Dawn in Pennsylvania, 1942
Oil on canvas
61.9 x 112.4 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago,© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art
Cummins starred in one of my all time favorite films, Gun Crazy, 1950. The Welsh born actress played an American femme fatale in a pitch perfect performance.
Birthday Gloves, New York
1947
© Condé Nast/Horst Estate
French, 1500/10–1575
Portrait of Louise de Halluin, dame de Cipierre, c. 1555
Oil on panel
21.4 x 17.8 cm (8 7/16 x 7 in.); painted surface: 20.5 x 16.5 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection,
—Ann Blyth
The Outlaw, 1941
Screenplay by Louis Sarecky
Adaptation by Forrest Halsey, Alfred Jackson
Just watched a Fred and Ginger Marathon. My aunt DVR’ed “Follow the Fleet,” “Swingtime,” “Roberta,” “Flying Down to Rio,” and “Shall We Dance.” Great time!
(Not unrelated: we also watched a number of William Powell: “Emperor’s Candlesticks”, Flo Zeigfield story, two Thin movies, a Philo Vance film, and “My Man Godfrey.”)
Fun times. Love the old films
I knew Ann Blyth slightly and Jane Russell better. Ann’s husband, Jim McNulty, was an OB at Good Samaritan in LA. When they close their OB service, he had to move his practice to Cedars. He complained they could not pronounce his name on the PA system but he was joking.
Jane did very well in LA real estate. She was very shrewd in business although she did not look that smart.
Neither needed the movie career after the glamour faded.
Re Joan Bennett. Unusual as it may be, her comment is sound and reasonable. When her career spiraled into decline she was coming off a pair of successful films with Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride, and Father’s Little Dividend, but she married Walter Wanger, an awful jerk, who took her money and put it into Joan of Arc, and when that tanked, shot Jennings Lang, Joan’s agent.