Your Drinking Partner From The Golden Age?

[AtomicEraTom]

Second choice would be ol' Blue Eyes then.

 

[StetsonHomburg]

Second choice would be ol' Blue Eyes then.

lol Good chioce!

 

[Miss Moonlight]

For a night of liquor enhanced, amorous enjoyment:
Veronica Lake

For a night of bawdy adventure:
Errol Flynn

I would say the same, only taking the amorous from Veronica and adding it to Errol. I think Veronica and I would make great partners in crime, and Errol... ~le sigh~

 

[HadleyH]

My God! I would have loved to share some drinking moments with the great John Barrymore!!!!

WOOOHOOO!!!! long live the Golden Age!

 

[Vintage lover]

My God! I would have loved to share some drinking moments with the great John Barrymore!!!!

WOOOHOOO!!!! long live the Golden Age!

My lord what a beautiful smoking jacket. Mind you I make the same face shown in the middle picture while pouring my spirits.

 

[59 Blue Bomber]

I would have to agree with John...W.C. Fields would be great company, I'm sure. Ol' Blue eyes would be another.....And last but not least, although from a different era...Jackie Gleason! "Oh how sweet it is.." Howard Hughes could join us...of course with a bottle of milk and some chocolate chip cookies.

 

[lord_k]

Robert Mitchum & Jane Russell

 

[Gilboa]

David Niven, Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda, Kathrine Hepburn

All of these I would have loved to meet for a drink or two or so ...

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I agree that Hemingway sounds like fun. Groucho would make for one heck of a time too.

But that's not Groucho - isn't that perhaps one of the actors from A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine?

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I'll "third-it" for Noel Coward, but with Dorothy Parker along - wouldn't that pair be like watching tennis, back and forth, back and forth? The Parker story involving a "snatchel" is my favorite, and you just KNOW Coward would have a marvelously lewd, albeit hilarious double-entendre retort to THAT one.

But ya know...Thelma Ritter's right up there with one I'd LOVE to have been able to sit down and just shoot the breeze with, and just listen to marvelous stories of Doris Day and Rock Hudson and Jimmy Steward and Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis (yeah, not so much...) and so many others.

 

[Steveb1]

For me it's tough to narrow down... But for

Men = Cary Grant, William Powell, Jack Carson
Women = Hedy Lamarr, Myrna Loy, Olivia DeHaviland

 

[marcoshark]

But that's not Groucho - isn't that perhaps one of the actors from A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine?

I think it's Frank Ferrante

 

[marcoshark]

Well for starters.. There is Fields and Howard...

The great Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

And Orson Welles

 

[jamespowers]

And Orson Welles

Yes, but with him you might have to drink Paul Mason.

 

[bumphrey hogart]

The greatest American author that's ever lived(imo) Kenneth Roberts,as well as Bogey obviously!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Uncle Claude

Mabel Normand

Hollywood Pilot Paul Mantz

 

[chanteuseCarey]

There are many candidates but David Niven would be right up there as a wit and as a raconteur, which would be my preference in a drinking partner. And he's a war hero to boot...

Just discovered this thread so I have more reading to do - but seeing this I'd have to say an evening's conversation and a drink with David Niven does sound good...

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Beryl Markham.

Carole.

Coco.

Who wants to drink with boys? They just get obnoxious.

Love it Scotrace! I'd have a drink with you any day Sir.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

I'd most like to have a drink with three of FL's own Golden Era lovin' bartenders (when they are all off duty)-
Scotrace, Hemingway Jones, and Paddy!

 

[Michael Carter]

These two fellas here: