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earlene wallace I just read about her & how Princess Grace put her up in an apt when she was homeless! Interesting they both died from similar brain hemorrhages...
I love this video but it sounds like a sequel is in order. Kindly mention in your Part ll the following: Eddie Albert, Sterling Hayden, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee, and the esteemed Josephine Baker.
MendTheWorld Another sad tale of an American poorly treated at home who expatriated to France and received the adoration she so deserved. Our loss. Baker was sublime.
Kaarli Makela Basically was a radio scrambler designed to interfere with radio-controlled torpedoes by jamming their signals. It was achieved by using and untraceable frequency-hopping signal synchronized to a player/piano. It wouldn’t up being too difficult to implement at the time and wasn’t really used until the Cuban Missile Crisis 20 years later. Quite ingenious and definitely worthy of an honorable mention.
indeed, and I think Americans in general are taller & larger than they were then. I remember seeing a behind-the-scenes making-of feature about The Tuskegee Airmen, in which they showed some of the actual uniforms of said Airmen held up by the actors portraying them in the movie. They clearly would not have fit...
My cousin, female, is 6'1", slightly shorter than her 6'3" father, but both are dwarfed by her 6'7" boyfriend - who happens to be a Rastafarian, so add another 3 or 4 inches for the hair!! I'm practically a Danny DeVito by comparison, at a mere 5'10"!
@@wordforger In a world of average 5 foot 5 inch or so European women in the WWII era, a 6 foot 2 inch woman would definitely "stand out" and attract curious attention. Even being fluent in French would not have helped. She must have kept a VERY LOW profile on her "secret missions".
Unlike Ronald Reagan and John Wayne who stayed safely in California making movies while actors like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power and Eddie Albert went into combat. The loudest to tout their patriotism, being scoundrels, were John Wayne and Ronald Reagan as cowards who avoided service and combat.
Roald dahl had a great comm log where he requested a recall from america when the wife of a target he was using to influence into joining the war was a bit more thirsty than he thought. It goes simoly thus "Im all fucked out, I swear this woman has screwed me from one end of the room to the other, it is just too much for over a week. If my time has come please recall me as I have nothing left to give to this woman."
You can look a lot at celebrities currently accused of sexual assault and wonder if they were spys, or at least considered spy assets. Bill Cosby had a NY house across the street from Jeffrey Epstein's. Harvey Weinstein was #FriendsOfEpstein.
I think he was CIA for sure. Look into Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon by Dave McGowan or interview with him here on YT- there were many ' hip ' and/or younger spies.
You forgot Christopher Lee! SOE, SAS etc. Didn’t talk about his service until later in his life. Also Clarke Gable, USAAF. EDIT Forgot to say, another great episode thanks😀
Right!!! I was hoping for something a little more current myself. And I am not to the end yet so it may be included but I had read that the “gong show” host, can’t recall his name - was a major CIA hit man and the shows crappy trips and him as a chaperone was cover, Chuck Baris I think was his name and there was a book written about it. I read it a million years ago in jr high school.
You forgot to mention Eddie Albert,who before his heroic action at the battle of Tarawa, acted as a US spy in Mexico reporting on the Nazi activities while travelling as a performer clown.
You can look a lot at celebrities currently accused of sexual assault and wonder if they were spys, or at least considered spy assets. Bill Cosby had a NY house across the street from Jeffrey Epstein's. Harvey Weinstein was #FriendsOfEpstein.
Aha, Jimmy Stewart - there is no end to the number of words to describe him. Of a time lost nowadays, he was sterling, tough, dependable, honest, brave and true, not to mention humble and down to earth. As he once said, _"We all look the same with our helmets on."_
I always loved seeing Jimmy Stewart's films growing up and then watching him read his poems on the Tonight Show with Johnny. As I watched TV, he and many others of good integrity became like substitute fathers for me, as my own was gone. I had no idea he was in the Air Force for so long though and reached such a high rank! I'm pretty sure that they just don't make men like James Stewart anymore.
That chemistry set looks a lot safer than the ones for kids back when they put real explosives in them! BTW, if you aren't a father you'll be a good one. You reminded me of my dad on Christmas morning doing that experiment. He always had to play with our toys before us. He said it was to make sure there wasn't anything wrong with them. Back then (I grew up in the 70s) there weren't alkalines so by the time we got them almost all the juice was gone! Sure do miss him, thanks for the memory. As always love your show!
