[78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:

> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 9:11 PM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > You want to see someone who gives you the creeps, look
> at any picture of 
> > Victor
> > Young. He looks as if he's about to get the chair and
> still ain't gonna 
> > talk.
> >
> Keep in mind that in the days when music came to its
> listeners on radio or 
> on
> record...what an artist looked like was not as important as
> what 
> he/she/it/they
> SOUNDED like! Thus, ladies like Kate Smith...whose figure
> was hardly
> "sylph-like"...could reach stardom...?!
> 
> ...stevenc 

Likewise, when TV came in and radio series began to be done thereon, somehow the actors never looked like you imagined them on radio.

Likewise, again, silent movies to sound:  you could be a deaf mute, and none the wiser, or have a voice like a cement mixer, no problem - but once sound came in, how you sounded was as important as how you looked.  [Though the one sound film of Louise Brooks I've seen, I have to wonder why they thought her voice wasn't any good for film....]

Mike in Plovdiv


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