We'll meet again some sunny day - Dame Vera Lynn passes

[packman]

https://mediacomtoday.com/news/read/article/the_associated_press-world_war_ii_forces_sweetheart_singer_vera_lynn_di-ap/category/news

[exboyfil]

1. Pink Floyd

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera, Vera
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do?

[BigmanPigman]

7. You beat me to it!

[aka-chmeee]

2. An iron clad rule at my house:

One must always watch the entire closing credits of Dr. Strangelove.

[yuiyoshida]

3. This song was used at the end of KING KONG... (the most recent film)

When the World War 2 Veteran finally comes home after being stranded for years on Kong Island.

[SeattleVet]

5. Also used as the ending of Dr. Strangelove

[WinstonSmith4740]

8. Ever notice this?

At about the 3:00 mark, where Strangelove is losing control of his arm, the Russian Ambassador is barely holding it together.
Sellers was a damn genius. But is it me, or is he doing Kissinger here?

[SeattleVet]

9. I first saw this film in a Film History class in 1971, and we did notice the stifled laugh.

Peter Sellers ad-libbed a LOT of the dialog and action, and most on set never really knew what he was going to do next, so I think the actor showed great restraint in holding it in!


Kissinger was pretty much unknown when this was filmed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

The character is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, mathematician and Manhattan Project principal John von Neumann, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's rocket development program recruited to the US after the war), and Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb".[19] There is a common misconception that the character was based on Henry Kissinger, but Kubrick and Sellers denied this;[20] Sellers said, "Strangelove was never modeled after Kissinger—that's a popular misconception. It was always Wernher von Braun."[21] Furthermore, Henry Kissinger points out in his memoirs that at the time of the writing of Dr. Strangelove, he was an unknown academic.[22]

[WinstonSmith4740]

11. Thanks for the info!

The real explanation is actually better!

I had told a student of mine about this movie a few years back. The following Monday when I was cruising through the quad at lunch, he called out to me, started hitting his arm and went into the whole "I can walk!" thing. Lost it right there.

[BarbD]

4. Hope is what will sustain us.

There will be a sunny day!

[trof]

6. Wow. 103 Didn't know she was still with us.

[NotHardly]

10. Lovely.

RIP Ms. Lynn, RIP and thanks for all you did.