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His dedication paid off with Sweet Oddball: The Story of Alice Pearce.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Classic Images\/The   Merrill   T.   McCord   Research   Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListen to the podcast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eMany of us fondly recall actress Alice Pearce (1917-1966) as the nasal oddball Lucy Shmeeler in the MGM musical ON THE TOWN (1949) and as the often hysterical nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz on TV’s BEWITCHED during its first two seasons (1964-1966). But there was far more to character star Pearce who came from a privileged background including a fine college education. During her impressive career Alice—who was not conventionally pretty—performed in NYC clubs, on Broadway, on road tours, in summer stock, and on radio, TV, and the movies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a true labor of love accomplished over several decades, author Fredrick Tucker has done a remarkable job of researching his subject to the nth degree. During this lengthy period of digging into the world of Alice Pearce he gained the assistance of several of her show business coworkers, perceptions from many of her friends, and personal recollections from her extended family that encompassed two marriages. And seemingly Tucker has documented most every media mention of this offbeat talent who typically played wallflowers, spinsters, and eccentric individuals in a long list of memorable performances. As a result he has produced a marvelous, dimensional, well-written biography of Pearce. Equally of interest Tucker has provided in his book an informative background of the times in which Alice worked in various media. Thus SWEET ODDBALL: THE STORY OF ALICE PEARCE is not only a richly textured narrative but it provides a cultural history of bygone decades of various arenas of American show business. Completing this outstanding chronicle are over 200 photos documenting the professional and private lives of gifted Alice Pearce whose time with us was sadly cut short by cancer. This book is a highly recommended read!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- James Robert Parish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview from Classic Images: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the feisty Mayo Methot to the sublimely\u003cbr\u003efunny Alice Pearce. She was known\u003cbr\u003efor her role as the nosy Gladys Kravitz on\u003cbr\u003eTV’s Bewitched (1964-66) (which earned\u003cbr\u003eher a posthumous Emmy) and for her supporting\u003cbr\u003eperformance in the Broadway and\u003cbr\u003efilm versions of On the Town. Pearce was\u003cbr\u003eonly 48 when she died of ovarian cancer in\u003cbr\u003e1966. As endearing and as talented as she\u003cbr\u003ewas (and is), she has been pretty much overlooked\u003cbr\u003ein the years since. Not any longer!\u003cbr\u003eFredrick Tucker has written an exceptionally\u003cbr\u003efine biography: Sweet Oddball: The\u003cbr\u003eStory of Alice Pearce (BearManor Media\u003cbr\u003esoftcover $42). This 400-plus-page volume\u003cbr\u003eis a remarkable look at Alice’s life and career,\u003cbr\u003enever stinting on the details. Tucker\u003cbr\u003estarted collecting and researching Pearce\u003cbr\u003ein the early 1970s, so he got to interview or\u003cbr\u003ereceive letters from an impressive array of\u003cbr\u003eher colleagues and friends. His acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ecover three and a half pages.\u003cbr\u003eTucker is quite a writer, painting a portrait\u003cbr\u003eof Alice at variance with her famous\u003cbr\u003erole as Gladys Kravitz. She was loved by\u003cbr\u003eall, born into affluent surroundings, traveling\u003cbr\u003eas a child, and graduating from Sarah\u003cbr\u003eLawrence College in 1940 with a degree in\u003cbr\u003edrama. From there, she went into nightclub\u003cbr\u003eand stage work. This is all detailed alongside\u003cbr\u003ea marvelous selection of rare photos, many\u003cbr\u003efrom the collection of her friend, actor-\u003cbr\u003ephotographer Cris Alexander (who was on\u003cbr\u003eBroadway with her in On the Town). The\u003cbr\u003eimages of her as a young girl are treasures\u003cbr\u003eand there are many glamour shots of her.\u003cbr\u003eShe might be called the “chinless wonder,”\u003cbr\u003eand some might deem her homely, but as\u003cbr\u003eevidenced by several photos in this book,\u003cbr\u003ePearce was beautiful. Of the photos later in\u003cbr\u003eher career, I ADORE the one of her and Phil\u003cbr\u003eSilvers (in drag) from The New Phil Silvers\u003cbr\u003eShow in 1964. And then there’s the one with\u003cbr\u003eLaird Cregar from a 1944 Connecticut stage\u003cbr\u003eproduction of The Man Who Came to Dinner!