re: Pictures from days gone by....

Interesting pic... Looks like make shift bleachers... And everybody is dressed so nice.

Wife Carol Rossen congratulates Hal Holbrook in his dressing room after the premiere performance of his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! (1966)

Ava Gardner with Rene Jordan, her long-time friend and personal assistant

“She was fun, and very sharing. If I ever made her anything, from a cup of coffee to a martini, she’d say, “Well, where’s yours?” She wasn’t what we thought of as the stereotypical Southerner. We’d go to clubs during the time before integration, and if they threw me out, she’d leave too. So to keep her, they’d tolerate me.“ - Rene Jordan on Ava Gardner

Wayne Morris







WM w/director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and the Kid Galahad cast

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While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war. He flew the F6F Hellcat off the aircraft carrier USS Essex.

A December 15, 1944, Associated Press news story reported that Morris was "credited with 57 aerial sorties, shooting down seven Japanese Zeros, sinking an escort vessel and a flak gunboat and helping sink a submarine and damage a heavy cruiser and a mine layer." He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals.

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After the war, Morris returned to films, but his nearly four-year absence had cost him his burgeoning stardom. He continued to act in movies, but the pictures, for the most part, sank in quality. Losing his boyish looks but not demeanor, Morris spent most of the fifties in low-budget westerns, but he also appeared as a weakling Lieutenant Roget, one of the main characters, in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957).

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Presumably Kubrick was aware of Morris' record, and was amused by the casting of a war hero as a battlefield coward.

Wayne Morris with Kirk Douglas and Ralph Meeker in Paths of Glory



The forgotten Hollywood war hero: Wayne Morris

His grave at Arlington

Joe DiMaggio Shows The Local Kids How To Clout ‘Em
February 17, 1936

This would have been a few days before Joe left for his 1st ever New York Yankees spring training



(Wire Tag) “Joe Shows ‘Em How - Now that spring is approaching, the youngsters of North Beach, San Francisco’s Italian section, troop to the DiMaggio home to have Joe DiMaggio, their idol, show them how to clout ‘em. Joe speaks with authority for he hit Coast League (PCL) pitching for .398, and the Yanks paid $25,000 and four players for him after he hit safely in 61 consecutive games. 2/17/36”

The Beatles wearing smog masks

"Introducing an exciting new way to take your music along. The new Norelco Carry-Player(™) plays your favorite music tape cassettes." (1968)

Sergio Leone has some friends over for dinner

Katharine Hepburn interview with Barbara Walters (1981)