David Beddoe - Yep; sometimes it was hidden by camera angles, sometimes by a “hand double” (another actor was used if there was a close up of him doing something with a console etc.)
@@queenannsrevenge100 One of the very few times it's noticeable is in the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles," when Scott is seen carrying a double armload of the little furballs.
@Rose Treiger So I'm not sure how you took me simply listing an additional name as being offended. I completely understood he wouldn't be able to cover everyone...which is why I simply listed a name. It may be enlightening to others that may not know to research instead of waiting for a 17hr video. Now if you plan on making this same remark to the 100s of other people that commented about their additions, be my guest, but I don't think he needs an avenger here. So please relax. -Sincerely, a history teacher
Very nice tie in with the add. First, it was demonstration, not just talking. Then, of course, the alignment with the video subject. Finally, the editing. Very nice.
I clicked on this because it mentioned spies and Audrey Hepburn was in the thumbnail. I would time travel to meet Audrey Hepburn. Edit: After this video I love her even more.
I know how you feel. I adore Audrey as well. I think you'd enjoy a good book I have called "How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life." It's a small little book filled with mostly quotes and photos. A good read and fun conversation piece as a coffee table book.
True, but really about all we know about what Lee did was that he did it. What exactly he did is still classified. Christopher Lee was a badass and took secrets to his grave.
@@Trapster99 I never said he was a spy. I just said what he did was classified and he took secrets to the grave. But, yeah, he did a lot of operating in WWII.
Hahaha no that would be his writers/researchers. He adamantly admits his shortcomings in understanding science. Professor Dave is a great teacher of chemistry and physics and makes it interesting. Sal Khan is amazing but basically purely college level chem and physics, so if you can’t follow the math it will mean nothing for you.
You forgot Sterling Hayden , he was with the OSS , I believe he was with the Jedburgs , and later starred in movies , Suddenly and Godfather as the NYPD Inspector shot dead in restaurant scene .
Semen as well if you go watch our MI6 vídeo :-) Here's the video That Time MI6 Spymaster Captain MANsfield Cumming Ordered His Spies to Use Semen as Invisible Ink: th-cam.com/video/02q1kUwOlYw/w-d-xo.html Literally Captain Cumming that had his men do this... We can't make this stuff up. :-)
You have a lot of great information to offer and I like you so please don’t take this in a negative way but your delivery style is a bit boring and often I find it difficult to watch till the end. Maybe you can show more illustrations and less of you talking to the camera. Just a thought. I still watch your videos cuz the topics are interesting but I want to be able to watch till the end. :)
@@jslferrell Not all of them. Prior to the 1945 no one had ever heard of Julia Child or Audrey Hepburn or Ian Fleming. Most of these people were unknown to the general public until after the war.
The Pentagon had a full size hand painted picture of Jimmy Stewart. The day after his death, it mysteriously disappeared. Hopefully, his family got it.
You missed Audie Murphy in the bonus facts...hero to Hollywood in reverse. Nobody should miss an opportunity to mention Audie Murphy. It's too interesting not to talk about. Other than that, Jimmy Stuart was by far the most heroic of the Hollywood types. Not to takeaway from the absolute blitz that Hollywood turned out to get people to back the war and fund it, or the contributions some celebrities made to important espionage, but Stuart, always the soft spoken "average joe" he portrayed so much in film, wanted nothing to do with cameo shots and war bond drives, but to actually do something. And his choice was one of the deadliest. Bomber crews notoriously didn't last long. He wasn't the only one, just the most persuasive. There were quite a few stories in that time of actors that felt incredibly guilty and wanted to get on the front lines, as did many people not so famous. My grandpa similarly wanted to, but as a railroad man, was never allowed to leave his job to enlist. Some did by lying, but when found out were treated severely. Many farmers too were not allowed to enlist. There is a Hollywood staple in those old films of the "boy from Nebraska" or other breadbasket state in the unit, but those were from families with enough sons to spare one or two. Farms were needed. Trains were needed. Men who had important skills were needed...too keep doing those things. There is one side of the story of those who sought deferments from the draft and that was joked about on the radio shows of the time, but the other side of the story where many were refused due to their skills being needed at home or in other roles. Even then, we knew it was the industrial might of this US giant that would be our greatest weapon, not our military. But a lot of men wanted to go to where the fighting was.
Wow!!! Although the spy Morris Berg graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School, he must have been blessed to be able to master so many languages. Some people are gifted in such ways: Einstein with physics and Mozart with music just to name a couple. But whether the pay was better or he had intellectual boredom, it's interesting that he preferred professional baseball to make a living.
