#Ann Cary Randolph

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Bad movie I have My Favorite Wife 1940

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Hi! Happy to see you back. I don't know if you're still answering to asks because I know it takes a lot of work and time, but if you do, can you talk about the Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800 and whatever is known about Alexander working on that case?

Hello! And thank you!

There's lots of material covering the Weeks case - whole books, podcasts, and another podcast, and another (that has a transcript here with citations, written by Hayward etc. - if you're looking for just some quick details of Hamilton's cross-examinations of witnesses during the trial, see that doc). There's also a full copy of the transcript of the trial, which is what distinguishes it - it is the first murder trial in the U.S. for which we have a full transcript, not the first murder trial. (I wrote a super short summary about the murder trial for Ann (Nancy) Cary Randolph's stillborn baby, a few decades before she married Gouverneur Morris.)

I also recommend parts 1, 2, and 3 from Statutesandstories.com (more stuff from this blog coming up - I've linked to it in the past for new work on the constitutional convention).

To focus only on AH, a few things stand out:

1. Levi was the brother of Ezra Weeks, a NY builder who built the Grange - AH pays Ezra around $8500. As a carpenter, Levi very likely participated in his brother's business. Ezra was also a chief defense witness providing an alibi for Levi (potential conflict of interest - though Burr's was worse).

2. Colleagues (and descendants - JCH and Allan McLane H) of AH maintained he would not have taken the case if he did not believe beforehand in Weeks' innocence - that he would not have argued for a case where he believed the defendant to be guilty (or the principle to be incorrect). He was such a moral man, and all that.

3. AH and Burr (and Brockholst Livingston, the other defense attorney) laid out their defense in an op-ed to the NY Post before the trial even started.

4. AH waived delivering closing arguments, as the facts/evidence were so clear on Weeks' innocence.

5. Part of the defense was to argue that Elma Sands was "promiscuous" and melancholy and depressed - therefore suicidal. Nice insight into AH's way of thinking - premarital sex as a very short slide to even worse behavior.

6. According to Allan McLane Hamilton (so who knows if it's true), Elma's cousin, Catherine Rings, famously cursed all the members of the trial who did not get her sister justice, stating they would not die natural deaths or something. Judge Lansing, who pretty much instructed the jury to acquit, disappeared in 1829. And we all know what happened to AH and Burr. Livingston killed a man in a duel in 1799.

[I don't think Levi Weeks murdered Elma Sands, if anyone is curious!]

As an aside, although I don't check the feed/suggestions consistently, I do check my activity/messages/inboxes fairly regularly. Their are some inquiries I have ignored - like a request to write a report about Theodosia Burr - but ask a question specific enough, and I'll usually try to find at least a reference/source.

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Dust jacket of Young Man of Manhattan by Katharine Brush, 325 pp., Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. Plot: Toby McLean and Anne Vaughn, two newspaper columnists, marry with high hopes and dizzying speed, but the real problems start once the vows are exchanged. Careers clash and Toby finds himself the object of the affection of a bored socialite called Puff Randolph. The book was made into a movie the same year starring Ginger Rogers and Claudette Colbert.

Photo: Cary Collection

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Randolph Family

1) Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph (1772 – 1836), Thomas Sully, unknown

2) Thomas Mann Randolph Jr (1768 - 1828), unknown, unknown

3) Ann Cary Randolph (1791–1826), James Westhall Ford, 1823

4) Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792–1875), Charles Wilson Peale, unknown

5) “Eleanor/a” Ellen Wayles Randolph (1796–1876), most likely a Peale, unknown

6) Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (1799–1871), William Coffee, 1819

7) Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1808–1871), unknown, unknown

8) Meriwether Lewis Randolph (1810–1837), unknown, unknown

9) Septimia Anne Randolph (1814–1887), unknown, unknown

10) George Wythe Randolph (1818–1867), David H. Anderson, 1866

Not Pictured: Ellen Wayles Randolph (1794–1795), Virginia Jefferson Randolph (1801–1882), Mary Jefferson Randolph (1803–1876), James Madison Randolph (1806–1834)

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Gemini: Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Tony Curtis, Rosemary Clooney, Douglas Fairbanks, Burl Ives, Al Jolson, Stan Laurel, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Rosalind Russell, Hattie McDaniel, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Baker, Jeanette MacDonald, Peggy Lee

Cancer: Ginger Rogers, Eva Marie Saint, Natalie Wood, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Lena Horne, Jimmy Cagney, Milton Berle, Yul Brynner, Peter Lorre, Red Skelton, Jane Russell, Gina Lollobrigida, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger

Leo: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Mae West, Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Esther Williams, Walter Brennan, Robert Mitchum, Louis Armstrong, Peter O’Toole, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Alfred Hitchcock, Maureen O’Hara, Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Dolores del Rio

Virgo: Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, Sophia Loren, Claudette Colbert, Greta Garbo, Donald O’Connor, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lawford, Fredric March, James Coburn, Fred MacMurray, Peter Sellers, Raquel Welch, George Chakiris, Vera Miles

