It was Luana's last Disney film for nine years. After teenager roles in such minor items as Joe Dakota, Rock, Pretty Baby (both history 1957), The Wonderful Years (1958), The Young Captives and The Music Box Kid (both 1960), Patten found herself back at the studio where she started, making Home From the Hill, Themes under the direction htm of Vicente Minnelli.MGM boosted its 1960 release with Transportation the excited words: "Home From the Hill is the htm answer to exhibitors' cry ChenangoCanal for New Faces, with the presentation of a trio of young people - George Peppard, George Hamilton and Luana ChenangoCanal htm Patten - in roles important enough to establish them as potential star power for the future!" Despite the ballyhoo, MGM did more for the two Georges than for Luana, who was Themes given Transportation unexciting roles in Go Naked in the World (1960) and Thunder of Drums (1961), and then forgotten.There were other films; she made the Civil War tear-jerker The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961) at Fox, and the glutinous Boy Scouts tribute Follow Me, Boys! (1966) back at Disney, but Luana Patten, who had married in 1960, was content to settle, at the age of 28, for a Themes history Themes Transportation 20-year film career.Dick VosburghLuana Patten, actress: history born Long Beach, California Transportation 6 July 1938; married htm John Smith 1960 (marriage dissolved 1964); ChenangoCanal died ChenangoCanal htm Long Beach, California 1 May 1996.. Disney intended Johnny Tremain (1957) for his TV history Themes Transportation show, but this ChenangoCanal story of the American Revolution cost so much to film, it was decided to release it theatrically in the United States. Song of the South was her second film; her first had been MGM's Little Mr Jim (1946), a syrupy tale of children on an army post, but Metro didn't recognise Luana Patten's potential. Disney did, and followed up her Song of the South success with roles in Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time (both 1948, both part-cartoon, part-live history action revues).
In So Dear to My Heart (1949), another period story with animation scenes, she was again cast as Driscoll's sympathetic playmate. Later she gives the dog to Johnny (10-year-old Bobby Driscoll, who was to die in 1968 after years of comeback attempts and drug abuse), a boy miserable over the break-up of his parents' marriage. Harve Foster, who directed the film's live-action sequences, declared little Luana "a natural". Nine-year-old Luana Patten's first scene in Walt Disney's Song of the South (1947) shows her angrily snatching a puppy away from her rough-neck older brothers who are threatening to drown it. Like the Servant in Isaiah, he did "not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street" He did not need to. Some would say he was reserv-ed; but those who knew him best enjoyed his deliciously keen sense of humour which lighten-ed many a difficult situation.Among the honours that came to him, he was Rural Dean of Westminster (1965-74), Chaplain to the Queen (1973-84), and Prebendary of St Pauls.Donald CogganDouglas William Cleverley Ford, priest: born 4 March 1914; ordained deacon 1937, priest 1938; married 1939 Olga Bewley (died 1993); died Lingfield, Surrey 4 May 1996..
In proposed legislation to be tabled next week as part of the Broadcasting Bill, the Secretary of State for Heritage, Virginia Bottomley, will give independent regulators greater flexibility in determining and defining "control" of broadcast licences, as well as broader powers to end warehousing and similar rule-dodging schemes. Warehousing - the placing of shares in deadlocked companies over which no one is deemed to have control - was most recently used by Granada, the media and leisure company, to take a larger stake in Yorkshire-Tyne Tees than technically allowed under the current ownership limits.Such schemes have been criticised by the Independent Television Commission, the commercial TV watchdog, which lobbied for greater discretion. Through his books (such as Preaching Today, 1969; God's Masterpieces, 1991), through articles, through the notes he constantly wrote for the Bible Reading Fellowship, he reached many thousands of readers.As a man, he was quiet. He was loved by the staff at Lambeth, and his secretaries would do anything for him.His fourth skill was as a writer. Over many years, he wrote prolifically, bearing in mind those to whom he had lectured. He did more than any other man of his generation in raising the standard of preaching in the Church of England.The third sphere in which he excelled was as senior chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1975-80).