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Posted by Ed Morris <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ed+Morris' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2015, 9:09 pm

I juxtaposed these two photos, to illustrate the remarkable resemblance of a total stranger, to Jim Reeves.

Ed Morris

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Posted by Anita Lee Cooper <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Anita+Lee+Cooper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 17, 2015, 1:03 am, in reply to "Jim Reeves look-a-like"

There's a resemblance,so much so that it makes me wonder if he is one of JR's offspring.I've never seen a JR look alike before anywhere until now.

Anita L. Cooper

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Posted by Larry Jordan <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Larry+Jordan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 17, 2015, 8:17 am, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

You both must be joking.

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Posted by Anita Lee Cooper <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Anita+Lee+Cooper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 19, 2015, 1:26 am, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

While the man in the photo has a full face,he does have some features in common with JR.The man at the start of the film "42" looks like he is in his early or mid fifties.Jim's face was once fatter and fuller before he lost 40 lbs. in the last two years of his life.And he only lived to be 40.I still see some similarity in this unknown actor's face and JR's.

Anita L. Cooper

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Posted by Larry Jordan on January 19, 2015, 8:20 am, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"
Edited by board administrator January 19, 2015, 8:21 am

The hairline is not right at all. But everybody views things differently.

Have you ever seen those websites that show celebrities and then their supposed lookalikes? Most of the time there isn't even the vaguest resemblance. Though I have seen some impersonators that come pretty close!

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Posted by Rodney James <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Rodney+James' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 19, 2015, 10:14 am, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Stranger things have happened - elvis works in our local gas station.

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Posted by Anita Lee Cooper <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Anita+Lee+Cooper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 19, 2015, 4:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

I agree there is a marked difference in the hair or haircut at the side,left side of the man in the photo.Whoever he is,I bet Jim would have seen the slight resemblance,and I wonder what he would have thought about it.There are many Elvis impersonators who not only can sing almost like Elvis,but who look a lot like him too.Elvis Presley probably slept with just as many women and girls as JR,but Elvis lived in more of the era of the pill.Even if Elvis had fathered children out of wedlock,there are not as likely to be as many of them as for JR.I think most famous men have affairs.Women chase them because they are celebrities.Even celebrities are still human.By celebrity I include famous athletes and politicians,not just singers,musicians,and actors.

Anita L. Cooper

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Posted by Anita Lee Cooper <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Anita+Lee+Cooper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 19, 2015, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Another point I'd like to make is that a son or daughter can look just a little like their father and a bit like their mother,a blend of both their biological parents.I would like to know who this unknown actor is.What I said earlier about the possibility that he's one of JR's offspring could still be true.

Anita L. Cooper

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Posted by Ed Morris <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ed+Morris' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 20, 2015, 11:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Larry, I'm not saying the man in the footage was Jim Reeves... I'm only saying he "resembles" Jim Reeves.

Ed Morris

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Posted by Ed Morris <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ed+Morris' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 20, 2015, 11:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Anita, the gentleman in the film, "42," is not an actor, as far as I know. This was archival footage, of the celebration, marking the end of World War II. He was just a face in the crowd.

Ed Morris

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Posted by Ed Morris <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ed+Morris' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 20, 2015, 11:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Larry, I was speaking of the gentleman's face, and not his hairline. As an example, identical twins can look alike, even though one might wear glasses, and have a different hairstyle.

Ed Morris

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Posted by Anita Lee Cooper <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Anita+Lee+Cooper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 21, 2015, 6:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

I assumed it was from the 2013 movie,not actual archive footage.In 1945 JR would have been only 23 years old and looked much younger than the man in this footage.I wondered if this movie was filmed in California,Canada,the UK or where it was filmed.Many Hollywood movies are made in Canada today for lower production costs and other reasons.I thought all the people in it were actors and that its a recreation of the end of the war.

Anita L. Cooper

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Posted by Ed Morris <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ed+Morris' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 22, 2015, 2:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Hi, Anita, the archival footage was placed at the beginning of the 2013 movie, "42," for effect. The actor, who portrayed sportswriter, Wendell Smith, was typing, as well as speaking, about how America was accepting of all Americans during World War II, however, things changed when a black man wanted to play major league baseball.

Ed Morris

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Posted by Anita Lee Cooper <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Anita+Lee+Cooper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 23, 2015, 3:41 am, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

Sometimes movies create their own phony 'archival' type or looking footage for effect at the start or end of historical dramas rather than use real historic footage.I thought this maybe was a modern re-creation of footage that looks like old newsreels,therefore the actors and actresses would be contemporary persons dressed in period clothing and made to look like people in an old newsreel or photograph. That's what I assumed it was and then the man in the picture is contemporary in 2013.I didn't know its really from some place during 1945.

Anita L. Cooper

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Posted by Ed Morris <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ed+Morris' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 24, 2015, 6:09 am, in reply to "Re: Jim Reeves look-a-like"

That's an excellent point. I never thought of that.

Ed Morris

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