Wait what?!?! Jimmy Stewart got to the effective rank of 2 Star General?!?! I come from a military family and I studied film, entertainment and culture, and I never knew that! Love your shows dude!
Mr. West was a great man. I didn’t get to know him until later in his life. He was a lovable , funny and happy man. He even befriended a nobody like me.
H. R. Gerrard I’m sorry for randomly chiming in from the peanut gallery about something you wrote months ago, but your comment genuinely put a smile on my face. It’s so rare to see someone online expressing a real generosity of spirit toward a stranger as you did. Thanks, H.R.!
"One of his most famous schemes involved placing misleading documents on a British corpse..." Is he saying that Fleming was responsible for "The Man Who Never Was"??
You could do a whole presentation on Donvan. He was an amazing personality, and with who all we may never know, helped to win the war. I think a long program would work great for him, as well as for Intrepid, who worked closely with Donovan. This American, and Canadian should be fascinating.
What about Baden-Powell who founded the Scouting movement. He was doing diagrams of German airbases, etc just before the war and when asked he said they were Butterfly markings on his diagrams, as only knew the key to the markings.
I love all your shows, but you speak too fast and with no pauses and over time this gets overwhelming to listen to. Partly it’s an editing problem. Try adding a 1/4 second pause between each edit.
Jimmy Stewart had PTSD when he returned home after WWII. He didn't think he could do "It's a Wonderful Life" (or even return to acting) because of his problems with PTSD. Lionel Barrymore, who played Mr. Potter, persuaded him. The scene were he's at the bar and crying and freaking out....he wasn't acting. They didn't re-shoot. It couldn't get more real.
I'm here to see how one of my favorite actresses, Audrey Hepburn came to be the thumbnail of this video. Roald Dahl however sounds like the guy spoken of in Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain."
The password for American GIs in Sicily to advance forward and being given intel that no Nazis of fasciti of Mussolini were still around, GIs would use the pass phrase, Lucky Luciano.
This is still going on today. Just look for the patterns of sudden media popularity in certain TH-camrs, movie stars, and music artists, corporate board ceo's, celebrities, etc. People don't just suddenly become famous by talent or luck. Most talented people grind out their lives in obscurity. Yet untalented, ignorant, unintelligent, but supposedly extremely lucky individuals suddenly overwhelm the celebrity arts, board positions, and highest salary positions world wide.
5:39 Berg means mountain in Swedish but the way he pronounces it(almost completely leaving out the r) makes it sound like "bög" which basically means gay(to be specific, those of the male persuasion). It's often used like the f-slur is in english as well. Hence me not being able to unhear it lmao.
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Wanda Sykes shaming Chelsea Manning claiming to be ex-CIA was brow raising...they're all puppets.
Who decided when the year should start? So why the years starts short after beginning of winter and not mid/endseason?
JOSPHINE BAKER should have been on your list. She helped french Resistance during WWIi and was honored by France with a medal
please make a video on why the colour yellow is seen as a symbol for
cowardice, and if possible one for the other symbolic colours
Why is New Years on January 1st?
Spy on the side sounds like an Austin powers movie
I hope this comment inspires a reboot or a new sequel fingers 🤞
It's all fun and games tell you get burned! Limited hangouts become the norm!
Austin Powers movies all altered title of a James Bond movie so what would the original title be?
That’s gave me a whole story idea
@@rybobz god no, it would end up woke and austin apologizing 90% of the movie.
I would like to add Josephine Baker as she did missions for the OSS.
She renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French, did a lot for OSS, de Gaulle award her the Chevalier of the Légion.
earlene wallace I just read about her & how Princess Grace put her up in an apt when she was homeless! Interesting they both died from similar brain hemorrhages...
Thank you for sharing. Going to lose myself reading up on her now.
Came to comment the same thing. She was amazing.
Biographics beckons
Christopher Lee.... of Dracula fame...et al.
deserves his own Vid....
They have one
I love this video but it sounds like a sequel is in order. Kindly mention in your Part ll the following: Eddie Albert, Sterling Hayden, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee, and the esteemed Josephine Baker.
Oblong Polka Dots Esteemed in Paris, at least.
MendTheWorld
Another sad tale of an American poorly treated at home who expatriated to France and received the adoration she so deserved. Our loss. Baker was sublime.
