1938, photo from MSNBC via YouTube April 10, 1880– Frances Perkins: "The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible." When you think about a New Yorker addressed as Madam Secretary, someone else's name might pop in your head. History seems to have forgotten … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Dancer/ Actor/ Choreographer/ Director, Robert Helpmann
Helpmann via The Royal Ballet School Collections, White Lodge Museum April 9, 1909 – Robert Helpmann: "The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops." Sir Robert Helpmann was an international ballet star and … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Early Film Superstar, Mary Pickford
1910, Studio Shot, Wikimedia Commons April 8, 1892 – Mary Pickford: “Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.” The First Female Movie Mogul. Fashion Icon. The biggest star in showbiz. In 1919, Pickford, with D.W. Griffith, Charlie … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Singer / Songwriter, Janis Ian
1967, WNBC via YouTube Screen-Grab April 7, 1951 – Janis Eddy Fink: “I learned the truth at seventeen, that love was meant for beauty queens, and high school girls with clear skinned smiles, who married young and then retired.” I purchased my first Janis … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Ram Dass
Ram Dass, 1970, via YouTube April 6, 1931 - Ram Dass "Treat Everyone You Meet as if They are God in Drag." He was the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Everybody Has a Heart. Except Some People.” – Bette Davis as Margo Channing
(L to R) Gary Merrill, Gregory Ratoff, and Bette Davis in All About Eve, 20th Century Fox via YouTube All About Eve (1950), is a devastating debunking of theatrical tropes and types. This flawlessly acted film is driven by Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty, cynical … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Good Guy, Gregory Peck
To Kill A Mockingbird via Wikimedia Commons April 5, 1916 - Gregory Peck: "I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in." I feel that a majority of Americans feel that Joseph Robinette … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Rock Hudson Let His Gay Agent Marry Him Off to His Secretary Because He Didn’t Want People to Get the Right Idea.” –Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkin’s longtime friend, artist Don Bachardy once wrote: “Of course we’d heard he’d married. I thought that was just awfully odd behavior for him. Did he honestly think that marriage to Berry Berenson could make him a heterosexual?“ Perkins had affairs with a few … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Designer/ Architect, Mary Colter
April 4, 1958 - Mary Colter Mary Colter was an architect and interior designer whose distinct style was inspired by the imagery, culture, and landscape of the American Southwest. She was the primary architect for the Fred Harvey Company, designing hotels and rest shops … [Read more...]
Is “The Man Who Knew Too Much” Doris Day’s Best Film?
Can you be an icon and remain truly underrated? Doris Day (1922-2019) and her effortless talent seem especially ephemeral. Her image was so distorted as to be anachronistic, even for the 1950s and 1960s. She is a favorite at my house. All of us, my husband, the two terriers, we … [Read more...]
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