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( and those secondary pages ) Antique Notebook: Hollywood MemorabiliaMy Personal Stage and Cinema Pages
For the Illustrious Deborah Kerr
This "grand dame" Romantically Rhymed with *S*T*A*R*S*
During Her Destinguished
Motion Picture Career and otherIcons of the Golden Age
---- Edmund W. Hiller The Deborah Kerr Fellowship League - A Foundation for the Performing Arts
( Those Neon Lights and Film Journals ) Est. 1956
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Writings And Thoughts
From The Personal Collections
Of The Hollywood Crowd And
The 'Not-So Hollywood' *S*T*A*R*S* TVs Annie Oakley
Gail Davis:
Time was always taken to visit and entertain in local hospitals. When she walked into a children's ward, their tiny faces lit up and their smiles were proof positive that Gail had indeed touched their hearts with hers. She was a fine and wonderful lady.
Numerous awards and proclamations of appreciation were bestowed upon Gail throughout her life and she definitely earned the placement of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She made a guest appearance on the Perry Como Show and a Bob Hope special. She also appeared on the Andy Griffith Show, her character being that of a sharpshooter, but she never strayed far from what had made her a legend to many. So, with a fond farewell to the entertainment industry, she 'retired' to the San Fernando Valley to spend more time sharing life with her family.
Throughout her remaining years she answered fan mail and participated in many film festivals and collectors shows. Her fans never forgot the positive impact she had on them and were always anxious to share their stories with her. In 1994, Dick Jones presented her with the GOLDEN BOOT AWARD. This honor is given to those in the film and television industry for all they have contributed to preserve the western tradition. Gail's public acceptance of this award was to be her last.
Gail Davis was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1996 and passed away the following year on March 15th, 1997.
She will always be remembered as an extremely gentle soul filled with unconditional love, and an exuberant zest for life.
Warner Brothers Film Studio
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CitySearch.com
Q U O T E S - in part - from: Our Great Movie Industry and the *S*T*A*R*S* " Tea and Sympathy "
" In retrospect, it wasn't a very shocking picture, but it might have set up a brouhaha at the time. Ostrich-wise, the censors refused to admit the problem of sexual identity was a common one." Vincente Minnelli, on Tea and Sympathy
" Separate Tables "
" Terence Rattigan's pair of one-act plays are deftly woven together into this intelligent, handsome drama, a kind of somber Grand Hotel of lonely and repressed lives at a British seaside hotel in the dreary off-season. David Niven and Wendy Hiller earned well-deserved Oscars for their subdued turns of the days, as a blustery old warhorse hiding a guilty secret and the efficient hotel proprietress, respectively. Burt Lancaster is the alcoholic American whose secret affair with Hiller is complicated when his former wife Rita Hayworth breezes in and reopens old emotional wounds, and Deborah Kerr is a mousy woman whose secret love for Niven is shattered by scandal. I try to remain tru to the good manners and quiet desperation that keeps these sad souls isolated at separate tables. Gracefully we float between the two dramas and patiently allow these repressed characters to open up and reveal their true feelings in their own quiet fashion. " Director Daniel Mann, on Separate Tables
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
Hollywood-At-Home
Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are Neck and neck as the two most collectible films. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer costume designer Adrian's creation for Judy Garland, a blue-and-white gingham pinafore with white blouse from The wizard of Oz, was auctioned of at Sotheby's December 1992 - sale price was 48,000. At another location and time, Judy's ruby slippers sold for 15,000 - many other important lots were purchased for just a few dollars. As interest in Hollywood's distinguished history grew, however, higher prices coaxed consignments out of those who had worked on films and saved key pieces, and an increased supply of material in turn attracted new buyers. Marcia Tysseling, co-owner of Star Wares on Main, reveals that Joan Rivers has bought Grace Kelly's gloves and that another celebrity wants 'anything to do with Ava Gardner'. They're now trying to buy back important pieces of their histories for studio museums. Hollywood collectibles are serious business, they are also lots of fun. ( article written by )Ann E. Berman - April, 1994 / ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
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Classic Sitcom Bewitched and "DARRIN"
You've got to keep trying - Dick York was almost a "has-been" at age twenty.
In 1950 Richard York came East, to the big city. He'd been acting in Chicago for ten years, since he was a little kid, but he might as well have hailed from the grass is greener, with the grass still in his ears. In New York, they don't care about out-of-town credits; half the time, they think you made them up.
Dick moved into a YMCA, then batted round for six months.
Later in his life, his love came east as well and they were married on November 17th, 1951. The young Yorks lived in Kew Gardens for a time, and Joan's chief problem is how she's ever going to see Dick, once Tea and Sympathy opens. Tea and Sympathy is the Broadway show he's to be featured in, and he got his part in a roundabout way. He'd played an insane banjo played in a Michael Shayne show - the Michael Shayne writer was excited by what Dick had done with the part - and, when Tea and Sympathy was casting, he, the writer, sent Dick to an agent who could send him to Elia Kazan,who was directing the play. Kazan hired Dick.
"It's not the part in the play," Dick would say hastily. "A boy named Kerr, who was voted the best young actor of the year for his work in Bernadine, is the star - "
Dick thought it would be good for him to work in the theatre. But - "I'll be gone from ten in the morning till one the next morning every day - "
A friend, watching him grab lunch at about four o'clock one afternoon, in between his radio hours and a Tea and Sympathy rehearsal, asked if the pace weren't killing.
Dick stirred his coffee, shrugged. "Work's work." he said. "You gotta take it while it's there. After all, you've got to keep trying."
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