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Remember Me

Hi. Thanks for your edits to the "Remember Me" movie article. I added some tweaks too after your edits. The pre-screening of the film I saw yesterday evening (March 10 2010) explicitly had in its opening "New York 1991" (the year was clear) and after Ally's mom's murder and aftermath, it faded into the caption "Ten years later". So I annotated that. It was clear we were in 2001 in the film at that point. Best wishes. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 03:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your kind reply. Your finessing and edits were quite helpful. The information I inserted was directly from the pre-screening I went to last evening (March 10, 2010), so that helped! It's the version that's going into release. I'm from NYC (Manhattan) originally so I recognized all the places. Even the ones in Queens, or Brooklyn, for the most part. ;) Best wishes. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 03:46, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Research into June Allyson's background makes for fascinating reading

As an exercise in research and verification of sources, I have found that a great deal of the published record that deals with June Allyson is an exercise in contradictions and myth-making. During her lifetime, Allyson published an autobiography that has led to much of the confusion as her recollections did not correspond to the actual record, starting with her birthdate and her family background. MGM was partly to blame here as the studio PR machine created a "goody two shoes" image of a young ingenue which required some imaginative tailoring of her age, family circumstances and even her famous "tree limb" story. The name "June Allyson" has been attributed to three different sources and June herself had a different memory of where it came from but the use of a nickname and stage name had already been used in her teen years. On the Larry King interview, her recall was that Broadway producer George Abbott had given her the name while other sources have her first stage choreographer giving her the name in exasperation, as he couldn't be bothered to remember her real name, at least that's the tale in her book. Likely the name made sense to her as she liked "Allison", her brother's name and simply tacked on June to it and was reportedly using it before her Broadway debut. As to dates, she was already 21 when she appeared in the chorus line not in her teens and attending high school. Her relentless pursuit of acting, dancing and other career advancing jobs such as modeling was acknowledged in some sources but June painted a much more benign picture of what must have been a pressure-filled experience of auditioning. Her constant efforts were ultimately successful but she alludes to many instances of being too short, too young, not pretty enough rebuttals that seemingly did not deter her in her relentless drive to the top. A lot of the anecdotal references to Allyson's career show that she was ambitious and courageous; one producer was astonished that the dancers actually pitched the tiny Allyson completely out of sight as they threw her into the air during a particularly memorable dance number. The audience roared as June bounced back into the male dancer's arms as if appearing out of nowhere but each performance culminated in the young starlet getting physically sick in her dressing room, out of sight of the cast and crew. When she got to the bright lights of Hollywood, her ability to make friends and keep good company kept her "in the picture". The famous scene of her getting picked up on the roadside by Judy Garland as she waited, nearly broke, for a bus to take her to the studio in Hollywood, may or may not have happened exactly as she remembered it but the fact that Allyson counted Garland, Lucille Ball, Alan Ladd, James Stewart, Peter Lawford, Van Johnson, Margaret O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, and of course, Dick Powell, her first "true love" as close friends and confidantes, led to a remarkably long and successful career for a performer who confessed to not being able to sing or dance! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:13, 15 March 2010 (UTC).

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