Eddie Albert was also a hero at the Battle of Tarawa
Elvis & Frank Sinatra as well, allegedly.
Since pertwee and Fleming worked together I thought he should have been mentioned too
Hedy Lamar involved herself inventing a radio guidance system for torpedoes, that is my imperfect memory but it's along that vein.
Kaarli Makela Basically was a radio scrambler designed to interfere with radio-controlled torpedoes by jamming their signals. It was achieved by using and untraceable frequency-hopping signal synchronized to a player/piano. It wouldn’t up being too difficult to implement at the time and wasn’t really used until the Cuban Missile Crisis 20 years later.
Quite ingenious and definitely worthy of an honorable mention.
They released a good documentary on Hedy and her inventions a few years ago and it’s on DVD!!
That's "!!HEADLEY!!" 🤣
It’s Hedley . ( couldn’t resist)
Leepshin you couldn’t resist either
The best quote about Moe Berg came from a former teammate, who said "He can speak seven languages, but he can't hit in any of them."
Holy crap, Julia Childs was 6'2"?! I'm 6'2" and I'm considered to be fairly tall Man today!
indeed, and I think Americans in general are taller & larger than they were then. I remember seeing a behind-the-scenes making-of feature about The Tuskegee Airmen, in which they showed some of the actual uniforms of said Airmen held up by the actors portraying them in the movie. They clearly would not have fit...
My cousin, female, is 6'1", slightly shorter than her 6'3" father, but both are dwarfed by her 6'7" boyfriend - who happens to be a Rastafarian, so add another 3 or 4 inches for the hair!! I'm practically a Danny DeVito by comparison, at a mere 5'10"!
No your not just average sized for an American. But Julia child’s was a boss! Her cookings shows always were good and had humors and double meanings
What I find crazy is they kept her out because she was too tall. I mean... Really?
@@wordforger In a world of average 5 foot 5 inch or so European women in the WWII era, a 6 foot 2 inch woman would definitely "stand out" and attract curious attention. Even being fluent in French would not have helped. She must have kept a VERY LOW profile on her "secret missions".
Unlike Ronald Reagan and John Wayne who stayed safely in California making movies while actors like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power and Eddie Albert went into combat. The loudest to tout their patriotism, being scoundrels, were John Wayne and Ronald Reagan as cowards who avoided service and combat.
Roald dahl had a great comm log where he requested a recall from america when the wife of a target he was using to influence into joining the war was a bit more thirsty than he thought. It goes simoly thus "Im all fucked out, I swear this woman has screwed me from one end of the room to the other, it is just too much for over a week. If my time has come please recall me as I have nothing left to give to this woman."
That's a riot!
Any list like this is incomplete if it doesn't include Sir Christopher Lee!
So you have chosen death?
@@mrnobody6447 The anecdote about him correcting Jackson on what a man sounds like when being stabbed is still awesome
To be fair, he'd deserve his own dedicated video
... James Stewart also flew on the Bremen Raid (Black Thursday) in Germany and lost a son (KIA) in South Vietnam ...
I feel like Keanu Reeves is a spy from an alien race that strives on being perfect and breathtaking
You are guy right?
@@gmcjetpilot he guy
They... guy..?
...utterly breathtaking. Haha
@@DanielBohnen And gay...
I would Have LOL'd hard if his secret message said:
EPSTEIN DID NOT KILL HIMSELF
Dude I was thinking the same thing.
I see what you did there and approve.
That's what I saw. What do you think it said?
You can look a lot at celebrities currently accused of sexual assault and wonder if they were spys, or at least considered spy assets. Bill Cosby had a NY house across the street from Jeffrey Epstein's. Harvey Weinstein was #FriendsOfEpstein.
This puts that movie "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" in context. Maybe Chuck Barris WAS a Spy and nothing was made up(as some people have said)
I was gonna ask about chuck barris
I think he was CIA for sure. Look into Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon by Dave McGowan or interview with him here on YT- there were many ' hip ' and/or younger spies.
Impressive, Jimmy Stewart! Thank you, RIP
So what about CHRISTOPHER LEE ??? - he was involved in military intelligence in WW2
You forgot Christopher Lee! SOE, SAS etc. Didn’t talk about his service until later in his life. Also Clarke Gable, USAAF.
EDIT Forgot to say, another great episode thanks😀
Jon Pertwee (a.k.a. the 3rd Doctor) was also a Royal Navy intel officer who worked with Ian Fleming.
Tropic Lightning Yes I was just suggesting names!
