Brown Derby Restaurant Caricatures 23 Full Size Prints from Originals on CD-R

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Brown Derby Restaurant Caricatures
23 Full Size Prints from Originals on CD-R
Back in 2007, through a series of unusual events, I ended up with 25
original
Brown Derby Restaurant framed caricatures.  I originally listed them on eBay, individually, and at different prices.  I sold a couple, probably way too cheap, when I was contacted by a collector who offered to buy them all at a set price if I was interested.  I was.  As my memory serves me, he offered ,500 for the lot.  I accepted his offer and was literally wrapping them to ship when I was contacted by a second person who also wanted to buy them all.  I told the second collector I had already made a deal and that they were unfortunately sold.  He then proposed this to me.  He told me to take them to a local print shop and have them professionally copied on a writable CD and he would pay me 0 for the CD.  This way he could print them and frame them, and he could enjoy them all, at a reasonable price.  While I was at the printer I decided to order an additional 10 copies.  That is what I am offering here for sale.  Each CD has the 23 full size Caricatures professionally copied, ready for you to print, frame, hang, and enjoy.  The caricatures actually hung in a Brown Derby restaurant, but there is no way of telling which one.  You will note that the copies picked up the aging of the paper (depending on how long they hung makes the age "patina" at different shadings) and also the outline of the black frames that they were in for so many years.  This adds to the authenticity of the caricatures.  I tried to follow up as to which Brown Derby Restaurant these might have hung in, but could not get a definitive answer.  I did find out that copies would be made, framed, and hung, in the different restaurants as they were either produced, or as a new Brown Derby opened.  This adds to the mystic of the art. Some are them are copies of originals and copies of copies.
Although in their
heyday the four Brown Derby branches were each famed Hollywood hangouts, all except the Los Feliz restaurant have been demolished or significantly altered.
Below I have listed the Stars (the ones that that we could determine from their signatures), along with some of their information found on Google..
They are priced at a low 49.00, or less than .00 per print.  To nostalgia! When printing, print in color to pick up the aging patina of the paper.
The Caricatures are: (Sorry for the jumbledness.  eBay's html would not cooperate because of all the various cut and pasteings)
They are
:
1.
Ethel V. Mars:
Ethel
Veronica
Mars
(1884 – December 25, 1945) was an American businesswoman and racehorse owner. She was
Ethel
Veronica Healy prior to her marriage in 1910 to Franklin Clarence
Mars
, the founder of the
Mars
Candy company.
2.
Lew Lipton:
(February 23, 1897 – December 27, 1961), was an American screenwriter who was active during the latter part of the silent era and the beginning of the talking picture era. During his brief 15-year career, he penned the scripts for 24 films, as well as producing over 20 film shorts. In 1935, he began work on a script entitled
Harlem Cavalcade
. He authored another half-dozen films during the remaining years of the 1930s, before devoting his efforts full-time to this manuscript.
Harlem Cavalcade
was an epic story of life among Black-Americans, beginning with their relationship to the Dutch community of New Amsterdam in 1626, through 1938. A series of vignettes, it incorporated the real-life stories of such notable Americans as Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, George Washington Carver, Joe Lewis, Satchel Paige, and Cab Calloway. Lipton worked on the script right up until his death in 1961.
3.
William Keighley: (August 4, 1889 -
June 24, 1984) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director.
After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway.
With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood.
He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres. He was the initial director of
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz.
During World War II, he supervised the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces.
He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin. In retirement he became an award-winning, renowned still photographer.
4.
Jimmie Fidler:
(August 26, 1898 – August 9, 1988) was an American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.
He wrote a Hollywood gossip column and was sometimes billed as
Jimmy Fidler.
Born James Marion Fidler in St. Louis, Missouri, Fidler was a Hollywood publicist and advertising man who became a highly successful syndicated columnist with his "Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood" column in 187 outlets, including the
New York Post
and the
Los Angeles Times
.
5.
