Ruth at 100
This section is to honor Ruth Orkin’s upcoming centennial in 2021. There will be shows, articles and a publication to celebrate Ruth Orkin’s long and distinquished career. We hope to announce a major upcoming exhibition in NYC, several group shows and a new retrospective book. Here is some ephemera and letters that might be of interest. Including pages from her souvenir autograph and film review book, her filing drawer and the shawl that Jinx (Ninalee Craig) wore in the “American Girl in Italy” photo.
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- Orkin Autograph Book Cover
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- Orkin Autograph Book Contents
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- Orkin Autograph Book Sample Page
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- Orkin File Drawer
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- Orkin Shawl from American Girl in Italy
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- Orkin Movie Review Book
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- Orkin Letter from Cornell Capa
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- Orkin Letter from Orson Welles
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- Orkin SVA Class suggestions
Articles (selected):
The Wall Street Journal: “The Enduring Heart of a Coney Island Baby”—Bruce Bennett, 2/4/2013
Smithsonian Magazine: “Innocence Abroad” —David Schonauer, 10/2011
The New York Times: “Beyond That Single, Famous Picture” —Charles Hagen 6/2/95
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 Los Angeles Times: “We Are Not a Muse” —Burt Prelutsky 8/28/77
The New York Times: “Photographer Puts Her Career in Perspective” —Nan Robertson 10/5/79
The New York Times: “Candid or Contrived? The Making of a Classic” —Shaun Considine 4/30/95
Photo District News: “Goldsmith and Orkin at ICP” —Bret Senft 7/95
Popular Photography: “Ruth Orkin: Gravure Portfolio” —Nancy Stevens, 6/77
The Toronto Star: “Out of the Picture: Bringing the Art of Ruth Orkin Back Into Focus” —Susan Walker 6/3/95
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PERSONALITIES LIST AND MUSICIANS RUTH ORKIN HAS PHOTOGRAPHD (1940s – 1950s, 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