Archive for 2011
The Chase Is Over
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
For fans of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, it was a major score to finally get Barrie Chase to attend one of the Hollywood Shows. Although she had been known to sign frequently through the mail, fans of the film often had cast photos, records, or programs that had been signed by multiple actors and didn’t want to risk sending them through the mail. I happened to be one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
Protected: Farewell to Myrtle and Your Beaches So Sweet, Our Route Home Through Knoxville Brings More Stuff To Eat
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011The Diary of My Meeting With Anne Frank
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Clearly I’m not referring to the real Anne Frank, although I did visit the real Anne Frank home in Amsterdam three years ago. I am of course talking about the young actress Millie Perkins who made her acting debut in the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank. Perkins, who at the time had no experience as an actress, was hand-picked by Oscar winning director (and former Hal Roach Studios cinematographer and director) George Stevens, who had only seen her on the cover of several magazines. Read the rest of this entry »