Hollywood ribbon racks, ribbon bars and medals

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Here's another Robert Wagner ribbon set. I believe he played two or three Marine roles early on in the 50s, not sure which one this is.

In Love and War

 

Bill

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Nicolas Cage, USS Indianapolis

 

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Bruce Willis from

THE SIEGE

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Bruce Willis from

THE SIEGE

 

 

I just noticed the Silver Star with 'V'. His character must have started out as enlisted, GCM.

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Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.

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Brat Pitt in War Machine.

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Brat Pitt in War Machine.

A Full General huh! Impressive

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A Full General huh! Impressive

I haven't seen the movie, but I think he is resembling Gen. McCrystal

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David Duchovny in Evolution

 

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Not a ribbon, but a lapel pin. USAF Command Pilot wings being worn by Nathan Lane as F Lee Bailey in The People v. O.J. Simpson. Bailey should be wearing Navy wings. Seems this would have been an easy one for them to get right.

 

 

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Lon Chaney, Sr, aka "The Man of a Thousand Faces", in "Tell It to the Marines" (1926), co-starring Eleanor Boardman, William Haines and Warner Oland.

From wiki-

"MGM brought in General Smedley D. Butler, commander of the Marine base in San Diego and subsequently the author of the anti-war book 'War Is a Racket', for technical consultation on the film. Lon Chaney formed a close friendship with the Marine Corps general which lasted for the rest of Chaney's life. A writer in Leatherneck Magazine wrote that "few of us who observed Chaney's portrayal of his role were not carried away to the memory of some sergeant we had known whose behavior matched that of the actor in every minute detail ..." For his role in the film, Chaney became the first film star chosen to be an honorary Marine.

The studio was also allowed to shoot on the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego which made Tell It to the Marines the first motion picture made with the full cooperation of the U.S. Marine Corps. Battleship USS California (later involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941) was used for the scenes at sea and the final sequence of the film, where the Marines rescue the hostages, was filmed at Iverson's Ranch in Chatsworth, California, the location for such films as Fort Apache and The Good Earth.

The film was shot concurrently with Pathé's film serial The Fighting Marine with Gene Tunney and Fox's What Price Glory? leading MGM and Fox to bicker over which studio had rights to use the name of the U.S. Marine Corps. The films began a genre of films depicting the Marines fighting putting down insurrections around the world until RKO's The Marines Fly High (1940) when World War II exploits became the norm."

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Lon Chaney, Sr, aka "The Man of a Thousand Faces", in "Tell It to the Marines" (1926), co-starring Eleanor Boardman, William Haines and Warner Oland.

From wiki-

"MGM brought in General Smedley D. Butler, commander of the Marine base in San Diego and subsequently the author of the anti-war book 'War Is a Racket', for technical consultation on the film. Lon Chaney formed a close friendship with the Marine Corps general which lasted for the rest of Chaney's life. A writer in Leatherneck Magazine wrote that "few of us who observed Chaney's portrayal of his role were not carried away to the memory of some sergeant we had known whose behavior matched that of the actor in every minute detail ..." For his role in the film, Chaney became the first film star chosen to be an honorary Marine.

The studio was also allowed to shoot on the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego which made Tell It to the Marines the first motion picture made with the full cooperation of the U.S. Marine Corps. Battleship USS California (later involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941) was used for the scenes at sea and the final sequence of the film, where the Marines rescue the hostages, was filmed at Iverson's Ranch in Chatsworth, California, the location for such films as Fort Apache and The Good Earth.

The film was shot concurrently with Pathé's film serial The Fighting Marine with Gene Tunney and Fox's What Price Glory? leading MGM and Fox to bicker over which studio had rights to use the name of the U.S. Marine Corps. The films began a genre of films depicting the Marines fighting putting down insurrections around the world until RKO's The Marines Fly High (1940) when World War II exploits became the norm."

 

Great one there, Question: Are those chevrons correct for that period? I would think they are right. Look like SAW Boxer Rebellion types.

 

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/104590-usmc-dress-blues-1920s/

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Dennis Quaide and David Koechner in the 2005 remake of Yours, Mine & Ours, if the original 1968 film with Fonda and Ball was based on the real people, this version is a complete fictional version.

 

 

 

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Great thread.

 

Ed

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Glenn Morshower as Col.hendry , X-Men First Class

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I just started watching this tv show, "Parenthood," with my wife and we watched the episode that sported this image last night. Ugh.

The story line is that he is an NCO, two tours (Afghanistan was the only one highlighted) and that he was an irrigation specialist. I was the S2 of the 25th BSB and we had 92Ws and I can tell you that they would have been in the Distribution Company (DC) and would not have worn an infantry collar disc. Maybe he re-classed........but be infantry first and not have a CIB but wear the CAB....and his expert award is folded over. He does have E-5 stripes on the uniform.

Just 1 or 2 things wrong with the uniform, right?

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I just started watching this tv show, "Parenthood," with my wife and we watched the episode that sported this image last night. Ugh.

 

The story line is that he is an NCO, two tours (Afghanistan was the only one highlighted) and that he was an irrigation specialist. I was the S2 of the 25th BSB and we had 92Ws and I can tell you that they would have been in the Distribution Company (DC) and would not have worn an infantry collar disc. Maybe he re-classed........but be infantry first and not have a CIB but wear the CAB....and his expert award is folded over. He does have E-5 stripes on the uniform.

 

Just 1 or 2 things wrong with the uniform, right?

And a Distinguished Service Medal. Not likely for an NCO unless he was the Command Sergeant Major of the Army.

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Deer Hunter

 

The Omen

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A stop smoking commercial. States he retired from the Air Force

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That Thing You Do

 

I forgot the name of this Korean war movie.

 

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Deer Hunter

 

The Omen

I love the green beret with 5th Special Forces Group flash and oval behind his jump wings but with a 101st Airborne Division patch for current assignment.

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Two from Sgt Bilko, Bilko himself and his old man, Col Hall, a lot of campaign stars on that A&P ribbon, I think Bilko was in it from The Solomons to The Philippines .

 

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Some screens I've made from great "Over There" series, dedicated to OIF. All is good except:

 

1) PFC Bo Rider serves in the 3rd Inf. Div. BUT wears a 21st Inf. Reg. DUIs on his shoulder loops. 21st was never attached or affiliated to the 3rd Inf. Div.

2) LTC has 130th Av. Reg. DUIs and that's kinda strange too.

 

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One more from episode 12 of "Over There" series. Once again we can see a DUIs of 21st Inf. Reg. that don't match with 3rd Inf. Div. patches.

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Brad Pitt as Gen. Glen McMahon in "War Machine" (2017).