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Post by Hep on Apr 9, 2008 6:24:55 GMT -5
yea Martha came up with that in the youtube thread.
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Post by Judy on Apr 10, 2008 18:59:40 GMT -5
hey judy .. didn't you visit this little memorabilia bonanza recently? if so .. what are your impressions (beyond the oscar statuette rear ends i find so adorable)? i was just in DC again for a week but working hard enough and was just far away enough that i didn't quite make it to this exhibit .. but i did make it to the temporary home of one pair of the ruby slippers (at one of the smithsonian museums) .. always a treat. so, ms. judy .. [or anyone else who has been] .. comments? Hi Martha and everyone....Sorry for the delay with my report on the DC exhibit. I guess I don't have much to add to what you said in your posts, but at the risk of repeating any info... The room is a small one – painted in Kate red. Outside the entry door to the left was a door height board with text about Kate and to the right of the door was an equally tall, gorgeous enlargement of a photo of Kate in the Adrian gown from the film version of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. That's the photo dreamer posted. Reminded me of those enlarged photos that were mounted at Sotheby's at the time of Kate's estate auction. They were so striking. As is this one from TPS. Great pose, gorgeous Adrian gown. Much too big to swipe ;D. As Martha's told us,. the exhibit is very nice but small. But in a small space it touches on all the “talking points” of Kate's life: A few childhood photos – the one of her with Tom (misidentified as Dick) and her parents having tea on the tree stumps; one of her and Tom as young kids holding hands. Then on to her BMC days and a photo of her in WOMAN IN THE MOON. And another of Luddy looking very twenties dapper in a suit. Then on to movie days – I think it skipped her early theatre; don’t recall a shot from WARRIOR’S HUSBAND or anything, but I could be forgetting. There were caricatures of her alone and with Menjou (can't recall the name of the artist), a cell from MOTHER GOOSE GOES HOLLYWOOD, a photo of her on the MARY OF SCOTLAND set with John Ford. Many of the photos were reproductions. There were also original posters from BRINGING UP BABY, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, ADAM’S RIB, as well as b/w photos from WOMAN OF THE YEAR, PAT AND MIKE, ROOSTER COGBURN. Anything original was already in the National Portrait Gallery's collection. And the b/w photos were mostly reproductions. But it was all nice, if not awe inspiring. The things that interested me most were the display case with her 4 Oscars, another with her red Brooks Bros, turtleneck sweater, the Raymond Kinstler painting of her sitting, knees up, wearing a straw hat, with a ciggie in her hand (the note on the description next to that said that when she gave up smoking she asked Kinstler to paint the cigarette out, but he refused, so there it remains), and the small TV screen with thumbnail images from maybe 9 films. When you touched the image the scene from the film would play. Nice that they had that. Well, let's face it, for me/us one room just ain't enough to house Kate's great big life. But the fact that they chose to honor her with this exhibit, small though it may be, is wonderful....But I couldn't help thinking of how I wandered through room after room at Sotheby's, when they had the viewing of all the things to be auction. Now THAT was an exhibit. Did I miss anything, Martha? Judy
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Post by martha on Apr 10, 2008 20:10:23 GMT -5
ah ... so sweet to hear and feel your responses, judy. i guess i'd just underscore .. .cause i'm so much about the words and their power .. the display case with several pages from the legal document representing her purchase of the motion picture rights to PHILADELPHIA STORY, signed by representatives from the Theater Guild and Barry himself .. and, as i noted above .. kate inked in a correction to the ubiquitous misspelling of her name. KathArine
its somehow important to me that you've seen this little exhibit, judy .. yea. everyone go now, you hear?
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Post by Judy on Apr 10, 2008 21:39:30 GMT -5
ah ... so sweet to hear and feel your responses, judy. i guess i'd just underscore .. .cause i'm so much about the words and their power .. the display case with several pages from the legal document representing her purchase of the motion picture rights to PHILADELPHIA STORY, signed by representatives from the Theater Guild and Barry himself .. and, as i noted above .. kate inked in a correction to the ubiquitous misspelling of her name. KathArine
its somehow important to me that you've seen this little exhibit, judy .. yea. everyone go now, you hear? Oh, yeah, I KNEW I forgot something...But did you notice that though she corrected the spelling on the signature line, she did not in th body of the contract? Astounding about the constant misspellings, but actually it's become part of her lore. Stupid but kinda quirky thing.
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Post by martha on Apr 14, 2008 10:59:24 GMT -5
i did notice that we only have on display two pages (single page from "up front" and the signature page, as i recall) of this multipage document .. imagine the numbers of misspellings possible throughout this piece .. perhaps kate thought the signature correction would suffice for the big "hey you idiots! let's try again ... its k-a-t-h-a-r ...." ...
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Post by Dying2BDiva on May 26, 2008 20:26:03 GMT -5
I went today! Oh, it was exciting. The whole museum was practically empty except for Kate's exhibit. I totally didn't see the sign on the doorway about not taking pictures. After I got them all I found out I couldn't...whatever, like I care . Anyway what a great addition to a year of Kateness - I saw Turtle Bay and Katharine Houghton and now the Holy Grail...some K. Hep. Oscars!
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