Libra: Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Montgomery Clift, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Lillian Gish, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Bela Lugosi, George C. Scott, Lenny Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine, Brigitte Bardot, June Allyson, Julie London

Scorpio: Richard Burton, Rock Hudson, Vivien Leigh, Burt Lancaster, Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Claude Rains, Joel McCrea, Johnny Carson, Burgess Meredith, Hedy Lamarr, Eleanor Powell, Veronica Lake

Sagittarius: Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr, Edward G. Robinson, Rita Moreno, Lee Remick, Boris Karloff, Lee J. Cobb, Ricardo Montalban, Irene Dunne, Agnes Moorehead, Gloria Grahame, Betty Grable, Julie Harris

Capricorn: Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, Ethel Merman, Eartha Kitt, Janet Leigh, Lew Ayres, Ray Bolger, Sal Mineo, Danny Kaye, Oliver Hardy, Oscar Levant, Ray Milland, Elvis Presley, Jane Wyman, Kay Francis, Barbara Rush

Aquarius: Kathryn Grayson, James Dean, Paul Newman, Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Lana Turner, Kim Novak, Ronald Colman, Ernest Borgnine, Randolph Scott, Vera-Ellen, Donna Reed, Jack Lemmon, John Barrymore, George Burns, Arthur Kennedy, Cesar Romero, Jean Simmons, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Pisces: Jerry Lewis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Harlow, Nat King Cole, Sidney Poitier, Cyd Charisse, Lee Marvin, Jackie Gleason, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven

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Today’s Paper Doll Is: Anne Cary Randolph

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Clara Lou Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967), known professionally as Ann Sheridan, was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 until her death, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include San Quentin (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Monty Woolley, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.

Born in Denton, Texas, on February 21, 1915, Clara Lou Sheridan was the daughter of G.W. Sheridan and Lula Stewart Warren Sheridan. According to Sheridan, her father was a great-great-nephew of Civil War Union general Philip Sheridan. She had a sister, Pauline.

She was active in dramatics at Denton High School and at North Texas State Teachers College. She also sang with the college's stage band.

In 1932, she was a student at North Texas State Teachers College when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film, The Search for Beauty. She left college to pursue a career in Hollywood.

After making her film debut in 1934, at 19, in Search for Beauty, she played uncredited bit parts in Paramount films for the next two years, starting at $75 a week (equivalent to $1,400 in 2019).

She can be glimpsed in Bolero (1934), Come On Marines! (1934) (billed as "Clara Lou Sheridan"), Murder at the Vanities (1934), Shoot the Works (1934), Kiss and Make-Up (1934), The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934), College Rhythm (1934) (directed by Norman Taurog whom Sheridan admired), Ladies Should Listen (1934), You Belong to Me (1934), Wagon Wheels (1934), The Lemon Drop Kid (1934), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934), Ready for Love (1934), Limehouse Blues (1934), and One Hour Late (1934).

Sheridan worked with Paramount's drama coach Nina Mouise and performed plays on the lot with fellow contractees, including The Milky Way and The Pursuit of Happiness. When she did The Milky Way, she played a character called Ann and the Paramount front office decided to change her name to "Ann".

Sheridan had a part in Behold My Wife! (1934), which she got at the behest of director Mitchell Leisen, who was a friend. She had two good scenes, one in which her character had to commit suicide. Sheridan attributed Paramount's keeping her for two years to this role.

She followed it with Enter Madame (1935), Home on the Range (1935), and Rumba (1935).

Sheridan's first lead came in Car 99 (1935) with Fred MacMurray. She was in Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935), a Randolph Scott Western. "No acting, it was just playing the lead, that's all", she later said.

She then appeared in Mississippi (1935) with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, The Glass Key (1935) with George Raft, and (having one line) The Crusades (1935) with Loretta Young. Paramount lent her out to Talisman, a small production company, to makeThe Red Blood of Courage (1935) with Kermit Maynard. After this, Paramount declined to take up her option.

Sheridan did one film at Universal, Fighting Youth (1935), and then signed a contract with Warner Bros. in 1936.

Sheridan's career prospects began to improve. Her early films for Warner Bros. included Sing Me a Love Song (1936); Black Legion (1937) with Humphrey Bogart; The Great O'Malley (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Bogart, her first real break; San Quentin (1937), with O'Brien and Bogart, singing for the first time in a film; and Wine, Women and Horses (1937) with Barton MacLane.

Sheridan moved into B picture leads: The Footloose Heiress (1937); Alcatraz Island (1937) with John Litel; and She Loved a Fireman (1937) with Dick Foran for director John Farrow. She was a lead in The Patient in Room 18 (1937) and its sequel Mystery House (1938). Sheridan was in Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) with Litel for Farrow and supported Dick Powell in Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).

Universal borrowed her for a support role in Letter of Introduction (1938) at the behest of director John M. Stahl. For Farrow, she was in Broadway Musketeers (1938), a remake of Three on a Match (1932).

