Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/15/07 1:27 PM, "Jeff Moore" <jbm@jbm.org> typed: > 2007-03-15-11:25:52 Kyle Cassidy: >> I think the cake has to go to my co-worker here at Annenberg, David >> Eisenhower, who has this photo of his 1956 cowboy birthday in the >> National Archives: >> >> http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/avwebsite/selectlistofphotographs/195 >> 31961/62-187_Roy_Rogers_David_birthday_March_1956_NPS.jpg > > Wow, for kid's a cowboy-themed birthday... I mean yeah, yeah, he was > used to having Ike and Mamie around, but there's Roy Freakin' Rogers! > (I don't really have a good handle on what Dale Evans looked like -- is > she in there next to him? Any other notables I lack the familiarity to > pick out?) > Dale Evans is on the far right in the fur coat and cowboy bow tie. Roy Rogers's date appears to me to be Agnes Moorehead. But I don't know. Its just occuring to me now that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans DO HAVE DIFFERENT LAST NAMES! The idea of an apparently married couple with different last name you'd think in the 50's would be tricky. Maybe they were supposed to be brother and sister. No that wouldn't explain it in the 50s either. Whose that bald guy in the middle that's what I want to know? And where's his Leica? Agnes Moorehead was Mrs. Reed in Jane Eyre. Citizen Kane (1941) as Mary Kane Pollyanna (1960) as Mrs. Snow She was the Bruce Dern of Female actresses. When they wanted someone super creepy. They got her. The Queen Witch of the MGM acting troop. She was more haunted the the ghost. And of course that would make her a perfect date for Roy Rogers with the white Hat. What would America say? I'd not think this shot got a wide release but was for the family only. Mark Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com