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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Feb 19, 2023, 07:30 AM Feb 2023

On this day, February 19, 1924, Lee Marvin was born.

Hat tip, This Day in Music

1924 - Lee Marvin
American film and television actor Lee Marvin, who had a UK 1970 UK No.1 single with ‘Wand’rin Star’, taken from the film Paint Your Wagon'. A prominent television role Marvin played was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the crime series M Squad (1957–1960). Marvin died on August 29th 1987.

Dr. Buzz's tweet from last year seems to have the date wrong. Wikipedia says it's February 19 too.

Actor Lee Marvin was #BornOnThisDay, Feb. 18, 1924.

Actor Lee Marvin was #BornOnThisDay, Feb. 18, 1924. Remembered for his TV & film roles, mostly tough-guy type characters. One of Marvin's most notable film projects was Cat Ballou (1965). Passed 1987 (age 63) from a #heartattack #RIP #GoneTooSoon









Cat Ballou-Kid Shelleen Getting into Shape-1965
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K Caldwell
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Scene from Cat Ballou.
Stars: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Tom Nardini, Michael Callan, and Dwayne Hickman

When hired gun Tim Strawn (Lee Marvin) kills her rancher father, Cat Ballou (Jane Fonda) becomes an outlaw set on vengeance. Enlisting the help of washed-up gunslinger Kid Shelleen (also Marvin) as well as the handsome bandit Clay Boone (Michael Callan), Cat strikes back at the land-development company that employed Strawn, and eventually targets the assassin himself. Adding to the lively comedic mood of the film are narrative song performances by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye



Lee Marvin - Wand'rin Star (ReMastered Audio) (With Lyrics) (1969) (HD)
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MadFranko008
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Digital ReMastered Soundtrack...

He may not have had the best singing voice in the world but no one can better Lee Marvin singing "Wand'rin Star" from the hit 1969 musical "Paint Your Wagon"...

One of those songs that once heard never forgotten and no one else can sing it like Lee Marvin did...

Took the 2001 digital remastered audio CD release of the soundtrack and matched it into the movie... it's never sounded better...
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On this day, February 19, 1924, Lee Marvin was born. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 OP
He looked a lot older than sixty-three when he died. Aristus Feb 2023 #1

Aristus

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1. He looked a lot older than sixty-three when he died.
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 10:31 PM
Feb 2023

It's still ghastly to me how horribly smoking ages a person.

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