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Friday 26 May 2023

Don (Otto) Ortolani Otto with four samples of "cheesecake" photos taken from his many hundreds of photos: Gina Lollobrigida from Solomon And Sheba, 1959. Unknown Pre-Code blonde actress. Irish McCalla wrestling a native from the 1950s TV series Sheena Queen Of The Jungle. Jean Harlow publicity photo.	Don (Otto) Ortolani And here's Otto with some "beefcake" photos of actors all associated with Tarzan movies: Buster Crabbe Olympic swimmer and 1930s Tarzan movie and Flash Gordon serial actor. Johnny Sheffield as Bomba the Jungle Boy. Sheffield played Boy in the MGM Johnny Wessmuller Tarzan movies of the 1930s and early 1940s and then starred in a series of movies for Allied Artists up to 1955 as Bomba the Jungle Boy. Gordon Scott as Tarzan. Following Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, Lex Barker did a few Tarzan movies for RKO 1949 - 1953. Then he was succeeded by ex-body builder Gordon Scott who played Tarzan in six movies 1955 - 1960. Ron Ely as a TV series Tarzan. After Gordon Scott a new movie Tarzan actor Mike Henry played Tarzan in three Tarzan movies 1966 - 1968. Concurrent with Henry's movie Tarzan Ron Ely played Tarzan in a TV series with Tarzan set in Brazil instead of Africa and with no Jane. I met Ron Ely at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention a few years ago and found him to be an urbane and polished gentlemen. It was a bit unsettling to stand next to him though. I'm 6'3" myself and not used to having to look up to people.	Alan Litwin Alan Litwin with a window card poster for My Cousin Rachel, 1952 with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton. This was Burton's first movie for a Hollywood studio (20th Century Fox) after working in British movies and TV shows since 1946. Of all the fine British actors I've always liked Richard Burton the best. He carried himself with a strange mixture of panache and subtlety that I've never seen in another actor. One of the reasons I like him is because he played in three of those 1950s / 1960s ancient history epic movies I like so much: The Robe 1953, Alexander The Great 1956 and Cleopatra 1963.

Dealers' Room This is about 40% if the main dealers' room.	Dealers' Room This is most of the rest of the main dealers' room. Also outside this room there were three more large rooms each dedicated to a single dealer who couldn't fit into the main room.

Leon Vincent I last saw Leon Vincent from Kentucky at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest in Virginia last November 2022 and I will see him again at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Maryland this September 2023. He always has some nice movie posters and lobby cards reasonably priced to offer his customers. After the show this Friday night Leon and his wife Pat and I had a nice dinner at the Bob Evans restaurant in Grove City a few miles from downtown Columbus where the show was being held.	Leon Vincent Leon with two lobby cards from Gary Cooper movies: Sgt. York, 1941 that I have on Blu-Ray and Springfield Rifle, 1952 that I've never seen but would probably buy if it ever makes it to Blu-Ray since I'm a big Gary Cooper fan. That polka dot dress hanging over Leon's right shoulder is no ordinary dress. Let's take a closer look at it in the next photo.	Daniel Strebin Daniel Strebin with two large photos of the famous 1950s and early 1960s pinup model and B movie actress Jayne Mansfield. Lots of dealers can have photos of Jayne Mansfield but not many own one of her nightgowns. All the gowns and dresses you see hanging behind Daniel he purchased from the estate of the famous Hollywood hairdresser Sydney Guilaroff. Mr. Guilaroff died in 1997 after a more than 40 year career at MGM studios. What the internet Wikipedia entry for Mr. Guilaroff doesn't tell you is that as a hobby he collected pieces of clothing from many of his female movie star clients who were happy to oblige him since he did such a good job fixing their hair. According to Daniel, the gowns and dresses seen behind him were given to Mr. Guilaroff by (from left to right) Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Montogmery, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball.

