After Dark January 1978

Part One: This issue is going to have to broken down into three parts. It's one of the better issue with so many photos to feature and things to talk about.

The cover, featuring Patrick Branch, is a lead-in to the Key West features in this issue, but I've decided to wait until part three to post those photos.

A short piece on the silver-screen couture by Allen Florio led into a photographic essay on the ladies we've all come to adore.

Louise Brooks in a black silk dress designed by Howard Greer.

Greta Garbo in the 1932 film Mata Hari was wearing Adrian.

Adrian also designed this costume for Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl.

In Gilda, Rita Hayworth was wearing costumes like this one designed by Jean Louis.

Travis Banton created the "Paramount look" of the 30's and his greatest inspiration was Marlene Dietrich.

One of the most famous names in costume design in the movies was Edith Head, who designed this number for Ginger Rogers.

Cobra Lady star Maria Montez in a Vera West design.

When Judy Garland transitioned from ingenue to glamour gal, Howard Shoup designed her dress.

Scarlett O'Hara wouldn't be the same without the costumes of Walter Plunkett who designed the barbarcue dress for Vivien Leigh.

Helen Rose designed this white chiffon trimmed in black lace for Lana Turner.

Barbara Stanwyck looking every bit the part of the Lady of Burlesque was wearing another Edith Head design.

Known as one of the best dressed women, Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back was wearing a wool suit by Travis Banton.

Finally, The Little Foxes featured Bette Davis wearing Orry-Kelly's costumes.

With the release of their album Beauty on a Back Street, Hall and Oates took some time out to speak to Chris Huizenga about their history and their future. Daryl Hall and John Oates were shifting gears from being the Average White Band that Atlantic Records wanted them to be--to the rockers they wanted to be.



Punk rocker Patti Smith in a photo from 1972 featuring her former boyfriend Sam Shepard was recording another album for Arista Records.

Lotte Lenya, known for her film roles in From Russia With Love and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone not to mention making her mark as the original Jenny in Threepenny Opera, made a cameo in Burt Reynold's film Semi-Tough.

That's it for part one. Part two will feature a couple of films and a couple of dancers.

After Dark September 1982 cont'd

One of Blogger's shortcomings is the limit of characters allowed for labels. In most cases, I don't usually run over, unless I'm posting an issue of After Dark. There is so much in each issue, that I hate not to label them and many will appear again and again in these issues. The plus of having to split up issues of After Dark is getting to post the cover with Maxwell Caulfield again. Yum.

Like I said in the previous post, this issue focused on Broadway. This post is going to focus on the ladies featured in the "Women of the Years" article by Joel Kudler with photographs from his collection. First up is Woman of the Year star Lauren Bacall. She also appeared on Broadway in Applause, the musical version of the Bette Davis classic All About Eve.

Replacing Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year was Raquel Welch.

Replacing Lauren Bacall in Applause was Rita Hayworth, unfortunately, she never made it to Broadway, but Joel used it as an excuse to show this rare rehearsal shot of Rita.

Marlene Dietrich did her one-woman show on Broadway.

Fanny Brice, a Ziegfeld Follies star, as her alter ego Baby Snooks.

Bette Davis starred in the musical Two's Company and the Tennessee Williams play Night of the Iguana.

Ann Miller started out in George White's Scandals, before going on to Mame and Sugar Babies.

Vivien Leigh won a Tony for Tovarich in 1963.

Judy Garland made theatre history by bringing back Vaudeville in 1951.

The musical Gypsy told the story of one mother and two sisters. The two sisters were Gypsy Rose Lee who starred in Star and Garter...

...and Baby June aka June Havoc who starred in Pal Joey and Sadie Thompson.

Famous for playing characters like Mama Rose in Gypsy was Ethel Merman.

Another great lady to play the Great White Way as the infamous Mama Rose was Angela Lansbury.

Hispanic dynamite comes in two definite forms...Chita Rivera who starred in West Side Story and Chicago...

...and the wonderful Rita Moreno who played Chita's role in the film version of West Side Story and recreating her own Tony award-winning role from The Ritz for the film version.

That's it for the "Special Broadway Issue". It's a shame we can't see these women perform these roles on the stage anymore. I was definitely born in the wrong decade.