Sheridan's notices in Letter of Introduction impressed Warner Bros. executives. "Oomph" was described as "a certain indefinable something that commands male interest." and she began to get roles in A pictures, starting with Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), wherein she played James Cagney's love interest; Bogart, O'Brien and the Dead End Kids had supporting roles. The film was a big hit and critically acclaimed.

Sheridan was reunited with the Dead End Kids in They Made Me a Criminal (1938) starring John Garfield. She was third-billed in the Western Dodge City (1939), playing a saloon owner opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film was another notable success.

In March 1939, Warner Bros. announced Sheridan had been voted by a committee of 25 men as the actress with the most "oomph" in America.

She received as many as 250 marriage proposals from fans in a single week. Tagged "The Oomph Girl"—a sobriquet which she reportedly loathed —Sheridan was a popular pin-up girl in the early 1940s. (On the other hand, a February 25, 1940, news story distributed by the Associated Press reported that Sheridan no longer "bemoaned the 'oomph' tag." She continued, "But I'm sorry now. I know if it hadn't been for 'oomph' I'd probably still be in the chorus.")

Sheridan co-starred with Dick Powell in Naughty but Nice (1939) and played a wacky heiress in Winter Carnival (1939).

She was top billed in Indianapolis Speedway (1939) with O'Brien and Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) with O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan. Castle on the Hudson (1940) put her opposite Garfield and O'Brien.

Sheridan's first real starring vehicle was It All Came True (1940), a musical comedy co starring Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn. She introduced the song "Angel in Disguise".

Sheridan and Cagney were reunited in Torrid Zone (1940) with O'Brien in support. She was with George Raft, Bogart and Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940), a trucking melodrama. Sheridan was back with Cagney for City for Conquest (1941) and then made Honeymoon for Three (1941), a comedy with George Brent.

Sheridan did two lighter films: Navy Blues (1941), a musical comedy, and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), wherein she played a character modeled on Gertrude Lawrence. She then made Kings Row (1942), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field. It was a huge success and one of Sheridan's most memorable films.

Sheridan and Reagan were reunited for Juke Girl (1942). She was in the war film Wings for the Eagle (1942) and made a comedy with Jack Benny, George Washington Slept Here (1943). She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in Edge of Darkness (1943) with Errol Flynn and was one of the many Warners stars who had cameos in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).

She was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt and published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories were entirely fictitious. The story was probably written for a young teenaged audience and is reminiscent of the adventures of Nancy Drew. It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941 and 1947 that always featured a film actress as heroine.

Sheridan was given the lead in the musical Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944), playing Nora Bayes, opposite Dennis Morgan. She was in a comedy The Doughgirls (1944).

Sheridan was absent from screens for over a year, touring with the USO to perform in front of the troops as far afield as China. She returned in One More Tomorrow (1946) with Morgan. She had an excellent role in the noir Nora Prentiss (1947), which was a hit. It was followed by The Unfaithful (1948), a popular remake of The Letter, and Silver River (1948), a Western melodrama with Errol Flynn.

Leo McCarey borrowed her to support Gary Cooper in Good Sam (1948). She was meant to star in Flamingo Road. She then left Warner Bros., saying: "I wasn't at all satisfied with the scripts they offered me."

Her role in I Was a Male War Bride (1949), directed by Howard Hawks and co-starring Cary Grant, was another success. In 1950, she appeared on the ABC musical television series Stop the Music.

She made Stella (1950), a comedy with Victor Mature at Fox.

In April 1949, she announced she wanted to produce Second Lady, a film based on a story by Eleanor Griffin. She was going to make Carriage Entrance at RKO. They fired her and Sheridan sued for $250,000.

Sheridan made Woman on the Run (1950), a noir, which she did produce. She wanted to make a film called Her Secret Diary.

Woman on the Run was distributed by Universal, and Sheridan signed a contract with that studio. While there, she made Steel Town (1952), Just Across the Street (1952), and Take Me to Town (1953), a comedy directed by Douglas Sirk.

Sheridan supported Glenn Ford in Appointment in Honduras (1953), directed by Jacques Tourneur. She appeared opposite Steve Cochran in Come Next Spring (1956) and was one of several stars in MGM's The Opposite Sex (1956). Her last film, The Woman and the Hunter, was shot in Africa.

She went to New York to appear in a Broadway show, but it did not make it to Broadway.

She did stage tours of Kind Sir (1958) and Odd Man In (1959), and The Time of Your Life at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. In all three shows, she acted with Scott McKay, whom she later married.

In 1962, she played the lead in "The Mavis Grant Story" on the Western series Wagon Train.

In the mid-1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World.

Her final work was a TV series of her own, a comedy Western entitled Pistols 'n' Petticoats, which was filmed during the year before her death and was broadcast on CBS on Saturday nights. The 19th episode of the series, "Beware the Hangman", aired, as scheduled, on the same day that she died.

For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ann Sheridan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.

