#OTD “The Rise and Fall of an Actress”, 1943
Hirschfeld drew these illustrations for an article "Letter to a Would-Be-Duse" by Lehman Engel for The New York Times
#OTD “The Rise and Fall of an Actress”, 1943
Hirschfeld drew these illustrations for an article "Letter to a Would-Be-Duse" by Lehman Engel for The New York Times
March 6 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Tom Arnold, Lou Costello, Ludwig Donath, Shuler Hensley, Ella Logan, Lorin Maazel, and Amy Pietz!
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#OTD The Poodle from Beach Blanket Babylon, 1995
March 5 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Talia Balsam, Jack Cassidy, Henry Daniel, Rachel Gurney, Rex Harrison, Eddie Hodges, Aasif Mandvi, Penn, Sarah Rice, Dean Stockwell, Henry Travers, and Nick Ullett!
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#OTD “London Invasion”, 1962
Clockwise from Top Left:
Wendy Hiller in The Aspern Papers
John Mills in Ross
Margaret Leighton in The Night of the Iguana
Zia Mohyeddin in A Passage to India
Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
March 4 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Gloria Gaither, John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, Robert Emmett Keane, Dorothy MacKaill, Paula Prentiss, Jaime Tirelli, Antonio Vivaldi, and Steven Weber!
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#OTD Lucille Ball and Robert Preston in Mame, 1974
Did anyone catch this recent answer on Jeopardy?
Category: Broadway Theaters
"We’re sorry this caricaturist never got to draw the cast of Moulin Rouge: The Musical at the theatre named after him. "
Does anyone know the question?
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns speaks to our curator Alan Pally for our new online exhibition The Belle of Broadway: Hirschfeld Draws Julie Harris!
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March 3 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Florence Auer, Diana Barrymore, Edna Best, James Doohan, Jean Harlow, Hattie Winston, and Tom Wolfe!
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#OTD Ellis Rabb as Hamlet, 1969
March 2 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Desi Arnaz, Marc Blitzstein, John Cullum, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, John Irving, Jennifer Jones, Gates McFadden, Laraine Newman, and Kurt Weil!
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Congratulations Harrison Ford on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the #ActorAwards!
Images:
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones from 1981's Best in Review
The Cast of Force Ten from Navarone, 1978
What is your favorite Harrison Ford performance?
Mike Connors in Mannix
Sonny Bono & Cher for The Sonny and Cher Show
Flip Wilson for The Flip Wilson Show
Did you watch any of these shows?
#OTD Nick at Nite, 1997
John Aston & Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family
Eddie Albert & Ava Gabor in Green Acres
James Arness in Gunsmoke
William Conrad in Cannon
Marlo Thomas in That Girl
Bob Crane in Hogan’s Heroes
March 1 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Javier Bardem, Harry Belafonte, Frederic Chopin, Robert Clary, Robert Conrad, Tim Daly, Joan Hackett, Paul Hartman, Glenn Miller, and David Niven!
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#OTD Alfred Hitchcock with Producer Ivor Montagu on the set of Sabotage (aka The Woman Alone), 1937
February 28 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Tom Aldredge, Kelly Bishop, Gemze de Lappe, Don Franks, Vincent Minnelli, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, Molly Picon, Cristina Ruehl, and Tommy Tune!
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#RIP Neil Sedaka
Image: Neil Sedaka and Family, 1984
#OTD Michele Bautier in Stardust, 1987
February 27 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Marian Anderson, Joan Bennett, William Demarest, Mirella Freni, Reginald Gardiner, Lotte Lehmann, Debra Monk, Peter Stone, Elizabeth Taylor, Franchot Tone, and Joanne Woodward!
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#OTD What’s Cooking on Broadway?, 1956
(Clockwise from top left) Elaine Stritch in Bus Stop; Hildegard Neff in Silk Stockings; Judy Tyler in Pipe Dream; Gusti Huber in The Diary of Anne Frank; Shelly Winters in A Hatful of Rain; and Margaret Sullivan in Janus
February 26 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Robert Alda, Bunny Briggs, Madeleine Carroll, Michael Cumpsty, Greg Germann, Jackie Gleason, Betty Hutton, Emma Kirby, Margaret Leighton, Priscilla Lopez, John McDaniel, and Tony Randall!
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#OTD Two Sondheim Drawings, Same Day, Six Years Apart
1973: A Little Night Music
1979: Sweeney Todd
Both drawings are available as poster pages in the USA Today best-selling book Hirschfeld’s Sondheim, available now at www.AlHirschfeldFoundationShop.org
February 25 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Enrico Caruso, Tom Courtenay, George Harrison, Lisa Kirk, Zeppo Marx, and Rita McKenzie!
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#OTD Groucho Marx (Clipping from Colliers Magazine), 1951
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Get a first look at our brand-new book Hirschfeld's Icons coming April 28!
The latest book in our poster book series highlights the greatest in arts and culture as seen by Hirschfeld!
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February 24 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Barry Bostwick, Joan Diener, James Farentino, Marjorie Main, Victor Moore, Edward James Olmos, Debra Jo Rupp, Renata Scotto, Helen Shaver, and Abe Vigoda!
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