Thursday 30 January 2020

1247) Gene Evans

Eugene Barton Evans, professionally known as Gene Evans (1922 – 1998). American actor who appeared in numerous television series, made-for-television movies, and feature films between 1947 and 1989.
He specialized in playing tough guys such as cowboys, sheriffs, convicts and sergeants.

- "But one night a guy came to the theatre and said, 'I like your work and think I can get you work in pictures'. I had a red beard and red hair, and Republic had just gone to Trucolor ..."  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262775/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
 
- "When he returned to acting, his ambition focused on the stage because, he later stated, he had red hair."  https://www.independent.co.uk/…/obituary-gene-evans-1154868…

- "Hailing from Holbrook, Arizona, red-haired Evans worked and studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "... and his rugged appearance, red hair and gravelly voice earned him a variety of parts in about 85 movies and about the same number of TV shows."  https://books.google.it/books…




Monday 27 January 2020

1246) Bettina Graziani

Simone Micheline Bodin (1925 – 2015), known professionally as Bettina or Bettina Graziani. French fashion model of the 1940s and 1950s and an early muse to the fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy. She was a designer of knitwear and, later, a poet and composer.
Bodin became one of the century's first supermodels, rivalled in the 1940s only by Barbara Goalen. She was associated with Lucien Lelong and Jacques Fath, but most importantly with Hubert de Givenchy, for whom she worked as a model and press agent. Givenchy named his first collection, which debuted in 1952, after her. One of his designs, the Byronesque "Bettina blouse", became a fashion icon in the early 1950s and inspired the bottle for the best-selling Givenchy perfume "Amarige".
She retired from modelling in 1955, after meeting Prince Aly Khan. In 1960 Bettina, then pregnant with their child, survived the car accident that took the life of the prince; the shock of the accident would later result in a miscarriage. After Khan's death, Bettina wrote an autobiography, Bettina par Bettina. 


- "Bettina Graziani, the willowy Parisian redhead who became one of the first global supermodels..."  https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/97f67f66-c27e-11e4-9ec2-b4…

- "With her red hair and fresh face, Bettina personified the modernity, wit and accessibility of Fath's brand."  https://books.google.nl/books…

- "The model, known for her red hair and freckles..."  http://webelieveinbeauty.com/beauty/beauty-bettina-graziani/

- “He liked that I was ‘different’,” she recalled. “I wore no make-up and I had red hair..."  https://www.independent.co.uk/…/bettina-graziani-one-of-the…

- "Her fresh, youthful look and distinctive cropped red hair brought her to the attention of numerous fashion houses, and she quickly became one of the industry’s highest-paid “supermodels.”  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bettina-Graziani




Saturday 25 January 2020

1245) Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; 1909 – 1998). American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer and actress. She is best known as the creator of the Eloise children's books and for her role in the movie Funny Face.
She was a close friend and mentor of Judy Garland and Andy Williams.

- "A pencil-thin, red-haired radio performer with a prominent nose..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "She may have had the body of a woman, but she still had the face of a kid with red hair, freckles, and an unfortunate nose.https://www.npr.org/…/eloise-at-55-the-legacy-of-kay-thomps…

- "She was tall and skinny, with red hair, strong sharp features and extraordinary agate eyes."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Suddenly, her red hair, her freckles, her oversized nose, even her last name became the butt of cruel jokes."  https://www.worldcat.org/…/org.oclc.lac.ui.DialABookServlet…




Saturday 18 January 2020

1244) Edward Hull "Boss" Crump

Edward Hull "Boss" Crump (1874 – 1954). American politician from Memphis, Tennessee. Representing the Democratic Party, he was the dominant force in the city's politics for most of the first half of the 20th century, during which the city had a commission form of government. He also dominated Tennessee state politics for most of the time from the 1920s to the 1940s. He was elected and served as mayor of Memphis from 1910 through 1915, and again briefly in 1940. However, he effectively appointed every mayor elected from 1915 to 1954.

- "His most popular nickname, the "Red Snapper," referred not only to his hair but also to his characteristically clipped speech."  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48832177.pdf

- "His red hair made him easy to remember."  http://www.applet-magic.com/crump.htm

- "He was 66. His great shock of hair had long since lost the bright color that had earned him his “Red Snapper” sobriquet."  https://memphismagazine.com/…/mr-crump-the-making-of-a-boss/

- "... Crump was a large man of considerable height, with a mop of red hair that slowly turned white but remained in abundance."  https://books.google.it/books…



1243) Dolly Haas

Dorothy Clara Louise Haas (1910 – 1994), known professionally as Dolly Haas. German-American actress and singer who played in German and American films, and often appeared in Broadway plays.
Haas was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Charles Oswald Haas, a bookseller of British origin, and Margarete Maria (née Hansen). Haas was an accomplished actress in German cinema before moving to the United States.
Although she did not appear in many English language films, she had an important role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film, I Confess. Haas was a personal friend of Hitchcock's, and Hitchcock cast her as Alma Keller, the wife of the murderer—janitor Otto Keller.

- "Yesterday Dolly Haas, a tiny little thing with red hair like a young Bergner..."  https://books.google.it/books…
 
"He is married to a red-haired actress, Dolly Haas, and they have a red-haired thirteen-year-old daughter, Nina..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Dolly wore a protective, wide-brimmed hat, her beautiful furled and knotted red hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "... the celebrated stage and screen actress Dolly Haas, remembered mainly as the vivacious, red-haired gamine in a number of German and British films of the thirties."  https://the.hitchcock.zone/…/S…/1994)_-_Obituary:_Dolly_Haas