\u003cbr\u003ePearce played the part of Miss Preen,\u003cbr\u003ethe character created on Broadway and in\u003cbr\u003ethe 1942 movie by Mary Wickes. An intriguing\u003cbr\u003esection deals with Wickes and her\u003cbr\u003ereaction to Pearce, and the idea that some\u003cbr\u003efind them similar.\u003cbr\u003eA true testament to Tucker’s skill as a biographer\u003cbr\u003eis how he deals with Pearce’s illness\u003cbr\u003eand her brave determination to keep\u003cbr\u003eworking. I will admit to getting a lump in\u003cbr\u003emy throat reading these passages. And then\u003cbr\u003eto see the pictures of her ravaged by sickness—\u003cbr\u003epoor Alice! Pearce’s personal character\u003cbr\u003eis so gentle and sweet, but with a streak\u003cbr\u003eof eccentricity (and that adenoidal voice!)\u003cbr\u003ethat you can’t help but love her. The story\u003cbr\u003eof actor Wendell Corey confronting a nightclub\u003cbr\u003epatron who insulted Alice during one\u003cbr\u003eof her acts was one of my favorite parts of\u003cbr\u003ethe book.\u003cbr\u003eSweet Oddball is given deluxe treatment\u003cbr\u003eby BearManor with a larger format (8 x 0.95\u003cbr\u003ex 10 inches). It also has one of the cleanest\u003cbr\u003etexts, with no errors. Fredrick Tucker needs\u003cbr\u003eto write more books. 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In fact, there is evidence that Linder was the first screen celebrity to see his name in print. His comedy timing and gags (Linder started writing his own scenarios early on) have been copied and imitated by many of his followers, including Charlie Chaplin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinder's story is both a comedy and a tragedy. His meteoric rise to fame by 1907\/8 hit a roadblock in 1914 with the onset of World War I, and was dealt a death blow by his attempts to revive his career in America and Austria. His marriage to a young wife was ill-fated and ill-timed, leading Linder to take the life of his wife and himself on the night of October 31, 1925, leaving a 16-month-old daughter behind, Maud, who would devote her life to restoring his film legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Review: The Rise and Fall of Max Linder: The First Cinema Celebrity by James L. Neibaur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Review: The Rise and Fall of Max Linder: The First Cinema Celebrity by Silentology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rise \u0026amp; Fall of Max Linder, the First Cinema Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--  Richard Abel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e106\/04.2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Abel \u003c\/strong\u003eis Emeritus Professor of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan. He has lectured and written extensively on early cinema and on American and French silent cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho was Max Linder (1880-1925), and what do we really know about his \"cinema celebrity\"? Those are questions Lisa Stein Haven wants to answer. What prodded her interest? The relative paucity of attention to Linder in English-language film histories and the recent overdue attention in French studies of his film work, following the death, in 2017, of Maud Linder, who had written two memoirs of her father.\u003cem\u003e1\u003c\/em\u003e Unable to meet Maud or to access material in the newly formed Institute Max Linder in Lyon, Haven had done much original research, before the COVID pandemic, in at least 18 archives, libraries, and personal collections in France, Austria, the Czech Republic, and the United States - the source of the book's hundred photos. She also benefited from work on Linder generously shared by Jean-Claude Seguin and Georg Renken. That research forms the basis of her fine, if incomplete (she admits) life story of Linder. Although she includes some analysis of selected films, she points to fuller interpretations found elsewhere in both French and English. That said, Haven's text makes up just two-thirds of the entire book. Filling the last one hundred plus pages is Catherine Cormon's invaluable Linder filmography, indebted to Renken. Extensive and detailed, it includes each film's title(many in other languages too), length, projection speed, black \u0026amp; white or tinted\/toned, release dates, exhibition venues, and archive sources. In short, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise \u0026amp; Fall of Max Linder \u003c\/em\u003ereally is two books in one - a double pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                