Friday, May 3, 2013

The Redheads Of History

To know them is to love them. (Click on the photo to see fullsize.)

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  1. For those playing along at home:



    front Row (l-r): Deborah Kerr; Norma Jean Baker (aka Marilyn Monroe); Ann-Margret; Alfred E. Newman; Little Orphan Annie (and her dog Sandy); Red Skelton; Ginger Rogers; Howdy Doody; Shirley MacLaine; Raggedy Ann; Woody Woodpecker; Maureen O'Hara



    second row: Margaret Thatcher; Jessica Rabbit; Spencer Tracy; James Cagney; Katharine Hepburn; Greer Garson; Ron Howard; Judy Garland; Red Grange; Shirley Temple; Carol Burnett



    third row: Woody Allen; Judas Iscariot (obscured); Henry VIII; Thomas Jefferson; Katie-Bar-The-Door; Emily Dickinson; Rita Hayworth; Myrna Loy; Lucille Ball; Bette Davis; John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten); Clara Bow; Ulysses S. Grant; Richard the Lionheart



    fourth row: Oliver Cromwell; George Custer; Erik the Red; Lenin; John Glenn; Stan Laurel; Jack Nicklaus; Ronald McDonald; Mark Twain; Dwight Eisenhower; Elizabeth I; Malcolm X; Winston Churchill; Mary, Queen of Scots



    back row: Secretariat; Vincent van Gogh; George Bernard Shaw; George Washington; Napoleon Bonaparte

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  2. ...cool montage, MM - did you compile this? Very cool...

    Thanks for adding Ginger...while she is best known as a blonde, of course, her 'true' hair color is reported to be a 'dark red-brown'...chestnut... her earlier movies had a few folks referring to her as the 'redhead'...

    ...and I did NOT know that George Washington was a redhead...Jefferson, sure... what is interesting about GW is, that Ginger had traced her ancestry back to...well, GW! ALSO, Ginger is 'related' to (lovely) Rita, as 'distant cousins' by marriage...

    But my fave 'perennial' redheads are in no particular order, Maureen O'Hara, Ann-Margret, and Lucille Ball, which is the 'textbook' redhead, right?

    Good work, MM!

    KIG!
    Hu
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  3. I did put it together -- clearly I have too much time on my hands. Great fun though. What can I tell you, I like redheads and I like Photoshop.

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  4. Thanks ever so for adding Secretariat!

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  5. I was 12 when Secretariat won the Belmont by 31 lengths -- watching on television, still one of the most thrilling moments of my sports fan life.

    Sometimes you're lucky enough to witness perfection.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFquax2F-k

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  6. Thank Gahd you got the Galloping Ghost!


    Number 77, my hero. . . .

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