Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Tony Randall on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ralph Crane, 1960
"One wouldn't blame him for a hint of disdain for many of the lines he has had to speak, the predicaments to be endured. There has never been any such hint. He somehow civilizes the material.
- John Leonard

A scene from the one-night-only revival of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, with Jack Klugman & Tony Randall
📷 Mario Ruiz, 1991
BTW The Jack Klugman Centennial is coming up in a couple of months. Start stockpiling cigars.

Oscar & Felix, one more time
Jack Klugman & Tony Randall did a one-night-only revival of The Odd Couple to raise funds for Randall's theater company. I wish I'd been there!
📷 Thomas Kristich, NY, 1991

Tony Randall in Times Square, 1963. A great photograph by Sante Forlano for Glamour Magazine. The model apparently represents the astrological sign #Aries; her outfit is by Roger Van S.

Philippe Halsman's 1965 #jump! shot of Tony Randall

Tony Randall in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1972

Tony Randall & Alfred Hitchcock by PoPsie Randolph
New York, 1962

Tony Randall campaigns for Eugene McCarthy
📷 Bob Gomel for Life magazine, 1968

An October 1957 issue of Life magazine featured Tony Randall in a feature on "Cocktail Party Types", with photos by Yale Joel. I'm going to give each photo its own tweet, so you can see how great these are.

Another "Cocktail Party Type": Tony Randall by Yale Joel, 1957

Yale Joel was the master of the Life photo-story. Tony Randall was the master of... pretty much everything.

Tony Randall & Yale Joe bring the "Cocktail Party Type" completely up to date. This is what cool looked like in 1957.

Another "Cocktail Party Type": Tony Randall by Yale Joel for Life, 1957

One last "Cocktail Party Type": Tony Randall by Yale Joel for Life, 1957

Here's how the Yale Joel photos of Tony Randall appeared in the December 2, 1957 edition of Life. The final shot got its own page.