Tropic Lightning Thanks mate😀
Tropic Lightning Thanks that’s very kind! Fingers crossed for a good 2020!
Jimmy Stewart pilot too
There's a difference between "Celebrities who were spies" and "Celebrities who did something in the war"
Rick Reason there is a difference between “interesting comment” and “I just want attention for being semantic”
Right!!! I was hoping for something a little more current myself. And I am not to the end yet so it may be included but I had read that the “gong show” host, can’t recall his name - was a major CIA hit man and the shows crappy trips and him as a chaperone was cover, Chuck Baris I think was his name and there was a book written about it. I read it a million years ago in jr high school.
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 pendantic*
Couldn't resist.
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 There is difference between being clever and being kind.
@@RickReasonnz th-cam.com/channels/6NEXZflFAvd1b7cAIe3XOw.html
You forgot to mention Eddie Albert,who before his heroic action at the battle of Tarawa, acted as a US spy in Mexico reporting on the Nazi activities while travelling as a performer clown.
Wow I wonder if could find out about David Niven, Christopher Lee, Will Hay, Peter Ustinov, Michael Bentene, Marlene Deirtric.
You could also mention Christopher Lee and Jon Pertwee. Both have some very interesting history during wartime.
I meant to include Lee in my list but forgot. Good catch.
@@Paladin1873 check out "Christopher Lee corrects Peter Jackson on set"
interesting story and implication
@@MajesticSkywhale The one commentator said "The British Secret Service, the OSS, whatever they were called." Roll eyes.
@@Paladin1873 yep lol I caught that too
@@MajesticSkywhale I'm glad I wasn't in that movie. He might have learned that I was once in the OSI, then assumed I knew the bionic man.
I can’t believe you missed Christopher Lee and his time with the OSS
Well he did know how a man sounds when hes stabbed in the back afterall.
I've got a question who is Will and why do people want to fire at him?
I think you'd better leave.
I love you. Love you long time.
It's Will Robinson. Hence the expression "Danger, Will Robinson!"
I've often thought, that it must be extra scary to be in a battle with Will as your first name.
There is a cartoon floating about wherein Picard says "Fire at will!"
And Worf shoots Riker.
I just watched a film called " The Catcher Was A Spy" about Moe Berg. Paul Rudd portrays Berg and it's well worth watching.
TIL Julia Childs was 6'2"
So in other words, Trust No One especially actors or anyone famous.
therugburnz that’s the same thought I had...I wouldn’t trust Hollywood at all! I don’t even have tv!
The only trust worthy people are the ones who tell you to trust no one and question everything.
For spying, who better than an actor to pretend to be someone he/she is not. It a no-brainer. It's what they all do for a living.
You can look a lot at celebrities currently accused of sexual assault and wonder if they were spys, or at least considered spy assets. Bill Cosby had a NY house across the street from Jeffrey Epstein's. Harvey Weinstein was #FriendsOfEpstein.
Jon Pertwee was a quartermaster for the Royal Navy Reserve in World War 2, and is thought to have been the basis for Q in the James Bond canon.
His blue box would have helped ;)
He'd have made a great spy...who'd have suspected a scarecrow?
he was too sick to sail with his ship - HMS Hood!
Aha, Jimmy Stewart - there is no end to the number of words to describe him. Of a time lost nowadays, he was sterling, tough, dependable, honest, brave and true, not to mention humble and down to earth.
As he once said, _"We all look the same with our helmets on."_
I always loved seeing Jimmy Stewart's films growing up and then watching him read his poems on the Tonight Show with Johnny. As I watched TV, he and many others of good integrity became like substitute fathers for me, as my own was gone. I had no idea he was in the Air Force for so long though and reached such a high rank! I'm pretty sure that they just don't make men like James Stewart anymore.
@@sethflix I wish there was a "LOVE" icon to click on. Jimmy was a great man. One of my heroes.
That chemistry set looks a lot safer than the ones for kids back when they put real explosives in them! BTW, if you aren't a father you'll be a good one. You reminded me of my dad on Christmas morning doing that experiment. He always had to play with our toys before us. He said it was to make sure there wasn't anything wrong with them. Back then (I grew up in the 70s) there weren't alkalines so by the time we got them almost all the juice was gone! Sure do miss him, thanks for the memory. As always love your show!
Also Sorrel Booke, Boss Hogg/Dukes of Hazard. He worked for the CIA, and was a China and Asia specialist.
