Son of Photos from Jerry Lewis’ THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)

August 30th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Jerry Lewis, September 1, 2008 at 6:01 p.m. Las Vegas time

It’s Telethon Weekend and mein schatz puppe Lilo over at The Celebrity City was thoughtful enough to send an additional 17 Nutty Professor stills our way. That brings this year’s marvelous final tote to 8 Lobby Cards, 19 Color Stills, 14 Black-And-Whites and 3 Vintage Ads. That’s one still more than I raised last year.

Confetti! Timpani! Oh, Yeah!

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Jerry Lewis Photos
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Photos from Jerry Lewis’ THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)

August 26th, 2008 by Scott Marks

In honor of Telethon Weekend (and because a large chunk of tomorrow’s KPBS Film Club will be devoted to Jerry), the time was right to stock The Nutty Professor pond with fresh stills. Wait until you see the orgasmic Technicolor on some of these babies. These 8 x 10’s have been with me for almost as long as I can remember. The color ones were all purchased in 1977 when I took a road trip to Hollywood. I cleaned out everything Larry Edmunds and Eddie Brandt’s had in stock.

The pictures (and lobby card set, vintage ads and a NP contest form) can all be found here. I’d love to show you my French and Italian one sheets, but my scanner is too small, actually.

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Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in less than 3 Weeks — TIMPANI! OH, YEAH!!!

August 14th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Ticket

A round trip ticket to Marvelous!

Labor Day is, as Andy Williams would say, the most wonderful time of the year! It’s Christmas, New Year’s, The 4th of July and Pesach all rolled into one because it’s the one weekend out of the year that I am guaranteed to see JEEEEEEERRY!

The 43rd annual love-in will originate for the third year in a row from the marvelous South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in marvelous, marvelous Las Vegas, Nev. There will be a lot to talk about on this year’s ‘Thon. Do you think Jerry will goof on the recent financial tsouris sidekick Ed McMahon has had to endure? OH, YEAH! Will there be a tearful tribute to commemorate the recent loss of the disorderly heart surgeon and Jerry’s personal physician for almost 40 years, Dr. Michael DeBakey? OH, YEAH!! Will Norm Crosby wow the crowd with his flair for malaprop? OH, NO!!!

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Sadly, Norm appears to be the only remnant of the old guard scheduled to appear on this year’s Extra-Special Special. No Rip Taylor, Sam Butera, Rickles, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Jones, and alas, no Charlie Callas’ Tap Dancing Alligator” or the M-M-M-M-ZIP-Maestro’s seminal I Remember It Well routine (***weep***). Pep boy Bart Conner will be there, but we won’t have the thrill of hearing Nadia Comaneci mangle the simplest names of gold and silver star donors.

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New Photos Added: Grace Kelly, Buster Keaton, BLAZING SADDLES, Sexy Smokers, Robert Mitchum, Jamie Lee Curtis, etc.

July 20th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Fraser Heston visiting Jack Hawkins and his father Charlton on the set of Ben-Hur.

Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles (1974) - New Gallery with 13 Images Added.

Paul Mazursky’s Blume in Love (1975) - New Gallery with 9 Images Added.

Humphrey Bogart - 2 New Photos Added.

Jamie Lee Curtis - 2 New Photos Added from John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980)

Buster Keaton’s The General (1927) - New Gallery with 26 Images Added

Grace Kelly - New Gallery with 99 Images Added

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Dig A Hole: Evelyn Keyes

July 12th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Evelyn Keyes & Van Heflin in Joseph Losey’s The Prowler (1951)

Evelyn Keyes, whose four tempestuous marriages and affairs with Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn and producer Michael Todd frequently eclipsed her acting career, died of uterine cancer at her home in Montecito on July 4. The news was withheld until a death certificate was issued. She was 91.

Professionally, Ms. Keyes was best known for playing Scarlett O’Hara’s sister Suellen in Gone With The Wind, but it was her marriages to Barton Bainbridge (1938 - 1940), director Charles Vidor (1943 - 1945), John Huston (1946 - 1950) and Artie Shaw (1957 - 1985) transformed her into the stuff gossip columns are made of.

“I have no roots,” she told The New York Times in 1977. ”I deliberately set out to destroy them, and I did. If there’s any such thing as a hometown for me, it’s Hollywood. I was formed here as an adult.”

Ms. Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1916, and later moved to Atlanta where she grew up fatherless and poor. A striking blonde with a comely figure, she began her career dancing in nightclubs and set her sites on Hollywood at the tender age of 17.

In 1999, Keyes told an interviewer, “To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.”

She was discovered by Cecil B. DeMille who signed her to a seven-year contract and cast her in his 1938 pirate epic The Buccaneer. She appeared in five bit roles for Paramount and a featured part in DeMille’s Union Pacific before gaining Hollywood immortality as Scarlett’s younger sister in Gone With the Wind.

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