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Daniel Strebin Daniel also bought from the Guilaroff estate this pair of high heel shoes given Mr. Guilaroff by Marilyn Monroe. I'll never be able to afford to buy anything that belonged to Marilyn Monroe but I thought it would be mildly erotic to at least mingle my DNA with hers. I asked Daniel if I could touch these shoes that might have some of Marilyn's DNA still lingering about. Daniel said it was ok and the best chance of touching her DNA was the inside heel area where a woman would probably stick her finger to help ease her foot into the shoe. I also ran my fingers over the outside of the shoes to cover all the bases. Daniel also had a blouse owned by Marilyn Monroe wherein he had found a strand of hair. We both agreed it would be a good idea to use the DNA in that hair to clone Marilyn Monroe when the technology becomes available.	Brendan Faulkner Brendan Faulkner is a veteran pulp, paperback and movie memorabilia dealer from Connecticut that I see at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Maryland each year. He is one of the three dealers who had his own room full of merchandise at this show. Here's Brendan with three interesting reference books on the history of science fiction movies.	Morris Everett Morris Everett from Kirtland, Ohio with three eye-catching insert style posters of B movies. Morris told me he had a huge collection of movie and TV photos back home, many with the information snipes still attached. I collect photos with the snipes so I plan to try to do some business with him a bit down the road.

Juan Ortiz When I walked by Juan Ortiz's table my eyes were immediately drawn to this magnificent coffee table size movie hardcover book David O. Selznick's Hollywood, 1980 that I have a long history with. When I lived in Savannah, Georgia before joining the Air Force in 1977 I frequently visited a Walden bookstore in Oglethorpe Mall near my home. That's where I first saw this book when it was new. I thought this was in the 1970s but the publication date on the book says 1980 so I must have been home on leave from the Air Force. Even now over 40 years later this is still the most sumptuous movie book ever produced. It has four page foldouts, single photos spread over two pages and lots of other plush color photos. Here's a two page spread of color photos from Gone With The Wind. and another two pages of photos of Gregory Peck making out with Jennifer Jones from Duel In The Sun. This book cost $85 in 1980 and I didn't want to spend that much money so I passed on it. But I never forgot it. So a few years ago I went looking for on it ebay and got lucky. One seller had a pristine copy still in the original shipping box which is highly unusual. I bought it but it was in such nice shape I was afraid to read it so I needed a slightly lesser condition copy to read. Sadly, Juan's copy here had some tears on the back side of the dustjacket so I had to pass on this copy.	16mm film test At the Columbus Moving Picture Show even outside the main theater room there is always somebody watching movies. I didn't get the name of this genteman in the black shirt but he said he was checking the quality of some 16mm films before trying to sell them. I don't know what movie he's projecting on the screen but I do recognize the actor at left - Clifton Webb.	James D'Arc It was late Saturday afternoon and I was getting ready to leave the show and head out to dinner with Leon and Pat Vincent. I was crossing the big lobby outside the main dealers room and I saw this table I hadn't noticed before. It was being used by various authors who took turns using it to sell their books. And there it was, another copy of David O. Selznick's Hollywood. So I was struck by lightening twice in the same day. This copy had some minor scuffing on the dustjacket but it was in much nicer shape than Juan Ortiz's copy and James was only asking $35 for it. So now I have a reading copy of this wonderful book.

James D'Arc James was selling his recently completed book When Hollywood Came To Utah about all the movies that were filmed in Monument Valley and Moab, Utah. James said he had spent eight years researching and writing it. I thumbed through the book and saw it was well produced with slick paper and crisply reproduced photos. I had never seen before a photo of John Wayne as Genghis Khan smoking a cigarette on the set of The Conqueror. James said he visited Charlton Heston to interview him about The Greatest Story Ever Told filmed in Utah in 1965. I told James Mr. Heston sometimes gave people permission to call him Chuck. James said he only called him Mr. Heston. I don't normally like books in landscape or square format like this one. I would have bought it anyway because of the high quality but I had to spend what little money I had left on the Selznick book. So if James returns to this show next year I will buy When Hollywood Came To Utah. This wraps up the Leader's Report on the Columbus Moving Picture Show and I look forward to returning next year.

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