#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
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#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
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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
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Mike Connors in Mannix
Sonny Bono & Cher for The Sonny and Cher Show
Flip Wilson for The Flip Wilson Show
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#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!
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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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