Remembering John Vernon on his birthday π
π· Reg Innell for the Toronto Star, 1971 @torontolibrary digital archive
"I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to record people's answering-machine messages saying, 'Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, son'."
John Vernon & Cesare Danova in National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978.
Dean Vernon Wormer showed up early on in every one of Vernon's obituaries. An iconic role!
There were two on set still photographers: Christine Loss & John Shannon #stillonset
Alfred Hitchcock directs John Vernon & Karin Dor in Topaz. Hitch doesn't seem to be working too hard in this shot. He may have nodded off.
π· Pierre Zucca, 1969
John Vernon as Captain Fletcher in Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales
Perhaps Vernon's best large-screen role.
π· Don Christie, 1976
You have to be a Canadian of a certain age to remember this, but Wojeck is one of the few great Canadian TV dramas. John Vernon plays a crusading coroner - this was on CBC from 1966-68.
Man, I loved this show!
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Celebrate the Margaret Leighton Centennial ππ―
π· Cecil Beaton, 1956
Leighton was such a fine actor that in 1962 she & Anthony Quinn showed up on The Ed Sullivan Show in a Betty Comden & Adolph Green sketch which involved reading from the telephone book.
I love this shot of Margaret Leighton by fashion photographer Louis Faurer, for Vogue, 1962 #MargaretLeighton100
Myrna Loy & Margaret Leighton at a party for the opening night of NoΓ«l Coward's "Sail Away".
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1961 @nypl digital collection
You always want to sit at the fun kids' table.
Remembering Betty Hutton on her birthday π
π· William Grimes, c. 1940
βThe more you watch her, the more she appeals, with her naΓ―ve belief that she can blast you into appreciation. And as the years, and films, go by, she actually starts to act.β
- David Thomson
Betty Hutton & Eddie Bracken, with a big subset of Preston Sturges's stock company, in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, 1943.
Here's one of the greatest of all movie cast photos, but there's unfortunately no photographer credit.
Betty Hutton & Eddie Bracken are superb in Preston Sturges's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Two great energetic performances, but both are touchingly vulnerable as well. One of the funniest scripts in Hollywood history.
Remembering Tony Randall on his birthday π
π· 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
π· 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!
π· Thomas Kristich, NY, 1991
Remembering Jackie Gleason on his birthday π
π· Earl Leaf, 1955
"Everybody is insecure to a degree. My business is composed of a mass of crisis. It all adds up to the manufacturing of insecurity."
Jackie Gleason with Audrey Meadows & Art Carney in The Honeymooners
π· Michael Rougier, 1956
Remembering Johnny Cash on his birthday π
π· Andy Earl, 1994
"Johnny Cash was a country musician who was too big for country music, and his work as artist, humanitarian, and patron of songs and songwriters will endure indefinitely."
- Adam Sweeting
Graham Nash's shot from Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash rehearsing for the Johnny Cash Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, May 1, 1969
"I thought the image itself was cool, even though it was a damaged negative."
Johnny Cash & Gordon Lightfoot by Jim Marshall, 1969
Cash's amazing version of "If You Could Read My Mind", from his album American V: A Hundred Highways, released in 2006.
Happy birthday Neil Jordan π
π· Trevor Leighton, 1984
"He has a Maupassant-like taste for consequences that is torn between being unexpected and giving warning hints of destiny or fate."
- David Thomson
Neil Jordan on the set of Mona Lisa
π· Georges De Keerle, 1986
Another Neil Jordan photo from the Mona Lisa set by Georges De Keerle, 1986