HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS ARTMAN!

Patricia Ellis

(May 20, 1916 — March 26, 1970)

Warren William, Robert Barrat and...

Mrs Artman of course!

Some new photos and a Lobby Card too

Scotty Welbourne portrait of Patricia Ellis in all her blonde, apple cheeked winsomeness *sigh*

My 2nd Lone Wolf Lobby Card and its from the same film as the other one I have! Once again the 3 principals are shown and we also have character actor workhorse Victor Jory (center) pictured as well! Awesome!

A very nice still of Warren William from his first outing as Perry Mason!

A rather intense image of the great WB character actor Robert Barrat from what is imo his most unforgettable performance. "Mountain Justice" is a decent little B-film starring George Brent, Josephine Hutchinson and Guy Kibbee, but Barrat steals the film as Hutchinson's mentally and physically abusive religious zealot of a father. Robert Barrat is always a treat to see in any film he ever shows up in (and they are MANY!) but he is an absolute living intensity in this particular movie...Ok he's just fucking scary! Now to find an autograph to frame this up with!

The Return of Artman's Bedroom Antics woo hoo!

YES I am STILL renovating my bedroom! Lets just say that work, art commisions, movie-watching, lazyness and other various and sundry distractions kept me out of there for several months... but it was high time I got back in there and have made some good progress since the last blog entry...which was over a year ago!

Even Mathilda a.k.a. "Miss Pewfy Pants" is in shock that I am working in there again!

First thing I had to do was finish off the sheet rock! I had to remove and reinstall a new moisture barrier because the other one was totally wrecked. This time its sealed up nice and tight!

Then I framed out the overhangs on each side of the window...these will have a light in each side to illuminate the built-in bookcases under them. I also wired a light to go in the dormer window area, which always was just sort of a black hole in the room before, now it can be a focal point!

Next up I had to start on the ceiling...at first I was just going to do a regular white ceiling with criss-crossing beams but after much ponderance I decided that was far too common place and dreary, so I came up with an alternate plan...paneled ceiling with geometric designs in each section...it takes about 6 hours to do each one...so far 2 are done in the main ceiling area. I like it!

I also got most of the walls sanded and primed, ready for wallpaper or paint or a combo thereof. I want to get the bed alcove area in shape so I started on that ceiling as well.

2 full days work on that and its close to done, just one more coat of satin polyurethane. I am not sure if I like how dark the poly made the unstained panels, so i may decide to paint them with a color to match the walls instead of leaving them natural. It all looks very, very busy right now but I think that's partly because the rest of the room is just primer and partly because it is...busy!

The "Secret closet" all sanded and ready for primer, that was NOT fun!

Yeah its really shaping up in there, haha!

This arrived yesterday, my accent wallpaper for the back wall of the bed alcove area...hella cool! Hand silk screened from Bradbury & Bradbury custom wallpapers, very nice company to deal with but it aint cheap! Thankfully I only needed ONE roll!

This weekend I plan to get the rest of the room primered (I ran out before!), finish urethaning the alcove ceiling and getting that accent wallpaper ready to hang up...

Happy Birthday Claudia Cardinale....

April 15th, 1938

HAPPY EASTER!

Warren William, Les Paul, Mr Marshall and Mrs Artman...

Some new FUN stuff I recently aquired...

Vintage Lobby Card for Columbia pictures 1940 production of "The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady", starring Warren William, Jean Muir and Eric Blore...all 3 stars pictured on the card and in nice shape...and the price was right too! I only recently had the pleasure of viewing most of the Warren William Lone Wolf films for the first time and I enjoyed every one of them! Fun, fast moving little b pictures, great chemistry between the 2 male leads and of course Mr. Warren William outshines the material every time with his charismatic and often hilarious performances. Ditto for Eric Blore, Hollywoods go-to guy for sophisticated, dry-witted British man servants (As if there are any other kind right?)

In other Warren WIlliam news my very cool Meh gave me John Stangelands Biography "Warren William, Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood" for my birthday (March 31st) woo hoo!!!!! Thanks Meh!

My b-day present to myself for the next oh, 5 years or so....1980 Gibson Les Paul Custom and a Marshall JCM2000 40 watt combo tube amp. Plays like a dream...I had one just like it, same year, color and everything but sold it about 10 years ago when the times they were a tough. By Grabthar's Hammer I have now undone what I had done....or is it, I have unlearned what I have learned....I dunno, something like that. Let the payments begin...

Vintage double weight 8x10 still of Patricia "Mrs Artman" Ellis taken by the great Elmer Fry at Warner Bros. There is no year on this but judging by her darker hair I would say early 1930's.