Happy Birthday to Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee born May 27nd 1922
There are four celebrities in this photograph. Do you recognize them ? The obvious one is Tony Curtis, who starred with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in the Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot (1959). Next is Janet Leigh, whose most famous role was in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960).
The not-so-obvious celebs are the children. The baby on her mother’s lap is Jamie Lee Curtis, who would later debut in John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) and star with her mother in Carpenter’s The Fog (1980). Her older sister, Kelly, (right) is also an actor and production assistant.
From the August 1959 premiere issue of Starlife magazine.
This is Carolyn Jones. That’s right — that Carolyn Jones. Aside from her most well-known role as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family, she also had parts in many well-known films: House of Wax (1953) with master of the macabre, Vincent Price; The Seven Year Itch (1955) with Marilyn Monroe; The Tender Trap (1955) with Frank Sinatra; Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); and the sci-fi classic Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956) with Kevin McCarthy.
(Source: retrogirly)
Barbara Eden before she became Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie. Eden’s pre-Jeannie film work includes the notables The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) with Tony Randall; Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea (1961) with then-husband Michael Ansara; and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter ? (1957) with Jayne Mansfield. She also starred as “Sylvia Kenton” in The Brass Bottle (1964), the film that would inspire the I Dream of Jeannie TV series.
From the August 1959 premiere issue of Starlife magazine.
Two postcards depicting The Falcon’s Nest, the student union of Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Circa early 60s.
Postcards from my personal collection.
An illustrated version of the iconic Holiday Inn neon sign that was in use from the company’s beginning in the 1950s to the late 1970s.
Postcard from my personal collection.