Sheridan married actor Edward Norris August 16, 1936, in Ensenada, Mexico. They separated a year later and divorced in 1939. On January 5, 1942, she married fellow Warner Bros. star George Brent, who co-starred with her in Honeymoon for Three (1941). They divorced exactly one year later. Following her divorce from Brent, she had a long-term relationship with publicist Steve Hannagan, that lasted until his death in 1953. Hannagan's estate bequeathed Miss Sheridan $218,399 ($2.1 million in current dollars). On June 5, 1966, she married actor Scott McKay, who was with her when she died, six months later.

In 1966, Sheridan began starring in a new television series, a Western-themed comedy called Pistols 'n' Petticoats. She became ill during the filming and died of gastroesophageal cancer with massive liver metastases at age 51 on January 21, 1967, in Los Angeles. She was cremated and her ashes were stored at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles until they were interred in a niche in the Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005.

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Nancy Carroll (born Ann Veronica Lahiff, November 19, 1903 – August 6, 1965) was an American actress. In 1928 she made eight films. One of them, Easy Come, Easy Go, co-starring Richard Dix, made her a star. In 1929 she starred in The Dance of Life with Hal Skelly, and The Wolf of Wall Street along with George Bancroft and Olga Baclanova. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930 for The Devil's Holiday. Among her other films are Laughter (1930), Paramount on Parade (1930), Hot Saturday (1932) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Under contract to Paramount Pictures, Carroll often balked at the roles the studio offered her and she earned a reputation as a recalcitrant and uncooperative actress. In spite of her ability to successfully tackle light comedies, tearful melodramas, and even musicals, and as well as garnering considerable praise by the critics and public – she received the most fan mail of any star in the early 1930s – she was released from her contract by the studio. In the mid-1930s under a four-film contract with Columbia Pictures, she made four rather insignificant films and was no longer an A-list actress. Carroll retired from films in 1938, returned to the stage, and starred in the early television series The Aldrich Family in 1950. In the following year, she guest-starred in the television version of The Egg and I, starring her daughter, Patricia Kirkland. On August 6, 1965, Carroll was found dead after failing to arrive at the theater for a performance. The cause of her death was an aneurysm. She was 61 years old. #oldhollywood #s #vintage #classichollywood #hollywood #goldenageofhollywood #actress #classicmovies #classic #oldmovies #vintagehollywood #icon #oldhollywoodglamour #cinema #legend #oldhollywoodstars #sfashion #monroe #marilyn #silverscreen #actor #movies #moviestar #goldenage #retro #movie #oldhollywoodglam (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5DUeeeAJaP/?igshid=1w52yndwqc0r3

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I recommend a Wikipedia reading of Ann Cary Randolph Morris.

It's definitely the most dramatic story I've read during past year.

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Gouverneur Morris’ thoughts on spousal discipline?

I love posts/essays like this one: http://www.gouverneurmorrispapers.com/2016/09/madam-you-will-thank-me-later-part-3.html

Because they’re sorta gossipy, one gets a real sense of the values and beliefs around conduct that people held in particular situations. 

Gouverneur Morris seemed to be in the middle of a dispute between Grace Coxe and her husband, James Le Ray de Chaumont. Of people previously mentioned on my blog, Grace was the first cousin and sister-in-law of Tench Coxe. (Tench married Grace’s sister, and his own first cousin, Rebecca in 1782. Grace and Rebecca also had a brother, Charles Davenport Coxe, who shared the same name as their father.) Read about James Le Ray here. Tench Coxe promoted Le Ray to AH as being useful in setting up the S.U.M; in 1802, Le Ray, GM and AH arranged the set up of an annuity for the support of Robert and Mary Morris. My point is that they all knew each other.  

Grace Coxe and James Le Ray got married in either 1789 or 1790, sources differ. GM in writing to Le Ray in 1807 states: 

your conjugal Union arose from a Sense of Honor and Delicacy in you. That you accused yourself of having undesignedly, by Attentions which in your own Country pass for Nothing, and of Course make no Impression, interested her Feelings in such Way as (from her Account) to impair her Happiness thro Life.

It sounds like he was attentive to her in a way that was somewhat improper in America (but fine in France), leading her to claim she was so in love with him that she would never be happy with anyone else, and so he acquiesced and married her. Fascinating! 

Lots happens, they seem to become somewhat estranged (and GM always held a low opinion of Grace, as is obvious), leading him to offer this advice to the husband in 1807 (I’ll let the blog writers take over): 

Entreat her, above all Things, not to think of a Divorce the Consequence of which must be both injurious and disgraceful.”

Only to continue with revealing the underlying purpose of his advice:

“If I mistake not, this Course will lead her to insist more strongly on a Divorce. Then, when all is ripe, you will take an Opportunity to say very coolly; well Madam since you wish a Divorce, apply for it to the proper Authority—from this Moment, if you continue to be my Wife, you shall obey your Husband; and if (as I too clearly perceive) you are insensible to Reason, you shall be sensible to Correction. The Law gives me a Right to administer moderate Correction to a disobedient Wife, and at the first Moment you shall receive it from my Hand.”

Is he suggesting some domestic violence would help the situation here?

