967 DR. DOLITTLE.

And Mabel Stark had an African Gray during her marriage to Eddie Trees. The parrot drove him crazy, imitating Mabel's loud summons, "ED-DIEEEEE! DAMN IT, COME HERE!"

PS; Speaking of Eddies, Eddie Murphy did a 2nd DOLITTLE that didn't make it. Now, as we see this week, Robert Downey, Jr. is in a 3rd. The original tried starring Rex Harrison in the big 20th Century-Fox blockbuster to save the studio from the ravages of 1963's CLEOPATRA. The damn thing was a belly-flopper--I know--I was on (not in) that picture. Our Hollywood geniuses insist on trying to make a franchise out of a dud.

17 October, 2019 13:02

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