Had to share this one James Stewart is one of my favorite actors.
Scotty was missing the middle finger on his right hand the whole time? WHAT?
David Beddoe - Yep; sometimes it was hidden by camera angles, sometimes by a “hand double” (another actor was used if there was a close up of him doing something with a console etc.)
@@queenannsrevenge100 One of the very few times it's noticeable is in the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles," when Scott is seen carrying a double armload of the little furballs.
predominantly filmed on his left side.
You didn't mention David Niven!? Commander of his own Commando squadron, running secret reconnaisance missions behind enemy lines in WWII.
Josephine Baker
He didn’t include Josephine Baker?! How can one forget her 🤭
@Rose Treiger So I'm not sure how you took me simply listing an additional name as being offended. I completely understood he wouldn't be able to cover everyone...which is why I simply listed a name. It may be enlightening to others that may not know to research instead of waiting for a 17hr video. Now if you plan on making this same remark to the 100s of other people that commented about their additions, be my guest, but I don't think he needs an avenger here. So please relax. -Sincerely, a history teacher
I had the exact same thought at the end. Where was Josephine.
Very nice tie in with the add. First, it was demonstration, not just talking. Then, of course, the alignment with the video subject. Finally, the editing. Very nice.
You are an amazing youtuber
ik the pacing is perfect most are boring or to slow or to fast this is perfect
I clicked on this because it mentioned spies and Audrey Hepburn was in the thumbnail. I would time travel to meet Audrey Hepburn.
Edit:
After this video I love her even more.
I know how you feel. I adore Audrey as well. I think you'd enjoy a good book I have called "How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life." It's a small little book filled with mostly quotes and photos. A good read and fun conversation piece as a coffee table book.
Bonus Fact should have included Elvis Presley was in the FBI
I know...sorry....couldn't resist
Actually, wasn't it the DEA?
@apis4
that's what they want you to think
Elvis Presley was in Drug Enforcement not the FBI.
@@Apis4 Drug Enforcement Agency.
@@hydrolito I know, why I pointed it out
I love watching Simon turn into a wide-eyed youngster discovering the world for the first time! I hope these science sites keep sponsoring him.
Knowing about Jimmy Stewart's military background puts an interesting twist on movies like the man who shot Liberty Valance.
Having Christopher Lee missing from this list is a bit surprising
True, but really about all we know about what Lee did was that he did it. What exactly he did is still classified. Christopher Lee was a badass and took secrets to his grave.
@@tygrkhat4087 We still know some stuff, like that he joined Finland as a volunteer to defend against the Soviet Union invasion
@@Songfugel He then took a small boat across to England and then joined the SAS. What he did exactly, we still don't know.
@@tygrkhat4087 Christopher Lee was in Special Forces, SAS, not a spy. He was an 'Operator' and he, well, did a bit of operating.
@@Trapster99 I never said he was a spy. I just said what he did was classified and he took secrets to the grave. But, yeah, he did a lot of operating in WWII.
Does anyone else want to see a separate channel, where Simon does Chemistry?
Hahaha no that would be his writers/researchers. He adamantly admits his shortcomings in understanding science. Professor Dave is a great teacher of chemistry and physics and makes it interesting. Sal Khan is amazing but basically purely college level chem and physics, so if you can’t follow the math it will mean nothing for you.
Idk why but I expected some of today’s celebrities to be in this. But then I realized they’d probably be dead if they were known 😅
You forgot Sterling Hayden , he was with the OSS , I believe he was with the Jedburgs , and later starred in movies , Suddenly and Godfather as the NYPD Inspector shot dead in restaurant scene .
So if Berg's main job was to figure out whether or not to kill Heisenberg, was that then Heisenberg's principle uncertainty?
Maybe but how can we be sure?
F.Y.I. - Pure lemon juice works well as invisible ink, also. The message can be read by applying a small amount of heat to the back of the paper. 🍋🔥
Semen as well if you go watch our MI6 vídeo :-) Here's the video That Time MI6 Spymaster Captain MANsfield Cumming Ordered His Spies to Use Semen as Invisible Ink: th-cam.com/video/02q1kUwOlYw/w-d-xo.html Literally Captain Cumming that had his men do this... We can't make this stuff up. :-)
@@TodayIFoundOut you have the link?
@@TodayIFoundOut True, but lemon juice raises fewer questions (and eyebrows) if found being stored in the refrigerator for future use. 😉🙂
@@TodayIFoundOut I don't think a demonstration of that would be YT safe.
