John Gizzi

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John Gizzi @johngizzi

Orson Welles' agent turned down offer for him to play Mayor Skeffington in "The Last Hurrah" (bad move) & ex-Mayor Jas. Curley of Boston (on whom Skeffington was supposedly based) said he preferred Paul Muni for role. Me? I thought Spencer Tracy did a 5-star performance. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2021

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In "The Last Hurrah," Ken Curtis plays Msgr. Killian, secretary to the Cardinal, who gives dying Mayor Skeffington extreme unction. He was later famed as Festus on "Gunsmoke" & was a popular surrogate campaigner for Ronald Reagan at 1976 concention. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2021

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SW (smarter wife), hss read all 4 of Edwin O'Connor's novels: Last Hurrah, Edge of Sadness (Pulitzer Prize winner), All in the Family & I Was Dancing. If O'Connor lived past 1968 (when he died at 50), he wld have been the premier chronicler of Irish Catholicism in 20th century. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2021