OK Sandy.   Not many playing right now.  Makes it a bit hard to holdback sometimes, doesn't it ?

sandman55 wrote:

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I know that guy but I will wait to see if someone else wants a turn

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 Doesn't look like it Sandy.   Why don't you name him, and give us a new Target ?

Red Skelton

Spot on Sandy.  Who are we looking for now ?

Richard Red Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, and also appeared in burlesque, vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist.

Thanks Sheba now who is this lady

I'll follow you this time Sandy, and give others a chance to name her first. 

Okay Sheba. 

It's clue time this actress born in 1914 had a brilliant mind and designed along with another person (a composer) a radio guidance system for torpedoes but because she was a beautiful actress she wasn't taken seriously. Her invention wasn't used until well after WW2. Some of her technology is still being used by most of us today.

You have it watsea, who do you have for us.

Hedy Lamarr (/hedi/; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914^[a]  January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.^[1]

After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London,^[2] she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938).^[3] Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949).^[4] She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.^[5]

At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.^[6] Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s,^[7] the principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth and GPS technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.^[8][9][10] This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

For this thread, I find that thinking of an interesting and famous person to present, is difficult sometimes.

Let's try anyway.

This fellow is known for many things that were not about lifting belles at the beach.

Looks like this might take a while.

Two hints.  He had some interest in cars too and he was Australian.

Don't think it's right, but I'll try Bob Jane.

Maybe another pic will help. Could be a blowup. 

-- Edited by watsea on Saturday 1st of January 2022 11:07:41 AM

"Gelignite" Jack Murray ?

Thanks Ted.  Who can name this lady ?

Thought you'd know her Sandy.  She was very famous in her day.  One of a number of Headliners of the time.  .

This thread is a bit addictive .

I am going to have a stab at this one.

Trying for Katharine Hepburn??

Not Katherine I'm afraid Ted.  Same Era though.

I think I have her Jane Russell She looks different older like us all  but the eyes have it.

Jane Russell it is Sandy..  Who are we looking for now ?

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (June 21, 1921 February 28, 2011) was an American actress, singer, and model. She is known as one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. Russell moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film role in Howard Hughes ' The Outlaw (1943).

Thanks Sheba, now who is this fella

Yuri Gargarin.  

Your on the ball Sheba over to you for a pic.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin^[a] (9 March 1934 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Traveling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. By achieving this major milestone in the Space Race he became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour.

Gagarin was born in the Russian village of Klushino, and in his youth was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy. He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base, near the Norwegian border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme with five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was later named after him. He was also elected as a deputy of the Soviet of the Union in 1962 and then to the Soviet of Nationalities, respectively the lower and upper chambers of the Supreme Soviet.

Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash, killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Fearful that a national hero might be killed, Soviet officials banned Gagarin from further spaceflights. After completing training at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in February 1968, he was allowed to fly regular aircraft. Gagarin died five weeks later when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near the town of Kirzhach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

Thanks Sandy.  Who is this ?

She was one very brave lady.