Old Movie Buffs -- Help!

He was good in the biopic that no one mentions--"John Paul Jones". He doesn't look a lot like Jones, but he has the "look" of the famous bust done by Houdin.
Unfortunately the script was stolen from a junior high pageant.

[mike_baram]

If I remember correctly, John Paul Jones was the ONLY officer who didn't do Katherine the Great.
I wonder if that story of the horse is true.

Those neophyte Commies meant "great" in the sense of "large" by all accounts.
The horst tail was as factual and true to life as the falderal about Fatty Arbuckle's pony.
As for Robert Stack: His mother introduced him to all of the Hollywood "greats" of the day, and he had surrogate fathers like Clark Gable teaching him everything they knew about shotguns. (Shotgunning is the absolutely best training for firing a machine gun at aerial targets and making deflection shots.)
That great lady also taught Bob to love America and everything it stood for, and she taught him to be a GENTLEMAN. Sonme of his formative years were spent in France, during the great worldwide economic depression. He stated, once, that in those black times even the well-to-do often didn't get enough to eat.
He still, to this day, speaks endearingly of Rosemarie as his "lovely wife." I have never made up my mind whether he or Rosemarie is the luckiest person in that relationship. Heaven knows, she was beautiful and very intelligent. Those of us who knew her in school thought very highly of her and of her brother, sister and her parents.
Certainly, after having been taught by the very best instructors of his time, he was able to pass on his knowledge to others, thereby giving them the ability to protect their lives and the lives of their crewmen.

Robert Stack also was featured in "Fighter Squadron". I well recall the arrival of the Georgia National Guard into Van Nuys Airport- in probably '52? I heard at the time that the Georgians were apparently the only ANG unit stll operating F-47s. The '51s of the Calif. ANG were painted up with "Crosses" to represent the GAF. Stack has always beem well regarded by everyone and was, incidentally, one of the early members of the "Glendale Sidewinders"- a eminent So. Cal. "roadster club" or the '40s and subsequent eras.
I did think his book revealed the typical Hollywood "Stars" concern with issues of personal age: as one reads it there is no reference to any years or related historical events. You wouldn't know if his role as a gunnery instructor was as early as WWII or as late as the Korea involvement.
My appreciation for guys like him make my bias' against the present center-stage personalities in the entertainment world even more difficult to repress. Best to all...Lee