Alexandra Kropotkin ( Born April 15, 1887 in Bromley, London, England as Alexandra Petrovna Kropotkin, died on July 4, 1966 in New York City, New York, USA)
.
A descendant of the Rurik Dynasty, the various branches of which ruled Russia from 862 - 1598, when the "Time of Troubles" (1598-1613) gave way to the establishment of the Romanovs. Among its rulers was the infamous Ivan IV "The Terrible".
Daughter and only child of anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin, who had served for as an aide to Tsar Alexander II in 1862.
Peter gained world-wide fame for his daring escape in 1876 from the Peter and Paul Fortress (St. Petersburg, Russia) after being arrested for subversive activity.
She and her mother returned with Peter to Russia in 1917 during the so-called "February Revolution", but his enthusiasm for the changes occurring turned to disappointment when the Bolsheviks seized power in the so-called "October Revolution". Alexandra left Russia after her father's death in 1921.
Known for her English translations of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace", and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment".
She also authored "How to Cook and Eat in Russian."
6.
Fl
orence (Mabel
Marx)
Schulze: (March 2, 1916 – November 27, 1963).
No further information if this is the correct person.
7.
Vyola Vonn: Could not find a match to
Vyola
.
Veola Vonn’s Profile best matches Caricature.
Veola Vonn was born on July 27, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.
She was an actress, known for South Sea Woman (1953), Burma Convoy (1941) and Winners of the West (1940).
She was married to Frank Nelson and Hanley Stafford.
She died on October 28, 1995 in Orange County, California, USA.
8.
William Gargan:
(July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) was an American film, television and radio actor.
He was the 5th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967, and in 1941, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joe in
They Knew What They Wanted
.
9.
Sammy Lerner: (January 28, 1903 - December 13, 1989) was a Romanian-born songwriter for American and British musical theatre and film. Lerner immigrated with his parents into the United States at age seven, and the family settled in Detroit, Michigan.
After graduating from Wayne State University, Lerner moved to New York City, where he began writing songs for vaudeville performers such as Sophie Tucker. Lerner also contributed lyrics to the Ziegfeld Follies.
With the coming of sound film, Lerner began writing songs for motion pictures, including several for use in the Paramount Pictures cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios.
Two of these included signature songs for Max Fleischer's most successful cartoon stars, Betty Boop ("Don't Take My Boo-oop-a-doop Away", co-written with Sammy Timberg) and Popeye the Sailor ("I'm Popeye the Sailor Man").
Mr. Lerner composed
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man
in less than two hours for the cartoonist Dave Fleischer.
The lyrics included the line,
I'm strong to the finich [
sic
] 'cause I eats me spinach.
Lerner's Popeye theme is particularly well known, and has followed the character into television, feature films, and video games.
Mr. Lerner's work in the 1930s and 1940s included "Is It True What They Say about Dixie?" and English lyrics to "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", Marlene Dietrich's song in the film
The Blue Angel
.
After writing songs for American features, Lerner moved to London, England in 1936 to write for British musical theatre and film.
He returned to America in 1938, and became a member of the executive council at the Dramatists Guild.
10.
Patricia Page: (September 3, 1934 – November 26, 2019)
Patricia Page is an (voice actress) actress, known for Pinocchio (1940) and Hammer the Toff (1952).
11.
Jane Gilbert: (Born August 31, 1919 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA as Susan Jane Kies.
Died
September 21, 2004 in San Francisco, California, USA.
She was an actress, known for Alex in Wonderland (1940).
She was married to William Hopper.
12.
Rena Borzage: AKA Lorena (Rena) Rogers; (June 7, 1900 – February 19, 1966)
On June 7, 1916, Borzage married vaudeville and film actress Lorena "Rena" Rogers in Los Angeles and remained married until 1941
13.
Edward Arnold: Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider.
Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916.
A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Lillian Russell (1940)). Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.
14.
Ed Lewis: Edward Lewis was born on December 16, 1919 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Spartacus (1960), Missing (1982) and Seconds (1966). He was married to Mildred Lewis.