Making use of Maud Linder, Haven's biography is particularly good on Linder's early years. Born Gabriel Leuvielle in a small village in southwestern France, he went to school in Bordeaux, became skilled at fencing, and began performing on stage, adopting the pseudonym of Max Linder. In 1904, he left for Paris to take small roles in several major theaters and, one year later, in films. Drawing on Seguin's research, Haven gives some credence to the claim that Linder acted in several films made by The'ophile Pathe' before his brother Charles hired him for his Pathe'-Fre'res company, which quickly dominated France and then the world. As he became increasingly famous in films, Linder performed less on stage, often in charity events. Whether his \"Max\" character first appeared in \u003cem\u003eLe Pendu\/The Man Who Hanged Himself\/Attempted Suicide \u003c\/em\u003e(1906) or \u003cem\u003eLes de'buts d'un patineur\/Max Learns to Skate \u003c\/em\u003e(1907), he always was, in Eve Golden's quoted words, a \"dapper but hapless boulevardier in impeccable morning coat and silk topper.\" \u003cem\u003e2\u003c\/em\u003e Photos reveal that he was quite short, slender, light weight, but athletic, with unusually large eyes. By 1909, Linder had a Pathe'-Fre'res contract commensurate with his popularity, was starring in and directing one of a series of short comic films each week (often shot in neighborhoods around the Vincennes studios and factories), and soon had his name emblazoned in many titles as in \u003cem\u003eMax est Distrait\/Max is Absent-Minded \u003c\/em\u003e(1910). As early as 1908, for Pathe's \"fe'te du the'a'tre,\" he appeared in his first film-sketch act. It began with a projected film in which a phone call sent him racing through crowds thronging the Paris streets to arrive at the theater in tatters, where he ran on the stage to conclude his \"tale of adventures.\" When, in 1912, Linder opened a two-year tour of half a dozen European countries, one of the highlights was this signature film-sketch, reworked with footage shot in whatever city in which he was performing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                Haven clears up lots of misinformation about Linder's military service, which was minimal and spent mostly in hospital because of pulmonary problems. Discharged in 1915, he went on another cinema-theater tour in Italy before being lured to America, in 1916, to make comic films for Essanay, replacing Chaplin, who remained a friend. On the costly, elaborate set of the S.S. \u003cem\u003eEspagne\u003c\/em\u003e, Linder heightened the antics of his first film, a story based on his own travel across the Atlantic that had him thinking a bombing was a joke played by friends. Released in the wake of many torpedoed ships, \u003cem\u003eMax Comes Over \u003c\/em\u003e(1917) seemed in bad taste; neither it nor his other two comedies lived up to Essanay's expectations. Chastened, his celebrity in tatters, Linder returned to France, rebuilding the Cine' Max-Linder (bought in 1914), where his first feature, \u003cem\u003eLe Petit Cafe'\/The Little Cafe' \u003c\/em\u003e(1919), premiered. Despite the film's success, Linder tried once more to work in Hollywood's far better facilities and to indulge in the lavish entertaining there. In 1920, with the help of friends and colleagues, he formed Max Linder Productions and released three relatively profitable feature films, the last of which, \u003cem\u003eThe Three Must-Get-Theres\u003c\/em\u003e (1922), gently mocked Fairbanks's \u003cem\u003eThe Three Musketeers\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet, dissatisfied with his distribution contracts, Linder left again for France, still smarting from his love-hate relationship with Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                One of Haven's most valuable contributions to Linder's life story is her research on his increasingly vulnerable physical and psychological condition. He first became ill enough to halt filmmaking for weeks in 1908-1909 and underwent appendicitis operations in 1910 and 1911. His war service resulted in a weakened pulmonary condition, perhaps even tuberculosis. He again became gravely ill in 1917, before returning to France and Switzerland to convalesce. Able to make only Abel Gance's short film \u003cem\u003eAu Secours \u003c\/em\u003e(1923) after \u003cem\u003eLe Petit Cafe'\u003c\/em\u003e, Linder went back to Switzerland, where he was caught in an avalanche, breaking both arms and suffering internal injurites. In 1923, he married a far younger woman, Ninette Peters, and began working at Vitan-Film in VIenna on his last film, \u003cem\u003eLe Roi du Cirque\/King of the Circus \u003c\/em\u003e(1924). As his career declined further, his physical condition worsened and led to \"morbid jealousy\" and abuse of Ninette. Linder first attempted suicide with her in February 1924; then both died on October 31, 1925, Whether this tragic end came from a double suicide or a murder and suicide is still unclear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Stein Haven: \u003cem\u003eThe Rise \u0026amp; Fall of Max Linder, the First Cinema Celebrity\u003c\/em\u003e. Orlando, FL: BearManor Media, 2021. English, 402pp. Illus. 