@@writerpatrick 😄😄😄
so you're saying roald was undercover.
bs jeffrey Worthy of more than a thumbs up!
Undercovers seems a more accurate way to describe it...
I was hoping for the Harpo Marx story when he smuggled papers out of Russia...
I've read about William Holden doing clandestine stuff post-WWII. (He was the best man at Reagan's wedding to Nancy.)
... Uhmmmm....... I'm just here for Audrey Hepburn.... yeah
omg thanks for the Batman context. This is my strongest childhood memory of Batman. The bat anti shark spray :)
You have a lot of great information to offer and I like you so please don’t take this in a negative way but your delivery style is a bit boring and often I find it difficult to watch till the end. Maybe you can show more illustrations and less of you talking to the camera. Just a thought. I still watch your videos cuz the topics are interesting but I want to be able to watch till the end. :)
I cannot believe you left out Josephine Baker-she even got a medal for her espionage. Disappointed
Am I hearing music? It sounds as though one of us has a neighbor playing the radio too very loud!
I've detected this subtle background music in all the videos here as well.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer was an israeli scout sniper when she was in her early 20s.
txgunguy She wasn’t famous when she did that, though.
@@jslferrell
Drew Carey wasn't famous when he was a Marine, either. Most of these people only got famous later.
txgunguy All of those mentioned by Simon were famous prior to their service.
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Not all of them. Prior to the 1945 no one had ever heard of Julia Child or Audrey Hepburn or Ian Fleming. Most of these people were unknown to the general public until after the war.
txgunguy Mea Culpa.
The Pentagon had a full size hand painted picture of Jimmy Stewart. The day after his death, it mysteriously disappeared. Hopefully, his family got it.
Simon the Scientist: "That's about 20 drops". Then KABOOM goes the studio. LOL
You missed Audie Murphy in the bonus facts...hero to Hollywood in reverse. Nobody should miss an opportunity to mention Audie Murphy. It's too interesting not to talk about.
Other than that, Jimmy Stuart was by far the most heroic of the Hollywood types. Not to takeaway from the absolute blitz that Hollywood turned out to get people to back the war and fund it, or the contributions some celebrities made to important espionage, but Stuart, always the soft spoken "average joe" he portrayed so much in film, wanted nothing to do with cameo shots and war bond drives, but to actually do something. And his choice was one of the deadliest. Bomber crews notoriously didn't last long.
He wasn't the only one, just the most persuasive.
There were quite a few stories in that time of actors that felt incredibly guilty and wanted to get on the front lines, as did many people not so famous. My grandpa similarly wanted to, but as a railroad man, was never allowed to leave his job to enlist. Some did by lying, but when found out were treated severely.
Many farmers too were not allowed to enlist. There is a Hollywood staple in those old films of the "boy from Nebraska" or other breadbasket state in the unit, but those were from families with enough sons to spare one or two. Farms were needed. Trains were needed. Men who had important skills were needed...too keep doing those things.
There is one side of the story of those who sought deferments from the draft and that was joked about on the radio shows of the time, but the other side of the story where many were refused due to their skills being needed at home or in other roles. Even then, we knew it was the industrial might of this US giant that would be our greatest weapon, not our military. But a lot of men wanted to go to where the fighting was.
TIFO: “Another, called operation Goldeneye...”
Screen Rant Pitch Meeting: “That’s the name of the movie!...”
Juliet Child badass.
Love how the "message" was never actually showed...classic.
I've done the same expirement myself, and it does actually work
Wow!!! Although the spy Morris Berg graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School, he must have been blessed to be able to master so many languages. Some people are gifted in such ways: Einstein with physics and Mozart with music just to name a couple. But whether the pay was better or he had intellectual boredom, it's interesting that he preferred professional baseball to make a living.
@Carlo Cocciolo Even so, you're gifted.
How can a professional baseball player not make a living, wasn't he good at baseball?
Wait what?!?! Jimmy Stewart got to the effective rank of 2 Star General?!?! I come from a military family and I studied film, entertainment and culture, and I never knew that! Love your shows dude!
Adam West really WAS Bat Man!
Pure... West... ;-) -Daven
Mr. West was a great man. I didn’t get to know him until later in his life. He was a lovable , funny and happy man. He even befriended a nobody like me.
@@davidhawkins7946 You were never a nobody! He obviously saw something worthwhile in you! Always remember that and honor his judgement!
