On this day in 1909, painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer, Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy led to peritonitis, at the age of 48 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Born Fredieric Sackrider Remington in Canton, New York on 4 October 1861.
Remington specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. Remington married Eva Caten (1884 – 1909 his death).
The Final Footprint – Remington is interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Canton, New York.
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The Hunters’ Supper
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The Outlier
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The Parley
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Fight for the Waterhole
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Indians Simulating Buffalo
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The Scout: Friends or Foes?, 1902–1905, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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Ridden Down (1905–1906) depicts an Indian in defeat with his horse exhausted, stoically calling the spirits while awaiting his fate
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Episode of the Buffalo Gun
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The Hussar
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The Gendarme
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Mounted Indian Scout
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Uhlan
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Scouts Climbing a Mountain
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The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains, 1901
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A Map in the Sand
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A Dash for the Timber depicts cowboys in the Southwest shooting at Apaches in the rear. One of the eight riders is already wounded but remains on his horse.
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His First Lesson 1903
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The Call for Help
On this day in 1974, comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist Jack Benny died from pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Born Benjamin Kubelsky on February 14, 1894 in Chicago. In my opinion, one of the leading 20th-century American entertainers, Benny often portrayed his character as a miser, playing his violin badly, and claiming to be 39 years of age, regardless of his actual age.
Benny was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated “Well!” His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre.
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At the funeral George Burns, Benny’s best friend for more than fifty years, attempted to deliver a eulogy but broke down shortly after he began and was unable to continue. Bob Hope also delivered a eulogy in which he stated, “For a man who was the undisputed master of comedy timing, you would have to say this is the only time when Jack Benny’s timing was all wrong. He left us much too soon.” He was entombed in a crypt at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Benny’s will arranged for a single long-stemmed red rose, to be delivered to his widow, Mary Livingstone, every day for the rest of her life. Livingstone died nine years later on June 30, 1983. Other notable Final Footprints at Hillside Memorial include; Milton Berle, Neil Bogart, Cyd Charisse, Lorne Greene, Moe Howard, Al Jolson, Michael Landon, Jerry Leiber, Peggy Lipton, Leonard Nimoy, Suzanne Pleshette, Dinah Shore, Lupita Tovar, and Shelley Winters.
#RIP #OTD in 1977 film director, producer, screenwriter (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Red River, Rio Bravo) Howard Hawks died from complications from a fall tripping over his dog at home in Palm Springs, aged 81. Cremated remains scattered in the desert near Calimesa CA
#RIP #OTD in 1986 actress (Bride of Frankenstein, Witness for the Prosecution, Willard) Elsa Lanchester died in Woodland Hills, California at the Motion Picture Hospital, from pneumonia, aged 84. Cremated remains scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
On this day in 1988, oil tycoon, King of the Wildcatters, Diamond Glenn, Glenn McCarthy died in Houston at the age of 81. Born Glenn Herbert McCarthy on 25 December 1907 in Beaumont, Texas almost seven years after the discovery of oil at Spindletop. McCarthy was an oil prospector and entrepreneur who owned many businesses in various sectors of the economy. McCarthy founded the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, which gained him national fame and inspired the fictional character Jett Rink in Edna Ferber’s 1952 novel Giant along with its 1956 film adaptation, which starred James Dean in the role. McCarthy married Faustine Lee.
The Final Footprint – McCarthy is interred in the Lee Family Private Estate in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. One of the offices I worked in when I worked in Houston had a great view of Glenwood Cemetery. Other notable Final Footprints at Glenwood include; Maria Franklin Prentiss Langham Gable, Oveta Culp Hobby, William P. Hobby, Howard Hughes, Anson Jones and Gene Tierney, who married into the Lee family and is interred in the same estate.