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By late-1942 with the release of “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” Spike Jones and his City Slickers were the most popular comedy band in the world. The next 20 years were very busy for Jones before ill health cut short his life.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Spike Jones actually began his career as a jazz and studio drummer. Few probably know that he was the drummer on Bing Crosby’s original recording of “White Christmas.” However Jones, while not being a verbal comedian himself, loved creating unusual sounds on his drum set in his spare time, he listened closely to the other more humorous bands, and he came up with his own conception. A natural-born salesman and a workaholic who was very open to new ideas if they were funny enough, he gathered together skilled and versatile musicians (most notably trumpeter George Rock) and unique comedians for his City Slickers. His band was heard at its best on such classic satires as their versions of “Cocktails For Two” and “Chloe,” and their stage shows were quite riotous. Spike Jones and the City Slickers specialized at making fun of the more pompous side of classical music (which Jones actually loved), pop singers, overly sentimental ballads, and boring dance bands, often really tearing apart the music with bizarre sounds.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The fourth edition of Jordan R. Young’s 484-page Spike Jones Off The Record has all of the information one could possibly want about Jones, his life, and his career. Published 37 years after his first edition (which by itself was definitive), Young starts out with the full story behind “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” has chapters on Spike Jones’ early life, his career in jazz and the studios, and the other comedy bands that preceded his. There is a lot of information on the early evolution of the City Slickers, and separate sections on the band’s theatre tours, its recordings, radio shows, film appearances, and television appearances. Jones had a regular television series at various times in the 1950s, and fortunately most of the programs still exist. Young was able to interview virtually all of the City Slickers and later band members who were still around in the 1980s and ‘90s, adding to the insight and humor, color and many details of this very enjoyable book.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"One of the joys of this work (which has many photos) is learning how Spike Jones and his crew were able to stage such elaborate gags (most of the time every little detail was planned in advance) while occasionally playing tricks on each other. It is enlightening to hear about the supporting cast and the many unique comedians who were part of the shows, particularly Doodles Weaver. 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Hartley is married to actress Dina Merrill.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e            The early owners of the Millennium Biltmore brought an unfailing devotion to the art of hotel keeping as well as an unparalleled elegance to a competitive, highly profitable business. Not only did the Millennium Biltmore become the grandest of them all on the West Coast, but significantly influenced the building of other L.A. grand hotels. It set the standard, even to this day, by which other hotels were built and judged, much the same as the original Waldorf Astoria did in 1893.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e            In a larger sense, Los Angeles can be divided into two eras, before and after the Millennium Biltmore. Before, it was much like New York, that is, New York before the advent of the Waldorf Astoria’s opening in 1893. 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Photo Illustrated. 285 pages. $29.95\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Director\/co-writer Alfred Sole's enduring 1976 cult classic, the horror meets art-house tale of a Paterson, NJ Catholic girl (Brooke Shields in her screen debut) slain just before receiving her first Holy Communion, continues to win converts. Howarth's loving homage to Sole's jarring masterpiece includes an examination of the links between the cultural - \"Horror in the Time of Free Love\" - changes of the '60s and '70s and the purposely set 1961 film, a more conservative time when even divorce was still shameful. 