All About Eve Cat

[from My Photo a Day Adventure blog]

Saturday, April 2, 2022, 12:39 am — Teeny Tuxedo … It’s After Midnight Movie Time! … Hey, Teeny … what’ll we watch? … Your tail’s pointing to All About Eve, 1950, Bette Davis … perfect choice! … On demand … on practically perfect Turner Classic Movies … the one channel I HAVE to have … since it first began in 1994 … uncut, commercial-free …

Teeny and I had the need to rewatch All About Eve … 1950 Best Picture Oscar … Poster on wall, Summertime, 1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, directed by David Lean, filmed in Venice, Italy.

March was “31 Days of Oscar” on Turner Classic Movies … every year a different theme … This year, every hour of every day was filled with Oscar-winning films … All About Eve had six 1950 wins … Best Picture … Director AND Writing, Joseph L. Mankiewicz … Supporting Actor, George Sanders … Costume Design … Sound … (and eight more nominations).

Ever so fortunate to have seen Bette Davis (twice) and Katharine Hepburn in person on stage … Two of my favorite actresses … All About Eve, 1950, and Summertime, 1955, are favorite films … Plus the extra fortune of staying a month alone at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, July, 2016.

Silent Film Actress Cat

Monday, March 7, 2022, 7:49 am — Teeny Tuxedo … learning about silent film actress, Barbara La Marr, 1896-1926 … born in Yakima, Washington!? [we’re in Vancouver, WA] … “In 1923 she secretly had a child.  She “adopted” the little boy to save face … After her death in 1926, he was adopted by good friend ZaSu Pitts [1894-1963] and her husband Tom Gallery … and renamed Don Gallery.” – imdb … ZaSu Pitts, one of my favorite character actresses … Finnish calendar, Maaliskuu / March, upper left …

… Close-up reflection … Little Tux, 2020, and Little Perk, 2021 … Christmas gifts from Cousin L … spun cotton kittens … by VintagebyCrystal …

Bridging the Gap Cat

Tuesday, January 4, 2022, 11:27 am — Perkins … multicultural cat … Finland and Sweden … newly arrived DVD set … Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years … she’s star of the month on Turner Classic Movies  … The green and red are part of a table runner I wove on a loom at my cousin’s shop … Mikkeli, Finland … 1999 … a week’s visit between home exchanges in Kirkintilloch, Scotland and Durham, England … (Mom’s wingback chair) …

Child Star Cat

Friday, June 4, 2021, 8:18 am — Teeny Tuxedo … sitting next to Shirley Temple’s autobiography, Child Star (left corner) … If she could read it, she would! …

… a 1988 Christmas gift from Russ … who knows I’ve been a fan since Pluto was a pup … Must be fate, since Mom was outside the Los Angeles Wilshire Methodist Church where 17-year-old Shirley was marrying John Agar, Sept. 19, 1945 … details on my movie blog! ...

Italian Movie Star Cat

Friday, April 30, 2021, 9:57 am — Teeny Tuxedo … thinks she can hide behind the comforter on laundry day …

… found you! … in front of  Italian movie poster … Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi … David Lean’s Summertime / Tempo d’estate, 1955 … filmed in Venice … Signorina Teena, sembri una star del cinema! …

Teeny could take an Italian movie actress lesson from Lucy Ricardo! … I Love Lucy … “Lucy’s Italian Movie” … season 5, 1956 …

Lucy’s Katharine Hepburn “The calla lilies are in bloom again” connection! … Stage Door, 1937 … (Lucille Ball as Judith Canfield) …

Finally February Cat

Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 12:57 pm — Perkins … reflected in the Hollywood Glamour framed print … welcomes the February sun …

2.5 years ago … clear view of Hollywood Glamour … Dreaming Cats, Sept. 21, 2018 … silent film star, Gloria Swanson … with tiger … poster received as gift, 1987 …  Buffalo Bill Museum poster from trip with Glynnis, Way Out West with Johnny Depp, August 2001 … it’s now back in Cody, Wyoming with Kitty M. … a happy library retirement gift when she moved, March 2019 …

