70 years ago today, Hirschfeld’s drawing of the original cast of My Fair Lady appeared in The New York Times the Sunday before the show opened.
Hear from Hirschfeld himself about what he thought when he was told about the new musical version of Pygmalion.
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March 11 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
David Anders, Stephen Bogardus, Valerie French, Dorothy Gish, Shemp Howard, Tricia O'Neil, Raoul Walsh, and Lawrence Welk!
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#OTD Getting Away with Murder, 1996
Ft. Jodi Long, Christine Ebersole, Kandis Chappell, Josh Mostel, Frankie Faison, Terrence Mann, and John Rubinstein
This drawing is featured as a poster in our USA Today Best-Selling Book Hirschfeld’s Sondheim! Order now at www.AlHirschfeldFoundationShop.org
March 10 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Gant, Jasmine Guy, Katharine Houghton, Clare Booth Luce, and Pamela Mason!
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#OTD Five Alarm Waltz with Elia Kazan, Louise Platt, and Ann Thomas, 1941
March 9 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Juliette Binoche, Taina Elg, Joe Franklin, Will Geer, Raul Julia, Richard Muenz, Lonny Price, Kerr Smith, Trish Van Devere, and Joyce Van Patten!
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#OTD The Incredible Jewel Robbery with Harpo & Chico Marx, 1959
March 8 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Cyd Charisse, Micky Dolenz, Eileen Herlie, Aidan Quinn, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Stanton, and James Van Der Beek!
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#OTD The Odd Couple with Walter Matthau and Art Carney, 1965
Who is the Oscar to your Felix? Or vice versa?
March 7 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Milton Avery, Lizbeth MacKay, Anna Magnani, Donna Murphy, Maurice Ravel, Heinz Rühmann, Lewis J. Stadlen, and Daniel J. Travanti!
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#OTD “The Rise and Fall of an Actress”, 1943
Hirschfeld drew these illustrations for an article "Letter to a Would-Be-Duse" by Lehman Engel for The New York Times
March 6 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Tom Arnold, Lou Costello, Ludwig Donath, Shuler Hensley, Ella Logan, Lorin Maazel, and Amy Pietz!
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#OTD The Poodle from Beach Blanket Babylon, 1995
March 5 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Talia Balsam, Jack Cassidy, Henry Daniel, Rachel Gurney, Rex Harrison, Eddie Hodges, Aasif Mandvi, Penn, Sarah Rice, Dean Stockwell, Henry Travers, and Nick Ullett!
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#OTD “London Invasion”, 1962
Clockwise from Top Left:
Wendy Hiller in The Aspern Papers
John Mills in Ross
Margaret Leighton in The Night of the Iguana
Zia Mohyeddin in A Passage to India
Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
March 4 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Gloria Gaither, John Garfield, Joan Greenwood, Robert Emmett Keane, Dorothy MacKaill, Paula Prentiss, Jaime Tirelli, Antonio Vivaldi, and Steven Weber!
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#OTD Lucille Ball and Robert Preston in Mame, 1974
Did anyone catch this recent answer on Jeopardy?
Category: Broadway Theaters
"We’re sorry this caricaturist never got to draw the cast of Moulin Rouge: The Musical at the theatre named after him. "
Does anyone know the question?
Check out our new online exhibition chronicling the career of stage legend Julie Harris: www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org/digital-exhi...
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns speaks to our curator Alan Pally for our new online exhibition The Belle of Broadway: Hirschfeld Draws Julie Harris!
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March 3 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Florence Auer, Diana Barrymore, Edna Best, James Doohan, Jean Harlow, Hattie Winston, and Tom Wolfe!
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#OTD Ellis Rabb as Hamlet, 1969
March 2 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Desi Arnaz, Marc Blitzstein, John Cullum, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, John Irving, Jennifer Jones, Gates McFadden, Laraine Newman, and Kurt Weil!
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Congratulations Harrison Ford on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the #ActorAwards!
Images:
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones from 1981's Best in Review
The Cast of Force Ten from Navarone, 1978
What is your favorite Harrison Ford performance?
Mike Connors in Mannix
Sonny Bono & Cher for The Sonny and Cher Show
Flip Wilson for The Flip Wilson Show
Did you watch any of these shows?
#OTD Nick at Nite, 1997
John Aston & Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family
Eddie Albert & Ava Gabor in Green Acres
James Arness in Gunsmoke
William Conrad in Cannon
Marlo Thomas in That Girl
Bob Crane in Hogan’s Heroes
March 1 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Javier Bardem, Harry Belafonte, Frederic Chopin, Robert Clary, Robert Conrad, Tim Daly, Joan Hackett, Paul Hartman, Glenn Miller, and David Niven!
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#OTD Alfred Hitchcock with Producer Ivor Montagu on the set of Sabotage (aka The Woman Alone), 1937
February 28 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Tom Aldredge, Kelly Bishop, Gemze de Lappe, Don Franks, Vincent Minnelli, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, Molly Picon, Cristina Ruehl, and Tommy Tune!
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#RIP Neil Sedaka
Image: Neil Sedaka and Family, 1984
