Dorothy Dell aspired to fame from the time she was a child. She won a “Beautiful Baby” contest in her native Hattiesburg, Mississippi at one year old and continued to enter and win others throughout her childhood. In high school in Louisiana, she made friends with Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, another aspiring actress. The pair became known …
After meeting while filming the Sid and Marty Krofft special Fol-de-Rol in 1972, tap dancer Lorene Yarnell married mime Robert Shields in a flamboyant, but silent ceremony in San Francisco’s Union Square. Soon, the duo were cast as regular performers on The Mac Davis Show and later, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. They performed …
This week’s Monday Artday challenge word is “villain.” Here is the second of two illustrations for this suggestion. (Here is the first.) One of the slimiest, shiftiest villains to ever grace the silver screen was the despicable Hans Guber, as portrayed by Alan Rickman, in the original “Die Hard”. Under the guise of a group of …
This week’s Monday Artday challenge word is “villain”. Here is the first of two illustrations for this suggestion. (Here is the second.) She spent her entire screen time in “The Wizard of Oz” tormenting Dorothy Gale. Whether it was in her role as Miss Almira Gulch, the wealthy but crotchety landowner who takes Dorothy’s beloved …
The current Monday Artday website challenge is “spy”. Super spy Phil Moskowitz, with the help of the beautiful Suki Yaki, recovers the secret recipe for the world’s greatest egg salad, stolen by the evil Shepherd Wong. The tale of double-crossing and international intrigue unfolds in Woody Allen’s 1966 directorial debut, What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
After her husband passed away at the age of 31, desperate and destitute Angela Raubal took her three children and sought refuge with her half-brother. Angela became his housekeeper and he allowed her family to move into his home in the Bavarian Alps in Obersalzberg, Germany. Angela’s half-brother took an unnatural affection to Angela’s youngest …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “cultivate”. In the nearly thirty years that I have known my father-in-law, he has told me this joke countless times. Whenever a piece of conversation triggers something in his memory that reminds him that this joke would be an appropriate anecdote, he delivers it as though it was …
Thuy Trang was born in Vietnam around the time Communist forces overtook Saigon. Fearing for his life, Thuy’s father, a soldier in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam fighting against the North Vietnam army, fled to Hong Kong with his family after the Communist victory. The family was interred in a detention camp in …
The challenge word on the Monday Artday illustration blog is “dance”. Phyllis Newcombe, a 22 year-old British girl, spontaneously combusted before a roomful of people while waltzing in a dance hall on August 7, 1938. Another story about dance can be found HERE. Another story about spontaneous combustion can be found HERE.
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “stir”. Poor Thurman Munson. Despite an array of meritorious accomplishments seven-time All-Star, two-time World Series champion, three-time Gold Glove Winner, 1970 Rookie of the Year and 1976 American League Most Valuable Player the popular catcher and captain of the New York Yankees took a lot of …
