Do you think the Marx 60mm 7th Cavalry kneeling firing pistol looks like Teddy Roosevelt? My friend Patrice from France thinks so what do you think?
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If he was wearing specs, then yes.
Close, but he is a great figure for Custer’s Last Stand scenes.
Yes he does, but he’s still a Private in my 60mm Cavalry unit.
He always brought TR to my mind; never noticed or thought about the glasses much – but I don’t have any of their 60mm cavalry so have only seen them in pix.
Now that you pointed that out, I can see it.Maybe Luios Marx took faces of fameous people and used there features.Sure looks like Him. Nemosfan.
Not to me.
He has a resemblance but as noted needs glasses. I think some of the Marx figures do resemble famous people. Off the top of my head, the fighting cowboy of the miners and trappers set, looks like John Wayne. While painting the Marx Marines a few years ago I noticed the Marine crouching with rifle at waist looks like Robert Mitchum. I know the set came out about the same time he played a stranded Marine in the Pacific with Deborah Kerr. I forget the name of the movie. Maybe the sculptor did it as a joke or I’m hallucinating and need a new hobby!
Heaven Knows,Mr Allison http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050490/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I think the guy with the whip looks like Gil Favor/Rawhide. I have long thought the sheriff looked like John Wayne. Except Wayne’s pants were always too short. Worn that way for crossing rivers and muddy streets, I guess.
Tom. I agree.
I think you mean the sheriff with badge and has an actual John Wayne hat style too!?; definitely him,not doubt.
I recon the Mitchum face but I think not as clear as the John Wayne .
I know old Miller did Mitchum face in two poses GI’s .But I guess those were base in Korean war movie.
The movie you are referring is Heaven knows. With Deborah Kerr as a nun.
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Sort of reminds me of day in San Antonio when I was drinking at the bar with John Wayne and Teddy Roosevelt. If I remember correctly it was when King and Country were coming out with their Roughriders figures and the movie they showed at the cocktail buffet was the Roughriders movie, so they had a Teddy in Attendance at the show. I never make any money in San Antonio, but I sure have a good time.
Yes Ed, I go as a collector so profit is not a motive. It has occurred to me the bucks my wife and I blow on travel and hotel could probably be better spent hobbywise on stuff and postage; but one can’t put a price tag on the fun we have when we get together in San Antonio with folks like Jack and Gary and Nick and DeAnna, Matt and even you when I get to see you! 😉 And then there’s San Antonio!
Some things you can’t put a price on.
Erwin, I meant the bare-headed Cowboy in the fist fighting pose. I know Marx had an Alaska themed playset with these figures in them. Was it based on “North to Alaska” made in 1960? Maybe it was too expensive for the licensed John Wayne figure but they already had the sculpt and put it out without mention that it was John Wayne?
That’s possible IMHO; there was a lot of movie tie-ins officially or not. And Louis Marx was a great businessman and in many way pioneered the idea of marketing and movies.
Where toysets are concerned. Nothing sells toys like a movie – ask Hasbro.
Wayne
The movie tie-ins really took off since Star Wars. Now that can make as much money as the movie. I read that cartoon called Young Justice based on the Justice League was canceled because the toys did not sell.
Is that a case of the tail wagging the dog or what?
Wayne
You can say that as the merchandising has become a big part of the success of a movie or television show.
Tom, I ‘m not good in playset Marx at all;the miners/ trappers playset has about 16 poses 54 mm cowboys ,trappers and miners figures ,included the one you sais and were reissues in late 90’s in stiff plastic in yellow and light blue as far I remember.I will look figure and check. I May be confused with the two poses-sorry. I think back then they did not care coping too much with out mention/asking. So they got away a lot. After 60’s is when most things start changing I believe.
The guy with the open upraised hand to catch the jab?
Tom.I check is definitely the sherif w hat.
I will try do close up pic later.
I agree that some of the toy figures look like famous people. Bound to happen, even if by coincidence once in a while, when the faces are well sculpted and at least look human. I have a set of the 6 inch plaster Miller US army figures that came out 1950-51 and they sure do look like the movie stars that O’Brien suggested in his book.
If you can get your hands on an issue of PFPC, #15, you will find a very interesting article by Mark Harris on page 17. This page has a chart that matches each “Untouchables” pose with an actual actor from various episodes. Whether you believe it or not (Marx of course would never own up to it), it’s a pretty curious observation nonetheless.