Morris concludes, clearly satisfied with himself:

“This would I think change a vain foolish Woman into a decent well behaved Wife”.

This reminds that I never finished my post about GM and his wife, Ann “Nancy” Cary Randolph (first cousin to Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph), and I read two books about her! There’s a lot more to the story and stuff about the treatment of women, enslaved persons, etc. but the brief summary with salacious details is that Nancy may have become pregnant by her brother-in-law, Richard Randolph (while living at Bizarre Plantation), who may have killed the baby once born/miscarried (at a different plantation). Richard took the (ridiculous, but we know all about this time period) step of addressing the rumors by publishing an article about it, which led to him being arrested and tried for the baby’s murder (Patsy even testified about providing Nancy with an abortifacient; Richard’s defense attorneys were Patrick Henry and John Marshall) but perhaps because the discovery of the dead baby had been made by enslaved people who could not testify, he was acquitted. Then he died mysteriously three years later, with rumors that Nancy killed him (unlikely). Many years later, in 1814, Nancy offered her side of the story, claiming that she had given birth in Oct 1792 to a stillborn child, having conceived him with Richard’s younger brother, Theodorick, who had died only a few days after the child’s conception (in Feb 1792) but whom she considered her husband “in the presence of God.” This whole story is one of those great ones where you can tease out attitudes about honor, premarital and extramarital sex, abortion, politics, women, and on and on - which is why two books have probably been written about it! 

Back to the 1790s: Nancy was pretty thoroughly ostracized and ended up as GM’s housekeeper around 1805, as I recall; he wrote to her when she accepted the position: "I can only answer that I will love you as little as I can." They surprised their friends with their wedding a few years later (1809), and GM remarked, "If the world were to live with my wife, I should certainly have consulted its taste; but as that happens to not be the case, I thought I might, without offending others, endeavor to suit myself..." Their only child (humorously nicknamed Cutsusoff by GM’s relatives and heirs) was born on February 9, 1813 (GM was 61, Nancy 38). Nancy had inscribed on a stone of the floor of St. Ann's Church (built for her by their son GM II):

Conjugal affection

Consecrates this sport where

The Best of men was laid

until a vault could be erected

to receive

his precious remains.

I have a few more fun anecdotes about GM, like his “hopeless passion” for Kitty Livingston (AH and GM were both writing to her in 1776-77), and some fun quotes: 

"To try to do good, to avoid evil, a little severity of one's self, a little indulgence for others - this is the means to obtain some good result out of our poor existence. To love one's friends, to be beloved by them - this is the means to brighten it."

"I like only the yielding kiss, and that from lips I love."

There are so many GM-AH letters that are clearly missing and the ones we have left have been carefully curated. I’ll link two of my faves that do exist: x  x. And the story about AH making a dare about GM clapping GW on the back never happened. 

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HOLLYWOOD WITHOUT MAKE-UP

1963

Produced by Ken Murray

Music by George Stoll

Written by Royal Foster

Ken Murray (Himself, Host) is billed as “the man who makes movies of the people who make movies.” He was born Kenneth Abner Doncourt in 1903 to vaudevillian parents. Murray got his start in show business on the stage in 1920s as a stand-up comedian. He performed his comedy act on the vaudeville circuit. He found success as a stage performer after appearing in Earl Carroll's Vanities on Broadway in 1935. In the 1940s, Murray became famous for his Blackouts, a racy, stage variety show at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. The Blackouts played to standing-room-only audiences for 3,844 performances, ending in 1949. Later that year, the show moved to Broadway and closed after six weeks. He made his film debut in the 1929 romantic drama Half Marriage, followed by a role in Leathernecking in 1930. He was also the host of “The Ken Murray Show,” a weekly music and comedy show on CBS Television that ran from 1950 to 1953. The show was the first to win a Freedom Foundation Award. Over the course of his career, Murray filmed Hollywood celebrities using his 16mm home movie camera. He began filming the footage to send back home to his grandparents in lieu of writing letters. His grandmother saved the footage, which Murray later used in compilation films like Hollywood Without Make-Up. He died in 1988 at age 85.

