NEW FROM EFSP AND CARLA BOSCH: COLLECTING MARILYN

The latest from our friends at EUROPEAN FILM STAR POSTCARDS:  Collecting Marilyn

(Click on the photo to see a vintage postcard of Marilyn Monroe, THE RIVER OF NO RETURN, 1953).

Today's post is a carte blanche for my friend, collector Carla Bosch (a.k.a. Meiter). Carla: "My postcard collection started when my husband gave me a book: Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates. It is an imagined biography about Marilyn Monroe. I was sold. I wanted to know everything about her and started reading books about Marilyn and collecting her postcards.  READ AND SEE MUCH MORE HERE http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2017/03/collecting-marilyn.html

FRED GWYNNE, THE CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL--AND BENNETT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC--CONNECTION, 1967

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

FRED GWYNNE, THE CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL--AND BENNETT CONSERVATORY-- CONNECTION, NOV. 1967--By special request. Click on the images below. You may also have an interest in THE TOP SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ARTICLES, 2016, AT EVERYTHING CROTON AT EverythingCroton: TOP THREE 2016 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ARTICLES AT EVERYTHING CROTON

VIDEO, CORNELIA COTTON PRESENTATION: 10 OUTSTANDING CROTON WOMEN

If you missed Cornelia Cotton’s fascinating presentation last night you can watch it online—thanks to long-time Croton Friends of History supporter and filmmaker, Ken Sargeant. CLICK ON THE LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdKo7pfqLFU

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN:

--2013 COTTON BENEFIT READING FOR THE BENNETT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/11/todays-benefit-event-for-bennett.html

--1978 CORNELIA COTTON OPENS HER FIRST ART GALLERY AT THE SILO http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/12/now-blast-from-past-1978-cornelia.html

FOR MORE ABOUT CROTON FRIENDS OF HISTORY, http://www.crotonfriendsofhistory.org/

A LOOK BACK AT THE CROTON ART SCENE 1940 (AND 1977)

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

By special request: A LOOK BACK AT THE CROTON ART SCENE 1940; click on the images--AND LINK--below.  

1940 CROTON ARTISTS TO EXHIBIT AT THE WHITNEY http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2016/02/1940-croton-artists-to-exhibit-at.html 

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN--A LOOK BACK AT THE CROTON ART SCENE, SPRING 1977 http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-look-back-croton-art-scene-spring-1977.html

NEW AT EFSP: JACK HAWKINS

New from our friends at European Film Star Postcards: JACK HAWKINS (click on the photo).

Square-jawed, craggy-looking Jack Hawkins (1910-1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he often played coolly efficient military officers in such films as The Cruel Sea (1953), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Read and see more here http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2017/03/jack-hawkins.html