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
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
π· Steve Schapiro, 1972
Tony Randall & Alfred Hitchcock by PoPsie Randolph
New York, 1962
Tony Randall campaigns for Eugene McCarthy
π· 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.
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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 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
Remembering George Harrison on his birthday π
π· Curt Gunther, 1964
"He may not have written the songs for which they will be remembered, but without his gift for discovery the group might have taken a much less interesting & productive course."
- Richard Williams
George Harrison's Leap of Faith into the arms of director Richard Lester
A Hard Day's Night, 1964
The still photographer on the set was Bert Cann #stillonset
Backstage during the Roy Orbison/Gerry & The Pacemakers UK tour. Oh, & The Beatles...
Paul McCartney, Freddie Marsden, George Harrison, Gerry Marsden, Ringo Starr, Les Maguire, John Lennon, John 'Les' Chadwick, Roy Orbison
π· Harry Hammond, May 1, 1963