Features footage of: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, George K. Arthur, Mary Astor, Lew Ayres, Max Baer, Lucille Ball, Richard Barthelmess, Rex Bell, Edgar Bergen, Sally Blane, Humphrey Bogart, John Boles, Pat Boone, Eddie Borden, Hobart Bosworth, Clara Bow, William Boyd, Fanny Brice, Paul Brooks, Joe E. Brown, Johnny Mack Brown, Virginia Bruce, Polly Burson, Rory Calhoun, Leo Carrillo, Charles Chaplin, Lew Cody, William Collier Jr., Russ Columbo, Gary Cooper, Jackie Cooper, Jeanne Crain, Robert Cummings, Linda Darnell, Marion Davies, Joan Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Dolores del Rio, Cecil B. DeMille, Jack Dempsey, Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Marie Dressler, Irene Dunne, Josephine Dunn, Stuart Erwin, Ruth Etting, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Charles Farrell, Todd Fisher, Errol Flynn, Joan Fontaine, Glenn Ford, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Reginald Gardiner, Cary Grant, Alan Hale, Oliver Hardy, William Randolph Hearst, Jean Hersholt, William Holden, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Walter Huston, Sam Jaffe, Van Johnson, Buck Jones, Hope Lange, Charles Laughton, Stan Laurel, Gertrude Lawrence, Mervyn LeRoy, Charles Lindbergh, Carole Lombard, William Lundigan, Fred MacMurray, Jayne Mansfield, George Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Joel McCrea, Victor McLaglen, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Morgan, Wayne Morris, Jean Parker, Louella Parsons, Mary Pickford, Dick Powell, Tyrone Power, George Raft, Gregory Ratoff, Donna Reed, Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Rogers, Charles Ruggles, Albert Schweitzer, George Seaton, Norma Shearer, George Stevens, Lewis Stone, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Taylor, William T. Tilden, George Tobias, Spencer Tracy, Lupe Velez, Jimmy Walker, John Wayne, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Claire Windsor, Robert Woolsey, Jane Wyman, and others. 

The show is also available on DVD from Sprocket Flicks  It has been aired on TV on Turner Classic Movies.

In 1963, when this documentary was released, Lucille Ball was starting her second season of “The Lucy Show” on CBS TV.  

In June 1950, one year before “I Love Lucy” premiered, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were guests on “The Ken Murray Show” on CBS TV. Tap dancer Bunny Briggs and 'Little Rascal' Darla Hood were also guests. 

In 1966, Lucy and Murray were both guests on “Bob Hope's Leading Ladies.” Murray played a television executive named Harvey Sarnoff.  Lucy played herself.  Sort of. 

Lucy returned to Sun Valley to film an episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” using the same locations scene in this documentary.  

Twenty minutes into the documentary, the location turns to Sun Valley, Idaho, where Hollywood stars went for winter sports. June Allyson, Errol Flynn, Martha O'Driscoll, Johnny Weissmuller, Wayne Morris, and Reggie Gardiner have a snowball fight while making a snowman. 

Lounging at the Lodge are Rory Calhoun (center) and Lucille Ball. Sun Valley was one of the Arnaz's favorite vacation spots, accessible by train from Hollywood. Desilu would film “Lucy Goes To Sun Valley” (1958) there. Lucy's good friend Ann Sothern also loved Sun Valley, and is buried nearby.  

Murray says that this is not the only home movies of Lucille Ball that he has. First is a quick clip of Lucy at Chatsworth Ranch with one of her cherished dogs. Lucy and Desi had three dogs at the time.  

This leads to footage of Lucille Ball filming Fancy Pants in 1950 with director George Marshall and co-star Bob Hope. Murray also mentions that Lucy has done quite a few pictures with Hope, including Critic's Choice, which was released in 1963, the same year as this documentary. In 1969, when Lucy wanted to film episodes of “Here's Lucy” on location, including on the Colorado River, she hired Marshall, remembering his expertise with location filming in rough terrain.

Ball also poses with Marshall and her Fancy Pants stunt double, Polly Burson, although Murray does not specifically mention her name. 

Ball is shown doing a stunt where she falls onto a break-away table, not once...

 not twice... 

but three times!

Murray: “Someone once said that Lucille Ball stands alone as the greatest comedienne of our time.  That goes for sitting down, too!”

Lucy Without Make-Up: Literally!  

A movie star, Lucille Ball was rarely scene without full make-up, but when a scene demanded she take a blast of water to the face, she removed her false eyelashes, as she did here in “Never Do Business With Friends” (ILL S2;E31) in 1953.  

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Center for the Arts Winter Lineup

The 2017/2018 winter lineup at the Center for the Arts is not to be missed!! Tickets go on sale today, December 6 at noon - get ready to be entertained Jackson Hole!

December 27 || Robert Randolph & the Family Band 

FUNK, Robert Randolph & the Family Band know how to get down!! The renowned pedal steel guitarist, vocalist and songwriter led such a cloistered childhood and adolescence that he heard no secular music while growing up. Which makes it all the more remarkable that the leader of Robert Randolph and the Family Band—whose label debut for Sony Masterworks, Got Soul, will be released on Feb. 17, 2017—is today an inspiration to the likes of Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Derek Trucks, all of whom have played with him and studied his technique. It wasn’t until he was out of his teens that Randolph broke away from the confines of his social and musical conditioning and discovered rock, funk, soul, jazz and the jam band scene, soon forging his own sound by fusing elements of those genres. 

January 10 || An Evening with Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright, one of the great male vocalists, composers, and songwriters of his generation, has released eight studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Robbie Williams Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach. His album “Rufus Does Judy” recorded at Carnegie Hall in 2006 was nominated for a Grammy.