• Hollywood Glamour, 1924-1956: Selected Portraits from the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (1987) … book accompanying the exhibition, Aug. 29-Oct. 25, 1987

Kate’s Brownies Cat

Sunday, November 22, 2020, 12:15 am — Katharine Hepburn … in her kitchen at the family home on the water at Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Connecticut … where she whipped up many a batch of brownies … Lights! Camera! Action! … Brownies! … followed her recipe … scrumptious! … (see full post … Kate’s Brownies – At Last) …

… a photo that was left on the cutting room floor … Teeny Tuxedo! … what are you doing?! … you don’t like brownies … even if they’re Katharine Hepburn’s! …

[Book … The Private World of Katharine Hepburn, 1990, pp. 34-35]

Movie Madness Cat

Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:18 am — Perkins … and awaaaay she goes! … sorting junior high, high school papers … from old cardboard box to sturdier plastic container …

… wonderful movie re-discoveries … pages from Mad Magazine, Oct. 1967, no. 114 …

… Mad’s “Late Show” Cliché Movie Script: The “Society” Movie, p. 42 … stars bordering the script: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart …

Look closely … the swirls between the drawings are names of other movie stars … a galaxy of ’em! ...

March Christmas Cat

Saturday, March 28, 2020, 1:21 pm — Perkins … and jolly old Saint Nick … Christmas present from Wendy over 10 years ago … used to be full of an assortment of flavored popcorn … an almost yearly tradition …

… looking out at the deck …

Ames Brothers sing Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, 1951 …

Marilyn Monroe has nothin’ to do with Saint Nick … but this is a good pic of the Ames Brothers … the most famous, Ed Ames (also an actor), second from right …

… except … in 1946, as Norma Jeane, before she was Marilyn …

From … Bonhams auction … June 4, 2007 … “entertainment memorabilia, including property from the estate of Carl Barks” (1901-2000) [cartoonist, best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories … worked anonymously until late in his career … born, died in Oregon] …

A Marilyn Monroe group of never-before-seen black and white snapshots, 1946:

“Four vintage prints showing the twenty year-old starlet participating in a publicity event to promote the new Darrin/Kaiser-Frazer car (a short-lived company that manufactured cars for only nine years before going out of business); the first shows the then-named Norma Jeane standing by the car as Santa Claus and dozens of children surround her, the second shows NJ and Santa holding bags as children look at them, the third is a similar shot of NJ but with a few added adults in background, and the fourth shows a dozen kids about to throw snowballs at NJ, who is wearing a white shorts/jumper suit outfit that she often wore in cheesecake photos from the same era [see Lot 1019]. One extra snapshot from the same day is included, and though NJ is not in it, actresses June Haver and Peggy Ann Gardner are as they were part of the event as well.”

Footnotes
“The current consignor’s father set up this publicity stunt back in 1946, and because he had fake snow brought in for it, he was touted as being “the man who brought snow to Hollywood.” Both B&B’s client (at age ten in 1946) and his father can be seen in the background of two these snapshots, along with the young model who showed up for work that day – the soon to be Marilyn Monroe.”

Amazing Change Cats

Sunday, October 27, 2019, 2:25 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … innocently napping in the sun …

… 2:50 pm … How did they morph into the Amazing Two-Cats-in-One?! …

• See more of silent film star, Gloria Swanson, and tiger … Hollywood Glamour Cat, Oct. 6, 2019

Hollywood Glamour Cat

Sunday, October 6, 2019, 10:32 am — Teeny Tuxedo … newly catnipped scratcher … and silent film star, Gloria Swanson … with tiger … poster received as gift, 1987 …

• Hollywood Glamour, 1924-1956: Selected Portraits from the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (1987) … book accompanying the exhibition, Aug. 29-Oct. 25, 1987
• Perkins … with Gloria … Sofa Pillows Cat, Jan. 3, 2019