H. R. Gerrard I’m sorry for randomly chiming in from the peanut gallery about something you wrote months ago, but your comment genuinely put a smile on my face. It’s so rare to see someone online expressing a real generosity of spirit toward a stranger as you did. Thanks, H.R.!
"One of his most famous schemes involved placing misleading documents on a British corpse..."
Is he saying that Fleming was responsible for "The Man Who Never Was"??
Audrey also use to smuggle messages for the resistance
Looking at the link in the description: Why would I want a “porno code?”
Never mind...
This is cool!! I was curious about this!! Thank you for uploading!!! This video is incredible!!
Also 13th comment
You could do a whole presentation on Donvan. He was an amazing personality, and with who all we may never know, helped to win the war. I think a long program would work great for him, as well as for Intrepid, who worked closely with Donovan. This American, and Canadian should be fascinating.
Simon, you’re kind of a celebrity, are you a spy?!?
No, that's David
What about Baden-Powell who founded the Scouting movement. He was doing diagrams of German airbases, etc just before the war and when asked he said they were Butterfly markings on his diagrams, as only knew the key to the markings.
I love all your shows, but you speak too fast and with no pauses and over time this gets overwhelming to listen to. Partly it’s an editing problem. Try adding a 1/4 second pause between each edit.
Or... YOU could try reducing the video to 75%.
From the provocative thumbnail, I was expecting some deepfake Simon and Audrey pr0n. I was so disappointed.
Jimmy Stewart had PTSD when he returned home after WWII. He didn't think he could do "It's a Wonderful Life" (or even return to acting) because of his problems with PTSD. Lionel Barrymore, who played Mr. Potter, persuaded him. The scene were he's at the bar and crying and freaking out....he wasn't acting. They didn't re-shoot. It couldn't get more real.
Excellent. I'm ashamed to admit that I knew very little about Ms.Hepburn.
Could you imagine how big a "motion picture camera" in the 1940s was? How do you "sneak" that? I'm assuming in a briefcase but still that's hilarious.
I'm here to see how one of my favorite actresses, Audrey Hepburn came to be the thumbnail of this video. Roald Dahl however sounds like the guy spoken of in Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain."
The password for American GIs in Sicily to advance forward and being given intel that no Nazis of fasciti of Mussolini were still around, GIs would use the pass phrase, Lucky Luciano.
Got confused hearing your British voice use the American pronunciation for 'clerk'.
Harpo Marx served as a courier smuggling documents out of the USSR following a diplomatic artistic tour.
This is still going on today. Just look for the patterns of sudden media popularity in certain TH-camrs, movie stars, and music artists, corporate board ceo's, celebrities, etc.
People don't just suddenly become famous by talent or luck. Most talented people grind out their lives in obscurity. Yet untalented, ignorant, unintelligent, but supposedly extremely lucky individuals suddenly overwhelm the celebrity arts, board positions, and highest salary positions world wide.
5:39 Berg means mountain in Swedish but the way he pronounces it(almost completely leaving out the r) makes it sound like "bög" which basically means gay(to be specific, those of the male persuasion). It's often used like the f-slur is in english as well. Hence me not being able to unhear it lmao.
George Bailey as a 2 star general, all thanks to Clarence... I want to see THAT movie, lol
Long before he played Shirley Temple's father in several films, John Boles worked as a spy during World War I.
6:20 Parachutes didn’t look like that in the 40’s
The thumbnail makes it look like Hepburn is "presenting" to Simon. I have a feeling that's not an accident. 🤔
safe and fun experiments......contradiction in terms baldy!
Another actor not mentioned for his wartime service is the British actor Dirk Bogarde who worked in the British Military Intelligence.
You got me laughing about the quips on the Bat-Shark Repellant
Omg he is soo cute. The twinkle in his eye when he starting to see his what he wrote. "So cool" 😍😍
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You're the man, Simon. My neurons always get a workout with your show.
This dates ya, "Through the Magic of Television"
Wonder if any of today’s wannabes in the entertainment business would risk their lives for anything ?
Great content: 4:40 Was there a Batman movie with Adam West? I think you mean the TV series?
"Did Heisenberg's lecture indicate that the Germans are close to making a nuclear bomb?"
"It was uncertain. "
Dude thank you for posting something it made me remember that I want to unsubscribe
You rock solid. Merry Christmas 🎄!! Love your show. You’re a man of rare caliber. Thanks again for your show.
If/When you do a sequel, you could also include Charles Lindbergh.