tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post1076222187437979057..comments2024-03-18T19:40:11.383-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: Oh, What a Character! Part Seven: Crews ControlPoseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-11873320003171814022013-04-15T19:28:01.596-04:002013-04-15T19:28:01.596-04:00Break a leg Poseidon; I just finished set design f...Break a leg Poseidon; I just finished set design for "Once Upon a Mattress," and I am exhausted; still scraping the paint from beneath my fingernails.Narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145756558278365203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-19297306076409961372013-04-15T09:29:33.697-04:002013-04-15T09:29:33.697-04:00Thanks for your comments and information on Miss C...Thanks for your comments and information on Miss Crews. It does my heart good to know that you'll be paying a visit to her grave site. She deserves to be remembered! <br /><br />I'm about to do a play set in 1977 (when I was ten!) and definitely remember how things looked and seemed, so I totally get you on the score of actors playing roles in times they once lived in. It's something that no one can really train a person for because it's revisiting an old reality in many ways, rather than just studying it. Thanks!Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-55449143655397002392013-04-15T04:05:12.388-04:002013-04-15T04:05:12.388-04:00Wow! I had no idea Laura Hope Crews was a San Fran...Wow! I had no idea Laura Hope Crews was a San Francisco native. Early Bay Area theater history is one of my areas of special interest, and how that fact escaped me, I'll never know. I see that she is buried across the bay in the same cemetery as my great grandparents. trust me, I'll leave flowers soon.<br /><br />I find it interesting that you commented on something I have always pondered -- that many of the early film character actors were born deep in the 19th century and had performing rots going way back. Thus, we can be assured that a period piece from the 1930s about the, say, 1870s, will be portrayed accurately. <br /><br />Another actor in GWTW, Harry Davenport, who played the pivotal Doc Meade, was born only a year after the Civil War ended! He was the male lead in the 1897 Broadway musical The Belle of New York, marrying about that time, producing a family acting dynasty with many branches. And there he was in Meet Me In St. Louis in 1944 playing the grandfather in a film that took place in 1904, when he himself in 1904 was pushing forty. Amazing, amazing! Narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145756558278365203noreply@blogger.com