Chocolate? Nope! Cat

Thursday, May 2, 2019, 7:51 am — Nelson Eddy, Risë Stevens … The Chocolate Soldier, 1941 … Perkins says, “I can’t watch Nelson Eddy without Jeanette MacDonald! … Who’s this Risë Stevens dame anyway?” …

Sofa Pillows Cat

Thursday, January 3, 2019, 1:55 am — Perkins … think she’s dreaming about Gloria Swanson and Buffalo Bill? …

Booomph Vs. Oomph Cats

Sunday, December 16, 2018, 12:17 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … ignoring all the boffo publicity about Brian Donlevy and his movie, The Great McGinty, 1940 … they’re focused on something more important at the bottom of this post … a dog! …

Brian Donlevy, 1901-1972 …

“The GREAT Reviews! Hey OSCAR!” … director, writer Preston Sturges’ first film … “Hey OSCAR!” is right … won Best Writing, Original Screenplay! …

“He’s got SEX APPEAL! … He’s got BOOOMPH! … He’s a  Record-Breaker!” …

Tamed by a Redhead … “The screen’s meanest “heavy” is really putty in the hands of the girl he loves! It was the redheaded Mrs. Donlevy who insisted that he accept the leading role in The Great McGinty – the part that made him famous.” … Hollywood, 1941, v. 30, p. 50 …

… the doggone dog … a dachshund … that Perk and Teeny Tuxedo have their eyes on …

The Great McGinty … trailer …

But wait! … In the battle of BOOOMPH vs. OOMPH, who showed up in the ring first? … Ann Sheridan, the Oomph Girl! … 1939! … Read “What the “Oomph” Girl Thinks of Her Title!” … Hollywood, Sept. 1939, p. 19, 50-51 …

• Magazine articles from Media History Digital Library

Garbo-esque Cat

Saturday, November 9, 2018, 11:41 pm — The usually affable Teeny Tuxedo … has reached her affability limit … she’s channeling the reclusive “Swedish Sphinx” … Greta Garbo ... “I vant … to be … ALONE!” …

“I vant … to be … alone!” … or maybe not … Greta Garbo, John Gilbert … Flesh and the Devil, 1926 …

• The Profound Loneliness of Greta Garbo … Smithsonian, Dec. 8, 2017:

“The most famous quip attributed to Greta Garbo is short and sardonic: “I want to be alone.” But the actress, who made a practice of shunning reporters, premieres and fan mail, claimed that she had been misquoted. “I never said, ‘I want to be alone,’” she explained, according to a 1955 piece in LIFE magazine. “I only said, ‘I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.”

Elinor Knows Best Cat

Friday, September 28, 2018, 8:07 am — Perkins … dreaming about Wellness Grain-Free cat food … rather than the tasty recipes in In the Kitchen with Elinor Donahue: Favorite Memories and Recipes from a Life in Hollywood, 1998 … interlibrary loan, all the way from Wisconsin to Washington …

Includes the Father Knows Best years … 1954-1960 … with Robert Young … my favorite tv series …

Dreaming Cats

Friday, September 21, 2018, 3:52 am — Perkins … dreaming of Hollywood glamour … and Buffalo Bill in Cody, Wyoming … she knows someone who’s moving to Cody! …

3:53 am … Teeny Tuxedo … her dreams are a secret …

Yawn … “I’ll never tell” …

Wilderness Veterinarian Cat

Saturday, June 23, 2018, 10:54 am — Teeny  would rather not watch veterinary procedures … Wilderness Vet, over-the-air tv … reflection of window, computer monitor on screen … Shirley Temple, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis DVDs are more her speed  …

• Wilderness Vet … “From field surgeries to physical exams, Dr. Michelle Oakley faces different challenges daily as farms in the Yukon offer a variety of animals that need her help.” … NBC 8.1

Bi-Planes!

