Still Here

There, there, Granny…Daveland is still here. Yes, I missed Temple Tuesday and I also missed posting on Monday. Sometimes you have to live life to be able to post about it! I promise good stuff soon! In the meantime, here’s a (gasp) “new” (to me) shot from “The Blue Bird.” It never ceases to amaze me that there might be a still out there from that flick that’s not in my collection yet.

While you wait for my next post, how about a clip of Yvonne DeCarlo singing “I’m Still Here” from the show “Follies.” Yes, there was more to her than just Lily Munster.



See more Shirley Temple “The Blue Bird” photos at my main website.

Shirley's First Turkey

Here is a behind-the-scenes shot from Shirley Temple's 1940 Technicolor spectacular, "The Blue Bird." The accompanying vintage publicity blurb:

POINT OF VIEW — When the audience sees this scene from "The Land of Memory" in the glory of full Technicolor in which "The Blue Bird" is now being filmed at 20th Century-Fox. It will be one of the high spots of beauty in the film. But from behind the scenes there is a ferment of anxious activity as director Walter Lang (right lower), Cameraman Arthur Miller, ASC (with visor behind camera), and the remainder of the crew watch Shirley Temple rehearse a shot from Maurice Maeterlinck's story. Shirley is framed in the tree limbs, while behind the main trunk left, the skirt of Cecilia Loftus as "Granny Tyl" can be seen.



This publicity photo is ironic, considering that this film was dubbed Shirley's first "turkey" of her childhood career. Studio insiders called the film "Dead Pigeon."



See more Shirley Temple "The Blue Bird" photos on my "The Blue Bird" web page.