From: "Wayne Martin" <wayne.martin-AT-waynemartinpuppets.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:48:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits Wayne Martin - * Elton John * Dolly Parton * Donny and Marie Osmond * Frank Sinatra * Jimmy and Rosalind Carter ___________________________ Wayne Martin d/b/a The Wayne Martin Puppets 134 Beach Street * Boston, MA 02111 voice: 617-423-3663 * fax:=A0 617-348-2115 www.WayneMartinPuppets.com -----Original Message----- From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org] On Behalf Of Alan Cook Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:50 PM To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits How many puptcritters have made or used puppet portraits of people considered celebrities? I need photos and background information. My preliminary list based on memory includes the following who made celeb puppets: Tatterman Marionettes (1930s) Myrna Loy marionette (currently on display at Great Arizona Puppet Theater) Steve Hansen hand puppet of Richard Nixon Lillian Faulkner--various vodvil stars n miniature (1920s/30s) Lillian Owen- Greenwich Village Follies (on Broadway) 1920s portrait marionettes of Maurice Chevalier, Harry Lauder & others Tony Urbano: various stage & screen stars (many used in Hollywood at Universal Studio Tour Show years ago) including Edith Piaf, Bob Hope, Phyliss Diller) Mantell Manikins (1930s, maybe earlier) Jimmy Durante marionette Yale Puppeteers (Harry Burnett) Franklin Roosevelt, Helen Hayes, Garbo, Marie Dressler, Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Ramon Navarro, Aimee Semple MacPherson (the vanishing evangelist), Albert Einstein (who was photo'd wih his puppet, as was Helen Hayes with hers), Gary Cooper etc. Krofft Puppets: Jayne Mansfield, Brigit Bardot, Jackie Gleason and many others Scott Land-Michael Jackson Phillip Huber--Liza Minelli Bil Baird- a host of celebs, including FDR and Ed Sullivan. The use of portrait puppets is widespread. Should YOU be added to this list? Do you know of other puppeteers who should be added? Also, have any of you made self-portrait puppets? Frank Paris did a hand puppet version of himself which he could operate while seated (following an accident in NYC which temporarily ended his working marionettes). ALAN COOK _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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