Well...you can't hide away forever.
Read the New York Times obituary here.
January 28, 2010
They Were Collaborators #624
Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker jam at The Open Door in Greenwich Village, Sept. 1953.
Collect 'Em All #63
Alice White
No. 48 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Alice White was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on July 25th, 1907, of French and Italian parents. Her mother, a former chorus girl, died when Alice was only three years of age. After her education at Roanoke College, in Virginia, Alice White took a secretarial course at the Hollywood High School, and later obtained a job as a script clerk in a studio. She obtained an engagement, making her film debut in The Sea Tiger. She won stardom, then for some time was not seen on the screen. She returned for Employees' Entrance and her latest successes include Jimmy the Gent, A Very Honourable Guy and Gift of Gab.
Adventures in American Filmmaking #128
Today's Adventure: Billy Wilder fiddles with a prop on the set of One, Two, Three.
Authors on Authors #10
"Over and over again, in his description of women I find myself. In his treatment of language, in the poetic intensity of his prose, I find courage for my own writing."
-- Anaïs Nin (on D.H. Lawrence)
January 27, 2010
Treading the Boards #18
To the far right Henry Travers and Josephine Hull head up the original cast of You Can't Take It with You. Click here for the rest of the cast.
F is for Frances McLaughlin-Gill #1
Wicker bag and plaid blanket by Abercrombie & Fitch. Female model wears a fitted grey flannel suit from a Junior Vogue pattern (1947)
January 26, 2010
Adventures in the Vast Wasteland #8
Today's adventure: Mary Ford and Les Paul rehearse under the lights for their imaginatively titled hit show, The Les Paul & Mary Ford Show, also shown in certain markets as Les Paul & Mary Ford at Home. Of course, the immense talents of Les and Mary precluded the need for a catchy title.
January 23, 2010
January 21, 2010
Adventures in American Filmmaking #127
Today's Adventure: Director King Vidor looks down on his stars Renée Adorée and John Gilbert, not because he feels superior to them, although he may, but because they're rolling in the dirt.
The Future is Now #15
The Gunslinger Team has determined, after viewing multiple pieces of evidence, that the "future" in the fifties almost always involved space helmets. I almost feel guilty to the dreamers of that age for not one wearing one.
This Sporting Life #14
The extraordinary Sandy Koufax ices the elbow before fear of a life doped up on cortisone forced him into early retirement after the 1966 season.
January 20, 2010
Annals of Public Performance #11
The Hoboken Four perform simultaneously before a live audience and a radio audience courtesy of NBC, 1935. One of them became famous later on although I can't remember which one. Probably the guitarist, certainly not the skinny kid on the right.
Adventures in the Vast Wasteland #7
Today's Adventure: Art Carney and Jackie Gleason make history with every line.
Treading the Boards #17
Mady Christians as "Mama" joins an impossibly young Marlon Brando in the original Broadway production of I Remember Mama. This photo dated 1946. Rest of the cast here.
The Art of the Panel: DC #22
from I Hunted Goliath the Robot
(by Nick Cardy)
(My Greatest Adventure #13; January-February, 1957)
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