Ruth at 100
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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CELEBRITIES AND PERSONALITIES LIST (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