Friday, May 18, 2018, 11:38 am — Pearson Field, Vancouver, Washington …

5:28 pm … Exiting I-5 on my way home from work … Snoopy! … the World War I flying ace … zooming through the air in his Sopwith Camel …

Shirley Temple … Bright Eyes, 1934 …

That’s Entertainment TV Cat

Friday, December 29, 2017, 12:39 am — Hey, Perkins! … What’s that shiny comet on the … could it be … new tv?! …  Ta-da! … twin of the 55″ 4K Ulta HD Samsung in the livingroom … replaced 50″ Samsung SmartTV (originally in livingroom) … new home with ZG … to replace the 46″ non-smart Samsung from me, April 2013) …

Perky has a decision … box vs. The Band Wagon, 1953 … she chose … the box!

Finale of the “That’s Entertainment!” number … Jack Buchanan, Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant (always on the verge of somnambulism) … Turner Classic Movies

Jack :  Everything that happens in life
Can happen in a show
You can make ’em laugh
You can make ’em cry
Anything
Anything can go….

The clown with his pants falling down
Or the dance that’s a dream of romance
Or the scene where the villain is mean
That’s entertainment!

Nanette : The lights on the lady in tights
Oscar : Or the bride with the guy on the side
Jack : Or the ball where she gives him her all
All : That’s entertainment!

Nanette : The plot can be hot simply teeming with sex
Oscar : A gay divorcee who is after her ex
Fred : It could be Oedipus Rex
Jack :  Where a chap kills his father
And causes a lot of bother

Nanette : The clerk who is thrown out of work
Oscar : By the boss who is thrown for a loss
Fred : By the skirt who is doing him dirt
All : The world is a stage,
The stage is a world of entertainment

The doubt while the jury is out
Or the thrill when they’re reading the will
Or the chase for the man with the face
That’s entertainment!

Nanette : The dame who is known as the flame
Jack : Of the king of an underworld ring
Oscar and Fred : He’s an ape
Who won’t let her escape
All : That’s entertainment!

It might be a fight like you see on the screen
A swain getting slain for the love of a queen
Some great Shakespearean scene
Where a ghost and a prince meet
And everyone ends in mincemeat

The gag may be waving the flag
That began with a Mr. Cohan
Hip hooray!
The American way
The world is a stage,
The stage is a world of entertainment

Pagan Love Song Cat

Friday, November 10, 2017, 5:24 am — Perkins is up with those singin’, swimmin’ early birds … Howard Keel, Esther Williams … Pagan Love Song, 1950 …

Litter Box Acrobat Cat

Monday, April 3, 2017, 8:30 pm — Perkins is a highly-skilled edge-of-the-litter-box walker … performing multiple times daily … no advance reservations required … (There’s a second, larger litter box, also full of World’s Best Cat Litter, for her convenience.) …

Both she and Teeny Tuxedo think World’s Best Cat Litter, in the red bag, is meow-velous! … 100% natural, made from corn … quick clumping … outstanding odor control … flushable …

It’s sold from sea to shining sea … Photo above, Shaw’s Grocery, Littleton, New Hampshire, July 2016 … not far from Bette Davis’ Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire … stayed all of July there, by myself … Maah-velous!

Butternut Cottage vs. Birds Cats

Tuesday, August 9, 2016, 2:44 pm — Perk and Teeny would rather watch the birds outside … than watch the progress on my Butternut Cottage blog …

Bette Davis Books Cats

Sunday, May 22, 2016, 11:54 pm — Perkins takes a break from reading Ed Sikov’s Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, 2007 … That’s Bette’s autobiography, The Lonely Life, 1962, on top of the stack of books … preparation  for a month at Bette’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, in July! …

To do some grooming … while Teeny Tuxedo relaxes …

Throwback Thursday – Madam Chair Cat

October 20, 2016 … We’ve been away for a while … a month at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage in New Hampshire! … have some catching up to do … In the meantime, one year ago …

Sunday, October 18, 2015, 10:28 am — Perkins caught a feather toy loitering at the computer chair …