—Gary Cooper
1661
oil on canvas
Height: 121 cm (47.6 ″); Width: 164 cm (64.5 ″)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Times Square, New York City 1957
Atlantic City Boardwalk, 2019
Makeup, Central Park, New York City, 1955
—Joan Collins
Audrey Hepburn Eating at the Horn and Hardart Automat on Broadway, New York City, 1952
Sign Advertising a Long Gone Horn and Hardart Automat, Broadway, New York City, 2011
At the Automat, New York City, 1936
The Sick Woman
between circa 1663 and circa 1666
oil on canvas
Height: 76 cm (29.9 ″); Width: 63.5 cm (25 ″)
Rijksmuseum
—Leslie Caron
“Judith and Holofernes”
1659
oil on panel
Height: 40 cm (15.7 ″); Width: 32.5 cm (12.7 ″)
Rijksmuseum
Sue Lyon (1946-2019) rocketed to celebrity when she was just 14 years-old in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962). Lyon next appeared in Night of the Iguana (1964) playing another teenage temptress. She had a starring role as a missionary in John Ford’s last movie, 7 Women (1966). She then co-starred with George C. Scott in a comedy, The Flim Flam Man (1967). She next played a smaller co-starring role in Tony Rome (1967) with Frank Sinatra. She appeared opposite George Hamilton as Evel Knieval’s wife in Evel Knieval (1971). There were a few TV roles in the 70s. Her last appearance was as a reporter in Alligator (1980). It’s safe to say that she will always be remembered as Lolita. Lyon was married five times and had one daughter. RIP
My mother lived in NE Your in the 40s, and always mentioned the automats. That picture with Audrey – she must have just come to the US – Roman Holiday would be made about that time.
Those penguins are hilarious!
Dang I must be dyslexic – NE Your – Manhattan or as my fingers were trying, New York
I’m afraid my geographic knowledge of LA is only from books, but I wonder if the restaurant was in the West Adams neighborhood? Bara had a house at 649 West Adams Boulevard, where she lived until her death. It’s now the property of a local college, I believe.
No, the restaurant is near the Glendale freeway where it heads south to Silverlake. I’ve forgotten the name of it. West Adams is where my fraternity house was in a house given to Iris Newmark as a wedding present from her father who owned Iris Foods. It was a gorgeous old house, gone for years now.
The restaurant is called “Edendale.” He owns the building, not the restaurant which is leasing the building.
https://www.theedendale.com/
There is a series of photos on that site including many of the silent film actors that lived nearby,
Basinger is a wonderful writer. I highly recommend her book “Silent Stars.” She has the knack of describing a movie or an actor’s performance so vividly that you can actually picture it in your mind.
And I would love to offer to buy Audrey Hepburn’s lunch at the Automat. What a lovely, lovely woman.
Happy New Year, Robert, and many more.
Finished it. Now to choose the next. I don’t know much about silent stars but had an interesting experience last year. My daughter’s in-laws remodeled an old firehouse in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. We were there and there is a big poster of Theda Bara in the lobby of what is now a restaurant. It turns out that the firehouse was in the neighborhood where many silent stars lived before they moved farther west to Hollywood and Beverly Hills. She was not the only one. The firehouse was closed when a new larger one was built nearby. My daughter’s father-in-law bought the firehouse and remodeled it. He left the tower where they used to hang hoses to dry out. Neat place.
Gary Cooper sounds like he is doing a bit of humble bragging there.
I am almost finished with the Basinger book, “The Star Machine.” It is great as I am the age where I remember most of those actors. The only one I had not seen was Deanna Durbin. I have a DVD collection of William Powell movies including the entire Thin Man series. She makes good points about the different eras, Depression, War, postWar and how it affected movies and careers. I have a number of Depression movies on DVD. “My Man Godfrey” is the most typical but “Topper” and Merrily We Live” are others. The latter has the common theme of the guy who looks like a bum and turns out to be an eccentric author. Superman comics had a similar concept.
Happy New Year, Robert!
Starting off the new year with another great post. Well done.