His acclaimed first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009 and has since been presented in London, Toronto and BAM in New York. This summer it will be performed at the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and Augsburg Theatre in Germany. In 2015, Deutsche Grammaphon released a studio recording of the opera recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

January 14 || An Evening with Samantha Fish, Marcus King, and Judith Hill

IMPROVISATION, BRILLIANCE, SPONTANEITY, AND COLLABORATION ARE THE ELEMENTS THAT WILL BRING SPARK to our third annual curated singer/songwriter showcase. Experience the music that unfolds when these musical masterminds share the stage and trade songs.

SAMANTHA FISH After launching her recording career in 2009, Samantha Fish quickly established herself as a rising star in the contemporary blues world. Since then, the charismatic young singer guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a rising guitar hero and powerful live performer.

MARCUS KING At only 20 years of age, Marcus King’s dazzling musical ability is palatable. Operating within the fiery brand of American roots music that King calls “soul-influenced psychedelic southern rock,” King’s roughhewn vocals and soaring guitar work are making him one of the country’s most sought after live performers.

JUDITH HILL Los Angeles native Judith Hill is a deeply soulful vocalist and powerful songwriter. She has been featured as a backing vocalist for legends Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Ringo Starr, and the late Michael Jackson including duet with Jackson on the classic ballad, “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You.”

January 18 || The Victor Wooten Trio featuring Dennis Chambers and Bob Franceschini

Five-time GRAMMY award-winning bass player, producer, composer, author, and educator Victor Wooten is coming to Jackson with the Victor Wooten Trio – comprised of Wooten, legendary drummer Dennis Chambers (Bootsy Collins, Santana), and veteran saxophonist Bob Franceschini (Mike Stern, Paul Simon).

“To be in a band, you have to listen to each other. Bands are at their best when every instrument is different, not the same. Everyone takes turns talking. Everyone speaks their voice,” says Wooten. Named “one of the Top 10 Bassists of All Time” by Rolling Stone and named one of the “50 Iconic Black Trailblazers,” in the Huffington Post pictured just after President Barack Obama. Wooten first “wowed music heads” nationwide (Kansas City Star) in 1987, as a founding member of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones.

January 26 || The Moth - Mainstage

The Moth returns to The Center Theater for its third annual Mainstage performance. Since its launch in 1997, THE MOTH has presented thousands of stories told live and without notes. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Through ongoing programs in more than 25 cities, The Moth has presented over 20,000 stories to standing-room-only crowds worldwide and it currently produces more than 500 live shows each year. Additionally, The Moth runs storytelling workshops for high school students and adults in underserved communities through their Education and Community Programs. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 44 million times a year, and each week, the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour is heard on over 450 radio stations worldwide. The Moth’s first book, The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hachette) was an international bestseller and its new book All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown from The Moth (Crown) will be released on March 21, 2017.

January 30 || Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Trombone Shorty is the best-known moniker for Troy Andrews. He was born into a well-known New Orleans musical family in 1986. His grandfather, Jessie Hill, was a locally popular R&B recording artist. His older brother, James "12" Andrews, was a successful jazz trumpeter who was also an early mentor. Andrews began playing music at a very early age and was playing professionally at the age of five. He mastered trombone, trumpet, and drums, eventually choosing the trombone as his principal instrument and thus picking up his nickname. So advanced was he that, at the age of eight, a club in the city’s Tremé district, where he was born and raised, was named Trombone Shorts in his honor.

February 6 || On the Road with T Bone Burnett: Stories, Music & Movies

Accompanied by his guitar, film clips and decades’ worth of stories, T Bone covers everything from his early days touring with Bob Dylan and collaborating with some of music’s biggest stars to his love of Americana music and his immensely influential work in film. Programs run 80+ minutes with or without an intermission, including a 30 minute Q & A.T Bone takes audiences on a tour of his work and collaborations with musicians across all genres, including Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Elton John, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, Jack White, Taylor Swift, and Leon Russell, among many others. He is also the musical genius behind numerous films, including the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Inside Llewyn Davis, as well as Cold Mountain; The Hunger Games; Across the Universe; and Crazy Heart. 

March 5 || An Evening with Shovels & Rope

SHOVELS & ROPE ARE AN AMERICAN FOLK duo from Charleston, South Carolina composed of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Combining threads from their individual solo careers, Shovels & Rope blends traditional folk, rock and roll, and country rock. The band made their network television debut playing “Birmingham” on The Late Show with David Letterman on January 30, 2013. On September 18, 2013 at the Americana Music Honors & Awards, Shovels & Rope received the Emerging Artist of the Year award as well as Song of the Year for their song, “Birmingham."

March 11 || An Acoustic Evening with Anders Osborne

Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ Anders Osborne is a true musical treasure. He is among the most original and visionary musicians writing and performing today. Guitar Player calls him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans’ Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer Of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist for the third year in a row, and the Best Songwriter for the second straight year. Osborne also won Song Of The Year for his composition, Louisiana Gold.

Tickets for the Winter season go on sale Wednesday, December 6 at 12pm MST JHCENTERFORTHEARTS.ORG and in person at The Center Box Office. A limited number of discounted ticket packages will be available. Box office processing fees apply to all tickets!

