SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES: HOWARD DA SILVA, WILLIAM GADDIS AND JACKIE GLEASON

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Stumbled across an ad for a 1947 film we had never heard of starring a rather young Howard De Silva. (For those who don't know, Da Silva lived in Croton for many years. You can read more here.)

Blaze of Noon was a 1947 aviation adventure film directed by John Farrow and based on writer and aviator Ernest K. Gann's best-selling novel Blaze of Noon (1946), a story about early air mail operations. It also starred Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, Sterling Hayden and William Bendix. READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE.

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN SOMETHING MORE LIGHT-HEARTED--FROM 1951,  DA SILVA "THREE HUSBANDS"--GO TO EverythingCroton: CROTON'S HOWARD DA SILVA, THREE HUSBANDS, 1951

--NEXT UP, many of us are fans of author William Gaddis, and his books seem to make the rounds here in Croton in waves. (As many of you know, he was a village resident in the 1960's.

Having read A FROLIC OF HIS OWN a few years back, we recently passed it along to a friend.  She pronounced it a "tough slog but worth it".

For those who don't know,....William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers. READ MORE ABOUT HIM HERE.  A FROLIC OF HIS OWN IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON HERE.

--Frequent Cortlandt visitor to Croton (and what was then Mary's and later Honey's)--Jackie Gleason--was also a  very talented musician.  We stumbled across one of his albums in a tag sale last week---with content and cover copy that was unmistakably 1950's---read more about LOVER'S RHAPSODY AT Lover's Rhapsody - Wikipedia

For more about Gleason and his Croton connection, click here.

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