Archive of entries posted by joshpincusiscrying
DCS: mary hartline
At nineteen, aspiring model Mary Hartline was cast in a fifteen-minute radio series called Teen Town. Shortly after its start, the title was changed to Junior Junction. It featured the vivacious blond as the leader of a town inhabited my teenagers — eight boys and eight girls — along with the town’s mayor, played by …
DCS: olivia newton-john
Let me be there in your morning Let me be there in your night Let me change whatever’s wrong and make it right Let me take you through that wonderland That only two can share All I ask you is let me be there
inktober52: robot
“Yours is not to question why; yours is to do as I say or die.” — Dr. Zachary Smith to the Robot Lost in Space
DCS: mary philbin
In early 1920, teenage Mary Philbin won a beauty contest in her native Chicago. The contest, sponsored by Universal Pictures, put Mary on the road to stardom. She was signed to a contract by famed producer-director Erich Von Stroheim, touting the young actress as “A Universal Super Jewel.” Mary made her film debut in a …
inktober52: celtic
DCS: bridget hanley
Hopeful drama student Bridget Hanley worked as an office secretary while finding time to audition for acting roles. She landed a part in a Southern California touring company of Under The Yum Yum Tree. After four years, she was signed to a contract by Screen Gems Productions who billed the budding actress as “a young …
inktober52: bird
DCS: helen mintiks
On July 23, 1980, Helen Mintiks, a one-time child prodigy who made her musical debut with the Seattle Symphony as a teenager, was sitting in as a freelance violinist with the orchestra at New York’s legendary Metropolitan Opera House. Just after the second part of the evening’s performance — Astor Piazzolla’s ballet Five Tangos — …