The Sunday Telegraph's John Preston has set us a riddle. He tells how a house clearance turned up a box of old photographs in which a Fleet Street showbiz writer, Dick Richards, was pictured with a string of 1950s Hollywood stars.
There is Dick discussing a script with Marilyn Monroe, shooting the breeze with Burt Lancaster, eating ice cream with Ginger Rogers and hanging out with Frank Sinatra.
Others show him with Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin, David Niven, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury, Lassie and Roy Rogers with his horse Trigger.
The article reproduces a publicity poster in which Richards is billed as "the liveliest film writer" in the Sunday Pictorial.
But Preston says we know "frustratingly little" about him. I don't recall him and I thought Lionel Crane, or Ralph Champion (or both), were the Hollywood correspondents for the Sunday Pic.
I have discovered, on a site called Whirligig, that...
There is Dick discussing a script with Marilyn Monroe, shooting the breeze with Burt Lancaster, eating ice cream with Ginger Rogers and hanging out with Frank Sinatra.
Others show him with Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin, David Niven, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury, Lassie and Roy Rogers with his horse Trigger.
The article reproduces a publicity poster in which Richards is billed as "the liveliest film writer" in the Sunday Pictorial.
But Preston says we know "frustratingly little" about him. I don't recall him and I thought Lionel Crane, or Ralph Champion (or both), were the Hollywood correspondents for the Sunday Pic.
I have discovered, on a site called Whirligig, that...
- 2/27/2012
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
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