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    Posted 3 years ago

    finders9
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    This photo was in my mother's photo album and passed along to me. If I recall correctly the man in the upper left corner is my late uncle who was in the Kentucky horse racing business. I believe he was part owner of one of the Kentucky tracks. I recognize William Frawley and the others look familiar but don't know by name. Thought there might be collectors of Hollywood memorabilia who might put names to faces. Kind of fun in any case.

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    1. Cisum Cisum, 3 years ago
      Hello..I Do Wonder If This Is At A Baseball Game??
      In 1935, William did a baseball movie titled, "Alibi Ike"..William Was And Still Is A Avid Baseball Fan..Just A Thought.
      Nice Photograph.

      Thomas.
    2. mp.kunst mp.kunst, 3 years ago
      Could it be that the lady on the left is American actrice Julie Adams?
    3. keramikos, 3 years ago
      mp.kunst, Thank you for weighing in on this.

      The woman on the left was the only person in the picture who was tickling the back of my brain pan. The rest of them besides William Frawley are completely unfamiliar-looking to me.

      It does look as though it could be her. The hats worn by the women in the picture suggest the forties more than the fifties.

      While the iconic movie in which Adams starred came out in the mid-fifties, her film career technically went back to the very end of the forties:

      https://universalmonstersuniverse.com/2019/02/04/remembering-ms-julie-adams-the-woman-who-stole-gill-mans-heart/

      https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011105/?ref_=nmmi_mi_nm
    4. TallCakes TallCakes, 3 years ago
      the big guy in the middle holding a program with both hands looks like Fred Mertz (neighbor to the Ricardos and to married to Ethel on the 'I Love Lucy Show'
    5. TallCakes TallCakes, 3 years ago
      Willaim Fawley = Fred Mertz
    6. TallCakes TallCakes, 3 years ago
      bad typing skills... make that William Frawley
    7. mp.kunst mp.kunst, 3 years ago
      For a moment I thought the man sitting right of William Frawley might be Tom Kennedy. What do you think?
    8. keramikos, 3 years ago
      mp.kunst, On closer examination, the man to the right of Frawley has more than a bit of a Charles Coburn look about him:

      https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/CharlesCoburn
    9. keramikos, 3 years ago
      TallCakes, Not to mention Bub, from "My Three Sons."

      A somewhat sad tidbit about Frawley's tenure on MTS is that he was forced to retire, because of his declining health. It upset him that his character Bub would be replaced by William Demarest playing Uncle Charley, because Frawley did not like Demarest:

      *snip*

      Don Grady has said in interviews that William Demarest was like William Frawley after an AA meeting. Both were curmudgeons, but Frawley was much jokier and a lot funnier, whereas Demarest was just a grouch (much like his character). Apparently, the two were not fans of each other, either; they were longtime showbiz rivals. According to cast members, the day Bub was being shipped off to Ireland and Uncle Charley was moving in to take up housekeeping duties, the tension between the actors was palpable.

      *snip*

      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053525/trivia
    10. finders9, 3 years ago
      Thanks to all... I'm stumped. I do think it's a racing event because of the programs and the binoculars.... And I just assume it's in Kentucky because that's where my uncle was from... And I further suspect it might have been the Kentucky Derby because I doubt any other event could have drawn such celebrities. Several of those pictures look familiar but can't take it further than that. Thanks again
    11. keramikos, 3 years ago
      finders9, You're welcome. :-)

      As it turns out, actor Charles Coburn was more than just a casual racing fan. He owned a harness racing horse:

      https://d31029zd06w0t6.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/10/web1_Sisco-Kid-at-Lexington.jpg

      *snip*

      Damon Baker (second from right) receives a trophy from actor Charles Coburn after his trotter, Sisco Kid, won a race at Lexington, Kentucky’s Red Mile racetrack on October 1, 1948.

      *snip*

      https://www.recordherald.com/features/local-features/45944/looking-back-the-horseman-g-damon-baker
    12. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Another snippet:

      *snip*

      Description
      6 images. Harness racing (Society), 5 October 1951. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Howard
      Mr. and Mrs. Walter Muller
      Mr. and Mrs. Emmett E. Doherty
      Marie Wilson
      Charles Coburn. (Sleeve reads: S-9362).
      Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Jensen. Assignment: Harness racing -- society. For Spencer. 17-18: Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Howard. 62-63: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mullen. 100-101: Mr. and Mrs. Emmett E. Doherty. 7: Marie Wilson
      Charles Coburn".

      *snip*

      https://calisphere.org/item/e5039912a884a4bdf19bbce22437a07b/
    13. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Whoops, Marie Wilson and Charles Coburn are photo 4 of 6:

      https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1O3ZLBOM
    14. keramikos, 3 years ago
      finders9, I don't know if you gave up on this, but perhaps I buried the lede, so to speak, in one of my previous comments on this post.

      I was focusing on actor Charles Coburn, but in one of the pictures of him that I linked, the caption indicated that it had been taken at the Red Mile in Lexington, KY.

      So it seems possible that your picture with both Coburn and your uncle was indeed taken in Kentucky, just not necessarily at Churchill Downs.
    15. finders9, 3 years ago
      Thanks so much. I'm very poor at facial recognition so appreciate all the help I can get. I'm still working on it...I'll post any useful info I find!
    16. keramikos, 3 years ago
      finders9, You're welcome. :-)

      I myself am a trifle embarrassed that I didn't initially recognize Charles Coburn, because I'm a fan.

      It wasn't until mp.kunst asked CW users to take a closer look at the man seated to the right of Frawley that I realized who it probably was.

      Kudos to mp.kunst for suggesting that the woman on the left might be Julie Adams. I concur.

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