File puptcrit/puptcrit.0606, message 357


From: eileen blumenthal <hrotsvitha-AT-earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:44:29 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits


Hi Alan et al,

Check through the Politics chapter of my book. There have been LOTS  
of portraits of political figures. (Also, do you count South Park's  
Saddam Hussein?)
Shari Lewis danced with a life-size Fred Astaire at a puppetry  
festival in maybe 1970.
Also, Rufus & Margo Rose did  Fred and Ginger marionette (I'm not  
sure if it had one or two controls).
The Crowtations (formerly known as the Crowations) did a Harriet  
Tubman. Others have done her too.
Do you want to include some of Paul Zaloom's "portraits"--eg. George  
Bush Sr. as, literally, a miniature bush &, if memory serves, Ronald  
Reagan as a sports trophy of some kind.

Do you want to include Nativities?

How about the *NSync marionettes?
Also, I know I've seen puppets of The Three Stooges, but I'm not sure  
where.

Eileen



On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Alan Cook wrote:

> 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
>
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