Tuesday, July 31, 2012

From Jerry Digney #10

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An unusually relaxed JRN 1957 Venice with Albert White, Jackie LeClaire—this shot was popularly used to accompany JRN’s newspaper obit in 1985.

6 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

The clown on the right is Chuck Burnes.

JACKIE said...

Mike Naughton is right, that is Chuck Burns, but a wonderful compliment to me, as Chuck appearace was fantastic. This could not be 1957, as Chuck Burns tells me that his last season on 56 when the Ringling closed under canvass. Of course that is Alber White, both clowns a photographers dream. Jackie LeClaire

Mike Naughton said...

Jackie - I could have called you to ask who is the clown in the middle? I am asking on the blog because others might like to know.

Chic Silber said...

I was told that he show only moved

to Venice in 1960 so what gives

jerry digney said...

mis-labeled, sorry!

Roger Smith said...

Chuck Burnes and Bambi Sicard remained on RBB into its early building years. I first met them in RBB's first season on rubber tires, 1957--altho the elephants travelled by boxcar. By the time I visited them in Hollywood, in the summer of '63, Chuck was well-established at Disneyland, on the Jungle Boat Cruise, and Bambi was a cocktail waitress at the bar just outside the famed Bronson Gate of Paramount, on Marathon Street--when that little path still had businesses on it. The bar was called The Playboy, no connection with Hef's operation, which just about that time was sewing up all rights to anything called Playboy. Next time you see SUNSET BOULEVARD, closely observe the sequence when Norma Desmond has Max, her driver, arrive at the Bronson Gate, and you can catch quick glimpses of what else was on Marathon Street then, in 1950. Chuck and Bambi have been successful for many years with their agency, Periwinkle Productions, in Anaheim.