This section honors Ruth Orkin’s Centennial year. She was born September 3, 1921! There will be solo shows, group shows and a new book to celebrate her distinquished career.
AUCTION There will be a solo online auction at Bonhams, with a live online auction on 2/2/21, noon EST.
Boston Herald: “Engel, Orkin forged path for indies” —Paul Sherman 7/13/95
Chicago Sun-Times: “Orkin-This Woman Has Eyes” —David Elliott 12/16/79
Dallas Times Herald: “The World Beats a Path to Ruth Orkin’s Window” —Bill Marvel 10/24/79
LA Weekly: “The Films of Morris Engel with Ruth Orkin” 7/4/97
Los Angeles Times: “On Sidewalks of New York: Another Era’s Charm” —Susan King 7/10/97
The New York Times: “Candid or Contrived? The Making of a Classic” —Shaun Considine 4/30/95
Personalities and Musicians photographed by Ruth Orkin
(1940's – 1950's unless noted)
Picture Stories
“Member of the Wedding” opening night “Streetcar Named Desire” (on the set) “I Love Lucy” (on the set) “Howdee Doody” (on the set) Arthur Rubinstein and family Jackie Robinson and family Marion Davies’ Hollywood party “On the Town” rehearsals Albert Einstein at Princeton University
Actresses
Lauren Bacall Lucille Ball Eva Bartok Anne Baxter Shirley Booth Leslie Caron Katherine Cornell Marion Davis Doris Day Irene Dunne Nanette Fabray Gracie Fields Geraldine Fitzgerald Joan Fontaine Ava Gardner Barbara Bell Geddes Bonita Granville Julie Harris Dorothy McGuire Debbie Reynolds Marjorie Steel Gene Tierney Lana Turner Ethel Waters Teresa Wright
Actors
Fred Allen Woody Allen Humphrey Bogart Marlon Brando Montgomery Clift Wally Cox Gary Grant Rex Harrison Ronald Howard Van Johnson Danny Kaye Burt Lancaster Peter Lawford Fred MacMurray Fredric March Robert Montgomery David Niven Donald O’Connor Gerald O’Loughlin Basil Rathbone Red Skelton Robert Taylor Spencer Tracy Orson Welles
Directors
Vittorio Di Sica Alfred Hitchcock Elia Kazan Guthrie McClintic Joseph Mankiewicz
Writers
W.H. Auden Ludwig Bemmelmans John Canada Carson McCullers Tennessee Williams
1960s-1980s
Woody Allen Jimmy Breslin President Jimmy Carter Carol Channing Judy Collins Kirk Douglas Jane Jacobs Paul O’Dwyer Carly Simon
Composers
Samuel Barber Marc Blitzstein Benjamin Britten Aaron Copland Ulysses Kaye Darius Milhaud William Schuman Igor Stravinsky Virgil Thompson
Violinists
Mischa Elman Carol Glenn Jascha Heifetz Yehudi Menuhin Nathan Milstein Albert Spaulding Isaac Stern
Conductors
Sir Thomas Beecham Leonard Bernstein Pierre Boulez Sir Adrian Boult Walter Hendl Serge Koussevitzky Edmund Kurtz Lorin Maazel Dimitri Mitropoulos Pierre Monteux Eugene Ormandy Paul Paray Fritz Reiner Sigmund Romberg Alexander Smallens William Steinberg Leopold Stokowski
Pianists
Claudio Arrau Lukas Foss Gary Graffman Jose Iturbi William Kappell Oscar Levant Eugene Liszt Arthur Rubinstein
Vocalists
Marion Anderson Carol Brice Lotte Lehman Ezio Pinza Robert Rounseville Eleanor Steber