[78-L] Marilyn Monroe holding a 78! [FWD]

[Harold Aherne]

It's Ford Sterling, taken from the 1926 film version of "The Show-Off". (Well, OK,
I half-thought that it was Harrison Ford [the first and best one], but the indication 
that it came from a collection labelled "The Show-Off" as well as the unmistakable 
hat and cane quickly corrected any such beliefs!)
 
Even Greta Garbo was photographed holding 78s. In her first Hollywood film 
"The Torrent" (also 1926) she plays an opera star who returns to her small Spanish
town for one scene, and she winds up a phono and puts one of her records on it
to drop a hint to the townspeople as to who she really is. Also there's a photo in
Kevin Brownlow's "The Parade's Gone By" of Garbo holding what must be a Victor
78 with Clarence Brown showing her an Electrola. 
 
-Harold

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Marilyn Monroe holding a 78! [FWD]
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 2:26 AM

Is that Boris Karloff?

What's the record, Transylvanian Rhapsody  ?

Mike in Plovdiv


--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net> wrote:

> From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Marilyn Monroe holding a 78!
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 12:20 AM
> At 01:42 AM 2/21/2009, you wrote:
> >OK.  Maybe you'll look at the phonograph in this
> picture.
> >
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/undream/3277422225/
> >
> >Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> OK so it's got a windup phono with a record on it.
> Makes it on topic, 
> however (for me) a good looking woman leaning on that phono
> would 
> have been better. The phono is nicer to look at in this
> picture.....  
> 
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