Happy Independence Day #6 -- July 4, 2012

Happy Fourth of July to all.

Actress Anita Page, who passed away in 2008, was a big star in the late silent and early sound period.  She appeared in Our Dancing Daughters and The Broadway Melody.

Thank you for the photo to LucyWho (http://www.lucywho.com). 

Happy 100th birthday to Woody Guthrie. 

I was sorry to learn that Andy Griffith has died.  

Happy Admission Day -- September 9, 2008

We don't hear much about Admission Day anymore. Today is the 158th anniversary of California being welcomed into the Union.

Today I took this photograph of Douglas Tilden's Native Sons Monument, which commemorates Admission Day. I posted a detail view last year.

Anita Page died. People are posting about her all over the place and trying to qualify their statements about whether she was the last surving silent star (usually something like "who made movies as an adult").