He died on July 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
15.
Phil Crosby:
(July 13, 1934 – January 13, 2004) was an American actor and singer.
He was one of the four sons of Bing
Crosby
and Dixie Lee; the others were his older brother Gary, his twin brother Dennis, and his younger brother Lindsay.
16.
Carmen Cavallaro: (May 6, 1913 – October 12, 1989) was an American pianist. He established himself as one of the most accomplished and admired light music pianists of his generation.
Carmen Cavallaro was born in New York City.
Known as the “Poet of the Piano”, he showed a gift for music from age three, picking out tunes on a toy piano.
His parents were encouraged to develop the child’s musical talents and he studied classical piano in the United States.
As a young pianist, he toured Europe, performing in many capitals.
In 1933 Cavallaro joined Al Kavelin's orchestra, where he quickly became the featured soloist.
After four years he switched to a series of other big bands, including Rudy Vallee's in 1937.
He also worked briefly with Enric Madriguera and Abe Lyman.
Cavallaro formed his own band, a five-piece combo, in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1939.
His popularity grew and his group expanded into a 14-piece orchestra, releasing some 19 albums for Decca over the years.
Although his band traveled the country and played in all the top spots, he made a particular impact at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, which became a favored venue, and which also later became a favorite spot of George Shearing and Mel Tormé. Other venues where he drew large audiences included New York’s Waldorf-Astoria, Chicago’s Palmer House and the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. In 1963 he had a million-seller hit recording of the song
Sukiyaki
.
Cavallaro's single best-selling recording was his pop version of "Chopin's 'Polonaise'", Op. 53.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
17.
Martha Boswell: (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958) was the eldest of the vocal group the Boswell Sisters. Her younger sisters were Connie and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell.
The Boswell Sisters started their career in vaudeville in their native New Orleans.
In 1925 they performed on local radio as an instrumental act.
Martha played piano, Connee played cello, saxophone, and guitar, and Vet played banjo, guitar, and violin. When they became a vocal act, Connee was lead vocalist.
18.
Jean Harlow:
(born Harlean
Harlow
Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s.
Harlow
was only on the screen from 1928 to 1937, before her death at the age of 26, but she became one of the biggest movie stars in the world, whose image in the public eye has endured.
19.
Ned Washington: (
August 15, 1901 – December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962.
He won the Best Original Song award twice: in 1940 for "When You Wish upon a Star" in
Pinocchio
and in 1952 for "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" in
High Noon
.
Washington had his roots in vaudeville as a master of ceremonies.
Having started his songwriting career with
Earl Carroll's Vanities
on Broadway in the late 1920s, he joined ASCAP in 1930. In 1934, he was signed by MGM and relocated to Hollywood, eventually writing full scores for feature films.
During the 1940s, he worked for a number of studios, including Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney, and Republic.
During these tenures, he collaborated with many of the great composers of the era, including Hoagy Carmichael, Victor Young, Max Steiner, and Dimitri Tiomkin.
He served as a director of ASCAP from 1957 until 1976, the year he died.
Washington is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
20.
Bill Punele: Not sure of spelling / No information
21.
Connee Boswell: (December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976) was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
With sisters Martha and Helvetia "Vet", she performed in the 1930s as The Boswell Sisters.
They became a highly influential singing group during this period via recordings and radio.
Connee herself is widely considered one of the greatest jazz female vocalists and was a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald who said, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her."
In 1936, Connee's sisters retired and Connee continued on as a solo artist (having also recorded solos during her years with the group
22.
June Haver:
(born
June
Stovenour,
June
10, 1926 – July 4, 2005) was an American film actress, singer, and dancer.
Once groomed by 20th Century Fox to be "the next Betty Grable",
Haver
appeared in a string of musicals, but she never achieved Grable's popularity.
Haver's second husband was the actor Fred MacMurray, whom she married after she retired from show business
23.
Jane Wepmiar
: Not sure of spelling / No information
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