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Although teevee shows had "APPLAUSE!" signs which would flash to the attending audience, note the very genuine applause in the clip of Audie Murphy on What's My Line, many years ago.



I had the pleasure many years ago of meeting Audie Murphy at the old Kings Gun Shop in Los Angeles. That was about six or seven months before he was killed. He was a very nice person, We talked about guns and hunting.

EDIT. Whoops, the video wouldn't play. It is worth a serch however, as it is on You Tube.


L.W.

Only a fool pisses off the one who prepares his food.

OP, thanks for the information. I only recently started seeing films with Audie Murphy in the cast. I knew he served in WW II, but did not know the extent of his heroism.

One favorite Uncle saw some serious schitt in WW II. He and three or four buddies spent one entire winter behind enemy lines somewhere in France. They did not all survive the winter.

Fifty years later, we all knew better than to touch him or startle him while he was sleeping. If he needed to be awakened, you did so with a whisper from the doorway to his bedroom.

Audie’s second wife was a Saint. Hand Salute.

Pam Murphy By Dennis McCarthy 4/5/2018

...Pam Murphy had lived in Audie’s massive shadow for 20 years. She never complained publicly when his gambling took all their money, and his philandering stole their marriage.
After he died at age 46 in a 1971 private plane crash, we all learned of the demons the war-hero-turned-Hollywood-actor had still been fighting – the faces of buddies he lost and men he killed (an estimated 250 German soldiers) were returning now as nightmares, not medals.

Pam always defended him, even as she was forced to move from their sprawling ranch-style home in Van Nuys to a small, one-bedroom apartment near the VA in Mission Hills – taking a clerk’s job in the main reception area to support herself, and begin paying off Audie’s considerable debts.
It took her nearly 10 years, but she paid off every one – 100 cents on the dollar. Nobody would ever say Audie Murphy welched on a deal.

Men with tears in their eyes would walk up to her in the hallway, and ask for a hug when they learned who she was. “Thank you,” they said, over and over. The first couple of years, the hugs were more for Audie.
The last 30 years, they were for her.

She was the one who held their hand when they were in pain, the one cutting through the red tape to get her boys in to see the specialists they needed. She never looked for quitting time to arrive. She left when the last veteran on her clipboard had seen the doctor.
And if one was still sitting there an hour after his appointment time, she thought nothing of taking him by the hand, and marching him past the objecting receptionist, and straight into the doctor’s office.
She got reprimanded more than a few times, but she didn’t care. They were her boys, Audie’s war buddies, and she was going to take care of them. If that meant stepping on some toes, well, tough.
The VA was there to serve the veterans, not the other way around.
...
With all Audie had put her through, all the heartbreak, she still loved the guy.
Pam worked at the VA right up to her 87th birthday, and died three years later peacefully in her sleep in the same small apartment she took after Audie died.
It was standing room only at her memorial in a little chapel on the VA grounds. Old soldiers and Marines who had looked death in the face with her husband, and never blinked, couldn’t hold back their tears at her passing...

Laffin...Them types usually have no problem trying to tear your eyes out, or throw hot coffee and the whole fricken coffee maker across the kitchen at you. You must have married my ex wife....😎

PS
Mine went to jail for her BS. Fixed her wagon real quick...Then I divorced her. Sorry you met her. I should have warned you. My bad 😬

Choose carefully and you'll never have that issue or the statement of you have to sleep sometime.. things I've never heard.

Always heard to be really careful and not pick due to looks or sex or money, but for the person. Evidently I did fine. Carolyn agrees that we could not have chosen anyone better, than our pairing.

In fact she has offered to get a second job if we need it, so I can live my dream of working in Alaska.

But I'm way OT here...

I never read that Murphy beat either one of his wives.

The second Mrs. Murphy was awarded 2.5 million dollars in 1975 as a result of the plane crash that took her husbands life.

Audie Murphy was a no-shixt hero. It's a damn shame there aren't more like him here today. He'd be welcome at my house, ranch or campfire anytime, and that's a helluva lot more than I can say for many here.

I'll admit that I don't know a whole lot about him as a war hero. only what I've read. As far as an actor goes, he was never a favorite of mine. If I made up a list of my favorite Western actors, he's be so far down on the list that by the time you got to his name, you'd be tired of reading.

Having said that, I've watched a number of Westerns, when there was nothing else worth watching on, and I didn't have a good book to read at the time.

We visited his grave in Arlington.

My uncle saw action with him in the war. Most everything you hear about him was true. Guy had balls.

To Hell & Back was a classic. I also like most of his westerns as well as any filmed in the 50's.

-Ken

He had friends in Stephenville Tx. The Audie Murphy Rodeo Arena served the area for decades.

I have great admiration for the man.

my old man was a ww2 vet and didn't think much of the "hero" movie stars of the day. john wayne, etc. but he said murphy was a real hero.

He shot the cshit out of a bunch of Germans that day!

A true bad ass hero. 3rd ID, Rock of the Marne.

The story of Audi Murphy's crash.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Audie-Murphy-N601JJ.htm

For all of us who have worn the 3rd ID patch, "Nous Resterons La!"

"I wouldn't give a bean
To be a fancy pants Marine
I'd rather be a dog faced soldier like I am.
I wouldn't trade my old ODs
For all the Navy's dungarees
I'm just a fighting son of Uncle Sam.

On all the posters that I read
It says: "The Army builds men"
So they're tearing me down
To build me over again.

I'm just a dog faced soldier
With a rifle on my shoulder
And I eat raw meat for breakfast every day.
So feed me ammunition,
Keep me in the 3rd Division,
Your dog face soldier boy's OK!"

That was a good read, thanks.

My last assignment in the AF was as the liaison to the Idaho Civil Air Patrol, and, as such, I had several dealings with Bernie Fisher, the MOH winner from the A Shau valley. It seems that all the real heroes in life really do fit the "aw shucks, Maam, twarn't nuthin" picture. I was in awe of him every time I talked to him. May all our heroes RIP, and their memories never diminish.

No matter how great a person was,and Audie Murphy was a great hero.It always astounds me that some one goes out of their way to make a negative comment about them.