SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES GEORGE BIDDLE, LENORE ULRIC, HAROLD GRAY and GLORIA SWANSON

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SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES GEORGE BIDDLE, LENORE ULRIC, HAROLD GRAY and GLORIA SWANSON--click on the photos and links.

First up, from 1956 and The New Castle Tribune, Croton notable George Biddle as one of the judges for what was then the 4th Annual Artists of Northern Westchester Exhibit.  The exhibit is still held annually and for the last several years has been featured at the nearby Unitarian fellowship. 

Next up, Croton's Lenore Ulric, featured on the 1930 cover of Theatre Magazine, very art deco.

And Ulric is featured as well in what was then a new concept---movie poster advertising--and the 1923/1924 silent movie production of Tiger Rose.

That film would be re-made in 1929. Among the cast members in that version were Monte Blue, Lupe Velez and Rin Tin Tin.  

Both films survive in complete form and are preserved in the Library of Congress collection and Museum of Modern Art, New York.  Also at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (16mm)

You can read a synopsis of the Ulric version (she also starred in the Broadway play of the same name) at  https://imdb.to/2xEbz7S

Next is Croton's own Harold Gray of Little Orphan Annie Fame....

Here's a 1933 ad and mini review for the 1932 pre-code movie LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE.   It was directed by John S. Robertson  and based on Gray's comic strip. The film starred Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps, May Robson, Matt Moore and Edgar Kennedy. 

You can read more about it here. 

And finally, Croton's Gloria Swanson, 1923, being sculpted by the famous artist (Peter) David Edstrom.  

Edstrom led a colorful life; you can read more about him here.

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SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES HERMAN KAHN, GLORIA SWANSON, and PETER STRAUSS HERE. 

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