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Richard Crenna Was A Republican

Not only was he a Republican, but a HARD RIGHT Conservative, and would probably approve of Trump. He hid it well under the persona he presented to Hollywood.

Crenna being a hard right Republican was revealed by the late Patty Duke in her updated memoirs that was published posthumously

by Anonymousreply 59June 20, 2019 8:07 AM

The rape of Richard Beck actor?

by Anonymousreply 1June 19, 2019 6:12 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 2June 19, 2019 6:16 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 3June 19, 2019 6:17 PM

Who cares?

by Anonymousreply 4June 19, 2019 6:18 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 5June 19, 2019 6:19 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 6June 19, 2019 6:24 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 7June 19, 2019 6:26 PM

[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)

by Anonymousreply 8June 19, 2019 6:27 PM

Patty Duke wrote that Crenna was even FURTHER RIGHT than

[quote] .republicans 50 years ago

by Anonymousreply 9June 19, 2019 6:27 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 10June 19, 2019 6:28 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 11June 19, 2019 6:29 PM

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

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

by Anonymousreply 12June 19, 2019 6:31 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 13June 19, 2019 6:32 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 14June 19, 2019 6:35 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 15June 19, 2019 6:36 PM

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...

by Anonymousreply 16June 19, 2019 6:38 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 17June 19, 2019 6:43 PM

R17

She looks like a Napoleon Drag Queen.

by Anonymousreply 18June 19, 2019 6:48 PM

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).

by Anonymousreply 19June 19, 2019 6:49 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 20June 19, 2019 6:54 PM

Oh pooh, r20.....

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by Anonymousreply 21June 19, 2019 7:02 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 22June 19, 2019 7:25 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 23June 19, 2019 7:30 PM

Good career move r23.

by Anonymousreply 24June 19, 2019 7:34 PM

Who was Richard Crenna, some eldergay?

by Anonymousreply 25June 19, 2019 7:36 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 26June 19, 2019 8:21 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 27June 19, 2019 8:29 PM

Walter Brennan was one of Scotty Bowers' boys.

by Anonymousreply 28June 19, 2019 8:32 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 29June 19, 2019 8:34 PM

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

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

by Anonymousreply 30June 19, 2019 8:38 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 31June 19, 2019 8:51 PM

So What???

by Anonymousreply 32June 19, 2019 8:56 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 33June 19, 2019 9:09 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 34June 19, 2019 9:13 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 35June 19, 2019 11:49 PM

R35

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

by Anonymousreply 36June 20, 2019 12:04 AM

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?

by Anonymousreply 37June 20, 2019 12:09 AM

Was Helen Lawson a so-called country club Republican?

by Anonymousreply 38June 20, 2019 12:15 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 39June 20, 2019 12:18 AM

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

How do YOU not know that?

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by Anonymousreply 40June 20, 2019 12:19 AM

Slander. Calumny.

by Anonymousreply 41June 20, 2019 12:20 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 42June 20, 2019 12:21 AM

There are also a lot of good Italian Democrats!

by Anonymousreply 43June 20, 2019 12:23 AM

"Richard Chennai"

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

by Anonymousreply 44June 20, 2019 12:32 AM

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

Not that I'd ever want to.

by Anonymousreply 45June 20, 2019 12:34 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 46June 20, 2019 12:54 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 47June 20, 2019 12:58 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 48June 20, 2019 1:00 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 49June 20, 2019 1:11 AM

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

In the backroom he was everybody's darling.

by Anonymousreply 50June 20, 2019 1:13 AM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 51June 20, 2019 1:21 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 52June 20, 2019 2:02 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 53June 20, 2019 2:20 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 54June 20, 2019 2:44 AM

Bigger than Forrest Tucker's?!

by Anonymousreply 55June 20, 2019 3:18 AM

[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!

by Anonymousreply 56June 20, 2019 3:21 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 57June 20, 2019 4:14 AM

Well it was three feet in front of George Raft

by Anonymousreply 58June 20, 2019 6:53 AM

I worked with him too. Republican asshole.

by Anonymousreply 59June 20, 2019 8:07 AM
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