And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
An as of yet unknown actress, Marilyn Monroe hikes in Griffith Park. Los Angeles, 1950
Your FWIW trivia for the day: Bronson Canyon is a part of Griffith Park. Literally tons of movies and TV shows were filmed in Bronson Canyon and when a guy gets dialed in he sees the canyon all the time in both '50s and '60s TV reruns and old movies, particularly Westerns. The canyon was in several episodes of Highway Patrol with ol' vodka sipping Broderick Crawford.
Charles Dennis Buchinsky adopted the name Bronson as his stage name as a result of his familiarity with the canyon.
Bronson Canyon is at the base (about a mile SSE) of the Hollywood sign. If you saw a cave in a movie, that was it, 99% of the time. Including the Bat Cave in every episode of the Adam West 1960s TV series. It's way down in the farthest lower left corner of Griffith Park, and miles from where that photo was taken.
FWIW, in the film "Woman of the Year" Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Buchinski, Chuck Connors, and Alfalfa Switzer are seen in the same frame.
She was not so unknown, as she was the mistress and pet project of the VP of the William Morris Agency, one of the biggest talent firms in Tinseltown, and she'd already had bit parts in half a dozen movies and contracts at Fox and Columbia, and while married and after her divorce, slept with any number of studio execs, and appeared on three dozen magazine covers.
This pic was obviously another photo shoot between movie gigs. Six months and two pivotal roles later, she was a bonafide star, started getting meatier roles, had been declared "Miss Cheesecake 1951" by Stars and Stripes amidst the Korean War, and she continued sleeping her way to the top, eventually landing Joe Dimaggio by 1952.
Like most Hollywood stars, her "overnight" success took about 10 years to materialize.
Your FWIW trivia for the day:
ReplyDeleteBronson Canyon is a part of Griffith Park. Literally tons of movies and TV shows were filmed in Bronson Canyon and when a guy gets dialed in he sees the canyon all the time in both '50s and '60s TV reruns and old movies, particularly Westerns. The canyon was in several episodes of Highway Patrol with ol' vodka sipping Broderick Crawford.
Charles Dennis Buchinsky adopted the name Bronson as his stage name as a result of his familiarity with the canyon.
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DeleteAnd the very first episode of The Lone Ranger in 1949.
DeleteBack in the day when televisions were uncommon.
Bronson Canyon is at the base (about a mile SSE) of the Hollywood sign. If you saw a cave in a movie, that was it, 99% of the time. Including the Bat Cave in every episode of the Adam West 1960s TV series.
DeleteIt's way down in the farthest lower left corner of Griffith Park, and miles from where that photo was taken.
FWIW, in the film "Woman of the Year" Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Buchinski, Chuck Connors, and Alfalfa Switzer are seen in the same frame.
DeleteNice gams.
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ReplyDeleteNo Nikes or Adidas in them days, ghost. It was U.S. Keds, leather shoes or barefootin'.
DeleteAnd blue suede.
DeleteAllegedly, she is my cousin, the daughter of my Uncle Ernest Mallernee.
ReplyDeleteShe was not so unknown, as she was the mistress and pet project of the VP of the William Morris Agency, one of the biggest talent firms in Tinseltown, and she'd already had bit parts in half a dozen movies and contracts at Fox and Columbia, and while married and after her divorce, slept with any number of studio execs, and appeared on three dozen magazine covers.
ReplyDeleteThis pic was obviously another photo shoot between movie gigs.
Six months and two pivotal roles later, she was a bonafide star, started getting meatier roles, had been declared "Miss Cheesecake 1951" by Stars and Stripes amidst the Korean War, and she continued sleeping her way to the top, eventually landing Joe Dimaggio by 1952.
Like most Hollywood stars, her "overnight" success took about 10 years to materialize.