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Monsters At Monticello P1/2

In all depictions of Monticello, one imagines the picturesque scene of the landscape and the grand Roman inspired architecture. However, what happened within the walls was far less pretty. What one doesn’t imagine of Monticello is abuse that occurred among the years to a few women residing in the home. Besides only the systematic rape of his slave, Sally Hemings, by Jefferson himself, there were two other women who endured abuse at the hands of their husbands in the home. All of which, Jefferson, Master of Monticello, did not a thing about. If Thomas Jefferson, author of the declaration of independence and third president of the United States, was the supposed “Master of Monticello”, why did he not interrupt the abuse of his eldest daughter and his eldest grand-daughter? He stayed passive in the face of all they were experiencing and if he did nothing to stop it, how can he be coined the Master of Monticello?

Throughout the decades, and even into modern day, Thomas Jefferson has still managed to continue the illusion of a paradise Monticello, home at various periods to his two surviving daughters and his many grand-children and great-grandchildren. The home itself was constructed in the late 1760s, officially becoming finished by 1772. Following the death of his wife, Jefferson resolved, after five lengthy years living abroad as a diplomat in France, to have nearly the entirety rebuilt. This was not only a decision made due to the inspiration he received in Europe from neoclassical architecture, but also from the haunting memories of his wife in that home. The erection, after completion, is a three story, brick frame building with thirty-five rooms, two main entrances, an east portico and a west portico and a private entry of which leads to the various gardens [x]. 

Not counting the illegitimate children Sally Hemings gave birth to, Jefferson had six children of his own blood with his first and only wife. During their marriage, they lost four of their children at young ages due to weakness and illness, while his youngest daughter died two years succeeding her death. Both of his surviving daughters, Mary “Polly” Jefferson and Martha “Patsy” Jefferson, lived at Monticello during their youth and at random points during their adulthood. Polly, unfortunately, died in 1804 from complications after her several births. Martha, Jefferson’s eldest and only daughter who lived past his death, resided for a lot of her years at Monticello with her family consisting of her twelve children and her husband Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. She was one of three women to endure abuse in the home of her father.

Married in 1790, Martha and her husband seemingly lived an almost heavenly existence what with their many descendants and her father’s support of her. However, Randolph proved to be increasingly volatile over the years with his growing alcoholism and the sense of despair that came with the alleged abuse he sustained as a child from his father who effectively remarried after the death of his mother, producing a son of the same name and, “erasing his first son [Tom] from his prior marriage” [x]. Due to the alienation from his paternal figure, the feeling of his father-in-law controlling his married life, and the family’s tenuous financial situation, the drinking only swelled over the years. After a humiliating loss of his property, Randolph proved at many points to be incredibly irrational, irresponsible and lashed out at his family especially at his wife and his only son. According to eyewitnesses at the time, the abuse Martha sustained was “violent.” Martha had to distance herself from him for her safety and her adult-children did the same. Angry, Randolph left Martha for several years and she moved to Boston with her children in order to fully separate the distance. They were reunited only before his death two years later.

To say that Thomas Jefferson knew of the abuse of his daughter is an understatement, Martha’s father not only witnessed and heard the commotion; but even after Martha had him leave for greater safety of herself and her children, Jefferson himself continued to maintain and healthy relationship with his son-in-law even a month before his death when his daughter was still separated from his husband. “I have for some time entertained the hope that your affairs being once wound up,” Jefferson authored to Randolph, “Your mind would cease to look back on them, and resume the calm so necessary to your own happiness . . . and especially that you would return again to their society. I hope there remains no reason now to delay this longer, and that you will rejoin our table and fireside as heretofore . . . be assured that to no one will your society be more welcome thanto myself, and that my affectionate [friendship] to you and respect are constant and sincere.” Jefferson was optimistic that his daughter and his son-in-law would be able to repair the damaged relationship between them. 

What one would’ve hoped concerning an abusive husband is her father would’ve wished for the full separation of Martha from her husband. However, this was obviously not the case. Jefferson’s belief was that, despite Randolph’s behavior he was an honest man with the weight of his family to carry him into the future. He wished not to jeopardize the relations of his son-in-law with his family as Jefferson was traditionally a family man. But if he was so much of a family man, wouldn’t in this instance he would’ve preferred to have his daughter maintain her safety within her own household? He not only left her to the abuse of her husband but continued to keep to opinion that it was alright and healthy. We can see that even if it was his daughter, Jefferson did not care. This, can be added as another blot onto ugly Jefferson’s character. 

If then we look at this pattern of which Jefferson appears to view the abuse of his daughter from her husband, perhaps how he views violence towards women in general, we can guess not how he treated the same events when occurring to his eldest granddaughter, Ann. Even in the sanctity and safety of their home, the master of Monticello would do nothing to discontinue the abuse and fear coming from his son-in-law and grandson-in-law. Only this time, in the case of his eldest granddaughter, his attitude of bystanding the physical abuse is one of the actions that resulted in her death. Thomas Jefferson, the supposed master of Monticello, was a bystander in female abuse making him and not another person, the true monster of Monticello. 

(To be continued)

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