William Scott was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army’s First Motion Picture Unit (reporting to Lt. Ronald Reagan), where he worked with such animators as Frank Thomas. After the war, he became what was then known as a “story man” at Warner…
Category: New York
This is Jack Haley as the Tin Man getting a buff and a polish: And here’s the Tin Man flying above New York City:
The Christmas Parade, The Santa Claus Lane Parade, usually the day after Thanksgiving down Hollywood Blvd. This fellow is actor comedian Eddie Cantor on a float in Hollywood: And here he is floating above New York in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade:
LOVE Estelle Winwood — to have been alive when she was onstage and to have seen her perform… You know me chickadees, it’s never straightforward on Beguiling. Today’s theme is about make-believe/fantasy/imagination, and its significant role in romantic relationships. Anybody care to chime in?
One of the things I found most intriguing about this insightful and touching portrait of a golden girl’s fatal plunge into depression, was Hope Anderson’s account of filming the reenactment of Peg Entwistle’s last walk from from her home on Beachwood Canyon, up to the Hollywood sign. From finding a…
Peg has been depicted as a naïf, a lightweight and a wannabe, but nothing could be farther from the truth. No less a star than Bette Davis vividly recalled seeing her act in “The Wild Duck” in Boston in 1926. Davis said, “Before that performance, I wanted to be an…