Do you recognize the two youngsters pictured above?
This snapshot is from our Donald Gordon Collection.
Lets provide some hints.
She was more famously the child star — a sort of second banana Shirley Temple at 20th Century Fox. She went on to a career lasting nearly 70 years (remember, she started very young) and covering some 71 credits.
He, a good looking dude, was a California-born tough guy, a self professed womanizer and stalwart semi-leading man all in one actor born in L.A. in 1922 as Francis Timothy McCown. His career began in the mid Forties, and lasted for nearly half a century covering some 125 movie and tv credits.
Answers next week, specifically on Friday, Sept. 28. Take a look!
Jane withers and… Rory Calhoun?
Again, that Donald Gordon really got around…
This time it’s JANE WITHERS and RORY CALHOUN…
Withers went on to a good part in George Stevens’ GIANT, and onto a much more profitable one as “Jane the plumber” in TV commercials for Comet cleanser.
Calhoun after his teenage life of crime made some big movies at 20th Century-Fox including HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE and RIVER OF NO RETURN before ending up on TV as THE TEXAN, and years later the soap opera CAPITOL.
I still think Joe & Frank should tell us more about the man who took all these great candid snaps, I’m sure he deserves to be focused on!