#RIP #OTD in 1996 child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was killed by strangulation at the age of six in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. Saint James Episcopal Church, Marietta, Georgia
On this day in 1999, singer-songwriter, guitarist Curtis Mayfield died from complications of type 2 diabetes at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Georgia at the age of 57. Born Curtis Lee Mayfield on June 3, 1942 in Chicago. In my opinion, Mayfield was one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music. He first achieved success and recognition with The Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist.
Mayfield started his musical career in a gospel choir. Moving to the North Side, he met Jerry Butler in 1956 at the age of 14, and joined the vocal group The Impressions. As a songwriter, Mayfield became noted as one of the first musicians to bring more prevalent themes of social awareness into soul music. In 1965, he wrote “People Get Ready” for the Impressions, which displayed his more politically charged songwriting. The song received numerous awards, and was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, as well as being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
After leaving the Impressions in 1970 in the pursuit of a solo career, Mayfield released several albums, including the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Super Fly in 1972. The soundtrack was noted for its socially conscious themes, mostly addressing problems surrounding inner city minorities such as crime, poverty and drug abuse.
Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down after lighting equipment fell on him during a live performance at Wingate Field in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, on August 13, 1990. Despite this, he continued his career as a recording artist, releasing his final album New World Order in 1996. Mayfield won a Grammy Legend Award in 1994 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, and was a double inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the Impressions in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist. He was also a two-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. He died from complications of type 2 diabetes in 1999 at the age of 57.
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Mayfield was cremated.
On this day in 2000, United States Navy veteran, Emmy, Tony and Academy award-winning actor, Jason Robards, died of lung cancer in Bridgeport, Connecticut at the age of 78. Born Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. on 26 July 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. I particularly enjoyed his performances in; A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Comes a Horseman (1978), Melvin and Howard (1980), A Thousand Acres (1997). Robards married four times; Eleanor Pittman (1948 – 1958 divorce), Rachel Taylor (1959 – 1961 divorce), Lauren Bacall (1961 – 1969 divorce), Lois O’Connor (1970 – 2000 his death).
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Robards was cremated and his cremated remains were interred in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Connecticut.
On this day in 2005, actor and food writer Vincent Schiavelli died of lung cancer, aged 57, at his home in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily. Born Vincent Andrew Schiavelli on November 11, 1948 in Brooklyn. Perhaps best known as a sad-faced character actor, Schiavelli was diagnosed Marfan syndrome in childhood. His roles include Fredrickson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Mr. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), the Subway Ghost in Ghost (1990), Organ Grinder in Batman Returns (1992), Chester in The People vs Larry Flynt (1996), Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and ABC executive Maynard Smith in Man on the Moon (1999). Before his death in 2005, Vincent Schiavelli was considered by many as one of Hollywood’s best character actors. Roger Ebert stated “Schiavelli had a way of slipping into films without people knowing his name, but they remembered his great performances as unique characters.”
Polizzi Generosa, is the town where his grandfather, Andrea Coco, was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa.
Schiavelli was married to actress Allyce Beasley from 1985 until their 1988 divorce. He guest-starred as the love interest of Beasley’s character on one episode of Moonlighting. In 1992, Schiavelli married American harpist Carol Mukhalian.
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Schiavelli was entombed at Polizzi Generosa Cemetery, near Palermo, Sicily. His epitaph reads:
Two documentaries were made about Schiavelli’s Sicilian life. The first, Once Upon a Time in Polizzi, was released on October 11, 2005 (two months before his death) and the second, Many Beautiful Things (Tanti Beddi Cosi is the Sicilian title), was produced by Aurelio Gambadoro and released in 2014. The film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is dedicated to his memory. (Schiavelli provided a guest voice appearance as the Pigeon Man in the original series.)
#RIP #OTD singer-songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, and producer Lady T, The Ivory Queen of Soul, Teena Marie died at her home in Pasadena, California, aged 54. Cremation
#RIP #OTD in 2023 comedian, actor, composer, musician, half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick, Tom Smothers died from lung cancer at his home in Santa Rosa, California aged 86. Cremation
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