—Philippe Halsman
Danish painter (b. 1804, Roma, d. 1880, Frederiksberg)
A Group of Danish Artists in Rome
1837
Oil on canvas, 62 x 74 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Basil Rathbone, 1937
Head of Lorette
oil on canvas,1916
Miniature Calendar
Hamilton, ON, August 2017
—Fred MacMurray
Interior with Woman Reading
Powder Box Study
1944
Portrait of Sylvette David 1954
Portrait of Sylvette David, 1954
Portrait of Sylvette David, 1954
oil on canvas
While walking together through Central Park, Sam Shaw asked Marilyn what she was learning at the Actors Studio. When she responded, “Improvisation,” he asked her to show him. Marilyn grabbed Sam’s newspaper and headed to a bench to read. Later she explained the couple’s intense conversation. Next to her, the man was asking for the woman to marry him. She said she would, but on the condition that he give up his livelihood as a bookie.
Acrylic, oil stick, on Baltic Birch, 8″ X 8″ 2017
The Picasso/David series: incredible.
When I was young, the only entertainment I was really exposed to were my parents record albums and the TV/movies they allowed us to watch. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone was in a Sherlock Holmes movie, and I thought he was almost unbearably dashing. When I saw “Captain Blood,” my good taste was confirmed. I’m quite sure I was the only 12-year-old girl in the late 20th Century listening to Jackie Gleason albums and carrying a torch for Basil Rathbone.
You were not alone. I kept hoping he would win at least one sword fight because he obviously was a much better fencer than all his opponents (except maybe for danny kaye). It seems in Captain Blood, they show Rathbone’s face so much more during the duel because flynn was using a stunt double.
Mr. Avrech: Do you know anything about a director, Harry “Pop” Sherman? I came across an interview of Jane Wyatt where she mentions him:
>>What Jane really remembers are the two westerns she made with Richard Dix in ‘43—“The Kansan” and “Buckskin Frontier”. “I loved those…they were Paramount outdoor specials, but released through United Artists. (Producer) Pop Sherman was awfully nice; always wore a hat. He enjoyed making westerns. He was an orthodox Jew who was very careful about his diet—no dairy products, no meat foods. Here I am a Catholic. It was Sunday morning and I wanted to go to Mass. We were way out on location, but he had a limo arrive and take me to Mass! He was fun, a colorful man, I loved Pop Sherman.<<
It seems he was a producer, not a director: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792458/
And far more important on his projects than the director’s who worked for him.
I suspect the things Marilyn experienced in Manhattan – out of the prying eyes of Hollywood, will forever be her secrets.