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Our author was a baby at the Disney strike, taught in a boarding school in Switzerland, built a boat with her husband and sailed from coast to coast. By drawing on a rich set of home movies, photo albums, and illustrations from Ray Patin’s work, Farrington allows readers to discover an enchanted time and place in the American past while taking them on a magical personal journey through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVanessa Schwartz, \u003c\/strong\u003eProfessor of Art History and Director of the    Visual Studies Research Institute, USC and author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion \u003c\/em\u003e(Yale UP, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRay Patin is a name many outside the animation business haven’t heard of, but his career in the field is filled with many accomplishments during the medium’s golden age. From Krazy Kat to the Disney Studios, and then onto Warner Bros. cartoons, Patin later became a pioneer in the burgeoning field of animated TV commercials in the 1950s. He quietly made his mark but left a legacy of indelible memories. His daughter tells his unique tale from her front row seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  Jerry Beck, \u003c\/strong\u003eAuthor and animation historian, www.cartoonresearch.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe golden age of Hollywood animation was driven by an army of immensely talented artists, all of them human beings with lives and loves of their own. Ray Patin was part of that legion of talent, and in this lively, playful biography his daughter brings him to life on the printed page, along with the world he lived in. This is an engaging read, filled with warmth, affection, and a wealth of delightful visual surprises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e   J.B. Kaufman, \u003c\/strong\u003e Film historian and author, www.jbkaufman.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hollywood Sign is a beacon to all who seek the glitz and glamour of the tinseled town it shines down upon. To little Renée Patin––nicknamed Potsy––growing up in Burbank on the “wrong” side of the mountain that bears the fabled Sign meant that she lived in the shadow, far from all the sparkling treasures her future could offer. Those dancing klieg lights seen from her front yard did not shine for her…or so she thought.  Now in her eighties, Renée Patin Farrington has created a highly entertaining, illustrated memoir of her journey out from under that shadow. She writes with the childlike wonder and humor inherited from her fairy tale-loving artist mother Maxine and cartoonist father, Ray Patin. Every page is filled with illustrations, many from the movie camera Ray focused on his only child and on his career animating Donald Duck at the Disney studio just blocks from home. One scenario features little Renée riding the full-sized train in the backyard of Ward,  a family friend. She had no idea he was the creator of her first conscience, Jiminy Cricket, until she spotted the beloved bug and Ward Kimball’s name on a train at Disneyland where she worked in its earliest days. Ray’s art from high school in the twenties and cartoon-covered love letters to Maxine during their life together add a touch of fun throughout. The pioneering mid-century commercials from Ray Patin Productions on Sunset Boulevard illustrate a career worthy of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMad Men. \u003c\/em\u003eThe book is sprinkled with nostalgia such as war on the home front and teen-tempting magazine ads. From grade school classmate Natalie Wood to dreamy teen idol John Wilder to Miss Burbank Debbie Reynolds, you’ll encounter a who’s who of stars from the “right” side of the Sign. Readers are invited on a guided tour of the hidden highlights of La La Land and of Santa Barbara, home of the twenties movie studio that rivaled Hollywood. There, as a college student, Farrington dated a fellow student who became America’s most famous sculptor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter studies at the Louvre in Paris, teaching movie stars’ kids near Beverly Hills and the children of jet setters in Switzerland, several careers including toy design, cruising from coast to coast in a hand-crafted yacht, and travels around the world, Renée Patin Farrington is back in California. She is far from the shadow of the Sign, sharing the journey that proves that T.S. 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